Allen, TX • Bathroom Renovation
Bathroom Renovation in Allen, TX
The early-2000s Allen primary bath is a known quantity: a drop-in garden tub on a tiled deck, a small shower with a plastic pan beside it, a long cultured-marble or early-granite vanity, and builder tile set over greenboard that has been quietly taking on water at the grout lines for twenty years.
None of that is a disaster. It is simply a bathroom that has reached the end of its first life. The question is whether you replace the finishes or reclaim the tub footprint and get a genuinely better room for close to the same money.
Why homeowners in Allen hire us
Twenty-year failures, found before we quote
Grout that has given up, a pan liner past its life, a fan that was undersized on day one, and caulk joints doing structural work. We open enough to know what we are dealing with rather than tiling over it.
Garden tub to walk-in shower, both priced
Most Allen homes have another tub elsewhere, and the drain and supply are already in that wall. Converting the deck tub into a proper walk-in shower usually costs less than people assume and changes the room more than any finish.
Waterproofing you can inspect
Bonded membrane over a sloped mud pan, flood-tested and photographed before tile. That step is exactly what the original builder skipped, and it is why you are calling us now.
Sequenced around a lived-in house
Dust walls at the door, protected paths, and a clear plan for which bathroom stays live each day. Owner on site, payments by completed stage.
What's included
- Demo and haul-off of deck tubs, cultured marble tops, vanities and old tile
- Reframing the wet wall when a garden tub becomes a walk-in shower
- Plumbing relocation, new valves and shut-offs
- Bonded waterproofing membrane, sloped pan and flood test
- Tile — floor, full shower walls, niches and benches
- New vanity cabinetry with quartz tops and undermount sinks
- Correctly sized, exterior-vented exhaust fan replacing the builder unit
- Vanity and ceiling lighting, GFCI outlets to current code
- Frameless glass, mirrors, hardware, paint and final walkthrough
What twenty years does to a builder bathroom
With a median build year of 2003 and roughly a third of the city constructed between 2000 and 2009, Allen's bathrooms are hitting the point where the original specification runs out. The framing and the plumbing rough are almost always fine — these were competently built houses — but the wear items are all due at once: grout and caulk in the shower, a fiberglass or acrylic pan that has flexed at the drain, an exhaust fan sized to code minimum and vented poorly, a cultured-marble or early-granite top, and 30-inch-high vanity cabinets that nobody builds anymore. Secondary and hall baths in these homes typically have a tub-shower combo with a builder surround and one wide framed mirror. Because the layouts are already sensible, the winning move in Allen is rarely moving walls; it is reclaiming the unused garden tub, upgrading the vanity height and lighting, and doing the waterproofing properly this time. Exterior work is HOA-reviewed; interior bath work is not, though plumbing and electrical changes go through City of Allen inspection.
See the range of our work
This recent project is documented step by step, from the first day on site to the finished result.
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Get a bathroom renovation estimate in Allen
Walkthroughs are free, and you'll get a written scope — layout, electrical, materials, and a real timeline — not a number on the back of a card.