Murphy, TX • Bathroom Renovation
Bathroom Renovation in Murphy, TX
Murphy primary baths are generous — these are two-story homes on big lots, and the builders spent the square footage. What they spent it on is the problem: an oversized drop-in garden tub on a tiled deck, a small corner shower, a long low vanity, and a lot of floor tile in a pattern from 2002.
You usually do not need more room in a Murphy bathroom. You need the room you already have arranged for how the house is actually used, which almost always means the tub deck becomes a real walk-in shower.
Why homeowners in Murphy hire us
We use the space you already paid for
Big primary baths give us options other cities do not. Reclaiming a garden tub deck here often yields a genuinely large shower with a bench and a second head, without moving a single exterior wall.
Waterproofing you can inspect
Bonded membrane over a sloped mud pan, flood-tested and photographed before tile goes on. Twenty-year-old builder pans and greenboard surrounds are exactly why most of these remodels start.
Ventilation and lighting corrected
Original fans in these homes are undersized and often dumped into the attic. We size the fan to the room, duct it fully outside, and light the vanity from the front instead of the ceiling behind you.
Fewer approvals to wait on
Interior work in Murphy needs city inspection for plumbing and electrical changes but rarely an architectural committee, so scheduling is straightforward. Owner on site, payments by completed stage.
What's included
- Demo and haul-off of deck tubs, vanity tops, cabinets and old tile
- Reframing the wet wall when a garden tub becomes a walk-in shower
- Plumbing relocation, new valves, body sprays and shut-offs
- Bonded waterproofing membrane, sloped pan and flood test
- Tile — floor, full shower walls, niches and benches
- New vanity cabinetry at modern height with quartz tops and undermount sinks
- Correctly sized, exterior-vented exhaust fan
- Vanity and ceiling lighting, GFCI outlets to current code
- Frameless glass, mirrors, hardware, paint and final walkthrough
Big baths from a fifteen-year build-out
Because Murphy built out in a compressed window between the late 1990s and roughly 2015, its bathrooms cluster into two recognizable generations. The earlier ones are the classic North Texas builder primary: a corner or centered garden tub in a tiled deck with a bank of glass block or a small window above it, a 36-inch shower with a plastic pan, cultured marble or early granite over 30-inch cabinets, and 12-inch floor tile on the diagonal. The later ones, from the mid-2000s on, kept the same bones but swapped in darker cabinets and speckled granite. In both, the framing is sound and the plumbing is grouped along one or two walls, which keeps the cost of reconfiguring lower than homeowners expect. Secondary baths tend to be full-size rather than squeezed, another benefit of the larger lots and floor plans here. What consistently needs correcting is waterproofing, ventilation and vanity height. City of Murphy handles inspections; most neighborhoods have no association reviewing interior work at all.
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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 Murphy
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.