Bathroom Remodeling in Austin - Fixed Price, Set Finish Date

Fast, Reliable Bathroom Remodeling Across Austin

A full bathroom remodel in Austin typically runs $9,000 to $28,000, with tub-to-shower conversions landing between $3,500 and $10,000. Most projects in Austin take two to four weeks from demo to final walkthrough, depending on whether we’re moving plumbing or uncovering rot behind the tile. If you’re in Hyde Park, Circle C, or up near the Domain and you’re tired of a bathroom that hasn’t been touched since the Reagan administration, call (325) 225-5429 for a written price before anyone picks up a hammer.

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We work across Austin, from the pier-and-beam bungalows in Bouldin Creek to the slab-on-grade homes built in the 1980s off Parmer Lane. Our crews know what’s behind those walls here, because we’ve opened enough of them to know the patterns: cast iron drain lines that have corroded thin, wiring from the Nixon years, and shower pans that were never waterproofed correctly in the first place. That’s why every Bathroom Remodeling project starts with an inspection, not a sales pitch.

Key Takeaways

• Written price before work starts, on every Austin bathroom project
• 365-Day Done Right Promise: if it fails, we come back and fix it at no charge
• Save Our Springs reviews handled before a permit gets pulled
• Real arrival windows and background-checked, uniformed crews

Why Penhallow Remodeling Austin Is Austin’s Preferred Bathroom Remodeling Company

Trevor Nash runs our Austin operation the way he’d want a contractor to run a job at his own house: show up when we said, name the price before the work, and stand behind the thing for a full year after we leave. Austin homeowners who call us get a live person on the phone, not a voicemail tree. That’s true at 2 p.m. and at 2 a.m., because a water leak in a bathroom doesn’t check business hours first.

Our Austin customers tell us the same thing repeatedly: they’d been burned before by a verbal estimate that doubled after demo day. So we made the Kingswell Way our operating standard back in 2004: written price first, defined arrival window, clean job site, written guarantee on every project. The 365-Day Done Right Promise sits on top of that. If the work fails inside the guarantee period, we come back and fix it at no charge, no service call, no re-inspection fee.

Serving Austin means understanding the city’s split personality when it comes to housing. One job is a 1940s cottage in Travis Heights with plaster walls and a cast iron tub that weighs 300 pounds. The next is a 1990s track home in Avery Ranch with builder-grade everything. The permits are different, the framing is different, and the surprises behind the tile are different. We plan for all of it.

Bathroom Remodeling Contractor in Austin

A Bathroom Remodeling Contractor in Austin is what you need when the project goes beyond cosmetics and into the bones of the house: moving a wall, re-routing a drain, updating wiring, or fixing the water damage you can’t see until the tile is off. This is the $9,000 to $28,000 project, and it’s where Austin’s older housing stock turns what looked like a straightforward quote into something more involved. We handle that reality with a written contract and signed change orders, not with a phone call asking for another check.

The biggest cost driver in an Austin bathroom remodel isn’t tile selection. It’s what’s behind the tile. A 1970s home near Anderson Mill often has galvanized supply lines that have closed up to half their original diameter. A 1920s bungalow in Chestnut hides pier-and-beam rot under the tub. We inspect first, write allowances into the contract for known unknowns, and price every surprise in writing before we touch it.

Permitted Gut Jobs

When walls come down or plumbing moves, the City of Austin wants a permit, and we pull it. That triggers inspections: rough-in for plumbing and electrical, then a framing inspection if we touched anything structural, then final. Our crew schedules the inspections and walks with the inspector. If a load-bearing wall needs an engineer’s letter, we get it before demo, not after the inspector fails the job.

The Wet-Area Standard

Waterproofing is where Austin’s climate punishes shortcuts. We build showers with cement board substrate, the moisture-resistant layer behind your tile, and we seal the seams with a membrane rated for our humidity swings. A drought year followed by a wet spring will delaminate a cheap membrane in one season. We don’t install the cheap one.

Trusted Brands We Service in Austin

We stock and install materials from trade brands that carry their own warranties alongside ours. For hardscape adjacent to a bathroom addition or exterior access, we work with Unilock and Techo-Bloc pavers when a project calls for an outdoor shower entry or a walkway from the master bath to a patio. Inside the bath we use Cambria and Silestone quartz for vanities, and Kohler, Moen, and Toto for fixtures. The point is simple: the products behind our guarantee should be as solid as the promise itself. If a manufacturer’s warranty covers a defect, we handle the claim and the labor to make it right.

Common Bathroom Remodeling Problems We See in Austin Homes

• Expansive clay soil under the slab. Austin sits on blackland prairie clay that swells when wet and shrinks when dry. Over decades, that movement cracks slab foundations, and those cracks telegraph straight up through bathroom tile. We see hairline cracks running along grout lines in homes across Crestview and Allandale. A remodel is the right time to address the subfloor and any slab-leveling issues before new tile goes down.
• Blocked pier-and-beam ventilation. In East Austin’s 1920s and 1930s bungalows, old pier-and-beam foundations often lack proper subfloor ventilation. The first heavy rain after a dry spell pushes moisture up through the crawl space, and you smell it in the bathroom first. Rot follows. We open the floor, repair the joists, and add the vents the original builder skipped.
• 1970s wiring behind the walls. Aluminum branch circuits and ungrounded outlets show up regularly in Austin bathrooms from the Nixon and Ford years. Code requires GFCI protection in wet areas, and a remodel is the moment to bring that room up to standard. The rough-in inspection will halt until it’s fixed, so we factor it into the quote up front.
• Failed waterproofing from previous remodels. We tear out plenty of showers that were “remodeled” ten years ago with a membrane rated for a mild, dry climate. Austin’s drought-flood cycles and humid summers delaminate that material. By the time we’re called, the substrate is soft and the tile is loose. We replace it with a membrane built for this climate and put our 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing.

We Also Serve Cities Near Austin

Our Austin crews also cover Cedar Park, Buda, Georgetown, and Elgin. If you’re in one of those communities and want a contractor who pulls the right permits and writes the price down first, call (325) 225-5429 and ask for Trevor’s team.