Bathroom Remodeling in Gaithersburg, MD

What a bathroom remodel in Gaithersburg actually involves

The 1990s builder floor plan gives you a two-story family room, an isolated kitchen and an unfinished basement with the mechanicals dead center. Finishing that basement well is largely a question of how intelligently you plan around the equipment.

• Demolition down to framing. Tile, tub or shower base, vanity and flooring out, and the walls opened to studs where the wet wall is. On an older house this is where you find corroded supply lines, a rotted subfloor around the toilet flange, or a joist somebody notched to run a drain.
• Electrical and ventilation. GFCI protection, correct fixture clearances around the tub and shower, and an exhaust fan ducted to the outside with adequate capacity. A fan that terminates in the attic is a mold problem with a switch on the wall.
• Vanity, fixtures and glass. Cabinetry set level, fixtures installed and tested under pressure, and shower glass measured after tile — never before.
• Finish and punch. Paint, trim, mirrors, accessories, and a walkthrough where every fixture gets run and every joint gets checked.

Lead paint: the rule that applies to older Gaithersburg homes

Federal law — the EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting rule — requires that work disturbing painted surfaces in a home built before 1978 be performed by a certified firm using contained work practices, with specific cleanup afterward. A meaningful share of Gaithersburg homes predate 1978, and the older neighborhoods here almost certainly do. We are certified for this work and it is built into how we set up, not bolted on. Worth asking every other contractor bidding your job whether they are, and asking to see it.

What drives the cost on a Gaithersburg bathroom remodel

We will not put a price range on a web page, because a number quoted without seeing your house is either a guess or bait. What we can do is tell you honestly which variables move the number, so you can read the bids you get from anyone.

• Tub-to-shower conversion versus a straight replacement. A conversion changes the drain, the waterproofing and usually the framing at the curb.
• Tile size, pattern and how much of it. Full-height tile with a niche and a bench is a different labor number than a wainscot and a simple floor.
• Adding a bathroom where none existed, which is a plumbing project with a bathroom attached rather than the reverse.
• Compact lots with tight side setbacks, and in the neo-traditional neighborhoods, rear alleys that change how a deck or addition can be accessed and built. That is a Gaithersburg-specific factor and it belongs in the conversation early.

A single bathroom in its existing footprint runs a few weeks of active work, with the tile and waterproofing sequence carrying mandatory cure and inspection points that cannot be compressed. Moving fixtures adds time on both ends. Adding a bathroom in new space is a longer project with more inspection stages.

The mistakes we get called in to fix

• A shower floor that does not slope consistently to the drain. Water sitting in a corner is a grout and mold problem forever.
• An exhaust fan ducted into the attic or soffit instead of through a proper exterior termination.
• Ordering the shower glass off drawings instead of measuring the finished tile. Glass is not adjustable.

One licensed team, one contract, one point of contact

Everything we claim here can be verified by you in a few minutes. MHIC #111971 is on file with the Maryland Home Improvement Commission and is publicly searchable. We carry general liability and workers' compensation coverage and provide carrier-issued certificates before a contract is signed. The licensed trades working under us hold their own licenses and their own insurance, and they pull their own trade permits, which is how the law requires it. What you get is a single contract and a single company that cannot point at anyone else.

Where we work in Gaithersburg

• 20877
• 20878
• 20879
• 20882
• Kentlands
• Olde Towne
• Washingtonian
• Quince Orchard
• Montgomery Village
• Lakelands

How a Gaithersburg project runs

1. Free on-site consultation and a written scope. We walk the space with you, measure, look at what is behind the finishes where we can, and write down what you actually want out of the project rather than what is easiest to sell.
2. Feasibility against Gaithersburg rules, before design. We establish what the City of Gaithersburg will require for bathroom remodel at your address, and what your lot, your zoning and your existing house will allow.
3. Fixed written scope, then permits. A line-item scope with allowances stated plainly and a change-order process agreed in advance. We prepare and submit the permit package and handle review comments ourselves.
4. Supervised production and a clean finish. MHIC #111971, one point of contact for the whole job, trades sequenced against the inspection calendar, and a closeout that includes the punch walk, the closed permits and the product documentation in one package.

Bathroom Remodeling across Gaithersburg and Montgomery County

Our crews cover Kentlands, Olde Towne, Washingtonian, Quince Orchard, Montgomery Village and Lakelands, across 20877, 20878, 20879, 20882. Gaithersburg's builder stock is structurally sound and cosmetically tired, which makes it the most straightforward remodel market in the upper county. The constraint is almost always the association, not the house.

Homeowners here usually reach us for more than one thing at a time. Related work in Gaithersburg: kitchen remodeling in Gaithersburg, basement finishing in Gaithersburg, whole-home renovation in Gaithersburg, interior painting in Gaithersburg.

There is a specific failure mode we exist to prevent: the interior contractor who opens a wall, finds water damage, and hands you a roofer's phone number. Because roofing, siding, aluminum siding, windows and gutters, soffit and fascia are trades we perform ourselves, the envelope is inside your contract rather than outside it, and there is no second company to schedule, vet and argue with.

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