Bathroom Remodeling in Glendale - Fixed Price, Set Finish Date

Fast, Reliable Bathroom Remodeling Across Glendale

Most bathroom remodels in Glendale don’t stall because the tile is hard to pick. They stall because the contractor underestimated what the house was built on. A 1940s bungalow in Adams Hill with original cast-iron drain lines and a bathroom wedged against a hillside retaining wall is a different job than a 1990s condo near the Americana. It needs different demolition care, different waterproofing, and often a different permit path through Glendale Building and Safety.

Call (877) 610-1318

Barrett & Sons Construction has remodeled bathrooms across Glendale for a long time, from tight hall baths in Kenneth Village bungalows to master suites in the Verdugo foothills. Tom Barrett answers his own phone, his sons run the crews, and every change order arrives in writing before the work starts. That’s how it should work. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll come look at your bathroom, your floor joists, and your drain lines before we quote a number.

For the short answer: a full bathroom remodel in Glendale typically runs $9,000 to $28,000. A small bathroom or powder room often lands between $5,000 and $12,000. Walk-in shower installations run $4,500 to $12,000, and a tub-to-shower conversion usually falls between $3,500 and $10,000. The spread depends on what’s behind the walls, not on which contractor picks up the phone. We quote it in writing, with allowances in writing, so the number you sign is the number you pay.

Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Glendale’s Preferred Bathroom Remodeling Company

We’re owner-operated, and we have been since 1998. Tom Barrett’s name, address, and license number are published and verifiable. Ask anyone on your street, or look up the license number yourself. Plenty of Glendale homeowners do exactly that before they call us back a second time.

Our crews are background-checked, uniformed, and on-site most days with Tom’s sons running the work. Nobody gets dispatched from an out-of-state call center. When you call, a live person picks up, 24 hours a day. When something needs attention after the job is done, the 90-Day Done Right Promise is written on the contract. If it’s not done right, Tom comes back and makes it right. One call.

We know Glendale’s hillside rules because we’ve pulled permits through them. The Chapter 7A fire-hardening requirements and geotechnical review that slow down a lot of remodels in the 91207 and 91208 ZIPs don’t surprise us. They’re part of how we plan the job from day one, not something we discover mid-demolition and hand you as a surprise invoice. That’s the kind of local expertise that keeps a bathroom remodel on schedule.

Our Bathroom Remodeling Services in Glendale

Every bathroom in Glendale earns the same starting point: a full look at what’s inside the walls, under the floor, and venting through the roof. From there, the scope gets specific. Here’s what we handle most often.

Full Bathroom Remodeling

A full bathroom remodel in Glendale means gutting to the studs when the house calls for it, and we mean gutting carefully. In 1920s and 1930s bungalows around Adams Hill and Grandview, the studs are often old-growth fir that’s held up fine, but the plumbing and the subfloor underneath are another story. We plan the waterproofing, the venting, the tile layout, and the permit path before we swing a hammer. $9,000 to $28,000 for a complete remodel, depending on size and what the house gives us to work with.

Walk-In Showers & Shower Remodeling

Walk-in showers are the most-requested upgrade in Glendale homes, and for good reason. They open up a small bathroom, and they’re the right choice for anyone planning to age in place. We build curbless and low-threshold showers with proper slope, pan liner, and waterproofing that passes Glendale inspection on the first pass. A walk-in shower installation typically runs $4,500 to $12,000. A shower replacement on an existing footprint runs $3,000 to $8,500.

Tub-to-Shower Conversion

Removing a tub and replacing it with a walk-in shower is one of the best returns per dollar in Glendale’s older housing stock. Many of the bungalows and mid-century homes we see have a tub with peeling glaze and a showerhead that never worked right. The conversion means rearranging the drain, sometimes replacing the trap and vent, and always waterproofing the full wet zone. $3,500 to $10,000 is the honest range, and it depends heavily on whether the drain can be reworked without opening the ceiling below. We’ll tell you before we start, in writing.

Vanities, Tile & Fixtures

If the bones of the bathroom are sound but the vanity is swollen at the base and the tile grout has gone dark, you may not need a full gut. We replace vanities, retile floors and shower walls, and swap out fixtures that have passed their useful life. Vanity installation runs $800 to $3,000. Tile work depends on square footage and material, but you’ll get a line-item scope before we order a single box. We don’t install mystery brands. You’ll know the exact name and model of everything going into your bathroom.

Trusted Brands We Service in Glendale

We carry premium-brand depth across every trade we touch, and your bathroom remodel is no exception. For tile, vanities, and shower surrounds, we work with products you can look up before you sign: Oldcastle, Quikrete, and Techo-Bloc where the application calls for it. If a brand name matters to you, we’ll put it in the contract. Glendale homeowners deserve to know exactly what’s being installed in their home, not a generic “contractor-grade” description that means whatever was cheapest at the supply yard that week. Our Bathroom Remodeling team brings named materials, written scopes, and no surprises.

Common Bathroom Remodeling Problems We See in Glendale Homes

Older Glendale homes share a set of recurring bathroom problems. The flatland bungalows and the hillside houses each fail in their own predictable ways, and knowing which failure you’re looking at changes the right fix.

• Rotted subfloor under the tub or toilet. Decades of slow leaks in 1920s-1940s bungalows across Adams Hill and Grandview soak the original fir subfloor until it turns spongy. By the time the tile grout cracks, the framing underneath is often gone, not just stained.
• Cast-iron drain lines with internal crust. The original waste pipes in Glendale’s older homes narrow over time with rust and mineral scale until the tub drains like molasses. Snaking helps for a while, but a bathroom remodel is often the right time to replace the line while the walls are open.
• Hillside bathroom walls trapping moisture against the slope. In the Verdugo foothills, bathrooms built against a cut slope collect moisture on the back side of the wall, which eventually shows up as peeling paint, musty smells, or black staining at the baseboard. Proper waterproofing and drainage matter more here than in a flatland garage-side bath.
• Mid-century bathrooms with original American Standard fixtures and no shutoff valves. A lot of Glendale’s 1950s and 1960s homes still have their original cast-iron tubs and chrome stems. When a stem fails, there’s no local shutoff, so the whole house goes down. Replacing the valve body and adding accessible shutoffs is one of the most valuable upgrades we do.

Pricing for Bathroom Remodeling in Glendale, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near Glendale

While we’re based nearby and serve Glendale daily, our crews regularly take on bathroom remodels in Burbank, La Cañada Flintridge, Echo Park, and Silver Lake. The hillside permitting rules in La Cañada and the century-old housing stock in Echo Park aren’t strangers to us. If you’re a few miles from Glendale and wondering whether we’ll come out, the answer is yes.

FAQs - Bathroom Remodeling in Glendale