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A full bathroom remodel in Ingleside typically runs between $9,000 and $28,000, with walk-in shower installations landing closer to $4,500-$12,000 depending on size and finish level. That’s the honest range we quote here, before any work starts, in writing. If you’re off FM 1069, near the old Naval Station footprint, or out toward Ingleside on the Bay, we know your house was built to coastal wind standards that box-store remodels ignore. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll walk through what your bathroom actually needs.
We’re Barrett & Sons Construction. Tom Barrett founded this company in 1998, and his sons run the crews. We’re not a franchise dispatching strangers. When we open a bathroom wall in Ingleside, we know what we’re going to find behind it, because we’ve opened a hundred just like it here.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Ingleside’s Preferred Bathroom Remodeling Company
The difference comes down to paper. Every scope item, every allowance, every price change arrives as a written change order before a single nail moves. No surprise invoices at the end. We pull permits and get inspections signed on every eligible Ingleside job, because we’ve seen too many bathrooms where the last contractor told the homeowner permits were optional. They’re not, especially not in a wind-borne debris region.
Tom Barrett publishes his name, his address, and his license number. Look them up before you sign with anyone. We’ve built our reputation in Ingleside the slow way: one bathroom at a time, with the owner’s sons standing in the tub alcove when the inspector walks through. Ask anyone on your street. Or look up the license number yourself.
Our response time to Ingleside is measured in days, not weeks. Scheduling is coordinated from our Dallas-Fort Worth office, but the crews working in Ingleside are local to the Coastal Bend and know the difference between a 1960s Naval-era slab and a 1990s addition. That matters when you’re pricing a remodel and when you’re doing the work.
Our Bathroom Remodeling Services in Ingleside
We offer full-service Bathroom Remodeling for Ingleside homes, plus the specific upgrades that make the most sense in this climate. Here are the four we do most often in the 78362 zip code.
Full Bathroom Remodeling
A full remodel in an Ingleside home starts with the framing, because that’s where bay salt air does its worst work. We open the walls, check every connector and plate, replace what’s corroded with stainless or hot-dip galvanized hardware, and only then move to tile, fixtures, and finishes. The result is a bathroom that won’t loosen up on you in two years.
Walk-In Showers & Shower Remodeling
Walk-in showers are the single most requested upgrade we do in Ingleside, especially for homeowners in their 50s and 60s who plan to stay in the house. We build them with moisture-rated backer board, properly sloped pans, and frameless glass enclosures that carry the wind-load ratings this area requires. A shower that floods your wall cavity during the next tropical storm isn’t a remodel. It’s a future insurance claim.
Tub-to-Shower Conversion
Converting a tub to a walk-in shower is our favorite job for Ingleside’s older brick-veneer homes, which were built when a tub was standard in every hall bath. We can usually keep the existing drain location, which saves real money on plumbing rough-in, and we’ll replace the zinc-plated straps and fasteners the original builder used with stainless while the wall is open. Most tub-to-shower conversions in Ingleside run $3,500-$10,000.
Vanities, Tile & Fixtures
We install vanities, tile, and fixtures as part of full remodels or as standalone upgrades for Ingleside homeowners who want a refresh without touching the framing. We stock common replacement parts locally for the Coastal Bend, which means when a Grohe shower valve or a Sterling unit needs a specific trim piece, you’re not waiting on a distributor in another state.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Ingleside
We install and service premium brands you can look up yourself: Schluter waterproofing systems for showers and wet areas, Sterling tubs and shower units, and Grohe fixtures. For any roofing or exterior wall component tied to your bathroom remodel, we use GAF materials where applicable. No mystery brands off a van. If you’re in Ingleside and want a specific brand in your bathroom, we’ll order it, install it, and warranty the work for 90 days with our Done Right Promise.
Common Bathroom Remodeling Problems We See in Ingleside Homes
Here’s what we find when we open walls in Ingleside bathrooms:
- Zinc-plated fasteners rusted to powder. Builders in the 1970s and 1980s used zinc-plated steel straps to anchor tub drains and shower valves. Persistant onshore winds off Corpus Christi Bay drive salt spray inland, and within two decades those straps are thin as tissue paper. We replace them with stainless or hot-dip galvanized, every time.
- Wind-driven rain behind old tile. In a tropical storm, wind forces water through unrated exhaust vents and window seals. The water hides behind tile, molds the backer board, and you don’t see it until the grout starts crumbling. A proper Ingleside remodel includes wind-load rated vents and glazing, not just pretty tile.
- Slab bathrooms with deferred maintenance. The 2010 BRAC closure of Naval Station Ingleside put a lot of homes into a maintenance freeze. We regularly find bathrooms that haven’t been touched since the 1980s: cast-iron tubs rusted at the overflow, original tile over drywall, and plumbing rough-ins that need full replacement.
- Load-bearing walls that shouldn’t be carrying that much weight. We’ve opened bathrooms off Avenue C and found the original rough-in anchored with plain steel that’s rusted thin by bay salt air, and the wall itself doing more work than it was framed for. We reframe with pressure-treated plates and stainless connectors before anything else happens.
Pricing for Bathroom Remodeling in Ingleside, TX
Here’s what a bathroom remodel actually costs in Ingleside, based on the jobs we’ve completed across 78362:
| Service | Typical Range |
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| Full Bathroom Remodel | $9,000 - $28,000 |
| Small Bathroom Remodel | $5,000 - $12,000 |
| Walk-In Shower Installation | $4,500 - $12,000 |
| Tub-to-Shower Conversion | $3,500 - $10,000 |
| Bathroom Vanity Installation | $800 - $3,000 |
What moves the number is the condition of your framing, whether you’re moving plumbing, and what level of finish you want. An allowance that isn’t on paper is a surprise waiting for a date, so every allowance in our Ingleside quotes is written down. Call (877) 610-1318 for a free, written estimate. No trip charge inside the county.
We Also Serve Cities Near Ingleside
Our crews work throughout the Coastal Bend. We serve Bathroom Remodeling in Ingleside as our home base for this area, and we cover Aransas Pass, Portland, Rockport, and Corpus Christi as well. Same owner-operated crews, same written change orders, same 90-Day Done Right Promise.
Serving Ingleside, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Ingleside area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Bathroom Remodeling in Ingleside
Yes, if you pull a permit for the work, the inspector verifies wind-load details on any exterior penetration you touch, including exhaust vents and windows in the wet wall. Ingleside sits in a wind-borne debris region where the 2015 IRC requires bathroom exhaust vents, skylights, and glazing to carry wind-load and impact ratings that inland towns don’t enforce at the same stringency. We pull the permit, schedule the inspection, and stand there when the inspector walks through. The permit inspector works for you, not for me. That’s why I like him.
Salt spray from Corpus Christi Bay corrodes zinc-plated fasteners within a few years, which loosens tile backer board and grab bars until they fail. Cheap remodelers save a few dollars using zinc steel instead of stainless or hot-dip galvanized hardware. In Ingleside, that’s not a savings. It’s a two-year countdown to a callback. We use stainless or hot-dip galvanized connectors on every exposed fastener in your bathroom. Call (877) 610-1318 and ask us to show you the difference on your own wall.
Documented compliance with wind-load and impact requirements gives your windstorm insurer proof that your bathroom was built to the standard they’re insuring. Without a permit and inspection record, after a Harvey-scale event, the burden is on you to prove the structure met code. We pulled permits on a 1978 brick-veneer home off Avenue C and the inspector signed off on wind-load details and plumbing without a punch-list item. That paperwork went into the homeowner’s insurance file. If you want the same, call (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate.
A real quote includes: stainless or hot-dip galvanized fasteners, a wind-load rated exhaust vent, moisture-rated backer board, a written allowance for every fixture and finish, and the cost of the permit and inspection. A cheap quote omits the permit, uses zinc-plated fasteners, and tells you not to worry about the vent. The difference usually runs $1,500-$4,000 on a full remodel, and it shows up in the wall cavity two years later. Our quotes are written, line by line, before you sign. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll send one over.
Yes, in most Ingleside homes you can keep the existing drain location, which saves $1,500-$3,000 in plumbing rough-in, and still pass the wind inspection as long as the new shower meets wind-load and impact requirements for any exterior wall or vent you touch. We’ll tell you before we start whether your specific layout allows it. Most tub-to-shower conversions in Ingleside run $3,500-$10,000. Call (877) 610-1318 for an exact quote. Estimates are free.
The Ingleside Bathroom Remodeling Standard
Ingleside is the only town in the Coastal Bend where a residential bathroom remodel has to answer to both a coastal wind code and a heavy industrial port economy. We’re the only local remodeler we know who writes the wind-load ratings into the quote, line by line. That’s not marketing. That’s what this town requires. We live twenty minutes away. If something’s wrong with your bathroom, we want to know about it.
Call (877) 610-1318 for your free bathroom remodeling estimate in Ingleside. Tom Barrett or one of his sons answers the phone, and the written quote is yours to keep whether you hire us or not.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Ingleside since 1998.