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A full bathroom remodel in Selma, TX typically runs $9,000 to $28,000, and most projects take three to six weeks once we open the walls. The price depends far more on what we find inside your slab and framing than on the tile you pick. Call Barrett & Sons Construction at (877) 610-1318 and we’ll walk your bathroom with you before you spend a dime.
We’re not a crew from two counties over that rolls into Selma with a generic bid sheet and a rented van. Tom Barrett’s sons run our crews. We know the neighborhoods off Evans Road and Schertz Parkway, we know the postwar tract homes along Cibolo Creek, and we know what Fresno County inspectors look for when a bathroom permit lands on their desk. When you call us, you get someone who understands why your Selma slab behaves the way it does in August.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Selma’s Preferred Bathroom Remodeling Company
Most Selma homeowners over 50 have already been through one bad remodel. A national franchise quoted low on the phone, sent a rotating cast of subcontractors, and handed over a bill that looked nothing like the estimate. That doesn’t happen with us because we’ve done things the same way since 1998: every scope in writing, every allowance on paper, and every price change signed by you before a single nail moves.
Selma customers call us because Tom Barrett publishes his name, his address, and his license number right on the contract. Ask anyone on your street, or look up the license yourself. We’ve been answering our own phone for 29 years, and a live person picks up 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Not a voicemail box, not an out-of-state call center. When you’re mid-remodel and the tule fog rolls in and you have a question about your shower pan, you want a person, not a recording.
Our Bathroom Remodeling crews work in Selma weekly, and we schedule around the one thing every local knows about: the heat. We start concrete work early, protect materials from UV, and don’t pour slabs in July unless the schedule and moisture conditions line up. That’s not corporate policy. That’s just knowing how to build in this valley.
Our Bathroom Remodeling Services in Selma
Full Bathroom Remodeling
This is our bread and butter in Selma. A full remodel means we pull everything out to the studs and the slab, fix what’s broken underneath, and rebuild with materials that can handle Central Valley thermal swings. For Selma’s 1960s and 1970s tract homes, that almost always includes replacing rotted bottom plates, correcting drain slopes, and bringing vent stacks up to current code. You don’t just get new tile. You get a bathroom that won’t fail in two seasons.
Walk-In Showers & Shower Remodeling
The most popular request we get from Selma homeowners is the walk-in shower. If your knees are telling you that stepping over a tub wall is a young person’s game, we hear that. Walk-in shower installation in Selma typically starts around $4,500 and runs up to $12,000 depending on waterproofing scope and what we find under the slab. For slab-on-grade homes, we use Schluter membrane systems and always check the existing slab for heave cracks before tile goes down.
Tub-to-Shower Conversion
A tub-to-shower conversion in Selma runs $3,500 to $10,000, and there’s a catch most contractors won’t tell you about until it’s too late. Fresno County inspectors require a 2-inch drain line for showers. If your existing tub drains through a 1.5-inch line, which is common in older Selma homes, we have to upgrade it while the slab is open. We put the drain upgrade in the written contract before we start, not as a surprise change order after the tile is set. Skipping this gets flagged at inspection, and you don’t want to tear out finished tile because someone saved $300 on pipe.
Vanities, Tile & Fixtures
Selma homes built in the 1980s often have original particleboard vanities that have swelled and sagged from decades of bathroom humidity. We replace them with solid plywood boxes and dovetailed drawer construction. For fixtures, we stock and install Grohe and Sterling in Selma, which means parts and warranties are easy to source when something wears out ten years from now. Tile selection happens in our showroom, so you see full slabs and full sheets, not a two-inch sample glued to a brochure.
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 Selma
We don’t install mystery brands off a van. For Selma bathrooms, we work with Schluter waterproofing systems, Sterling fixtures, and Grohe valves and shower kits. These are names you can look up, and we stock replacement parts locally for Selma customers, so a leaking valve cartridge doesn’t mean waiting two weeks for an out-of-state order. When we install a Schluter shower system, the warranty is registered in your name, and the Schluter rep stands behind it the same way we do.
Common Bathroom Remodeling Problems We See in Selma Homes
- Slab cracks from expansive clay. Selma sits on black cotton clay that swells with winter rains and shrinks hard in the summer. We regularly find hairline cracks in slabs that let moisture wick into bottom plates, and by the time tile starts buckling, the framing underneath is already compromised.
- Rotted bottom plates from years of vapor intrusion. In Selma’s post-WWII tract homes, slab-on-grade construction means the bottom plate sits directly on concrete. When seasonal clay movement cracks that slab, moisture creeps up and rots the wood from the bottom. You won’t see it until the baseboard comes off.
- Cast iron drain lines corroded at the slab penetration. We see this constantly in 93662. The original cast iron looks fine until you cut into the slab and the pipe crumbles at the joint. That’s a repair job most bidders won’t mention because they haven’t seen your slab yet.
- Undersized vent stacks flagged at inspection. Many Selma tub-to-shower conversions die at final inspection because the vent stack wasn’t brought up to code. We’ve torn out finished tile on jobs other contractors did just to fix what should have been caught on day one with a permit and an inspection.
Pricing for Bathroom Remodeling in Selma, TX
Let’s talk straight about money. A full bathroom remodel in Selma runs $9,000 to $28,000. The wide range is honest because what we find inside your walls and under your slab changes the scope. Here’s the line-item breakdown:
| Service | Selma Price Range |
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| Full Bathroom Remodeling | $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 |
The two things that move the number the most in Selma are slab condition and drain line replacement. If we pull your tub and find the cast iron has corroded at the slab penetration, that’s a real cost and we’ll show you the scope in writing before we touch it. If the slab has heaved enough to tilt the tub, that’s another written change order. You’ll never get a bill from us that wasn’t signed off on first. Call (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate and a line-item written quote.
We Also Serve Cities Near Selma
If you’re on the edge of Selma or right next door, we serve the same quality work across Selma and the surrounding communities, including Schertz, Universal City, Cibolo, and Converse. Same written change orders, same 90-Day Done Right Promise, same Tom Barrett on the other end of the phone.
Serving Selma, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Selma 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 Selma
If you’re not adding square footage, you usually don’t need a formal soils report, but you should absolutely have the existing slab inspected for heave cracks and moisture intrusion before tile work begins. In Selma’s expansive clay, we recommend it on every job where the slab gets opened or a drain line moves. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll tell you what your specific bathroom actually needs after we see it.
Almost always because the contractor set tile over a slab that was already moving, or skipped proper moisture isolation. Selma’s clay soils swell in winter and shrink in summer, and without an uncoupling membrane like Schluter Ditra, the tile moves with the slab. Add moisture wicking up through an unsealed crack and you get cracked grout and loose tiles within two seasons. That’s why we inspect the slab before every Selma floor tile job.
We stop work, photograph the damage, and give you a written change order for the repair before any new material goes up. You approve the price in writing, then we replace the rotted bottom plates, treat the area against further moisture, and continue. You will never get a surprise invoice from us at the end. The contract says so. Call (877) 610-1318 to talk through your project.
Yes, and we do it regularly in Selma’s slab-on-grade homes. The job typically runs $3,500 to $10,000, but the number depends on what we find when we open the slab. Many Selma tubs drain through 1.5-inch lines that need upgrading to 2 inches for a shower, and Fresno County inspectors will flag it if we don’t. We build that upgrade into the written contract before work starts, not after the tile is set.
The dense tule fog from November through February keeps moisture against exterior walls for weeks at a time, so we spec moisture-resistant drywall, proper vapor barriers, and exhaust fans sized for the actual bathroom volume. Selma’s older homes often have undersized fans, and a bathroom that can’t clear humidity after a hot shower grows mold inside a year. We put the fan upgrade in the original scope, not a change order. Call (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate.
What Actually Happens When We Open Your Selma Bathroom Walls
Here’s the truth about remodeling older Selma homes: what you see on the surface is rarely what’s underneath. We opened up a 1970s tract bathroom near the older neighborhood off Rose Avenue and found the slab had heaved enough to tilt the tub, while the original drain rough-in was cast iron corroded at the slab penetration. Our crew cut the slab, compacted a moisture-stable base, reran ABS waste lines, and poured back with a vapor barrier before setting a Kohler acrylic tub. Then we tied the inspection sign-off to the same permit that flagged the undersized vent stack.
That job happened because Selma sits on expansive black cotton clay that swells with winter rains and shrinks hard during the scorching dry summers. Every bathroom remodel that opens a slab or moves a drain line here has to account for that movement, and Fresno County inspectors know it specifically in the 93662 ZIP. If a contractor hands you a bid that doesn’t mention slab inspection, soils conditions, or drain line sizing, that bid is not based on your house. It’s based on someone else’s.
We handle it differently. Before we open a wall, we map the plumbing, check the vent stack, and look for signs of slab movement at the baseboards. We put allowances in the contract for what we expect to find, and every actual finding gets priced and approved in writing before we touch it. An allowance that isn’t on paper is a surprise waiting for a date.
Call Barrett & Sons for Your Selma Bathroom Remodel
If you’re in Selma and you’re tired of contractors who quote one price on the phone and show up with another, call Barrett & Sons Construction at (877) 610-1318. Tom Barrett started this company in 1998, and his sons run the crews. Every contract carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. Every permit gets pulled, and every inspection gets signed. You’ll get a free estimate, a written line-item quote, and the name of the person who will be standing in your bathroom on day one. No trip charge inside the county, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Selma since 1998.