Bathroom Remodeling in Burbank - Fixed Price, Set Finish Date

Fast, Reliable Bathroom Remodeling Across Burbank

A full bathroom remodel in Burbank typically runs $9,000 to $28,000, depending on size, fixture grade, and whether your home needs plumbing or electrical brought to current code. Most jobs take three to six weeks, including permits and inspections. If you live near Magnolia Park, the Chandler Bike Path, or up in the Burbank Hills, we know exactly what your house will throw at us once the walls come open. Call (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate, and we’ll walk the job with you before anything gets signed.

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We’re Barrett & Sons Construction, and our Bathroom Remodeling crews have worked in Burbank’s ranch houses, bungalows, and hillside homes long enough to know what hides behind their walls: galvanized supply lines, original 100-amp panels, and subfloors that pre-date modern seismic code. That’s not a reason to panic. It’s a reason to plan properly. Our Bathroom Remodeling in Burbank work starts with a walkthrough where we check for exactly those surprises before we ever submit a permit application.

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

Tom Barrett founded this company in 1998, and his sons run the crews that show up in Burbank. When a homeowner on North Screenland Drive or a street off Victory Boulevard calls, they talk to someone who actually swings a hammer, not a call center reading a script. That matters here because Burbank’s building department has specific requirements, and the last thing you want is a contractor learning them on your dime.

We pull permits on every eligible job, and the inspector’s sign-off is written into the contract. A lot of Burbank homeowners we meet had a previous contractor tell them permits were optional. They’re not. Especially in the 91505 corridor under the airport flight path, where a standard two-story or skylight addition can get flagged during plan-check if the FAA height overlay wasn’t accounted for. We file the paperwork correctly the first time, so your remodel doesn’t stall at the counter.

Every scope, every allowance, every price change arrives as a written change order before work happens. If a drain line turns out to be rusted through behind the shower, you’ll see the number on paper before we cut anything. And every job is backed by our written 90-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not done right, Tom comes back and makes it right, one call.

Our Bathroom Remodeling Services in Burbank

Full Bathroom Remodeling

We gut and rebuild bathrooms in Burbank’s post-WWII ranch and bungalow homes all the time. A full remodel in the 91505 or 91506 ZIP often means swapping out galvanized supply lines, checking the raised-wood foundation for dry rot, and upgrading an undersized bath fan to a Title 24-compliant unit that can handle Burbank’s 100°F-plus summer heat. We handle the rough, the finishes, and the final inspection sign-off.

Walk-In Shower Installation

A walk-in shower in a Burbank home typically runs $4,500 to $12,000. We install Schluter waterproofing systems under the tile, because Burbank’s heat-trapping Valley pocket means moisture control has to be done right or you’ll be fighting mold inside two years. Frameless glass enclosures are a popular finish, and we’ll spec one that works with your bathroom’s actual measurements, not a stock panel wedged into place.

Tub-to-Shower Conversion

Older Burbank bungalows on streets off Magnolia Boulevard often have a single tub that no one uses. A tub-to-shower conversion runs $3,500 to $10,000 here. We frequently find pinhole leaks in the original galvanized piping behind the tub wall, so we replace the supply lines during rough-in rather than burying a time bomb under new tile. Grohe or Sterling fixtures are common upgrades on these jobs, and we’ll help you pick what fits your budget without pushing whatever’s on the shelf.

Vanities, Tile & Fixtures

Whether you’re replacing a single vanity in a small hall bath or doing a full tile package in a primary suite, we carry and install fixtures you can look up yourself. In Burbank, that often means swapping a 1960s vanity on a raised foundation that’s settled half an inch, so we shim, level, and seal everything before the counter goes on. Vanity installation alone runs $800 to $3,000, and tile work is scoped line-by-line in the contract.

Trusted Brands We Service in Burbank

We install Schluter waterproofing systems, Grohe fixtures, and Sterling tub and shower units, plus we stock common replacement parts locally for Burbank customers so a follow-up trim piece or replacement cartridge doesn’t mean waiting on a mail-order shipment. If you’re pricing a walk-in shower and the contractor can’t name the waterproofing brand, that’s your answer. Ask us which systems we use and why; Tom will tell you straight.

Common Bathroom Remodeling Problems We See in Burbank Homes

• Galvanized pipes behind new tile. Burbank’s mid-century houses frequently still have original galvanized supply lines. They rust from the inside, and when one lets go behind a freshly tiled wall, the finished bathroom gets torn out again. We replace them at rough-in when we find them.
• Bathroom fans that can’t handle Valley heat. A cheap 50 CFM fan rated for a mild climate won’t clear steam from a Burbank bathroom in August. Title 24 requires higher airflow and humidity controls here, and we spec fans that meet the actual code, not the minimum box-store standard.
• FAA height restrictions catching skylights and roof vents. Homes in the 91505 corridor under the Hollywood Burbank Airport approach path have hard height ceilings, sometimes as low as 35 to 40 feet. Add a skylight or a roof vent without checking the overlay, and plan-check stops the job cold. We check before we draw.
• Raised-wood foundations with dry rot. Burbank’s bungalows sit on raised foundations that pre-date modern seismic and moisture standards. Bathroom subfloors under old tubs and toilets are a common failure point. We inspect and repair framing before any tile goes down.

Pricing for Bathroom Remodeling in Burbank, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near Burbank

Our crews work throughout the east San Fernando Valley and the communities around Burbank, including Universal City, North Hollywood, Glendale, and Studio City. If you’re a few streets over from Burbank in any direction, call us; we’ll tell you straight if we can get to you and when.

The Materials That Fail Early in Burbank, and What We Use Instead

Burbank doesn’t get coastal salt air like a beach city, but it does get something a lot of contractors overlook: a heat-trapping Valley pocket that bakes houses all summer. That changes what belongs in a bathroom. We see the same failures over and over. Standard galvanized nipples that looked fine at rough-in corrode faster than anyone expected because the walls they sit in stay hot and humid for months at a stretch. Cheap bath fans rated for 50 CFM struggle to clear steam when it’s 104°F outside, and every remodeled bath in Burbank will eventually trap moisture in a wall cavity unless the waterproofing was done with a real system, not liquid membrane rolled on by someone in a hurry.

We specify Schluter waterproofing under every tile surface, because it is a bonded sheet membrane that handles thermal cycling without delaminating. We install Grohe or Sterling fixtures when a homeowner wants hardware that won’t pit or cloud inside five years. The cheap-spec version of a Burbank bathroom sometimes saves $1,500 to $3,000 up front. Then the tile cracks behind the vanity, the fan fails, the grout wicks moisture, and the whole thing gets redone in a decade. The coastal-spec and heat-spec versions of the same floor plan look identical on paper until the first hot August. That’s the price gap we explain to every homeowner before the first tile gets set.

What Burbank’s Foundations and Pipes Mean for Your Bathroom Scope

Burbank’s residential neighborhoods are dominated by houses built between the mid-1940s and early 1960s. Thousands of them are ranches and California bungalows on raised-wood foundations that pre-date current seismic code. That matters for a bathroom remodel because the moment we open a wall or lift a floor, we can see what the original builder left: galvanized supply plumbing that’s been rusting from the inside for seven decades, and electrical panels that might still be 100-amp service. A bathroom remodel here is rarely just tile and fixtures. It’s a plumbing and electrical correction project with a tile package on top.

In the Magnolia Park neighborhood near the 91505 ZIP, we remodeled a 1958 California bungalow bathroom where the original galvanized pipes had corroded to a pinhole leak behind the shower wall. Our crew replaced the supply lines with PEX, upgraded the subfloor after dry rot was found, and installed a walk-in shower with a frameless glass enclosure. The whole time, we kept the FAA height restriction in mind, because the home sits directly under the airport approach path. That job needed a plan-check stop and a height-impact review before the final sign-off, and we handled it without a surprise invoice. Every scope change during that job arrived as a written change order before a single nail moved.

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