Bathroom Remodeling in Friendswood - Fixed Price, Set Finish Date

Fast, Reliable Bathroom Remodeling Across Friendswood

If you live in Friendswood and your bathroom still has the original tile from the Reagan administration, you already know the problem. The grout is cracking along the Beaumont clay lines under your slab, the vanity has swollen from years of near-100% humidity after Gulf Coast rain, and the tub surround is holding moisture it should have shed a decade ago. Bathroom remodeling in Friendswood typically runs $9,000 to $28,000 for a full job, but the real cost of waiting is worse: small leaks become subfloor rot, and rot in a slab-on-grade ranch from the 1970s becomes a foundation conversation nobody wants on a Tuesday. We’re Barrett & Sons Construction, founded in 1998 and run by Tom Barrett and his sons. We’ve walked enough Friendswood bathrooms to know exactly what we’ll find behind the drywall before we even cut into it. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll come take a look, free.

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

Tom Barrett publishes his name, his address, and his license number. Look it up before you sign anything. That’s the kind of transparency that matters in a town like Friendswood, where word travels fast and a bad contractor’s reputation travels faster. We’re not a franchise dispatching strangers. The crews on your job are Tom’s sons and their teams, background-checked, uniformed, and carrying the Barrett & Sons name on the truck.

Our Bathroom Remodeling work in Friendswood doesn’t start with a sales pitch. It starts with a walkthrough where we point out what’s already failing, what’s about to fail, and what the permit inspector will want to see. Because here’s the thing about Friendswood specifically: homes in 77546 and 77549 that flooded during Harvey often had bathrooms hastily dried-in, not properly rebuilt. We find moisture intrusion behind fiber-cement and stucco on a regular basis, and we address it the way it should have been addressed the first time.

Every eligible job includes permits pulled and inspections signed. Every scope change, every allowance, every price adjustment arrives as a written change order before work proceeds. The permit inspector works for you, not for me. That’s why I like him.

Our Bathroom Remodeling Services in Friendswood

Full Bathroom Remodeling

A full bathroom remodel in Friendswood means taking the room down to studs and rebuilding it right. That’s where we catch what Harvey left behind. On older ranches near Clear Creek and its tributaries, we routinely open walls and find moisture trapped behind tile backer board that was never properly sealed after the 2017 rebuild. We replace it, we dry it in correctly, and then we build the bathroom you actually wanted. Full remodels here typically run $9,000 to $28,000 depending on fixtures, tile scope, and what we find behind the walls.

Walk-In Showers & Shower Remodeling

Walk-in shower installation in Friendswood runs $4,500 to $12,000, and it’s one of the most common requests we get from homeowners 50 to 70 who are planning to age in place. A curbless shower with a frameless glass enclosure changes how a bathroom works every single day. We install real waterproofing systems behind the tile, not green board and hope. In a climate where relative humidity sits near 100% after summer thunderstorms, waterproofing is not optional. It’s the job.

Tub-to-Shower Conversion

Tub-to-shower conversion in Friendswood runs $3,500 to $10,000. It’s the right move for a lot of the 1960s and 1970s ranches in the established core of 77546, where bathroom footprints were built tight and a tub you never use eats a third of the room. We pull the tub, reframe the opening for a walk-in shower, and usually pick up six to ten square feet of usable space. Older homeowners especially like this one: no more stepping over a tub wall.

Vanities, Tile & Fixtures

Vanity installation in Friendswood runs $800 to $3,000, and it’s rarely just a swap. The original vanities in homes from the 1960s through 1980s were built into the slab floor with plumbing that hasn’t been touched since Nixon. When we pull one, we often find cast-iron drains corroded to the thread line. We replace what needs replacing, and we write it all down before the work changes. Tile and fixture work gets the same treatment: a written scope, a written allowance schedule, and no surprises.

Trusted Brands We Service in Friendswood

We carry premium materials you can look up, not mystery brands off a van. On Friendswood bathroom jobs, we frequently install Cambria quartz on vanities where the price justifies it, and we work with Techo-Bloc for any exterior paver work that ties into the bathroom remodel, like a private outdoor shower pad or a walkway to a pool bath. KraftMaid cabinetry shows up in our kitchen and bath projects because the quality is consistent and the warranty actually means something. If you want a specific brand and we don’t stock it, we’ll tell you on the first call, not after demo day.

Common Bathroom Remodeling Problems We See in Friendswood Homes

• Slab movement from Beaumont clay. Friendswood sits on expansive clay that swells with spring rains and shrinks in August heat. That movement cracks tile grout lines and breaks the seal on shower pans in slab-on-grade ranches. We design against it from the first measurement, using decoupling membranes and properly reinforced mortar beds rather than hoping the tile survives the next wet-dry cycle.
• Post-Harvey moisture intrusion. Hundreds of bathrooms in 77546 and 77549 were “repaired” quickly after 2017 without proper drying-in. We still open those walls and find mold behind the tile, corroded fasteners, and swollen subfloor. If your bathroom was rebuilt in 2018 or 2019 by someone who gave you a one-week turnaround, there is a real chance the waterproofing was skipped. We check. Every time.
• Corroded cast-iron plumbing. In homes built before PVC became standard around 1980, the original drain lines are often pitted and thin. A bathroom remodel is the moment to replace them, not patch them, because they’re open and accessible. Patching a 50-year-old cast-iron stack only to close it back in the wall is a repair you’ll pay for twice.
• Improper venting and humidity control. A bathroom in Friendswood without an exhaust fan that actually vents to the exterior is a mold incubator. We upgrade bath fans to exterior-venting units sized for the square footage during nearly every remodel we do here. It’s a small line item that saves the next remodel.

Pricing for Bathroom Remodeling in Friendswood, TX

We Also Serve Cities Near Friendswood

While most of our bathroom work in this area is in Friendswood itself, we regularly run jobs in Webster, Pearland, League City, and Alvin. The drives are short, the permit offices are familiar, and the housing stock is similar enough that we already know what we’ll find in a 1972 ranch in any of them. If you’ve also got exterior work on the house, know that we handle Roofing in Friendswood and Windows & Doors in Friendswood too, so the same crew that remodels your bathroom can also address the window that’s been leaking into it every time a Gulf storm blows through.

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