Kirkland is the one city on our list where we do more bathrooms than kitchens. The housing stock explains it: a lot of sixties and seventies houses that still have their first bathroom, and a lot of newer condos and townhouses where the bath is the only room worth changing. A bathroom remodel, Kirkland WA, is a straightforward run from our shop in Kent, which matters more than it sounds — somebody is coming back with a forgotten part on most jobs, and that trip is minutes, not an afternoon.
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Bathroom remodel, Kirkland WA, neighborhood by neighborhood
Juanita and Rose Hill. Ramblers and split-entries from the sixties, usually with one full bath serving the whole house. Original tile over a mortar bed, a cast-iron tub, and a fan that was never ducted anywhere useful. These are the jobs where sequencing matters most, because there is no second bathroom to fall back on.
Finn Hill. Seventies and eighties houses on the slope, often with the main bath over a crawlspace. Good news for moving a drain — the plumbing is reachable from underneath instead of through the floor, which can move a job down a budget tier.
Houghton and the streets near downtown. Older, smaller, closer to the water. Cast-iron tubs in rooms with a doorway too narrow to carry one out, so the tub gets cut up in place and taken out in pieces over a protected floor and stair path.
Bridle Trails, Kirkland side. Larger two-story houses with the primary bath directly above a living room or a dining room. Everything about the waterproofing gets more serious when a failed pan means a stained ceiling downstairs. We flood-test the pan and photograph the test.
Totem Lake and the downtown condos. Stacked units where the bathroom is interior with no window, so the exhaust fan and its duct run are half the job. Buildings here set the terms: work hours, elevator reservations, and a riser shutoff that has to be scheduled with the manager and noticed to the neighbors. We do that paperwork, not you.
What it costs and how long the room is out
The three scope bands, what each one includes and the honest list of what pushes a job past its date all live on the main bathroom page. The short version for a typical Kirkland hall bath, same layout, everything new: it is a $$ job on that scale, with the room out of service for a stretch of days. The exact figure comes on the written quote after the free walkthrough, itemized, and it does not move afterwards.
If that bathroom is the only one in the house — common in Juanita and Houghton — tell us at the walkthrough. We change the order of the work, put the toilet back at the end of the days when it can go back, and tell you which nights you will want to shower somewhere else. That conversation happens before you sign, not on demolition morning.
Want the tub gone and nothing else touched? That is a tub-to-shower conversion, a smaller job with its own price and its own day-by-day plan.
The same crew, every day, until it is done
The complaint that repeats in bathroom reviews is not bad tile. It is one person showing up to do a job that was sold as a crew, then days of nobody at all between trades.
- Our own crew does demolition, framing repairs, waterproofing, tile, the stone tops, the vanity and the fixtures, and moves supply and drain lines inside the room.
- four people, the same faces from the first day to the last.
- Electrical circuits and gas go to licensed subcontractors we book and pay. They work to our schedule and you never chase their phone number.
- One name, one mobile number, and a weekly text update whether or not there is news.
Exactly which plumbing we do and do not do.
Permits, and who deals with the city
If your layout stays put — tub out, shower in the same footprint, fixtures where they are — most of these jobs proceed without a plumbing permit. Move a drain, add a circuit or change the framing, and the City of Kirkland wants a permit and an inspection.
We pull it, we schedule the inspection, and we build the review time into the written schedule you get before demolition starts. What we will not do is quietly skip it and leave you with unpermitted work to explain when you sell.
Stone is the part we do better than a general contractor
We are a countertop shop first, and in a bathroom that shows up in the details a remodeler usually tiles instead: the shower curb, the bench, the niche shelf, the window sill and the vanity top, cut from one slab on one saw. A vanity top is small, so a remnant piece often covers it — the price tier is the same stone we put in kitchens.
Questions from Kirkland homeowners
How much does a bathroom remodel cost in Kirkland?
Same as the rest of the Eastside — the tiers are on the main page. Older Juanita and Houghton houses tend toward the upper half of a tier because of what comes out of the walls, not because of the zip code.
How long will my bathroom be out of use?
A number of days for a typical job, with a shorter stretch inside that with no toilet in the room. You get the day-by-day schedule in writing before anything is opened up.
Do you work in Kirkland condos and townhouses?
Yes. Send us the building rules with your request. We book the elevator, work inside permitted hours, coordinate the water shutoff with the manager and send the certificate of insurance the building asks for.
Do you do small bathroom remodels?
Yes, and most Kirkland bathrooms are small. A small room does not cost proportionally less — waterproofing, fixtures and trades barely change with square footage. You buy less tile, not less labor.
Are you bathroom remodel contractors near me if I am in Kingsgate or Bridle Trails?
Yes, both are inside our service area, and so are Redmond, Bothell, Bellevue, Sammamish, Issaquah, Renton and Everett.
Next step
Bathroom remodel cost, three budgets ·
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