Tub To Shower Conversion and Master Bath Update

Blairstone Forest Neighborhood, Tallahassee

Lead Designer: Kristi Williams

Project Manager: Mike Johnson

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Tub To Shower Conversion

Project Highlights

Start Date: August 29th, 2022

Completion Date: October 11th, 2022

Total Cost: $50,302.60

Key Updates:

Floating Shelves and Extra Plug
Better Ventilation and Lighting
Dramatic Accent Tile
Custom Vanity
Replace water damaged subfloor and framing

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Tub To Shower Conversion

Summary

We actually remodeled the guest bathroom and the primary bathroom for this homeowner. We designed both at the same time but then remodelled the primary bath first. Then the guest bathroom a few weeks later.

This was the original bathroom and was sorely in need of an update. The homeowner also suspected the subfloor might be water damaged upon investigation we determined the whole floor should be replaced.

The project went very smoothly and actually finished a week ahead of schedule.

Project Goals

The tub to shower conversion was the most important part of the project. The homeowner was planning to stay in the home for many years. She was gettting ready to retire and wanted to update the bath so she could stay in the home as long as possible.

Scope Of Work

There are a lot of bathrooms similar in size to this one in Tallahassee. It’s a pretty standard 5 ft x9 ft floorplan with a 60″ tub/shower, 36″ vanity and toilet. It’s a compact layout but very functional and efficient.

One thing all bathrooms of this size lack is storage. We like to add floating shelves over the toilet and place an outlet over the shelves so things like electric toothbrushes can be storage away from the vanity countertop, keeping it clutter free. Recessed medicine cabinets are also a great way to add storage to hall bathrooms like this one.

Demo Bath – Remove everything
new shower valve and diverter, new tub drain
Add 2nd plug at vanity
Move bath fan over shower and increase size to 100 CFM
Remove popcorn on ceiling and Skim coat all the walls smooth

Tub to Shower Conversion
New shower fixtures with handheld
larger vanity with white quartz top
Upgrade toilet – same location
new vanity light
subway tile with chevron accent strip

Challenges And Solutions

This project ran very smoothly and finished right on time. One of the advantages to these small guest bathrooms is they are fairly simple and easy to update. Even with the need to replace the rotted subfloor we didn’t expect any issues and we didn’t run into any.

Timeline

We actually completed this project 2 weeks early. Originally we were not sure we could finish before the Thanksgiving Holiday so we planned to complete it afterwards. But things went very smoothly and we were able to finish the week before the holiday.

Budget vs Final Price

The budget for this project was originally $48, 593 The final proposal was for $50,302. About 5 percent more than the budget, mostly do material selection costs.

Change Orders

While there was some hidden woodrot under the subfloor on this proejct the owner had alerted us to this before hand so we were able to include in the original budget and no change orders were needed on this project.