so you're gonna remodel your bathroom you may want to know how much is it
gonna cost so let's talk about that
hey everybody my name is Alex Rodriguez and I'm the owner of Bay Cities
Construction today I want to talk to you about bathroom remodel prices now before
we talk about the ranges in price that we have articulated on the blog article
located below I want to I want to answer your questions and I've been in business
for a long time many many years we've done hundreds of bathroom remodels and I
don't shy away from the tough questions so Dave (cameraman) is going to read off some of
your questions that you sent to us over social media or asked us over the years
during our design consultations - Q: "Do you mark up things like faucets and tile and
things like that?" many many contractors shall way from
this we absolutely mark up your materials we will mark up your tile will
mark up your plumbing fixtures will mark up the cabinet's I have no shame and
telling you that there's a mark over there it's a reasonable markup and it's
a necessary marker and I'll tell you why if any of these materials fail I have to
deal with getting them remove getting them fixed
getting them swapped out okay that costs time and money now
the markup has to be reasonable right I think it's reasonable to to charge for
the time that it takes to to not only install them but also to be able to give
you a warranty that you that will give you peace of mind if there's a warranty
claim a warranty issue when any of the materials we don't pass it off to the
distributor or a guy who installed it we are 100% responsible for all it and
because we're responsible for it we we have to charge for it you know that's
that's a markup if I send one of my guys one of my guys cost me about my leave
carpenter let's say 50 bucks an hour if I send them the home depot and it could
easily take them out and a half to go over there and come back
get over your job and start working again if if I didn't mark up the cost of
the materials that were buying think about it
he, I may have paid him 150 dollars to go and get something that may be a
$20 item okay so understand that in construction if
you have hired a professional company as insurance and overhead and all those
things there's going to be a markup to that and some of you may agree with that
and some of you may not but just understand that that's the case
well so could I buy my own materials because I don't want to pay the markup I
don't want to try to keep my costs down so that is a tactic that many people feel
is viable a good idea for keeping costs down so we've worked with customers that
are bought their materials I'll be honest with you I don't like it I don't
like to do it okay because we're responsible for it so I'll give you an
example if we if you buy up a vanity and my guys go pick it up and somehow they
damage it it's a total loss it's a loss for me because I pay them to go get the
vanity and bring it back to your house it's a loss for me because I got to
replace the cost of the actual damage that they caused right and there was
nothing in it for us there was nothing in it for us but in my experience many
times they don't buy enough material the material sometimes faulty and we got to
return it back it causes bottlenecks throughout the job on under many points
so I don't like it, in addition to ... in addition to we don't make any money on
it so it's a lot of aggravation for for no incentive for us and I strongly
strongly, strongly, believe that it has to be a win-win for you you have to get
service that's timely and that is high quality and for us we have to be
compensated for a time in the delivery of that service at a reasonably fair
price if that balance isn't there that's just calling for problems during
project is that why sometimes most of the time things take longer and cost
more than in the original contract I think that's the biggest aggravation
that people have with construction is that it took longer
and it cost more than even what was on the contract okay unfortunately that is
the nature of this industry of this business of the business of construction
there's two reasons for okay there's one reason one of those reasons is directly
related and falls back on the contractors fault the other reason is
something that is very difficult to control the part of the contractor
controlled the cost part of unforeseen things is when a contractor doesn't take
their time in putting together a comprehensive solution to the customers
problem the contractor used his years of experience to prove and see if there are
things that need to be addressed so a perfect example is when do a kitchen
remodel you very very commonly have to add more circuits because kitchens that
were remodeled that were installed 20 years ago don't have enough circuits so
oftentimes the adding of those circuits Inc it is beyond the capacity of the
electrical box and you have to upgrade it the kitchen remodel trickle triggered
a panel upgrade which can be three grand okay so what what I what I would say is
I want to be one of those guys that catches that and says upfront a listen
your kitchen is gonna cost X number of dollars but you're also triggering a
panel upgrade that'll be three grand capture and identify all of those costs
so that the customer knows before any demo is done that's that's on the
contractor side the other part is that I don't have x-ray vision right like I
cannot tell how much wood behind that wall has been termite eaten (Damaged) because you
had a roof leak that you didn't handle for 10 years and that whole section of
the wall is completely ruined or windows been leaking and there's a ton of
termite damage right behind that window or your shower pans been leaking and
it's and you have a lot of termite and dry rot damage underneath
the shower pan that I can't see ,those deals you as a homeowner have to have will incur
the cost of fixing them the question is do you have a good relationship with
your contractor and you feel confident that the change order that is giving you
for these things is reasonable and fair, that paradigm for understanding of that
part of the increased cost is really important going into the project
understanding that you contractor cannot cannot see doesn't have x-ray vision
they cannot see things that are covered up so what are some of the other things
that customers do or that happen with the budget to cause it to go up it's a
very common situation where if you make any changes to infrastructure if you
move a wall that is load-bearing, or that has venting in it, that action triggers a
domino effect of cost the other thing that is that is probably one of the most
aggravating things that I experience is when people change their mind we got a
plan in a game plan we have a signed contract and then a day or two in
everything has changed and mostly the change happens because they didn't have
enough time to consider all of their options, and put together a comprehensive
deal, but if customers change the plan during construction it's expensive I'm
hoping that these things help you understand what can affect construction
prices when you're considering to remodel your bathroom but I also want to
go in in depth a little bit and talk about different price points of bathroom
remodel okay so let's get into that
So let's talk about money because that's
what this blog article is about so what I did for you is I gave you three price
points that pr... in California, and I gotta I gotta kind of give you the
preamble for this. I'm a contractor in California. California is way more
expensive to do this then the Midwest so if you're in Texas,
if you're watching this in your in St. Louis or Chicago,
just understanding California's crazy, we pay way more for all of the insurances,
if you wanted to do like a calculation to have an understanding for your
geographic area I would probably discount 20 to 25%
off of these prices that we're going to talk about so our basic level we're
looking at between $22,000 and $25,000 and basically this is a
bathroom that the footprint stays the same the shower stays in the same spot
the toilet stays in the same spot the vanity stays in the same spot okay
so you're replacing with new updated materials and these are materials
probably that you could find in Lowe's or Home Depot I have another blog
article that talks about how those costs are broken up by trade so like my tile
and all that and we'll link it to to this article okay so you can have a
better understanding of where that the money is going okay now the next level
is what we call the mid tier level and I know if you're living outside of
California probably gonna freak out about this bit of this price range right
it's $25,000 to $33,000 okay that's a lot of money so
let's talk about what goes into that. Your vanity would, could be, at this price
point a custom vanity you may have like this is very common in California I
change over from a bath tub to a stand-up shower that change that cannot
upgrade it's definitely an upgrade there's way more tile you have to
fabricate a shower pan that is non-existent now you have to relocate
the plumbing many times you have to move the controls what I've noticed is that
people are spending more for these projects a really cool article that
Turner Construction wrote the link is in this article you can link onto it it
talks about the rise in construction cost in
state over there, I think the last four quarters and they found that it the
prices have gone up 4.95% I would say that the spending
the actual dollars spent but here in my marketing California it's it's it's up
way more it's gotta be 35% plus it has a lot to do with
people wanting a spa type of experience in their bathroom right so there's
niches in there and there's a shower one and the plumbing fixtures have diverters
that move the water the wall jets and all of this kind of really cool stuff
but it adds to the to the costs - that's how you get there the more
features you add to your bathroom the more money it is the next price point is
$35,000 to $45,000 and for some of you that are outside of California like
that's crazy two years ago our year and a half ago I
did a bathroom all where they spent a hundred thousand dollars okay in this
bathroom there's definitely gonna be a relocation of some of the plumbing
fixtures mostly caused by the expansion of the bathroom I would never say that
you know you shouldn't spend more money to expand the bathroom the truth is if
you're gonna spend the money to remodel the bathroom and there's things about
the floor plan that suck you should deal with that you know even if it will cost
you another fifteen or twenty thousand bucks because you'll be so much happier
that you'll get more function out of the space that the money's worth it the
worst thing that I would have a client feel is buyers remorse because he didn't
do enough you spent twenty thousand dollars and
$5,000 more you could have gotten like the exact stuff that you want take
the time to figure out what makes sense for the budget and then you know suspend
that money so the luxury bathrooms that almost always entails moving the toilet
moving the shower location remember that master bathrooms all off oftentimes have
a separate tub and shower so that's just way more plumbing fixtures to buy and if
you go crazy buying like Newport brass, or super high-end plumbing fixtures you
could spend I've seen we'll spend $20,000 $25,000
dollars on just the plumbing fixtures alone those are the different
price points that we have found very commonly people segment themselves into
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