I have an old house and am currently remodeling the bathroom, and not sure how to proceed. So far I have tiled one whole wall with white subway tiles, installed a new sink, repaired the original octagonal tile floor and replaced the ceiling with bead board, also in white. My question is, how do I proceed with the other three walls? What would look best? More tile? Drywall? More beadboard? I am trying to maintain the integrity of the original bathroom, which I would say was added to the house around the 1920′s. any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

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I am moving into my first home and I have a few questions about remodeling the main floor bathroom:

1) There is an awkward old built-in cabinet above the sink that makes it so that the mirror is not directly over the sink. I would like to just seal that cabinet off. The walls are drywall–how could I patch/seal this?

2) Inside of the weird cabinet is a dimmer switch for the lights above the vanity. I would like to rewire this so that the vanity light can be switch on/off from the switchplate by the door of the bathroom. Currently, there is a single switch that controls the overhead fan–can I make this into a double switchplate and have the light and fan control by the door?

Thanks for the help!
How do I move the wiring from behind the wall near the cabinet all the way to the door? I know this may be a dumb question, but I don’t know anything about this stuff Also…would it be expensive to have an electrician do it?

The old bathtub was not framed and not level, so there was some water damage. We want to do it right this time. The right side of the tub will be on the outside wall. It is a left-drain tub. The back wall is 200 yr. old brick and some bricks are crumbling, but the walls are very thick. Don’t know if it’s possible or not to make it all level to put a 3 piece surround and shower in or not. Some water damage on floor & drywall but floor is drying out–not beyond salvage. Drywall on wall was ripped out up to first 2 layers of tile. Don’t know if better to tear all tile out or just replace tub. Water damage was coming from tub not being framed or level, so we have gotten to root of the water damage, we’re certain.

My gf just bought a house and we’re having my dad do some remodeling on her bathroom. The floor area is about 30 or so sq ft, we’re having him remove all the tiles (over half way up the wall) replace the drywall on all three walls where the tile was, install ceramic tiles on the floor, and install a bath/shower kit, and no one is really sure how much to charge for the labor.

We’re also wondering if we should charge an hourly rate of some sort, or somehow figure out what to charge per item. Just looking for a general range. This kind of work is not really new for him since he has about 25 or so years of experience, so he knows what he’s doing for the most part.

Thanks in advance for any answers or suggestions you may have.
Thanks for the answers so far.

Here’s some additional details. We/he had to remove all of the tiles and lath for the walls, some reconstruction on the walls in addition to putting up new drywall (taping and floating), replaced seals for the toilet since it started leaking and replaced shutoff valves for the sink which were old. We’ve removed and replaced the sink and toilet once and will have to do it again to lay down the new floor.

We’ll probably paint it ourselves, but my modified question now is if you had to break down each item, how much should we charge for each, should we consider an hourly rate, or come up wih something else?

Altogether it looks like it’ll take about 20 hours… maybe more (up to 30?) Materials altogether will probably range between 0-0.

Any more thoughts?

My husband and I would like to demolish our only bathroom and replace everything, do you think we can do a majority of it in a couple of weekends? My husband has little faith or is it just plain lazy. I Wanna tear down ugly wall tile and replace with half drywall and half new wall tile, put in a smaller whirlpool tub and replace wall tile around tub, rip up the tile floor and replace with some ceramic. Eventually, get a new toilet and vanity and cabinet. HGTV has me pumped up! I think we can do it without hiring contractors.

OK, I just bought a Whirlpool bathtub, 60"x32". I have read the instructions manual, but I am kind of confused on how to properly install it. This is the bathtub I have, http://h.atgimg.com/pdf/product/install/amstd_install_215.pdf . I am unsure how to frame it, and I don’t know why it doesn’t say anything about insulation or drywall that goes on the side of the bathtub (if it goes at all). A step by step installation on how to better explain those instructions would really be appreciated, thanks.

A house we’re looking to buy has an unfinished master bath. All that is there is the framing, the insulation, and the plumbing to install a toilet and either a large shower or a small soaking tub. Ceiling, drywall, paint, mirrors, light fixtures, flooring, toilet, tub, fixtures, all are needed. Any ideas on cost would be appreciated. Thanks!

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