i30 Builders · Residential
High-End Bathroom Remodeling in Rockwall and DFW
Primary baths, taken back to the studs and rebuilt. Not a tub-to-shower kit, and not a cosmetic refresh.
Written scope and locked price before any deposit · One-year workmanship warranty
Start Here
What you pay for in a shower is behind the tile.
A bathroom is a small room with a great deal of trade work in it: plumbing, electrical, ventilation, waterproofing, tile, glass and stone, all in a few square feet and in a fixed order. That work costs roughly the same whether the room is modest or exceptional, which is why a small, cheap bathroom is the one that goes badly. The budget is gone before the finishes are.
It is also the room where a shortcut stays hidden longest. A shower that fails, fails behind the tile, years later, and the repair starts with demolition. The waterproofing and the slope to the drain are the parts nobody sees and the parts that decide whether the room lasts.
So we take primary baths where the scope and the budget let us build all of it properly. If yours is new paint, a vanity swap or a shower insert, we are the wrong call, and we would rather say so up front.
Pricing
We quote bathrooms on the plan, not a rate.
A primary bath with the plumbing where it is and one that moves the shower, adds a freestanding tub and goes curbless are different jobs in the same square footage. A per-square-foot number would be wrong for both.
A site walk, then a written scope with a real number in it. Every selection is named in the scope or carried as owner-supplied, so nothing sits in a vague allowance waiting to become a change order.
The Work
Bathrooms we have built.
Already in the price
- Demolition to the studs where the plan needs it, with the rest of the house protected
- A waterproofing membrane on every wet wall and the shower floor, flood-tested before tile goes on
- Plumbing, electrical and exhaust ventilation rough-in for the new layout
- Permit filing and inspections wherever plumbing, electrical or structure changes
- Tile, stone, glass, fixtures and vanity installation to the written selections
- The punch list before final payment, and a one-year workmanship warranty
How we quote it
A site walk, then a written scope back within five business days. The scope names the work, the materials and the price, and the price does not move unless the scope does.
Anything found behind a wall or under a slab that changes the work gets priced and approved before we touch it. That is a change of work, in writing, not a surprise on the final invoice.
Payment is by ACH, card, check or cash, on the schedule written into the contract.
What Moves the Number
Up and down, before you ask for a quote.
Pushes price up
- A curbless or walk-in shower, which needs the floor recessed or rebuilt to slope to the drain
- Moving the shower, tub or toilet, and on a slab foundation that means cutting the slab
- A freestanding tub with a floor-mounted filler
- Large-format tile or stone slab on the walls, and tile to the ceiling
- Heated floors, which add a dedicated circuit
- Frameless glass, which is measured after tile and adds its own lead time
Keeps price down
- Keeping the shower, tub and toilet where the drains already are
- A shower with a curb rather than curbless
- Standard-format tile rather than slab
- A built-in tub rather than freestanding
- Selections made before demolition starts, so nothing waits on a decision
Common Questions
What does a high-end bathroom remodel cost?
We quote bathrooms from a site walk and the plan rather than publishing a rate. What sets the number is whether the fixtures move, whether the shower goes curbless, what goes on the walls and what the room needs behind them, not how many square feet it is. Tell us what you want the room to be and you will get a written scope with a real number in it.
Do you do smaller bathroom updates or guest baths?
Not as a job on its own. Small, low-budget bathrooms are the ones that go badly: the plumbing, waterproofing, tile and inspection work costs much the same in a small room, so the budget runs out before the finishes do. We take primary bath remodels where the scope lets us build all of it properly. If a guest bath is part of a larger remodel we are doing, that is a different conversation.
Can the shower be curbless?
Usually, and it is one of the best things you can do to a primary bath. The floor has to slope to the drain with no step, which means recessing it: on a framed floor that is joist work, and on a slab it means cutting the slab. Either way it is decided and priced at the walk, not discovered after demolition.
How do you keep a shower from leaking?
Waterproofing under the tile rather than trusting the tile and grout, which are not waterproof on their own. Every wet wall and the shower floor get a membrane, the floor is sloped to the drain, and the pan is flood-tested before any tile goes on. It is the part of the job you never see, and the part that decides whether you are tearing the shower out again in ten years.
Can we move the tub or toilet?
Yes. On a slab foundation, which is most of this area, moving a drain means cutting the slab, trenching and re-pouring, and it is inspected before it is closed up. That is a real cost and a normal one, and knowing it at the walk is better than finding it in demolition.
Who chooses the tile, stone and fixtures?
You do, with your designer if you have one. The written scope names every selection, or carries it as owner-supplied, so the price is for the bathroom you picked rather than a placeholder allowance. Glass is measured after the tile is set, so it is the last thing in, and choosing it early keeps it from holding up the finish.
Get a Written Scope
Tell us what you are looking at and roughly how much of it. We price the scope, and the price does not move unless the scope does.
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