Englewood Bathroom Remodeling

Bathrooms are where Englewood’s century-old buildings tell the truth: cast-iron waste stacks at the end of their life, galvanized supply lines closing down to a trickle, and floors that have settled out of level. We remodel bathrooms here with all of that priced in from the start. As a licensed Chicago general contractor (Class D #TGC132820) that self-performs its core trades, we rebuild Englewood bathrooms from the studs out — permitted, inspected, waterproofed correctly — and we’ve done it across two completed Englewood gut rehabs, multiple bathrooms each.

What Englewood Bathrooms Cost

Straight tiers, no games. A bathroom refresh — vanity, fixtures, paint, surround — runs $8,000–$15,000. A full tear-out remodel with new tile, tub or walk-in shower, and waterproofing lands $15,000–$35,000. A gut-level rebuild that replaces the stack, supply lines, and subfloor typically runs $35,000+. In pre-1930 buildings the plumbing behind the wall drives the number more than the finishes in front of it — which is why we open, assess, and price the real condition as written contingency instead of surprising you mid-project.

The Cast-Iron Question

Every old Englewood bathroom remodel starts with the same question: what shape is the stack in? A hundred-year-old cast-iron waste stack can be solid for another generation or scaling shut — and tiling a beautiful new bathroom onto a failing stack is how you pay for the same room twice. We scope it honestly, tell you what we find, and when replacement is the right call we do it under permit with our own crews. Multiple baths sharing one stack in a two-flat makes sequencing matter; that’s routine work for us here.

Waterproofed Like We Own It

A bathroom fails from the inside out — skipped membranes, unsloped pans, tile on drywall. We build the wet areas the way the manuals say and most crews skip: proper waterproofing membrane, sloped and tested pans, cement board, movement joints. For owner units that means spa-level tile and walk-in showers that stay perfect; for rental units it means durable, sharp bathrooms that survive tenants and turn fast between leases. Either way it’s permitted, inspected, and built once.

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