so you're gonna remodel your bathroomyou may want to know how much is it gonna cost so let's talk about that hey everybody my name is alex rodriguezand i'm the owner of bay cities construction today i want to talk to youabout bathroom remodel prices now before we talk about the ranges in price thatwe have articulated on the blog article located below i want to i want to answeryour questions and i've been in business for a long time many many years we'vedone hundreds of bathroom remodels and i don't shy away from the tough questionsso dave (cameraman) is going to read off some of your questions that you sent to us oversocial 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 yourmaterials we will mark up your tile will mark up your plumbing fixtures will markup the cabinet's i have no shame and telling you that there's a mark overthere it's a reasonable markup and it's a necessary marker and i'll tell you whyif any of these materials fail i have to deal with getting them remove gettingthem fixed getting them swapped out okay that coststime and money now
the markup has to be reasonable right ithink it's reasonable to to charge for the time that it takes to to not onlyinstall them but also to be able to give you a warranty that you that will giveyou peace of mind if there's a warranty claim a warranty issue when any of thematerials we don't pass it off to the distributor or a guy who installed it weare 100% responsible for all it and because we're responsible for it we wehave to charge for it you know that's that's a markup if i send one of my guysone of my guys cost me about my leave carpenter let's say 50 bucks an hour ifi send them the home depot and it could easily take them out and a half to goover there and come back
get over your job and start workingagain if if i didn't mark up the cost of the materials that were buying thinkabout it he, i may have paid him 150 dollarsto go and get something that may be a $20 item okayso understand that in construction if you have hired a professional company asinsurance and overhead and all those things there's going to be a markup tothat and some of you may agree with that and some of you may not but justunderstand that that's the case well so could i buy my own materialsbecause i don't want to pay the markup i don't want to try to keep my costs down sothat is a tactic that many people feel
is viable a good idea for keeping costsdown so we've worked with customers that are bought their materials i'll behonest with you i don't like it i don't like to do it okay because we'reresponsible for it so i'll give you an example if we if you buy up a vanity andmy guys go pick it up and somehow they damage it it's a total loss it's a lossfor me because i pay them to go get the vanity and bring it back to your houseit's a loss for me because i got to replace the cost of the actual damagethat they caused right and there was nothing in it for us there was nothingin it for us but in my experience many times they don't buy enough material thematerial sometimes faulty and we got to
return it back it causes bottlenecksthroughout the job on under many points so i don't like it, in addition to ... inaddition to we don't make any money on it so it's a lot of aggravation for forno incentive for us and i strongly strongly, strongly, believe that it has tobe a win-win for you you have to get service that's timely and that is highquality and for us we have to be compensated for a time in the deliveryof that service at a reasonably fair price if that balance isn't therethat's just calling for problems during project is that why sometimes most ofthe time things take longer and cost more than in the original contract ithink that's the biggest aggravation
that people havewith construction is that it took longer and it cost more than even what was onthe contract okay unfortunately that is the nature of this industry of thisbusiness of the business of construction there's two reasons for okay there's onereason one of those reasons is directly related and falls back on thecontractors fault the other reason is something that is very difficult tocontrol the part of the contractor controlled the cost part of unforeseenthings is when a contractor doesn't take their time in putting together acomprehensive solution to the customers problem the contractor used his years ofexperience to prove and see if there are
things that need to be addressed so aperfect example is when do a kitchen remodel you very very commonly have toadd more circuits because kitchens that were remodeled that were installed 20years ago don't have enough circuits so oftentimes the adding of those circuitsinc it is beyond the capacity of the electrical box and you have to upgradeit the kitchen remodel trickle triggered a panel upgrade which can be three grandokay so what what i what i would say is i want to be one of those guys thatcatches that and says upfront a listen your kitchen is gonna cost x number ofdollars but you're also triggering a panel upgrade that'll be three grandcapture and identify all of those costs
so that the customer knows before anydemo is done that's that's on the contractor side the other part is that idon't have x-ray vision right like i cannot tell how much wood behind thatwall has been termite eaten (damaged) because you had a roof leak that you didn't handlefor 10 years and that whole section of the wall is completely ruined or windowsbeen leaking and there's a ton of termite damage right behind that windowor your shower pans been leaking and it's and you have a lot of termite anddry 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 isdo you have a good relationship with
your contractor and you feel confidentthat 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 reallyimportant going into the project understanding that you contractor cannotcannot see doesn't have x-ray vision they cannot see things that are coveredup so what are some of the other things that customers do or that happen withthe budget to cause it to go up it's a very common situation where if you makeany changes to infrastructure if you move a wall that is load-bearing, or thathas venting in it, that action triggers a domino effect of cost the other thingthat is that is probably one of the most
aggravating things that i experience iswhen people change their mind we got a plan in a game plan we have a signedcontract and then a day or two in everything has changed and mostly thechange happens because they didn't have enough time to consider all of theiroptions, and put together a comprehensive deal, but if customers change the planduring construction it's expensive i'm hoping that these things help youunderstand what can affect construction prices when you're considering toremodel your bathroom but i also want to go in in depth a little bit and talkabout 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 whati did for you is i gave you three price points that pr... in california, and igotta i gotta kind of give you the preamble for this. i'm a contractor incalifornia. california is way more expensive to do thisthen 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, wepay way more for all of the insurances, if you wanted to do like a calculationto have an understanding for your geographic area i would probablydiscount 20 to 25%
off of these prices that we're going totalk 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 thesame the shower stays in the same spot the toilet stays in the same spotthe vanity stays in the same spot okay so you're replacing with new updatedmaterials and these are materials probably that you could find in lowe'sor home depot i have another blog article that talks about how those costsare broken up by trade so like my tile and all that and we'll link it to tothis article okay so you can have a better understanding of where that themoney is going okay now the next level
is what we call the mid tier level and iknow if you're living outside of california probably gonna freak outabout 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 likethis is very common in california i change over from a bath tub to astand-up shower that change that cannot upgrade it's definitely an upgradethere's way more tile you have to fabricate a shower pan that isnon-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 theseprojects a really cool article that turner construction wrote the link is inthis article you can link onto it it talks about the rise in constructioncost in state over there, i think the last fourquarters 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 mymarketing 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 experiencein their bathroom right so there's niches in there and there's a shower oneand the plumbing fixtures have diverters
that move the water the wall jets andall 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 themore money it is the next price point is $35,000 to $45,000 and for some of youthat are outside of california like that's crazytwo years ago our year and a half ago i did a bathroom all where they spent ahundred thousand dollars okay in this bathroom there's definitely gonna be arelocation of some of the plumbing fixtures mostly caused by the expansionof the bathroom i would never say that you know you shouldn't spend more moneyto expand the bathroom the truth is if
you're gonna spend the money to remodelthe bathroom and there's things about the floor plan that suck you should dealwith that you know even if it will cost you another fifteen or twenty thousandbucks because you'll be so much happier that you'll get more function out of thespace that the money's worth it the worst thing that i would have a clientfeel is buyers remorse because he didn't do enoughyou spent twenty thousand dollars and $5,000 more you could have gottenlike the exact stuff that you want take the time to figure out what makes sensefor the budget and then you know suspend that money so the luxury bathrooms thatalmost always entails moving the toilet
moving the shower location remember thatmaster bathrooms all off oftentimes have a separate tub and shower so that's justway 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 seenwe'll spend $20,000 $25,000 dollars on just the plumbingfixtures alone those are the different price points that we have found verycommonly people segment themselves into and i hope that this has been aninformative article for you an informative video please send us yourquestions your questions make the best content for us and makes contentcreation easier for us because we're
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