Bathroom Remodeling in Garland, TX

Usually it is an advantage. The pre-1950 stock around the downtown square and Travis College Hill sits over a crawlspace with plank subfloor, so squeaks, soft spots, and sag can be fixed from below instead of by tearing out the room. Original oak strip is often thick enough to sand and refinish, and where the planks are rough we overlay plywood and lay new goods on a flat, sound deck.

Worth checking, not worth panicking over. Most of Garland was built between the 1950s and the 1980s, and nine-inch resilient tile with black cutback mastic from before the late 1970s often contains asbestos. We test rather than assume, and we never sand, grind, or dry-scrape suspect material. Intact tile can frequently stay put and be covered with a floating floor, which is cheaper and safer than removal.

Because they are effectively two different jobs. The post-2005 homes near Firewheel Town Center are open-plan on a young post-tension slab with builder porcelain and carpet. The Duck Creek and Embree streets are 1950s and 1960s, smaller rooms, early slab or pier-and-beam, and often layered old flooring underneath. Same city, thirty to fifty years apart, and the prep is where the difference lands.

Sometimes, but it is a slab question before it is a design question. The drains are cast into concrete, so relocating one means cutting the slab. In the newer subdivisions around Forney, Fate and Rockwall those slabs are post-tensioned and the cables inside cannot be cut, which rules some moves out entirely. We look at what you have and tell you what is possible before you commit to a layout.

Yes, on every shower. Once the pan and membrane are complete we plug the drain, fill the pan and leave it overnight. If the level has dropped by morning we find out why and fix it while everything is still open. It costs a day of the schedule and it is the only point in the job where a waterproofing mistake is cheap to correct.

Because grout was used where sealant belongs. Every change of plane, meaning inside corners, the pan-to-wall joint and the top of the curb, moves slightly with temperature and load. Grout is rigid and cracks under that movement while a color-matched flexible sealant absorbs it. We detail those joints that way from the start, and it is a straightforward repair on an existing shower that is otherwise sound.