Bathroom Remodeling in McKinney, TX

Two rooms on one wall cost less than two rooms

In a lot of McKinney floor plans the powder bath and the laundry sit back to back or across a short hall, sharing a plumbing wall and often a single vent stack. That is what our laundry room and powder bath remodel is. Opening that wall once, rerouting once, and having the tile crew, the plumber and the cabinet installer each make one trip instead of two is a materially cheaper project than the same two rooms done a year apart.

It is worth checking before you scope a bathroom here. Stand in the powder bath and work out what is on the other side of the wet wall. If it is the laundry, a mudroom, or a second bath, you have a choice to make about scope that will not be this cheap again.

Old McKinney and new McKinney want different things

Near the historic square, the houses predate the idea that a bedroom should have its own bathroom. The bath was usually carved later out of a hall, a closet or the end of a bedroom, and it is small, with a cast iron tub and a window in an awkward place. The question there is rarely "how do we make this beautiful." It is "can this room grow, and what does it take from." Because many of those houses are pier and beam, a plumber can get under the floor, so moving a drain a few feet is far more achievable than in a slab house. What limits you is the joists and where a wall can go.

In Stonebridge Ranch, Craig Ranch and Trinity Falls the primary bath is large and on a slab, and the brief is the opposite. The room is fine. It is the garden tub, the builder shower and the mirror wall that make it feel like a rental. Those are finish and layout projects rather than structural ones.

Adding a bathroom, honestly

People ask about adding a second bath to an older McKinney house more often than about remodeling the one they have. It is a real project and we do it, but be clear about what drives it: where the existing waste line runs, whether the new fixtures can reach it by gravity, and what floor area you are willing to give up from a bedroom or a hall. Answer those three first and the rest is ordinary construction.

What moves the price

Bathroom remodels start at $15,000. In McKinney the number moves on:

• How far the fixtures move, and what is under the floor. Pier and beam is more forgiving and cheaper to reroute. A slab means cutting and repouring concrete.
• What the walls are hiding. In older houses, galvanized supply lines and cast iron drains found during demolition become part of the job, and it is better to expect that than to be surprised by it.
• Tile area and format. Floor to ceiling costs more than shoulder height. Large-format tile needs a flatter substrate, and old floors are rarely flat.
• Waterproofing. A bonded membrane across the whole wet area is how a shower lasts. It is not the line we cut.
• Cabinetry. In an out-of-square older room, a vanity gets scribed and built to fit rather than bought to size.
• Scope adjacency. The shared wall point above. It cuts both ways, and it is the one place a bigger project can be better value than a smaller one.

Every project carries our 365-day workmanship warranty. For larger jobs we offer in-house payment plans and Wisetack financing from $5,000 to $200,000, with no credit impact to pre-qualify.