Full bathroom remodel in Columbus, Ohio

A full bathroom remodel is a gut: the room comes out down to the studs and the subfloor, and everything goes back in new — the layout, the plumbing, the electrical, the tile, the vanity, the fixtures and the glass. We design it in-house and budget it line by line rather than as one lump sum, for homeowners across Columbus and the Central Ohio suburbs. Most full remodels take 3–5 days on site, and work typically starts about 8–10 weeks after you approve your proposal. You build your own price online before anyone visits, and the written proposal that follows is a guaranteed price: what can move it afterward is only what nobody can see until the wall is open — damaged joists or studs, a waste stack that has to be moved, asbestos or mold.

Last updated August 2026 · The price for your bathroom comes from our Estimate Builder, which is the tool we quote from.

Full bathroom remodels start at $15,679, installed. That is the smallest version of the job, and our Estimate Builder prices your own bathroom, line by line, before you talk to anyone.

This is the biggest job we do, and the one most worth deciding slowly. Nobody has to sit in your living room for two hours before you find out what it costs. Build the bathroom you want in the Estimate Builder, send it to us with photos, and within 24 hours you have a written price proposal — a weekend request comes the next business day. That price is guaranteed as long as your photos show the whole bathroom and nothing that could add work was left out.

Do you need a full remodel, or a conversion?

Most people who call us asking for a full remodel want a conversion, and we will say so if that is what the bathroom is telling us. The honest test is what is actually wrong with the room. If the tub is the problem and the rest of the bathroom is sound, a tub-to-shower conversion does the job in a day or two with far less disruption. A full remodel earns its keep when the layout itself is wrong, when the vanity and the floor and the shower are all due at the same time, or when something behind the wall has to be dealt with while it is open anyway. One bathroom done once nearly always costs less than the same bathroom done in stages. For what each path actually costs in Columbus and why the averages you find online run lower than any real installed price, read our bathroom remodel cost guide.

What in-house design and a line-item budget actually buy you

Two phrases that get used loosely in this trade, so here is what they mean here. In-house design means the drawing and the selections happen with us, rather than being handed off to a showroom that sells you materials and then hands you back to a contractor who has to make them fit. The person laying out where the vanity goes is the person who knows what is behind that wall, which is why a layout question gets answered in one conversation instead of three, and why nobody in the middle gets to blame the drawing for a fixture that does not fit.

A line-item budget means your written proposal lists the work and the materials as separate lines with their own numbers, not one figure at the bottom of a page. On a job this size that matters for one very practical reason: it is the only way to see what a decision costs while you are still making it. A different tile, a wider vanity, an extra glass panel — each one moves a line you can point at, so you can spend where it shows and save where it does not. A lump sum hides all of that, and it hides it in whichever direction suits the person who wrote it. The Estimate Builder shows you the same shape of thing before you have talked to anybody at all.

What you decide, and when each decision is due

Selections drive a remodel schedule more than labor does, so they have deadlines — and the deadlines are not arbitrary.

• Layout, before demolition. While the walls are open is the only moment moving a toilet, a vanity or a shower is genuinely cheap, because the drain and vent runs are exposed and reachable. After that it stops being a layout change and starts being a second project.
• Tile, vanity and fixture selections, before we order. Lead times are what put weeks into a calendar. A selection made late does not delay the job by the length of the decision — it delays it by the length of the decision plus the length of the lead time behind it.
• Glass configuration, before tile — the glass itself, after. Custom glass is measured against the finished tile rather than against a drawing, which is the single most common reason a finish date moves. Deciding the configuration early is what keeps that measurement from being the first time anybody thinks about it.
• Paint color, any time. Genuinely the one that can wait.

What the days look like

Day one is protection and demolition: the old room comes out and leaves in our truck rather than sitting on your curb. Then rough plumbing and electrical while the walls are open, which is the only moment the layout is cheap to change and the reason we push you to settle it before we start. Then the shower or tub goes in and gets waterproofed, then tile, then the vanity and the fixtures, and the custom glass last of all because it is measured against tile that has to exist first. Your itemized proposal carries a projected schedule before anything is torn out. The wiring rules that rough-in has to meet, from the ground-fault protection to the zone around the tub, are set out on the bathroom electrical page.

Dust, and the rest of your house

A gut makes more dust than any other job in a house, and the bathroom is usually in the middle of one. So the protection goes in before the first tile comes off: taped rigid floor protection down the whole path from your door — not a drop cloth, which slides and lets grit underneath — a zippered plastic barrier wall at the bathroom door, HEPA air scrubbers running through demolition and tile work, and covers over the registers so nothing you cannot see ends up in your ductwork and comes back out in the bedrooms. The site is left tidy every night, and the room gets at least two full professional cleanings before we hand it back rather than one at the end. None of that is an upgrade line on your proposal. It is how the job is done.

The blue-tape walkthrough

Near the end we walk the finished bathroom together, in daylight, with about an hour set aside and a roll of blue tape. You mark anything you want us to look at: a caulk line, a smudge, a cabinet door that sits proud, a switch that feels loose. Every taped item goes into one written punch list with an outcome recorded next to it — we will correct it, it meets the written standard and here is which one, or it needs a part we have to order and here is the date. You get a copy before we leave. It is the most useful hour of the project, because it puts the standard in your hands rather than in ours.

The shower inside the remodel — and what sits above the packages

The shower in a full remodel is built around the same six wall systems a conversion uses, and those six are where pricing starts rather than the whole catalog.

• Acrylic — glossy panels made as one kit so every piece is cut to meet the next, on a low step-in pan, with a semi-frameless sliding glass door already in the box.
• Bestbath — panels that screw straight to the studs with no backer board behind them, on a one-piece pan with a beveled front and no step at all.
• Palisade glue-up tile — vinyl wall tiles in a stone-look pattern, glued straight over the existing wall and finished with matching J-channel edge trim, on the same one-piece Bestbath pan. Eleven colorways, all the same price.
• Trinity stone-look — a four-piece groutless glue-up of slim aluminum composite panels, with a stone look printed on at high resolution and mirrored down the middle so the veining runs book-matched across the wall. Thirteen colorways. Printed, not solid surface.
• Transolid solid-surface — groutless solid-surface panels across three lines, Expressions, Prodigy and SaraMar, eighteen colorways between them. A step up in material, never in size.
• Castico solid composite stone — half-inch groutless panels of real stone composite, minerals and resin with no plastic and no acrylic, and the pattern running through the material rather than printed on top.

Castico is the top of the package ladder, and it is not the ceiling. Above it we hand-build full custom tile showers — a sloped, fully waterproofed tile pan and tile walls, in any size or shape a room allows — and custom tile wet rooms, where the whole bathroom is finished as one open shower rather than an enclosure standing inside a room. Neither is a package, so neither has a package price: both are designed with you and quoted per project. A full remodel is where they belong, because a wet room is a decision about the room and not about the shower. We also design with thousands of other color and material combinations, and the sample sets come to the consultation.

How long it takes

On site, a full bathroom remodel usually takes 3–5 days. That is how long your bathroom is out of use. How soon we start is a separate number: once you approve your proposal, a full remodel typically begins about 8–10 weeks later.

Those weeks are ordering, not idling. Cabinetry, tile, glass and fixtures each arrive on their own lead time and the schedule is built around the longest one, which is exactly why the selection deadlines above are worth taking seriously. For contrast, a tub-to-shower conversion is 1–2 days on site and typically starts about 4–6 weeks out, because there is far less to order.

How you pay — and why there are two answers

There are two payment schedules, and which one applies depends on the size of your contract. Both are stated here rather than only the friendlier one, because a full remodel can land on either side of the line.

For a contract up to the dollar threshold set by Ohio's home construction law, 40% is due at signing — that reserves your install date and orders your materials — and the remaining 60% is due at substantial completion, when the bathroom is finished and usable.

Above that threshold the schedule changes, because the statute requires it to. Ohio law (R.C. 4722.04) caps the initial payment at 10% of the contract price, plus up to 75% of any non-returnable special-order materials, with the balance paid in milestones as the work progresses. We name that threshold here rather than printing the dollar amount, because the amount is set by the state and not by us: your written proposal states which of the two schedules applies to your project and confirms the exact amounts, line by line, before any work begins.

What is in the price, and what is quoted separately

A full remodel price covers the demolition and haul-away, the floor protection and dust barriers, the professional cleanings, the plumbing prep, and the drywall and electrical package — as part of the scope rather than as items added at the end. Work outside the bathroom is a different matter, and we would rather say so than fold a vague allowance into a number: basements, painting elsewhere in the house, drywall repair in other rooms, carpentry and general punch-list work are quoted per project.

Getting a real number without a home visit

Three steps, and each works on its own if you would rather skip ahead. Start by picking your shower in the Design Studio, then add one photo and see the room rebuilt with the package you picked; then build the price of exactly that bathroom, with options added or taken away and the installed number moving as you go; then send it to us for a written proposal within 24 hours, the next business day for a weekend request. The Estimate Builder asks for no phone number and nobody calls unless you ask.

A free in-home consultation is available instead, or as well — and on a job this size most people take it, because the layout conversation is easier standing in the room. To reach a person, we are here Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 4:30 Eastern; Saturday is by appointment only. The website itself never closes, so the Design Studio, the Estimate Builder and the quote form all work at any hour of any day.

The guarantee that comes with it

Every bathroom we build carries a lifetime leak-free guarantee: if the pan or the walls we install ever leak, we fix it, for as long as the original buyer owns the home. Workmanship carries five years, and so do finish and adjustment items — the things that settle in with use, like caulk, grout shrinkage, paint touch-up and hardware adjustment. The products themselves carry their own makers' coverage. The clock on all of it starts the day we finish. Read what the guarantee covers, in plain English.

Where we work

We are based in Westerville and work across Columbus and the suburbs around it, in Franklin, Delaware, Licking and Fairfield counties — Worthington, Dublin, Powell, New Albany, Gahanna, Upper Arlington, Hilliard, Grove City, Lewis Center, Pickerington, Delaware and Newark among them. If your street is not on that list, the fastest answer is to call.

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