Bathroom Remodeling in Pflugerville, TX

In the 1980s and 90s subdivisions around the old core, Windermere, Gatlinburg, Springbrook, the hall bath is a one-piece fiberglass tub surround and the primary is a stall shower behind a framed door with a cultured marble vanity. Drains under the slab are PVC in most, cast iron in the oldest, and slab movement has stressed both. A shower pan that was fine in 1995 has often cracked at the drain, and the first sign is a stain on the ceiling below or a smell that will not leave.

Falcon Pointe and Blackhawk primaries have the corner garden tub on a tiled deck, a 36-inch shower, and a long double vanity. The slabs are younger but on the same clay, so the tile deck has usually separated from the wall at the caulk line. The electrical is 200 amps, which makes heated floors easy. The exhaust fan is typically one small unit for a room that needs two.

Most Pflugerville bathroom remodels start the same way: the garden tub comes out and the shower takes the wall. Before the new pan goes in we check the slab for movement and can scope the drain with a camera, because on this soil a cracked drain line under a new shower is the one problem you cannot fix later without tearing it out. The shower floor gets a full waterproofing system, a linear drain where the slab allows curbless, and tile set over a membrane that absorbs minor movement. Expansion joints go where the layout hides them.

In the older houses we gut the hall bath to the studs, take out the fiberglass in pieces, replace the drain and trap if a camera scope shows damage, and tile a tub or shower on proper waterproofing. Vanities get drawers. Fans get ducted outside and sized for the room. In Falcon Pointe and Blackhawk, a second project we build often is converting an unused formal room into a guest suite bath, which needs a new drain cut into the slab and is priced that way.

Bathroom work that moves plumbing or adds circuits is permitted through the City of Pflugerville. We file it and meet the inspectors. Some Blackhawk and edge-of-town addresses are in the extraterritorial jurisdiction in Travis County rather than the city, where the process is different, so we confirm from your address before anything is filed. The Falcon Pointe and Blackhawk HOAs regulate work hours and dumpsters, not interior baths, and we follow their rules.

Pflugerville is close to the north Austin tile showrooms and glass shops, so templating and glass measurement happen without padding the schedule. A primary bath runs 4 to 6 weeks, a hall bath 3 to 4, and glass adds about two weeks after tile. If a camera scope finds a break, that repair gets priced in writing before we proceed. The owner is on site every day.