Bathroom Remodeling Services in La Habra, CA

Licensed and insured, Bathroom Remodeling Pros La Habra handles bathroom work across La Habra and four nearby communities. This page lists each service we offer, from full remodels and shower remodels to vanities, shower pan replacement and repair, tile and accessible bathrooms, and helps you work out which one fits the problem in your bathroom. Each job begins with a free estimate, and we leave the room clean when we finish.

Our Bathroom Services

Two of them, shower remodels and shower pan repair, have their own pages.

• Full bathroom remodels: the whole room at once, with the old fixtures and finishes taken out and a new shower or tub, vanity, toilet and tile put in, on the same layout or a new one.
• Shower remodels and tub-to-shower conversions: walk-in showers, new shower stalls, a tub swapped for a shower, or a new bathtub in the same space.
• Vanities: a new cabinet, top, sink and faucet sized to the room, including double vanities for shared bathrooms and wall-hung units for small ones.
• Shower pan replacement and repair: finding why a tiled shower leaks and fixing it, or tearing out a failed pan and building a new waterproof base under fresh tile.
• Bathroom tile: floors, tub surrounds and shower walls, set in porcelain, ceramic tile or stone over waterproofing that goes on first.
• Accessible bathrooms: grab bars, low-threshold or curbless showers, fold-down shower seats and comfort-height toilets.

Which Service Do You Need?

You may know the problem in your bathroom before you know the name of the service. This list matches common problems to the service that deals with them.

• A stain on the ceiling below the bathroom, or on the trim outside the shower. The American Society of Home Inspectors says shower pan leaks often show up first in the drain area, and lists stained baseboards and ceiling marks under upper-floor showers among the warning signs. Start with shower pan repair.
• Tiles coming loose on the bathroom floor, or in the next room along the shower wall. The same inspectors’ guide treats this as another sign of a leaking pan, so it’s worth having the pan checked before any tile is replaced.
• Cracks along the corners of the shower curb, or white mineral deposits around the tile joints. Inspecting one leaking shower, the Journal of Light Construction found cracks at the curb corners and mineral deposits that it says showed where water had flowed.
• A tub that hardly gets used, or a step-over edge that’s getting hard to manage. That’s a tub-to-shower conversion, covered on our shower remodeling page, and grab bars can be fitted at the same time.
• One sink and no counter space for two people. A vanity replacement, sized to the floor space the room allows.
• Cracked or chipped tile, or grout that keeps breaking out. Bathroom tile work, though in a tiled shower it’s worth having the pan checked first. The mortar bed under shower tile can stay saturated, and Fine Homebuilding says a saturated bed can weaken to the point of failure.
• The whole room is worn or dated, or the layout no longer works. A full remodel. Our bathroom remodel cost guide shows typical price ranges before you call.

Older Homes and Lead Paint

By the city’s Housing Element, close to 80 percent of the housing units in La Habra date from before 1980. For lead paint, the year that matters is 1978: the EPA’s Renovation, Repair and Painting rule says anyone paid to do work that disturbs painted surfaces in a pre-1978 home has to be certified, and that covers all firms, even sole proprietorships.

Minor repair and maintenance is exempt when it disturbs six square feet or less of painted surface per room inside, but the EPA covers demolition of painted surfaces whatever the size. Taking out painted walls in a remodel counts as demolition, so on a pre-1978 house, ask any contractor you’re considering about EPA certification before work starts. The rule doesn’t cover homeowners working on their own home, apart from a few exceptions such as homes that are rented out.

Repair the Shower Pan or Rebuild the Shower?

Some shower leaks can be fixed where they are. This Old House lists small repairs such as filling cracks with silicone made for wet areas, fixing loose tiles promptly and resealing grout. In a separate article on replacing a prefabricated pan, it says a pan may need replacing because of significant movement, visible leakage or large cracks. Writing about leaking pans, the Journal of Light Construction says a less aggressive repair sometimes works when the problem is contained, though full replacement is often the right answer.

A leak at the drain needs more than a surface seal. This Old House traces drain leaks to a worn gasket, loose connections or a cracked drain, and its plumbing expert says that joint is hard to fix with silicone on top, because a fiberglass pan can still flex.

Whether you repair or replace can also decide whether you need a permit. Brea doesn’t ask for a permit to fix a leaking pipe, valve or fixture, provided nothing gets replaced or rearranged, but upgrading or relocating plumbing fixtures does need one. If the pan has failed and the tile is coming off anyway, that’s the point to decide whether to rebuild the shower as it was or change it, for example to a walk-in with a lower threshold.

Where We Work

We cover La Habra and four nearby communities. Brea is next door in Orange County, and like La Habra it issues its own permits. Rowland Heights, Hacienda Heights and South Whittier are over the county line in unincorporated Los Angeles County. Each one has its own page with local detail on housing and permits, all listed on our service areas page.

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