Changing the layout and moving a shower drain is not uncommon for a major bathroom remodel. However, if that’s your goal, hiring an experienced contractor is essential.
Leave Bathroom Renovation & Plumbing Relocation to the Pros
Updating a bathroom may open the door for DIY projects and home improvement ideas to start filling your daydreams. However, licensed professionals should be hired anytime you’re busting into walls and flooring to relocate electrical or plumbing, changing cabinetry, or doing more than cosmetic changes.
1. Get a Pro Designer’s Input on Layout Before Committing
One of the first things we do as Orlando home remodeling experts is get to know the details about why clients are renovating in the first place.
Redoing a layout is usually more labor and cost-intensive than working with or moderately modifying the existing one. During a no-obligation design consultation, our pro designers may see options you haven’t thought about, allowing you to keep things as they are and find more space, efficiency, or flow in other ways.
If creating a new layout makes the most sense, your consultation with our experts can provide valuable insights, recommendations, and ideas to further inspire the completed project.
2. Complying With Current Building Codes
Most homeowners redoing an entire layout live in an older or significantly outdated home. That increases your chances of finding unexpected things during the demolition phase – like corroded cast-iron pipes, obsolete electrical wiring, evidence of latent water leaks or moisture damage, mold/mildew, structural rot, etc.
Only work from a licensed contractor will pass the building inspector’s keen eye and give you the permit approvals you need to keep your bathroom renovation moving forward.
3. Designing Proper Drainage
Usually, a change in layout requires the movement or addition of shower drains or bathtubs. That’s fine, but we promise you that doing that kind of work is not as easy as DIY YouTube videos and social media tutorials make it look.
You don’t want to mess around with “good enough” plumbing and drainage because it will haunt you in terms of future leaks, below-the-floor water issues that don’t show up until the damage is done, slow-draining showers, baths, and sinks, or an inexpertly installed DWV system. If you’re googling “DWV system,” that’s a great indicator the bathroom remodel should be completed by a licensed contractor.
4. Timeless Design Features & Perks
Finally, working with an expert in luxury bathroom design and construction means you reap the benefits of our decades of experience. We’ll review your bathroom must-haves and wish list items, combine that with what we’ve learned about your short- and long-term goals, and then suggest features you may not have thought of yet.
This insight helps ensure you end up with a bathroom design that works well right now and continues serving and meeting your lifestyle needs for another decade or two. If done right, this should be the only renovation you’ll need for the long term.
On the other hand, if we learn you’re planning to sell your home or turn it into a rental in less than five years, we may redirect some of your plans. In that case, we’ll steer you towards the home and bathroom updates that add value and help homes sell quickly while saving you money, so you have more to spend on your future home purchase.
5. Keep It Simple, On Time, and Within Budget
The idea behind DIY projects is sound; you save money by spending your own time and energy on the process. However, this is rarely the case for major updates and remodeling like kitchens and bathrooms.
Qualified contractors are often called in to rescue DIY fiascos. By that time, homeowners have already invested a chunk of their budget and are in the agonizing reality of having to tear things out and re-do them to code when they decide to reach out to a reputable company like ours.
For most homeowners without a legitimate contractor’s license and strong connections with Orlando area subcontractors, craftsmen, and artisans, trusting this work to the right professionals saves money and a whole lot of stress.
Let Details Construction Group Show You What We Can Do
Before you start wielding the sledgehammer, eliminating your current bathroom fixtures, and working your bathroom layout magic, do yourself a favor and schedule a design consultation with Details Construction Group.
We’d love to hear about your plans and share our insights and experience so you can be clear about which path makes the most sense for you. Give us a call, 407-221-7406, or contact us online.
