Full Bathroom Remodeling in Burnt Store Marina - One Written Price, No Change Orders

What Does a Full Bathroom Remodel Actually Cost and Include in Burnt Store Marina?

A full bathroom remodeling in Burnt Store Marina typically costs between $9,000 and $28,000, with most projects landing in the $14,000-$19,000 range for a standard 5×8 guest bath. The work itself covers a gut-to-the-studs tear-out of everything in the space - floor tile, wall surround, vanity, toilet, lighting, exhaust fan - followed by new waterproofing, plumbing trim-out, electrical updates, drywall, tile, fixture install, and finish work. Most jobs here take three to five weeks, though Charlotte County’s post-Ian permit backlog can add a week or two depending on the season. If you need a firm number for your specific bathroom, call (844) 638-7249 for a free on-site estimate - we walk the space, take measurements, and hand you a fixed-price quote before we leave.

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How a Full Bathroom Remodel Comes Together, Step by Step

When we strip a bathroom down to the studs in Burnt Store Marina, we follow a repeatable five-stage process that keeps inspections on track and surprises off the table. Here is what happens from the day we start demo to the day you step onto new tile.

Stage 1: Demolition and discovery (Days 1-2). The existing vanity, toilet, tub or shower pan, wall surround, and floor tile all come out. We cut the drywall up to roughly four feet so we can see what the stud bays, subfloor, and plumbing risers actually look like. In a Burnt Store Marina home built in the 1980s or 1990s, this is often the moment we find corroded supply stops, subfloor swelling from years of humidity, or galvanized pipe that didn’t survive the salt air as well as the seller’s disclosure implied. You’ll make zero design decisions during this stage, but what we find here might shift the scope before we button the walls back up.

Stage 2: Rough-in and waterproofing (Days 3-7). This is where the invisible work happens. Our plumber re-routes or caps supply lines as needed, sets the new shower valve and tub filler, and ties in the drain assembly. The electrician pulls new 20-amp GFCI-protected circuits for the outlet(s) and runs a dedicated line if you’re adding a heated floor or a steam unit. At this stage we also hang cement board and apply a full liquid or sheet waterproofing membrane from the tub lip to the ceiling. Charlotte County inspectors will want to see the waterproofing and the plumbing rough-in before we close the walls, and we schedule both inspections back-to-back to avoid idle days.

Stage 3: Drywall, prime, and tile prep (Days 8-12). New moisture-resistant drywall goes up above the cement board line, gets taped and finished, and the room gets a coat of mold-inhibiting primer. Meanwhile the tile setter preps the subfloor - either by embedding a decoupling membrane over concrete slab or by screeding a level bed if the floor has settled over the years, which we see often in Burnt Store Marina homes where original slab-on-grade construction has shifted in the sandy marine soil.

Stage 4: Tile, trim, and cabinet install (Days 12-18). The sequence here depends on tile size and pattern. Large-format floor tile goes in first so the wall tile can lap over it. A standard tub surround in a 12×24 porcelain might take two days; a floor-to-ceiling marble-look job with a niche and accent band can take four. The vanity, mirror, toilet, and trim get set after grout has cured. At this point the bathroom is functional but not finished - you’ll want to hold off using the shower until the glass enclosure or curtain rod goes in.

Stage 5: Fixtures, glass, and final walk (Days 18-22). The shower door or glass panel gets measured, fabricated, and installed. We set the tub spout, showerhead, controls, towel bars, and the GFCI outlet covers. Our finishing crew runs a full water test, checks each shutoff, and runs the exhaust fan for ten minutes to confirm the CFM matches the room volume. You do your walkthrough with the project lead, we punch anything that needs attention, and the bathroom is yours.

The biggest variable in timeline is the tile you pick - and the permit routing. A project staying within the Charlotte County side of Burnt Store Road moves faster than one that also triggers a Lee County review for a dock-adjacent bathroom that shares a wall with an exterior bulkhead. We flag that split-jurisdiction risk early so it never surprises you mid-project.

The Decisions You’ll Make Before We Order a Single Tile

Full bathroom remodeling in Burnt Store Marina means choosing every surface and fixture in the room. Here are the main categories where the price moves, along with the honest trade-off of each.

• Shower surround vs. full wet-room conversion. A standard alcove tub with a tiled surround keeps the footprint where it is and lands on the lower end of the budget. Removing the tub entirely and building a curbless, floor-to-ceiling tiled shower with a linear drain adds waterproofing scope, sometimes requires relocating the drain, and pushes the job toward the upper end - but it is the single best move if you want to age in place in a single-story Burnt Store Marina home.
• Tile material and size. Ceramic 12×24 field tile is durable, easy to install, and affordable. Porcelain large-format slabs (24×48 or larger) cost more to buy and require a more experienced tile setter, but they mean fewer grout lines and a much cleaner look. Natural stone like marble or travertine looks beautiful on Charlotte Harbor but demands yearly sealing - salt-laden humidity will etch unsealed stone faster than a Naples condo. We use Sakrete and Quikrete setting materials rated for high-moisture installations specifically because of the marine environment here.
• Vanity: stock, semi-custom, or custom. A stock 48-inch vanity with a cultured-marble top gets the job done and keeps the price low. A semi-custom unit with soft-close drawers, dovetail joinery, and a quartz or Cambria top costs more but holds up far better to the daily humidity swings of a canal-front home. A full custom built-in lets you use every inch of an odd-shaped bathroom, but expect to add a week for fabrication.
• Exhaust ventilation. Burnt Store Marina’s humidity is not cosmetic - undersized exhaust fans lead to mold inside two wet seasons. We spec Panasonic or equivalent units sized at a minimum of 1 CFM per square foot of floor area, hard-ducted to the exterior. A $40 builder-grade fan that recirculates into the attic is a false economy here and we will not install one.
• Lighting layers. A single ceiling-mounted fixture is the minimum-code option. Adding a second circuit with a dimmable vanity sconce and a sealed, wet-rated recessed light above the shower changes how the room feels at 6:00 a.m., and it costs roughly $400-$700 more in electrical rough-in depending on accessibility.

What Full Bathroom Remodeling Costs in Burnt Store Marina, FL

The $9,000-$28,000 range covers the vast majority of full bathroom remodels we build in Burnt Store Marina. Where your job falls depends on a handful of variables, and we want you to understand them before anyone hands you a number.

Room size matters, but not as much as you’d think. A compact 5×7 guest bath with the plumbing staying where it is will naturally run toward the lower half of the range. A larger master bathroom with a separate tub and shower, or a bathroom where the floorplan changes, requires more of everything - more tile, more drywall, more waterproofing, more labor days - and moves into the upper half.

Plumbing relocation is the single largest cost lever. If you keep the toilet, sink, and tub/shower in their current locations, you save thousands on plumbing rough-in. Moving a toilet drain even two feet can require cutting the slab, re-routing the waste line, and patching - and in a post-Ian rebuild where finished floor elevation requirements may have changed, that slab work sometimes intersects with updated foundation scope.

Water damage or salt corrosion discovered during demo. This is the most common reason a $14,000 job becomes a $19,000 job in Burnt Store Marina. When we open a wall and find stud bases that have wicked moisture for twenty years or a subfloor that has delaminated from slab contact, we will stop, show you what we found, and give you a written change order before we proceed. We do not bury rot behind new tile.

Permit and inspection fees. Charlotte County requires a building permit for any bathroom remodel that alters plumbing or electrical - which is essentially all of them - and the fee schedule is based on valuation. Figure $400-$900 depending on scope. If the work triggers a Lee County review because of the dock-adjacent split jurisdiction that affects some of the properties along the marina basin, expect a separate fee and a separate inspection timeline.

Every Groundwork Construction Co. estimate is a fixed-price, line-item document. It shows the cost of demo, rough materials, finish materials, labor, and any subcontractor trades - plumber, electrician, glass fabricator - broken out so you can see exactly where the money goes. What it does not include is the unknown we cannot see until the walls are open, and we will tell you that before you sign.

What Burnt Store Marina Homes Specifically Do to a Bathroom Remodel

Burnt Store Marina bathrooms are not the same as bathrooms ten miles inland. The community’s position directly on Charlotte Harbor means every fastener we use is hot-dipped galvanized or stainless - standard zinc-coated drywall screws start rusting inside a year in these homes because salt-air exposure inside un-air-conditioned wall cavities is real and relentless. We have opened walls in Burnt Store Marina condos built in the early 1990s and found steel studs so corroded at the base plate that they crumbled when touched; that is the environment these bathrooms live in, and it is why we build them differently.

The post-Ian reality adds another layer. Homes that flooded during the 2022 storm and were rebuilt now sit at elevated finished floor elevations per FEMA’s updated AE and VE zone maps. A bathroom in a rebuilt home may be two or three feet higher than the adjacent hallway, which changes drain slope requirements and sometimes means a lift pump. Even in homes that did not flood, the Charlotte County building department now enforces a stricter flood-opening and freeboard standard on any renovation that exceeds 50% of the structure’s market value, which a full bathroom remodel alone rarely triggers - but if you are also planning a Bathroom Remodeling in Burnt Store Marina project alongside a larger addition, that threshold can kick in. A few homeowners along the marina basin have also paired bathroom work with exterior hurricane-hardening jobs - Roof Repair in Burnt Store Marina or full Roof Replacement & Installation in Burnt Store Marina - to get the entire envelope done in one permitted window, which we coordinate start to finish.

The typical housing stock we work on here - 1980s-to-early-2000s concrete block single-family homes - has one advantage: the block walls themselves are solid. But the original bathrooms were nearly always built with cheap fiberglass tub-shower units, no waterproofing behind the wallboard, and 1/4-inch tile set directly onto drywall. Those bathrooms lasted thirty years through luck, not design. When we do a full bathroom remodeling in Burnt Store Marina now, we build the wet areas to a standard that holds up in a marine environment - cement board, full membrane, stainless hardware, and a ventilation rate calculated for a room that is never truly dry six months of the year. Our bathroom remodeling crew works across Burnt Store Marina weekly, so we know which streets tend to have cast-iron drain lines that need scoping before we commit to a layout, and which condo associations require board approval before a water shutoff.

Frequently Asked - Full Bathroom Remodeling in Burnt Store Marina

Get a Fixed-Price Quote on Your Burnt Store Marina Bathroom Remodel

If you are planning a full bathroom remodeling in Burnt Store Marina, the next step is a free on-site estimate. We come out, talk through what you want the room to do, take measurements and moisture readings, and hand you a line-item price that will not change unless you change the scope. You will also get a realistic schedule, a permit timeline, and a list of the material selections that fit your budget. Call (844) 638-7249 - a live person answers, day or night - and we will put you on the calendar. No pressure, no vague bid, just the numbers and a plan that works for a bathroom that has to survive Charlotte Harbor salt air for the next thirty years.

Written by Derek Hollenbeck, Owner at Groundwork Construction Co., serving Burnt Store Marina and Southwest Florida since 2014.