What Full Bathroom Remodeling in Lely Actually Costs and How Long It Takes
A full bathroom remodel in Lely typically runs $9,000 to $28,000 and takes three to five weeks from demo to final walkthrough. That range assumes you’re gutting an existing bathroom down to the studs, replacing everything from the subfloor up, and working with a contractor who pulls permits properly through Collier County. We answer the phone at (844) 638-7249 and can give you a fixed, line-item price after a free on-site walkthrough of your Lely home, not a ballpark guess over the phone.
Full bathroom remodeling means the whole room gets stripped and rebuilt: flooring, shower or tub, vanity, toilet, lighting, ventilation, drywall, and paint. It’s a bigger job than a surface refresh or a one-fixture swap, and it comes with structural, plumbing, and electrical decisions that a partial remodel never touches. When the scope includes relocating a wall, moving the toilet drain, or adding a second sink where one didn’t exist before, the number moves toward the higher end of that range and the permit review takes longer.
How We Do a Full Bathroom Remodel in Lely, Step by Step
This is the actual sequence, not a marketing summary. We walk every homeowner through these stages before we start so you know exactly when decisions are due and what happens inside your walls.
Stage 1: Demolition and subfloor assessment (Days 1-3)
We protect the path from your entry door to the bathroom with floor covering and zip-wall dust barriers. Everything comes out: flooring, vanity, shower enclosure or tub, toilet, fixtures, drywall to the studs. Once the room is open, we inspect the subfloor and wall framing. In Lely’s CBS homes, we’re often finding water damage around the original shower pan or toilet flange that the previous flooring was hiding. If the subfloor needs replacement, that gets priced into the change-order conversation immediately, not discovered later.
Stage 2: Rough-in plumbing, electrical, and framing (Days 3-7)
This is where the big decisions get locked in. If you’re moving the shower drain, adding a freestanding tub, or converting a single vanity to a double, the plumbing rough-in happens now. Electricians run new circuits for heated floors, lighted mirrors, or exhaust fans that meet current code. Any framing changes, like widening a shower opening or building a niche wall, get done here. Collier County requires a rough-in inspection before we close the walls, and we schedule that as soon as the work is ready, not days later.
Stage 3: Drywall, waterproofing, and tile prep (Days 7-14)
Green board or cement board goes up depending on moisture exposure. We waterproof every shower surface with a liquid-applied membrane, seam-taped at every change of plane, before the first tile is set. This is the step that separates a shower that’s still bone-dry in ten years from one that rots the framing. In Lely’s humid summers, we run dehumidifiers in the room during mud-bed and thin-set curing to keep moisture levels within manufacturer specs. Tile layout gets laid out dry on the floor for your approval before thin-set touches anything.
Stage 4: Tile, trim, and fixture installation (Days 14-21)
Floor tile goes in first, then wall tile, then grout. We wait the full cure window before grouting, even if it costs us a day. After grout, the vanity, countertop, sink, toilet, shower glass, and trim get installed. Mirrors, lighting fixtures, towel bars, and grab bars go in last. At this point your bathroom looks finished, but it isn’t: we still need the final inspection signoff from the county.
Stage 5: Final inspection and walkthrough (Days 21-25)
Collier County sends an inspector to sign off on the plumbing, electrical, and structural work. We meet the inspector on site, walk the job with them, and address any item on the spot. Once the permit is closed, we do our own walkthrough with you, point out every detail, and hand you the warranty paperwork. The 730-Day Done Right Promise means if anything isn’t right, we come back and fix it, no argument and no additional bill.
The Material Choices You’ll Make During a Full Bathroom Remodel
A full bathroom remodel forces more decisions than a surface swap, and each one changes the cost and the daily experience of using the room. Here are the choices that matter most, with the honest trade-offs.
- Shower system: prefab pan vs. custom tile base. A prefabricated shower pan goes in fast and costs less. A custom mud-set tile base gives you exact sizing and a seamless look, but it adds labor days and several hundred dollars in materials. In Lely’s slab-on-grade homes, a custom pan also lets us slope exactly to the drain without worrying about an off-level prefab unit.
- Flooring: porcelain tile vs. luxury vinyl plank. Porcelain is the Florida standard, waterproof, cool underfoot, and nearly indestructible. Luxury vinyl plank is warmer to the touch and slightly softer underfoot, but not all LVP products are rated for full bathroom humidity. We steer most Lely homeowners toward large-format porcelain with a matte finish for slip resistance.
- Vanity: stock vs. semi-custom. Stock vanities from brands like KraftMaid ship in days and keep the budget tight. Semi-custom lets you choose exact drawer configurations, door styles, and finishes. The price difference for a double vanity can be $800 to $2,000, and lead times stretch to four to six weeks.
- Countertop: quartz vs. solid surface vs. cultured marble. Quartz is the top choice for a reason: it doesn’t stain, doesn’t need sealing, and handles wet bathroom conditions without any maintenance. Solid surface is less expensive but can scratch. Cultured marble with an integrated sink is the budget option that still looks clean. For a master bath in Lely, quartz is where most of our clients land.
- Ventilation: code-minimum vs. humidity-sensing. A basic exhaust fan meets code. A humidity-sensing fan with a higher CFM rating runs automatically when moisture spikes and shuts off when the room is dry. In Florida bathrooms that see daily shower steam, that upgrade costs about $150 to $300 and pays for itself in mold prevention.
These aren’t hypothetical options. When we walk your bathroom before pricing, we talk through each one so the estimate reflects what you actually want, not what we assume. For a larger renovation that includes this bathroom plus other rooms, see our Bathroom Remodeling in Lely page for the full project scope.
What Full Bathroom Remodeling Costs in Lely, FL
Full bathroom remodeling in Lely lands between $9,000 and $28,000, with the median master-bath gut renovation settling around $16,000 to $19,000. A hall bath or guest bath of 40 to 60 square feet with stock finishes starts near the low end. A master bath with a double vanity, custom tile shower, freestanding tub, and relocated plumbing pushes toward or past the high end.
Five variables move the price inside that range:
- Square footage of the bathroom. More tile, more drywall, more paint, more labor. A 100-square-foot master bath costs roughly 60% more than a 50-square-foot guest bath before any fixture upgrades enter the picture.
- Whether you move plumbing or walls. Keeping the toilet, shower, and sink in their original locations keeps the rough-in fast and the permit scope narrow. Moving a toilet drain across a concrete slab in a Lely CBS home means cutting the slab, which triggers a structural review from Collier County, adds three to five days, and can add $2,000 to $5,000 depending on how far the drain moves.
- Material grade. Stock vanity and builder-grade porcelain tile keep the number low. Semi-custom cabinetry, quartz countertops, and large-format tile with a mud-set shower pan push the materials line up by $3,000 to $7,000.
- Shower complexity. A fiberglass insert is the budget path. A fully tiled shower with a bench, niche, frameless glass enclosure, and rain head is the top end. The difference can be $4,000 to $9,000 on the same bathroom footprint.
- Permit and inspection fees. Collier County permit costs scale with the project valuation. A $15,000 bathroom remodel might carry $400 to $700 in permit fees. A $25,000 job with plumbing relocations and electrical upgrades pushes toward $900 to $1,200. We include accurate permit line items in every estimate.
Every estimate we write is a fixed-price, line-item document. You’ll see exactly what each material and labor stage costs before you sign anything. No change orders unless you decide to upgrade something mid-project, and we price that upgrade in writing before we touch it. For homeowners who also need exterior work done, some of our Roof Repair in Lely clients schedule that alongside interior renovations to consolidate the permit process.
What Lely Homes Specifically Do to a Full Bathroom Remodel
Lely’s housing stock shapes almost every full bathroom remodel we take on here. The community is dominated by Lely Resort, a master-planned golf community where nearly every home was built between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s using concrete block stucco construction. That means the bathrooms we open up share a predictable set of conditions: original copper supply lines that may show pinhole corrosion after 25-plus years in Florida water, shower pans installed directly on slab without modern waterproofing membranes, and exhaust fans that were undersized even when the house was new.
The single biggest factor for Lely homeowners is the Architectural Review Committee process. Because Lely Resort requires ARC approval before Collier County will process a building permit, any full bathroom remodel that changes an exterior wall, window size, or roofline triggers a two-stage review. We submit the ARC package with material specs, paint colors, and any elevation changes spelled out. Contractors who don’t know the ARC’s preferred material palettes get rejected and resubmit, adding weeks. Our team is familiar with the ARC’s expectations, and we build that timeline into the schedule from day one so you’re not surprised.
Lely is also a snowbird-heavy community, which means much of our full bathroom remodeling work gets scheduled during the May-through-October window when homeowners are up north. That window is peak rainy season. We run dehumidifiers during every tile and drywall stage, watch dew-point readings before applying adhesives, and build afternoon thunderstorm shutdowns into the daily schedule. It’s not the easiest time to remodel, but it’s the reality of Lely, and we’ve been doing it long enough that our timeline estimates already account for those weather days. For bigger structural projects, homeowners sometimes ask us about Roof Replacement & Installation in Lely to handle everything in one coordinated phase.
If you’re planning a full bathroom remodel that opens into a larger renovation vision for the home, our Lely service area coverage means one crew, one point of contact, and one warranty across every trade. Our Bathroom Remodeling team handles everything from a single guest bath to a whole-home interior renovation, with the same upfront pricing and 730-Day Done Right Promise on every job.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Full Bathroom Remodeling in Lely
Three to five weeks from the first day of demolition to the final county inspection signoff. The timeline stretches toward five weeks if you’re moving plumbing across the slab, waiting on semi-custom cabinetry with a four-to-six-week lead time, or working through a wet stretch of summer when thin-set and grout cure times slow down. We build a calendar with hard dates for each stage before we start, and we update you if any material delay pushes a milestone. Call (844) 638-7249 and we’ll give you a project-specific timeline based on your bathroom’s actual scope.
Yes. Collier County requires a building permit for any bathroom remodel that involves structural changes, plumbing relocation, or electrical work. If you’re in Lely Resort, you also need Architectural Review Committee approval before the county will process the permit. We pull both approvals and close out the permits with final signed inspections. Working without a permit is not a shortcut worth taking in Lely; it creates problems at resale and can flag a code enforcement violation that costs more to fix than the permit would have cost in the first place.
Yes, and it’s the most common path. Keeping the toilet, shower, and sink in their existing locations keeps the job faster and less expensive, usually toward the lower half of the $9,000 to $28,000 range. The design still transforms completely: new tile, new vanity, new shower enclosure, new fixtures, new lighting. We just aren’t cutting the concrete slab or rerouting drain lines through the walls. If you want the toilet on a different wall or the shower expanded into a closet, we price that as a separate line item so you can decide if the layout change is worth the added cost and time.
Every full bathroom remodel we complete in Lely is covered by our 730-Day Done Right Promise. If any workmanship issue surfaces within two years, we come back and make it right at no charge. Manufacturer warranties on fixtures, tile, and cabinetry run separately and typically extend well beyond two years. We hand you all warranty documentation at the final walkthrough, organized by product, so you know exactly who to call for what. The promise is simple: if it’s not done right, we make it right.
A same-footprint full bathroom remodel in Lely, with the toilet, sink, and shower staying in their original locations, typically falls between $9,000 and $16,000 depending on material grade. At the low end, you’re getting a fiberglass shower insert, a stock vanity, and builder-grade porcelain tile. At the high end of that same-footprint range, you’re choosing a fully tiled shower with a frameless glass enclosure, quartz countertops, and upgraded fixtures. The layout doesn’t change, but every visible surface does. Call (844) 638-7249 for a free on-site estimate that prices your exact choices, not a generic range.
Get a Fixed-Price Estimate for Full Bathroom Remodeling in Lely
We price every full bathroom remodel after walking the room in person. You’ll get a line-item estimate that spells out materials, labor stages, permit costs, and timelines with no vague allowances and no change-order games. Calls are answered by a live person around the clock, and every technician who shows up at your Lely home is background-checked and in uniform. Call (844) 638-7249 to schedule a free on-site estimate and design consult. The number you see on the estimate is the number you pay, and the 730-Day Done Right Promise backs every bit of it.
Written by Derek Hollenbeck, Owner at Groundwork Construction Co., serving Lely and the broader Collier County community with upfront pricing and written warranties on every full bathroom remodel.