Guest and Hall Bathroom Remodeling in Scottsdale, AZ

We offer large-format porcelain tile setting and hard-wearing fixture packages. Our team provides measured layout planning and tight scheduling around a working household, delivering secondary bathrooms that hold up for Scottsdale homes and watertight results for both residential and commercial projects. Backed by an Arizona ROC licensed, bonded and insured contracting team, we have completed kitchen and bathroom projects of every size, from single tub surrounds to full secondary-bath rebuilds.

From choosing a grout that will not show what a ten year old does to it to waterproofing a tub surround properly rather than relying on caulk, our team handles every detail. Serving Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Fountain Hills and Cave Creek, we deliver practical, durable, professional work on every guest bathroom.

The Bathroom With Two Jobs

A hall bathroom, sometimes called a family bathroom, is a full bath entered from a corridor rather than from a bedroom. That means it does two things at once: it is the kids' bathroom every day, and it is the guest bathroom whenever someone visits.

Those two roles pull in opposite directions. Daily family use wants surfaces that survive abuse and cleaning. Guest use wants the room to look considered. The design that satisfies both is not the same as a master bath scaled down.

What that means in practice:

• Durability over delicacy. Porcelain rather than marble. Quartz rather than natural stone on the vanity, since it never needs sealing and does not stain. Mid-tone grout rather than white.
• Keep the tub. In a secondary bath the tub is worth more than the space it takes, both for children and for resale. This is the room where a tub-shower combination is exactly right.
• Storage that works. A vanity with real drawers rather than a pedestal sink, because this room stores things for several people.
• Robust fixtures. Solid brass valve bodies and quality trim. A hall bath gets more cycles than a master bath.
• One good finish moment. A tiled feature wall, a decent mirror and proper lighting cost little and carry the guest impression.

Waterproofing, Especially Around a Tub

Tub surrounds are the most commonly botched waterproofing in a house, and the reason is that a tub surround looks fine for years while it fails quietly.

Tile is not waterproof, and grout is porous. Water gets through the grout routinely, and in a tub surround it collects at the joint between the tub flange and the wall. Without a bonded membrane behind the tile carrying that water back into the tub, it goes into the framing and the subfloor instead. Caulk at the tub line is a finish detail, not waterproofing.

We take the surround to the studs, install a membrane over the substrate, lap it correctly over the tub flange, reinforce corners and changes of plane, and leak test before tiling.

Ask any contractor bidding your job to describe their waterproofing system by name and show it as a line item.

Timeline

Three to five weeks of construction, plus two to four weeks of ordering. Shower glass, if you use it rather than a curtain, is measured after tiling and adds two to three weeks.

A tub surround rebuild on its own runs about a week and a half.

Service Areas

We remodel guest and hall bathrooms throughout Scottsdale, 85250 through 85269, with most of this work in the family housing of Central Scottsdale and the Shea Corridor. We also serve Paradise Valley, Fountain Hills and Cave Creek. See Scottsdale Kitchen Remodeling Pros.

Why Homeowners Choose Us

Arizona ROC licensed, bonded and insured, with general liability coverage in force. Waterproofing named, line-itemed and leak tested, particularly on tub surrounds where it is most often skipped. A written contingency for what is behind a fiberglass unit rather than a change order after demolition. In-house tile crews. Fixed start dates, and tight sequencing when this is the only spare bathroom in the house.

Questions

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Coverage

Where we work

The team at Scottsdale Kitchen Remodeling Pros works the northeast Valley along Loop 101, Scottsdale Road and Shea Boulevard, from Old Town north to DC Ranch and Desert Mountain. Outside the city limits we take this work to Carefree kitchen renovation, Cave Creek kitchen remodels and our Fountain Hills page.

• Old Town Scottsdale
• McCormick Ranch
• Gainey Ranch
• Scottsdale Ranch
• DC Ranch
• Silverleaf
• Grayhawk
• Troon North
• Desert Mountain
• McDowell Mountain Ranch
• Arcadia edge
• North Scottsdale

City pages

• Paradise Valley
• Arcadia, Phoenix
• Carefree
• Cave Creek
• Fountain Hills