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Oakland · Bathroom Remodeling

Bathroom remodeling in Oakland

Full showers and full bathrooms, at the existing footprint. Plastic pan liner waterproofing, permits on every job. Rockridge to the Hills.

Family Owned & operated
0+ Oakland projects
#1054501 CSLB licensed
Oakland Based here
Full tile shower with window in Oakland bathroom
Full tile shower, window detail, CPE waterproofing
Wide view of tiled tub surround in Oakland bathroom
Tub surround, porcelain tile, classic palette

Oakland bathroom specialists

Built to stay dry in Oakland homes

A bathroom is the smallest room in the house and the one where contractor shortcuts cause the most damage. Water keeps finding those shortcuts for decades after the job ends. We do bathrooms the way we do for that reason.

We remodel bathrooms across every Oakland neighborhood — 1920s Craftsman single-bath layouts in Rockridge, mid-century en-suites in Montclair, condo-grade bathrooms near Lake Merritt. The scope is the same everywhere: full showers and full bathrooms at the existing footprint. Pre-slope under a CPE plastic pan liner. Cure times respected. Permits pulled every time. On older Oakland homes, we replace failing galvanized supply lines and cast iron drains while the walls are open — that call is made at demo day, not on the quote.

CPE Plastic pan liner, every job
Permit Every bathroom, every time
Same Existing footprint
Green vanity with brass fixtures in Oakland bathroom

Custom vanity · Oakland

Oakland Budget Ranges

What to budget for an Oakland bathroom

Bay Area market ranges we see for full bathroom remodels at the existing footprint — includes demo, waterproofing, tile, vanity, plumbing coordination, and permits. Use them as a budgeting guide, not a quote.

Your price comes from a free walkthrough. Scope, fixture selection, tile choice, hidden plumbing discoveries, and whether you are doing one bathroom or two all move the number. We quote yours after seeing the bathroom, never off a price list.

Light Refresh

$8K–$15K

1–2 weeks

Fixtures + vanity, no shower rebuild.

New vanity, new toilet, new faucet and mirror, repaint, light flooring. Keeps the existing shower.

Mid-Range

$15K–$25K

3–5 weeks

New shower tile + new pan + new vanity + new floor.

Full shower rebuild including waterproofing and new pan, plus all the light-refresh items. The most common Oakland bathroom scope.

Full Gut

$25K–$35K

5–8 weeks

Demo to studs + new plumbing + full waterproof + tile + permits.

Everything new. For older Oakland homes where galvanized supply lines or cast iron drains need replacing while the walls are open.

Cure times set the timeline floor. Mortar layers set between steps. Thinset cures 24 hours before grout. Grout cures 48-72 hours before shower use. Chemistry, not labor — we do not compress these windows.

Recent Work

A real Oakland bathroom job

One recent two-bathroom remodel in Crocker Highlands — honest scope, real numbers.

Crocker Highlands ~$70K Early 2026

Two-bathroom remodel + drain rerouting

Full remodel of two second-floor bathrooms in a Crocker Highlands home near Lake Merritt. The property's main sewer lateral to the street had already been replaced, which simplified the back-of-house work — but the existing kitchen and laundry drain lines in the rear of the house weren't sized or pitched correctly for the new fixture load. We located the existing sewer routing along the driveway side of the yard, planned the tie-in to minimize excavation, and rerouted the kitchen and laundry drains with proper sizing and slope. Both bathrooms got full waterproofing with a traditional CPE plastic pan liner, pre-slope under the pan as a separate step, cement board walls, and porcelain tile. Permits pulled and inspected at each rough-in stage.

Every bathroom starts with a walkthrough. We flag what we see — old plumbing, subfloor quirks, scope drift risks — and give you a real quote, not a template.

Build Process

From demo to handoff

Four phases, every bathroom. Cure times set the timeline floor — we work with the chemistry, not against it.

Walkthrough

We walk the bathroom, measure, flag what we see. Talk through scope, tile, fixtures, timeline. No pressure, no upsell.

Demo & Rough-in

Demo to studs. Plumbing and framing rough-in. We call plumbing replacements when we see them. Permit rough-in inspection before we close walls.

Waterproof & Tile

Pre-slope, CPE plastic pan liner, cement board, tile. Cure times respected between thinset and grout. Chemistry, not labor.

Finish

Vanity, fixtures, paint, punch-list walkthrough. Warranty in writing. You have our phone number for anything that comes up.

Oakland Logistics

What's different about Oakland

Permits, Every Time

Every bathroom gets a permit pulled through the Oakland Planning & Building Department at 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza. No exceptions. $400-$800 fee, 1-2 weeks of schedule impact, already baked into our quoted timelines. The permit protects your insurance claim if the bathroom ever fails and keeps the work clean on any future home sale.

Old Oakland Plumbing

Pre-1960 Oakland homes often have galvanized supply lines and cast iron drains past their service life. When we do a full gut, we replace failing lines while the walls are open — doing it later means tearing the finished bathroom apart again. The call is made at demo day, not on the quote.

Parking & Staging

Rockridge, Temescal, Piedmont Avenue, Grand Lake — narrow residential streets, tight parking. We coordinate demo-day dumpster delivery and material drops for off-peak hours so the neighborhood does not bear the cost of the project.

Inspections = Free Second Eyes

The city inspector looks at our rough-in plumbing and waterproofing and signs off before we close the walls. We welcome it. Good contractors welcome inspections; nervous contractors avoid them. A free expert review of our own work.

What We Refuse

Things we won't install

Pebble Stone Shower Floors

Looks incredible in magazines and on Instagram. In real life, cleaning between the pebbles is impossible, soap scum and hair collect in the grout crevices, and the uneven surface is painful to stand on. We have been called in to replace pebble floors on bathrooms less than 5 years old.

Small-Format Floor Tile

Anything smaller than 12×12 on a bathroom floor is a grout-maintenance nightmare. We install 12×24 or 18×36 porcelain on almost every bathroom floor — fewer grout lines, easier cleaning, calmer visual.

No-Permit Shortcuts

We will not skip the permit to save a few hundred dollars upfront. The cost savings on day one turn into insurance denial and failed home-sale disclosure down the road. Every bathroom, every time.

Layout Changes

Relocating the toilet, moving the shower drain, carving a new bathroom out of a closet — that is whole-house renovation territory. We will point you to the right conversation, but we do not quote bathroom-remodel prices on what is actually a much bigger job.

Why Soto Bay

Why Oakland homeowners choose us for bathrooms

Plastic pan liner, every job

One waterproofing system on every bathroom — a traditional CPE plastic pan liner. Pre-slope mortar UNDER the liner. Finish slope mud bed ON TOP of the liner. Cement board walls above the liner turn-ups. One proven system done right beats mixing membranes job-to-job.

Pre-slope under the pan

The single most-skipped step in bathroom remodels. Without a pre-slope, water gets stuck in pools against the pan liner and the shower fails from the inside out. We do it on every job, as a separate step before the finish slope goes on.

Cure times are chemistry

Mortar layers need to set between steps. Thinset cures 24 hours before grout. Grout cures 48-72 hours before the shower can be used. You cannot compress those windows by throwing more crew at the job — we quote honest timelines that respect the chemistry.

Existing footprint, honest scope

We do full showers and full bathrooms at the existing footprint. No layout changes, no drain relocations, no moving the toilet to a different wall. Layout changes are whole-house renovation territory — a different conversation, a different contract.

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