Bathroom Remodeling in Alpharetta, GA

Bathroom Remodeling for Alpharetta homes

The bulk of Alpharetta's houses went up between the early 1980s and the early 2000s. Windward, the Mobil-developed lake community that began selling in 1983, is the clearest example: 44 neighborhoods in a variety of styles around Lake Windward, many on sloped lots with full daylight basements, some still unfinished and stubbed for a bath. Fronts tend to be brick or stone, with hardboard, cedar or early fiber-cement lap on the sides and rear, and some later homes in the area were clad in synthetic or three-coat stucco. Older still is Alpharetta Estates, built roughly 1972 to 1982 on large wooded lots near downtown, where the ranches carry four or five decades of wear. Downtown keeps a handful of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century homes, from Greek Revival to the 1912 Queen Anne Mansell House, with clapboard and old plaster. The newest stock is the townhome and condo infill around Avalon and City Center, where the work is mostly interior: paint, flooring and finish upgrades.

Areas we work in Alpharetta

• Windward
• The Spinnakers at Windward
• Alpharetta Estates
• Downtown Alpharetta
• Avalon

Near Avalon, Wills Park, Big Creek Greenway and across the rest of Alpharetta.

Bathroom Remodeling on Alpharetta houses

Alpharetta bathrooms from the Windward build-out follow a pattern: a large primary bath with a corner garden tub, a fiberglass or tile-over-mortar shower, cultured marble vanity tops, and builder-grade tile from the 1980s or 90s. The common remodel takes out the garden tub to make room for a bigger walk-in shower, and that is where the planning starts. Secondary baths upstairs are usually tub-shower combinations that may have been leaking slowly into the ceiling below for years. In the older Alpharetta Estates ranches, baths are smaller and the plumbing behind them is older. Many basements here are stubbed for a bath that was never built, which is its own project.

What usually gets missed

Taking out a garden tub opens up the subfloor, and on a house this age that is often where the surprise is. A slow leak from the tub or the old shower pan can soften the plywood under the tile without ever showing below. We pull the tile and check the subfloor and joists before setting a new shower pan. For an unfinished basement stub, we check where the drain stubs sit and whether they drain by gravity or need a pump.