Bathroom Remodeling in Sandy Springs, GA

Bathroom Remodeling for Sandy Springs homes

The core stock is postwar. Mount Vernon Woods has late-50s ranches and early-60s split-levels next to colonials and newer builds, Riverside is mostly ranches and traditional two-stories from the 60s and 70s on winding, hilly streets, and Huntcliff, set in a bend of the Chattahoochee around the Cherokee Country Club golf course, filled in through the late 60s and 70s on steep, wooded lots, many of them on septic. The terrain is the thread that ties it together. Sloped lots put a daylight or walkout basement under a lot of these houses, push decks up off the main floor, and keep siding and trim in shade and leaf litter for most of the year. Inside, the split-level and the walled-off ranch kitchen are the layouts owners most want to change. Around City Springs and Perimeter Center the picture shifts to apartments, condos and office towers, which is where the commercial repaint work sits.

Areas we work in Sandy Springs

• Riverside
• Mount Vernon Woods
• Huntcliff
• North Springs
• The Panhandle
• Chastain Park

Near City Springs and Heritage Green, Heritage Sandy Springs Museum, Morgan Falls Overlook Park and across the rest of Sandy Springs.

Bathroom Remodeling on Sandy Springs houses

Bathrooms in Sandy Springs houses of the 60s and 70s are usually small, with original tile set in a thick mortar bed, cast-iron tubs and galvanized or early copper supply lines. In a split-level the hall bath sits over the lower level, so any leak over the years has shown up in the ceiling below. Riverside and North Springs ranches often have a cramped primary bath that owners want to enlarge by taking space from a closet or the hall. Larger Huntcliff houses tend to have more bathrooms and bigger ones, often updated once already. Removing a mortar-bed floor and a cast-iron tub is heavy work, and it needs to be planned for, not discovered on demo day.

What usually gets missed

The hidden problem in these baths is what is under the tile. A mortar-bed floor can hide rotted subfloor around the toilet flange and tub drain from slow leaks over decades. Old galvanized supply lines are often corroded inside even when they look fine. In split-levels, check the ceiling below for old stains. We pull the toilet and look at the subfloor and supply lines first, so the scope covers what is actually there.