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Fast, Reliable Bathroom Remodeling Across Oakland Park
A full bathroom remodel in Oakland Park typically runs $9,000 – $28,000, and a small bath redo usually lands between $5,000 and $12,000. Those numbers reflect the reality of working in this city’s older concrete block homes, where salt air and high water tables shape every material decision we make. We’re Penhallow Remodeling Fort Lauderdale, and our crews know east-of-Dixie humidity, cast iron surprises under slab, and which fixtures actually hold up a mile from the Intracoastal. If you’re planning a bathroom update, call (754) 551-2922 and we’ll put a written price in front of you before any work starts.
Why Penhallow Remodeling Fort Lauderdale Is Oakland Park’s Preferred Bathroom Remodeling Company
Homeowners across Oakland Park keep our number because we answer the phone. A live person picks up 24/7, not a voicemail tree, and the person who shows up is a background-checked, uniformed technician, same professional standard on every job. Trevor Nash runs our Bathroom Remodeling team, and he’s built the crew around a simple promise: the price we write down before work starts is the price on the final invoice. No change orders because we guessed wrong at the walkthrough, no “well, we found something” conversation after demo.
Oakland Park’s housing stock demands a contractor who’s opened enough mid-century concrete block walls to know what’s behind them. We have. East of NE 6th Avenue, along Floranada Road and up toward Royal Palm Isles, we’ve pulled out rusted cast iron, replaced rotten subfloors, and reworked bathrooms where nothing was square because the slab had shifted over sixty years. Our Oakland Park customers appreciate that we don’t flinch at what we find, and that every repair carries a written guarantee.
Styles & brands we work with
Bathroom Renovation in Oakland Park
Bathroom Renovation in Oakland Park means taking a 50-to-70-year-old bath down to the studs and rebuilding it for the climate and the slab it sits on. A full renovation typically runs $9,000 – $28,000, and the spread comes down to what’s behind the walls: whether we’re replacing failed cast iron drains, how much subfloor needs to come up, and the finish level you choose. In the homes east of Dixie Highway especially, renovation involves more than aesthetics; it’s a building-science job.
Cast Iron and Plumbing Replacement
Original cast iron drain lines under slab are the biggest wild card in Oakland Park renovations. The soil here stays moist, shifts, and the pipe corrodes from the outside in. When we open the floor and find a rusted-through run, we replace it with PVC before any tile goes down.
Marine-Grade Fixture Packages
Standard steel mounting brackets and chrome trim pit within three to five years in salt air. For homes between Dixie and the Intracoastal, we specify Moen Spot Resist Brushed Nickel fixtures with hot-dip galvanized mounting hardware as the starting point, not an upgrade. The price difference is modest; the lifespan difference is not.
Small Bathroom Remodel in Oakland Park
A Small Bathroom Remodel in Oakland Park covers powder rooms, guest baths, and compact full baths where you’re keeping the footprint but replacing the surface: vanity, toilet, tile, lighting, and usually the subfloor around the toilet and tub. These jobs typically run $5,000 – $12,000. The range depends on whether we encounter slab moisture wicking up through an unsealed foundation, which is common in older homes between Andrews Avenue and I-95.
Slab Moisture and Subfloor Prep
Oakland Park’s high water table means concrete slabs breathe moisture. Without a proper vapor barrier and sealed subfloor, new flooring blisters and grout effloresces within a year. We test moisture levels before choosing the underlayment, because guessing here costs you a second floor.
Fixture-Only Refreshes with a Caveat
If you’re swapping a vanity and toilet only, the job is clean and quick. But we always check the shutoff valves and supply lines first. Homes built before the 1980s often have galvanized or corroded copper under the sink, and turning that valve can start a leak behind the wall. We’d rather tell you before it becomes an emergency.
Trusted Brands We Service in Oakland Park
We install and service fixtures from Kohler, Moen, Delta, and Toto because these brands hold up to coastal South Florida conditions better than budget imports. Countertops come from Cambria, Silestone, and Caesarstone when you want a surface that won’t stain from hard well water or salt air. We stock common replacement parts in our South Florida warehouse so Oakland Park customers aren’t waiting a week for a Moen cartridge or a Toto fill valve when a repair comes up mid-project.
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AfterCommon Bathroom Remodeling Problems We See in Oakland Park Homes
- Rusted cast iron drain lines under slab. The original pipe in 1950s-to-70s homes corrodes from the moist, shifting soil and weeps sewage into the ground under your floor. By the time the toilet rocks or the tile cracks, the pipe is usually gone. We replace the run with PVC before rebuilding the subfloor.
- Corroded copper supply lines behind vanities. Salt air east of Dixie accelerates pinhole leaks in copper. We now default to PEX or marine-grade fittings on any hidden supply line we touch.
- Failed steel mounting brackets on shower doors and grab bars. The screws and clips rust from the inside out, and suddenly a glass panel sags or a grab bar pulls free. We use hot-dip galvanized hardware as the baseline on every east-Oakland Park job.
- Efflorescence and crumbling grout on tile floors. Unsealed grout wicks slab moisture and humid air into the tile assembly, leaving a white crust and eventually loosening the tile itself. A proper vapor barrier and sealed joints stop the cycle.
Pricing for Bathroom Remodeling in Oakland Park, FL
Here’s the honest spread, and these are the numbers we work from:
| Service | Oakland Park Price Range |
|---|---|
| Bathroom Remodel | $9,000 – $28,000 |
| Small Bathroom Remodel | $5,000 – $12,000 |
| Tub-to-Shower Conversion | $3,500 – $10,000 |
| Walk-In Shower Installation | $4,500 – $12,000 |
| Bathroom Vanity Installation | $800 – $3,000 |
What moves a job from the bottom to the top of those ranges: cast iron replacement discovered after demo, slab moisture correction, moving plumbing lines, and whether you choose a fiberglass shower pan or a custom tile base with a frameless glass enclosure. The marine-grade fixture package adds roughly $300 – $600 to a typical remodel compared to inland spec, and it buys you a decade of corrosion resistance. Our estimates are free, written, and hold steady. Call (754) 551-2922 to schedule yours.
We Also Serve Cities Near Oakland Park
Our crews cover Oakland Park daily and regularly work in Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Tamarac, and Lauderhill. If you’re a few minutes outside Oakland Park, we still bring the same written price and 365-day guarantee to your door.
Serving Oakland Park, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Oakland Park area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Bathroom Remodeling in Oakland Park
Signs include a toilet that rocks or develops a sewer smell near the base, tile cracks radiating from the toilet flange, slow drains across multiple fixtures, or a damp, dark spot on the slab floor that never dries. The only way to know for certain is a camera inspection of the drain line, which we do before writing the final scope so your written price includes the pipe work instead of a surprise change order. Call (754) 551-2922 and we’ll schedule it.
Marine-grade packages typically add $300 – $600 to a remodel because the trim, screws, and mounting brackets are made from stainless or hot-dip galvanized metal instead of standard steel. In Oakland Park’s salt air, standard steel pitting starts within three years, and the cost of replacing corroded shower hardware and rotted vanity brackets exceeds that upgrade price by year five. East of Dixie, we write this into every proposal; west of Andrews, it’s optional.
A like-for-like fixture swap with no plumbing line movement, no drain work, and no wall opening generally doesn’t require a permit in Oakland Park. The moment we move a drain, change the shower valve, open a wall to access plumbing, or alter any electrical, the city requires a permit and inspection. We pull permits on every job where they’re required, and the inspection pass is part of our scope, never an extra line item.
For slab-on-grade bathrooms, we install a 6-mil minimum polyethylene vapor barrier directly on the slab, sealed at all seams and edges, then a pressure-treated or cement board substrate depending on the flooring you’ve chosen. In Oakland Park’s high-water-table zones east of Dixie, we test the slab’s moisture emission first and upgrade to a thicker barrier or an epoxy moisture-suppression system when the reading comes back high. This is the only way to keep new tile from efflorescing within a year.
Yes, and we plan for it. Before we start a small bathroom remodel in Oakland Park, we inspect the accessible supply lines and document what we see. If corroded copper shows up behind the wall mid-job, we stop and show you the pipe before touching it, then give you a written change order with the exact cost to replace the run in PEX or marine-grade fittings. You approve it on paper before we proceed; nothing gets added to the invoice that you didn’t see and sign. Call (754) 551-2922 and we’ll walk you through how that works before anyone picks up a wrench.
Written by Trevor Nash, Owner at Penhallow Remodeling Fort Lauderdale, serving Oakland Park and surrounding Broward communities under the Kingswell guarantee since 2004.
