Bathroom Remodeling in Van Nuys - Fixed Price, Set Finish Date

Fast, Reliable Bathroom Remodeling Across Van Nuys

A full bathroom remodel in Van Nuys typically runs $9,000 – $28,000, and the final number depends on what’s hiding behind your old tile, how far you’re moving plumbing, and which fixtures and finishes you choose. We serve every corner of Van Nuys, from the post-war ranch homes off Vanowen Street to the tuck-under apartment buildings along Sepulveda Boulevard, and we put the price and the guarantee in writing before we pull a single cabinet. Call (936) 259-2607 and you’ll get a live person, a straight answer, and a free written estimate.

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Why Penhallow Remodeling Is Van Nuys’s Preferred Bathroom Remodeling Company

Trevor Nash built Penhallow Remodeling around a simple promise: say the price before the work, show up in the window we gave, and leave the place cleaner than we found it. That’s The Kingswell Way, and it’s been the operating standard since 2004. In Van Nuys, where homeowners have dealt with contractors who vanish after demo or hand over a verbal number that inflates by the time the tile goes up, that kind of predictability is rare. We answer the phone around the clock with a live person, not a voicemail maze.

Every technician who walks into a Van Nuys home is background-checked and in uniform. You know exactly who’s on your property. And every job, from a $3,500 tub-to-shower conversion to a full primary bath remodel, comes with our 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing: if something fails inside a year, we come back and fix it at no charge. The materials behind that promise are real brands, too. We install Kohler and Moen fixtures, KraftMaid cabinetry, and Cambria or Silestone countertops, so the layers of protection on your bathroom don’t stop with our workmanship warranty.

Bathroom Renovation in Van Nuys

A Bathroom Renovation in Van Nuys usually means stripping a tired 1950s or 1960s bathroom down to the studs and building it back with new waterproofing, new plumbing rough-in, new electrical, and a layout that works for how your household actually lives in the Valley. It’s the right call when the tile is cracked, the floor feels soft near the tub, the vanity is particleboard, or the original gas wall heater has been patched over twice. Here, where summer heat tops 100°F and post-war wood framing has been absorbing shower steam for 60 years, that renovation is as much about what you can’t see as what you can.

What We Open Up and How We Handle It

Before we write a contract, we inspect the wall cavity, the subfloor, the vent stack, and the electrical panel. If the framing is undersized or the waterproofing failed, we price that work as a written allowance, not a surprise at demo day. Any change gets priced and approved in writing before we touch it. No verbal “we’ll figure it out later.”

Seismic and Code Reality in Van Nuys

The dense 1960s – 70s tuck-under apartment buildings that define Van Nuys share party walls and stacked drain lines. A bathroom remodel in one of those units often triggers plumbing and seismic scrutiny that a detached home in Sherman Oaks never sees. We coordinate with the Van Nuys district office of LA’s Department of Building and Safety early, front-loading permit applications and engineering sign-offs so your project doesn’t stall in the backlog.

Small Bathroom Remodel in Van Nuys

A Small Bathroom Remodel in Van Nuys typically runs $5,000 – $12,000 and focuses on a half bath, hall bath, or compact guest bath where the footprint stays put but the finishes, fixtures, and waterproofing get rebuilt. The older ranch homes clustered around Van Nuys Boulevard and Hazeltine Avenue often have bathrooms in the 35 – 50 square foot range, which makes them perfect candidates for a focused remodel rather than a full reconfiguration. You keep the toilet where it is, maybe shift the shower valve, and gain a bathroom that doesn’t leak into the wall behind the tile.

Small Spaces, Real Waterproofing

A small bathroom still needs the same waterproofing membrane, cement board substrate, and ventilation upgrade as a big one. We treat the moisture barrier as non-negotiable, because in a stacked Van Nuys apartment building, a failed shower pan doesn’t just ruin your unit. It pours into the neighbor below.

Ventilation and Title 24

Valley heat puts extra strain on poorly ventilated bathrooms. A small remodel is the right time to upgrade to a quiet, properly sized exhaust fan that meets California Title 24 requirements, so humidity leaves the room instead of feeding the same mold and rot that wrecked the original materials.

Trusted Brands We Service in Van Nuys

We stock and install fixtures and materials from brands Van Nuys homeowners recognize, because the products behind our 365-Day Done Right Promise should be as solid as the promise itself. Cambria quartz carries its own lifetime warranty alongside ours, and Kohler and Moen stand behind their shower valves and faucets. We don’t source builder-grade parts and hope they hold up. We specify what we’d put in a bathroom on our own block, and we keep the common replacement parts local so a damaged valve or cracked basin doesn’t idle your project for a shipping window.

Common Bathroom Remodeling Problems We See in Van Nuys Homes

• Rotted subfloor around the toilet flange. In 1940s – 60s wood-frame ranch homes, decades of small toilet leaks eat through the subfloor around the wax ring. Once the vinyl comes up, you’ll find the joists need repair too, and that’s one of the most common reasons a Van Nuys bathroom quote moves after demo.
• Undersized electrical circuits feeding the vanity. Older homes often have a 15-amp circuit shared by the bathroom outlet and a hallway light. Opening the wall triggers code requirements for a dedicated GFCI circuit, which means opening a little more wall than the original scope called for.
• Deferred waterproofing behind original tile. Post-war construction often set tile directly onto drywall or a thin mud bed with no moisture barrier. In a tuck-under apartment, that water migrates down into the unit below, and the failure shows up as staining on the neighbor’s ceiling long before you see it in your own bathroom.
• Stacked drain lines with original cast iron. In Van Nuys’s 1960s apartment stock, bathrooms stack vertically, so replacing a drain or vent means coordinating with the building’s plumbing system, not just one unit. We map that before we cut, not after.

Pricing for Bathroom Remodeling in Van Nuys, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near Van Nuys

We handle Bathroom Remodeling across the central and east San Fernando Valley, including Van Nuys and the surrounding communities of Sherman Oaks, Studio City, North Hollywood, and Encino. You get the same written price and 365-Day Done Right Promise, whether the job is a stacked apartment unit on Sepulveda or a ranch on a quiet Encino cul-de-sac.

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