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A bathroom remodel in Banning typically runs $9,000 – $28,000 for a full tear-out and rebuild, with smaller projects like a tub-to-shower conversion landing closer to $3,500 – $10,000. The single largest variable is what’s hiding inside your walls, especially on the pre-1950 wood-frame bungalows packed into Banning’s city core. We’ve remodeled enough bathrooms in Banning to know that opening up an older home here is a different job than it is in Beaumont or Calimesa: the San Gorgonio Pass wind zone changes what Riverside County inspectors expect to see at rough-in, and the original framing usually wasn’t built to that standard. Our Bathroom Remodeling team spends the first visit on inspection, not persuasion, which is why we hand you a written price before a single tile comes off. Call (936) 259-2607 to get yours.
Key takeaways for Banning homeowners:
- Full bathroom remodels in Banning run $9,000 – $28,000; small baths are $5,000 – $12,000.
- Opening a pre-1950 Banning wall often reveals framing and wiring that current High Wind Zone code won’t pass.
- We price surprises as written change orders, approved by you before we touch anything.
- Every job includes a 365-Day Done Right Promise and a written guarantee.
Why Penhallow Remodeling Is Banning’s Preferred Bathroom Remodeling Company
Trevor Nash started Penhallow Remodeling because he’d heard too many stories from Banning homeowners who got a verbal price and watched it climb after demo day. Our answer is the Kingswell standard: a written price before work starts, a real arrival window, and a 365-Day Done Right Promise that says if our work fails inside a year, we come back and fix it at no charge. That’s in writing on every contract, not a handshake.
Banning customers tell us the same things: the crew showed up when they said they would, in uniform, and the person on the phone answered. A live person answers our phone 24/7, which matters when you’re coordinating a remodel from a job in San Bernardino or keeping the house running while we gut a hall bath off W Ramsey Street. We know the inspectors at the city building counter, we know which Banning neighborhoods have the oldest framing, and we know what a San Gorgonio Pass wind event does to an unstrapped top plate. That’s local knowledge you can’t fake.
Small Bathroom Remodel in Banning
A Small Bathroom Remodel in Banning usually means a full cosmetic and functional refresh of a 5×8 or smaller bath: new tub or shower, new vanity, new toilet, new floor tile, new light fixture, and new paint and trim. We see this scope most often in the ranch-style tract homes on Banning’s north side and in the modest bungalows near downtown, where the bathroom was built small to begin with and the homeowners want to use every inch better without moving walls. In Banning, a small bathroom remodel typically runs $5,000 – $12,000 depending on tile selections, whether you’re keeping the existing tub or converting to a walk-in shower, and what the rough-in inspection turns up.
Older Home Constraints
In a pre-1950 Banning bungalow, a small bathroom rarely stays as simple as it looks from the surface. The original subfloor under those old mud-set tile beds is often swollen from decades of a failed pan liner, and the wall framing where the tub meets the exterior wall frequently lacks the rafter-to-top-plate strapping Riverside County expects in a High Wind Zone. We plan for this before we open the wall: our written quote calls out the visible scope, and we build an allowance for the hidden conditions we know are common in Banning’s housing stock.
What “Small” Doesn’t Mean
Small doesn’t mean the permit requirements shrink. Even a cosmetic refresh in Banning can trigger inspection of framing fasteners, sheathing attachment, and gable-end bracing if we open an exterior wall. We pull the permit, line up the inspection, and price the work honestly from day one. You’ll get exact numbers, not a best guess.
Shower Remodel in Banning
A Shower Remodel in Banning replaces an existing shower pan, surround, glass enclosure, or all three, usually because the old pan liner has leaked, the tile has cracked along the mortar bed, or the enclosure frame has corroded. We do a lot of shower remodels in the mid-century ranch homes west of Sunset Avenue and in the older Craftsman-influenced houses off W Ramsey Street, where a 40-year-old shower is long past its waterproofing life. In Banning, a shower replacement runs $3,000 – $8,500; a full walk-in shower installation runs $4,500 – $12,000; and a tub-to-shower conversion lands at $3,500 – $10,000.
Pan Liner Failure and Subfloor Damage
When a shower pan liner fails in Banning, the damage isn’t visible until the floor comes up. We frequently find swelled subfloor and rotted sill plates hidden under old mud-set pans, especially in houses where the bath sits on an exterior wall that takes the full brunt of a Pass wind event. We don’t tile over that. We open the floor, price the framing repair as a written change order if it goes beyond scope, and pass it by you before we cut a single board.
Wind-Zone Framing at the Shower Wall
Any shower remodel that touches an exterior wall in Banning puts us into Riverside County’s High Wind Zone inspection territory. That means the rafter-to-top-plate connections, sheathing nail pattern, and gable-end bracing in that wall need to meet current code, even if the wall wasn’t built to it in 1947. We know which inspectors check what, and we schedule and pass those inspections as a routine part of the job, not a panic item.
Trusted Brands We Service in Banning
We install shower systems, fixtures, and cabinetry from manufacturers whose warranties sit on top of our own. In Banning bathrooms, that’s often a Kohler or Moen valve behind the wall, a Cambria or Silestone quartz vanity top, and cabinetry from KraftMaid or Wellborn. If a homeowner brings us plans from an ADU builder working with Abodu, Cover, or Dvele, we can match the fixture and finish specs to keep the warranty chain intact. We stock the common replacement parts that Banning’s hard water eats through: cartridges, diverters, and showerhead gaskets, so a warranty callback is a same-day fix, not a three-week wait for a part out of a warehouse in Riverside.
Common Bathroom Remodeling Problems We See in Banning Homes
- Knob-and-tube or undersized wiring found at rough-in. Opening a pre-1950 Banning bathroom wall often reveals wiring that was never meant to carry a GFCI circuit, a vent fan, and a heated floor at the same time. The permit inspector won’t sign off on new work tied into it, so the upgrade becomes a written change order.
- Unstrapped top plates and missing hurricane clips. The original 2×4 framing in Banning’s core housing stock predates the High Wind Zone code, so the rafter-to-top-plate connection that a Riverside County inspector checks at rough-in frequently isn’t there. We add the straps and pass inspection, and we price it before we start.
- Failed pan liners hiding rotted framing. A shower that’s been leaking for years doesn’t always show itself. We’ve pulled surrounds in Banning and found sill plates and subfloor framing that would have failed under the next good windstorm, not just the next tile crack.
- Skipped permits leaving rot behind the tile. We’ve walked into Banning bathrooms where a previous owner tiled over a failed liner because nobody wanted to pay for a permit. The rot was still there, spreading. We cut that out, rebuild the load path, and document the repair for the next owner.
Pricing for Bathroom Remodeling in Banning, CA
Here are our current Banning price ranges, written the way we’d put them on a quote sheet:
| Scope | Typical Price Range in Banning |
|---|---|
| Bathroom Remodel (full tear-out and rebuild) | $9,000 – $28,000 |
| Small Bathroom Remodel | $5,000 – $12,000 |
| Walk-In Shower Installation | $4,500 – $12,000 |
| Tub-to-Shower Conversion | $3,500 – $10,000 |
| Shower Replacement | $3,000 – $8,500 |
| Bathroom Vanity Installation | $800 – $3,000 |
The spread between $9,000 and $28,000 is real. It’s driven by whether we’re replacing a tub with a shower, whether the bathroom touches an exterior wall that triggers wind-zone framing work, what the rough-in inspection reveals, and which fixture and countertop lines you choose. Cambria quartz and a custom Wellborn vanity cost more than a stock Silestone top and a KraftMaid cabinet, and the difference shows up on the invoice. The number we write on your quote is the number on your final invoice, unless you approve a written change order. Call (936) 259-2607 for a free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Banning
Penhallow Remodeling crews work throughout the San Gorgonio Pass and the surrounding valleys. Beyond Banning, we serve Beaumont, Calimesa, San Jacinto, and Yucaipa, with scheduling and dispatch coordinated from our Inland Empire office. If you’re in one of those cities and reading this, the same written-price standard applies.
Serving Banning, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Banning 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 Banning
Banning’s High Wind Zone code requirements add scope that a Beaumont contractor can often skip. Riverside County inspectors in Banning check rafter-to-top-plate strapping, sheathing nail patterns, and gable-end bracing at rough-in, which means a bathroom remodel that touches an exterior wall frequently needs framing upgrades the original house never had. That work has to be priced and permitted. Call (936) 259-2607 and we’ll explain exactly what applies to your specific bathroom.
Yes, for any work that changes plumbing, electrical, or structural framing. That includes tub-to-shower conversions, moving a toilet, adding circuits, or opening an exterior wall. We pull the permit, schedule the inspections, and pass them, and the permit is included in our written quote.
We stop work, document what we found, and write you a change order with the exact cost to bring it to code before we touch the problem. The change order is a written number you approve before we proceed. The 365-Day Done Right Promise doesn’t kick in on work we didn’t do, which is why we never hide a finding or hope the inspector misses it.
Sometimes, if the existing waterproofing, framing, and wiring are sound. We’ll tell you what we can save and what has to come out, and we’ll put both scenarios in writing. A small bathroom remodel in Banning runs $5,000 – $12,000, and we’d rather be honest about what the gut costs than hand you a low number that won’t pass inspection.
We design the remodel around them from the start. If we’re opening an exterior wall, we assume the original framing is unstrapped for High Wind Zone code and we add the hurricane clips, sheathing attachment, and top-plate strapping before we close the wall. The cost is in the quote, not a surprise at inspection. Call (936) 259-2607 for a free estimate and we’ll walk you through what your house needs.
What Opening an Older Banning Bathroom Actually Turns Up
If there’s one thing that separates a Banning bathroom remodel from the same job a few miles west, it’s what the original builders could get away with. Banning’s pre-1950 wood-frame bungalows in the city core were built before Riverside County codified High Wind Zone framing, so opening a bathroom wall often reveals rafter-to-top-plate connections that fail current San Gorgonio Pass inspection scrutiny. That’s a scope item contractors from Beaumont or Redlands rarely price into a bathroom quote. We do, because we’ve been through it enough times to know it’s not a maybe. It’s a usually.
On a circa-1940 bungalow off W Ramsey Street in Banning, our tech pulled the tub surround and found the original 2×4 wall framing had no straps at the top plates and the subfloor had swelled from years of a failed pan liner. Because the permit was already pulled, we caught it at rough-in, priced the load-bearing repair as a written change order, and passed inspection sign-off with hurricane straps and new sheathing attachment before the tile went back up. That’s the job we sign up for. The homeowner approved every word of the change order before we cut the first stud.
We also see knob-and-tube or undersized wiring that has to be upgraded before the inspector signs off, and we see a lot of tile that went over a failing pan liner because somebody skipped the permit years ago. We don’t tile over rot. We open it, document it, price it, and fix it so the next owner doesn’t inherit a hidden framing failure. Trevor Nash built Penhallow Remodeling on the Kingswell standard: say the price before the work, show up in the window we gave, leave the place cleaner than we found it, and put a 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. That’s the whole arrangement, and it’s the reason we don’t have to pressure anyone to sign on the spot.
If you’re planning a bathroom remodel in Banning and you want a written number before anyone touches a tile, call (936) 259-2607. The estimate is free, the price is in writing, and a real person answers.
Written by Trevor Nash, Owner at Penhallow Remodeling, serving Banning, CA.