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AfterFast, Reliable Bathroom Remodeling Across North Hollywood
A full bathroom remodel in North Hollywood typically runs $9,000 – $28,000, and most projects take two to five weeks once we start. We serve every neighborhood from the NoHo Arts District to Valley Village, and we’re the team that opens up a 1950s hall bath and tells you the truth about what’s behind the tile before we quote a single change. Call (936) 259-2607 for a free estimate, and you’ll get a written price before any work starts.
North Hollywood’s housing stock has a specific story to tell. The postwar stucco ranches and two-story dingbat apartments that fill the flats between Burbank Boulevard and Magnolia were built between 1945 and 1965, long before anyone wrote modern waterproofing codes. That means every Bathroom Remodeling job here starts with an honest inspection, not a handshake and a vague number.
Why Penhallow Remodeling Is North Hollywood’s Preferred Bathroom Remodeling Company
Trevor Nash leads our team with one rule that doesn’t bend: the price goes in writing before the first tile comes down. North Hollywood homeowners have dealt with contractors who gave a verbal ballpark and then found “surprises” after demo day. Our customers tell us the written price and the 365-Day Done Right Promise are the two reasons they picked up the phone in the first place.
Our background-checked, uniformed technicians show up in the window we gave you, not somewhere in a four-hour blur. When you call, a live person answers at (936) 259-2607 any hour of the day. No voicemail maze. If a repair fails inside the guarantee window, we come back and fix it at no charge, with no service-call fee.
Bathroom Renovation in North Hollywood
Bathroom Renovation in North Hollywood means something different than it does twenty miles west. Here, you’re renovating a bathroom inside a 1945 – 1965 stucco home that predates modern venting codes, which means the job often starts with correcting what the original builder got wrong. A full renovation typically runs $9,000 – $28,000 depending on how much rough plumbing and framing has to be corrected behind the walls. Homeowners call us when the tile is cracked, the grout won’t stay sealed, the vent fan just recirculates moist air, or the layout from 1958 doesn’t work for a modern household.
What Gets Replaced
A full North Hollywood bathroom renovation usually means gutting to the studs: new cement board substrate behind the tile (the moisture-resistant layer that keeps water out of your wall cavities), new shower pan or tub, new vanity, new toilet, new lighting, and a properly sized vent fan that actually exhausts to the outside. In older North Hollywood homes, we often replace cast-iron drain lines while the walls are open, because the galvanized and cast-iron plumbing from the Eisenhower era is usually at the end of its service life.
What a Full Renovation Costs Here
On a typical 5×8 hall bath in a North Hollywood ranch, a mid-range full renovation with a new tub, tile surround, painted vanity with Cambria or Silestone quartz top, and a Delta or Moen faucet usually lands between $14,000 and $22,000. High-end jobs with a walk-in shower, frameless glass, custom tile work, and a freestanding tub run into the $24,000 – $28,000 range. Every quote includes the same thing: a written number with line-item allowances, so a $28,000 quote tells you exactly where every dollar goes.
Small Bathroom Remodel in North Hollywood
Small Bathroom Remodel work in North Hollywood often means a 5×7 hall bath, a powder room under the stairs, or a guest bath in a 1950s stucco ranch. These jobs typically run $5,000 – $12,000, and they’re the most common project we do in the neighborhoods around Oxnard Street and Riverside Drive. A small remodel usually keeps the same footprint but replaces the tub with a tub-and-tile surround or a compact walk-in shower, updates the vanity, and brings wiring and venting up to current code.
Where the Money Goes on a Small Bath
In a small North Hollywood bathroom, the two biggest cost drivers are what’s behind the walls and what’s under the floor. If the original 1950s tile was set over drywall instead of cement board, we have to reframe and waterproof that surround before new tile goes on. If the toilet has been slowly leaking at the wax ring, the subfloor may need a section replaced. Both are common here. Both get priced in writing before we touch anything.
Why a Small Bath Still Needs a Permit
Even a cosmetic update can trigger LADBS requirements once walls are open: a Title 24-compliant exhaust fan, GFCI outlets on a dedicated circuit, and waterproofing that an inspector signs off on before we close the walls. We pull the permit, schedule the inspection, and make sure the sign-off happens while everything is still visible.
Trusted Brands We Service in North Hollywood
We install products sourced from trade brands we’d put in our own homes: KraftMaid and Wellborn vanities, Cambria and Silestone quartz tops, Kohler, Moen, and Delta fixtures, and James Hardie backer where a sub-surface needs to be rock solid. We also stock Sakrete and similar products locally for pan and backer applications, which means shorter turnaround on North Hollywood jobs. Homeowners in the Valley Village and NoHo Arts District don’t wait on a parts truck from the other side of the county when a shower pan has to be poured this week.
Common Bathroom Remodeling Problems We See in North Hollywood Homes
- Failed waterproofing behind 1950s tile. The original tile in a North Hollywood ranch was often set directly over greenboard with no membrane, which means moisture has been soaking the wall cavity for sixty years. Water damage behind tile is the single most common surprise we uncover.
- Undersized 2×4 framing. Postwar builders used nominal 2×4 studs on 24-inch centers in some North Hollywood homes, which means a new tile-and-backer assembly needs the stud spacing corrected or furred out before we set anything.
- Cast-iron and galvanized rough-in plumbing. Original drain and supply lines in 1945 – 1965 North Hollywood homes are often corroded to the point where a “simple” vanity swap turns into a code-mandated repipe inside the wall.
- Vent fans that don’t vent. Many original North Hollywood baths either have no exhaust fan or a fan that terminates in the attic, which violates Title 24 and turns your ceiling into a moisture trap. We route venting to the outside as standard practice.
Pricing for Bathroom Remodeling in North Hollywood, CA
Here’s what you can expect to pay in North Hollywood, based on the jobs we’ve priced in this market:
| Project | Typical Range |
|---|---|
| Bathroom Remodel | $9,000 – $28,000 |
| Small Bathroom Remodel | $5,000 – $12,000 |
| Walk-In Shower Installation | $4,500 – $12,000 |
| Bathroom Vanity Installation | $800 – $3,000 |
The range moves with a few things: whether walls have to be opened to framing, whether the subfloor needs replacement, the vanity line you choose, and whether we’re replacing a tub with a shower or keeping the same footprint. On every job, you get a free estimate with a written price before any work starts. Call (936) 259-2607 to book one.
We Also Serve Cities Near North Hollywood
We serve North Hollywood and the neighborhoods that wrap around it, including Studio City, Van Nuys, Burbank, and Glendale. If you’re just over the line in Valley Village or near the Burbank border, give us a call and we’ll come take a look.
Serving North Hollywood, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the North Hollywood 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 North Hollywood
Yes, in most cases. If we’re replacing the waterproofing system, moving plumbing, altering framing, or upgrading electrical, LADBS requires a permit and inspection. Even a tile replacement that exposes the wall cavity often triggers the requirement that an inspector sign off on the waterproofing before we close the walls. We handle the permit on every project, and the inspection sign-off is part of the job. Call (936) 259-2607 if you want to know what applies to your specific home.
North Hollywood’s postwar housing stock has more layers of code correction built into the typical job. Burbank falls under different jurisdictional requirements and has a different building inventory, so a comparable bathroom in Burbank might not need the same framing corrections, venting reroutes, or waterproofing upgrades. In North Hollywood, the starting condition of the house often drives the number. Our written quote includes line-item allowances so you see exactly what’s needed and why it costs what it does.
We write allowances into the contract for exactly this. When we open a wall and find rotted subfloor, failed waterproofing, or undersized framing, we price the correction as a written change order and get your approval before we do the work. You see the number, you approve the number, and we stay on schedule. Nothing gets buried in the final invoice that you didn’t sign off on. We opened a hall bath on Camarillo Street in a 1952 stucco ranch and found the original tile bed set over greenboard with no waterproofing membrane, a swollen subfloor under the toilet from a slow wax-ring leak, and undersized tub-surround framing. We priced the added waterproofing, subfloor replacement, and rough-in correction as a written change order before we touched anything, and the homeowner approved the number the same day.
We pull the permit through LADBS, schedule the inspection, and make sure the inspector signs off on waterproofing, framing, venting, and electrical before we close any walls. For a typical North Hollywood bathroom remodel, that means two or three inspections, depending on scope. We handle all scheduling and keep the job moving while the paperwork runs. Call (936) 259-2607 and we’ll walk you through what applies to your project.
Yes, but it works a little differently. Dingbat apartments with tuck-under parking often have structural constraints in the floor system that a single-family stucco ranch doesn’t, and many are in the LADBS soft-story retrofit program. For a small bathroom remodel in a dingbat, we coordinate with the building’s retrofit status from the start, because the retrofit work can influence what’s accessible beneath the bathroom floor. We’ll tell you what’s feasible before we quote it. Call (936) 259-2607 for a free estimate.
What Opening a North Hollywood Home Actually Turns Up
North Hollywood’s postwar stucco homes were built before modern bathroom venting and waterproofing standards existed. Open a hall bath in a 1952 ranch on Camarillo Street or a 1963 stucco box off Burbank Boulevard and you routinely find unvented moisture trapped behind original tile, greenboard where a waterproofing membrane should be, and 2×4 framing that won’t carry the weight of a new tile-and-backer assembly. A Westside remodel of the same era might not have the same issues because different builders, different inspectors, and different climate pressures shaped the original work. In North Hollywood, the tile-out phase is where the real scope reveals itself. This is the single biggest reason a bathroom quote moves after demo day, and it’s exactly why we inspect first, write allowances into the contract, and price every surprise as a written change order before we touch it.
Inspection First, Price Second
We don’t write a fixed number on a bathroom we haven’t opened. Before we quote, we check the vent path, test the subfloor, look at the framing from the crawlspace or attic where we can, and tell you what we think is back there. Then we write a quote with line-item allowances for the things we can’t verify without demo: waterproofing membrane, subfloor repair, rough-in corrections, framing reinforcement. You know the worst-case number before we start, and the number only moves if you approve a change order. That’s the whole system.
The 365-Day Done Right Promise
Every job we do in North Hollywood comes with the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If the work fails inside the guarantee window, we come back and fix it at no charge, and the return visit costs you nothing. Every project follows the Kingswell standard: a written price up front, a real arrival window, a clean job site, and a written guarantee. Our materials come from trade brands like Cambria, Kohler, Moen, and Delta, so the layers of protection behind the work are real. Trevor Nash signs every contract, and the number on day one is the number on the invoice.
If you’re ready to talk about a bathroom remodel in North Hollywood, call (936) 259-2607 for a free estimate. A live person answers any hour of the day, and you’ll get a written price before any work starts.
Written by Trevor Nash, Owner at Penhallow Remodeling, serving North Hollywood.