Wall Tile & Backing
With whatever it was bedded on
Tile, tile backer, green board and old mortar beds.
Bathroom Demolition in Central Kentucky
Tile, tub, vanity, sanitaryware and floor out, down to the studs and subfloor if that is what your fitter needs. The smallest room in the house, and usually the heaviest.
- Mortar-bed tile and cast iron: the weight is the job, not the floor area
- Water isolated before we start, and we tell you what needs arranging
- If there is rot behind the tile we show you before we go any further
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What gets found behind a bathroom wall
This is the one room where the surprise is common enough to plan for rather than hope against. Two ways of handling it, and only one of them is honest.
Common
Quote the strip, discover the rest
A price is given for taking the bathroom out. The tile comes off, there is soft subfloor around the tub, and the conversation about who pays for it happens on the day, with the room already open and the customer with no leverage and no time.
The incentive here runs the wrong way, which is why it keeps happening.
Ours
Say it is possible before you book
We tell you at quote stage that water damage around a tub, tray or WC is common in older bathrooms and cannot be seen through tile. If we find it we stop, show you, and you decide. Repair is carpentry and a separate scope, and we would rather you got a second quote for it than feel cornered into ours.
It makes the quote sound less tidy. It makes the day go better.
What Our Customers Say
Very quick from contact to in home to remove some flooring. Once on site they got straight to work and did an outstanding job! Very reasonable price for the work done. Will continue to use them for all future needs.
Extremely helpful and nice, was hired for land clearing and site preparation they removed pesky honey suckle. Definitely going to hire them in the future.
Very hard workers that cleaned out a whole house that was trashed and filthy. Very polite and considered. Would definitely recommend this company!
What bathroom demolition costs
Published ranges, because almost nobody in this market will give you a number before a site visit. You get a firm figure before anything starts and only pay for work completed.
PLACEHOLDER: powder room or cloakroom
Crown to supply
Crown publishes one interior range, not a room-level one. See the note under this grid.
PLACEHOLDER: standard bathroom
Crown to supply
The common job: tub or shower, vanity, WC, wall and floor tile.
PLACEHOLDER: primary or multiple bathrooms
Crown to supply
Larger rooms, or several bathrooms stripped in one visit.
- What the tile is bedded on
- Tile on a mortar bed is several times the weight and the work of tile on board.
- The tub
- An acrylic tub lifts out. A cast-iron tub is broken down and carried out in pieces.
- Where the room is
- An upstairs bathroom means every pound of it comes down the stairs by hand.
- How far the strip goes
- Surfaces only, or back to studs and subfloor for a layout change.
🔶 PLACEHOLDER: Crown does not publish a bathroom-level price. The published figure is interior gutting at $1,500 to $6,000+ for the service as a whole. A single bathroom is plainly not a $1,500 minimum job, and inventing a smaller number would be worse than leaving this blank.
What comes out of a bathroom
A bathroom is small and dense. Most of the cost is in what the surfaces are bedded on and how it gets carried out of the house.
Tubs & Shower Trays
Cast iron goes out in pieces
Acrylic and steel tubs, cast-iron tubs, trays and enclosures.
Vanities & Sanitaryware
Once the water is off
Vanity units, basins, WCs, cisterns and mirrors.
Flooring & Underlay
The slowest part of most bathrooms
Tile, vinyl and sheet flooring taken up to the subfloor.
Full Strip-Out
A full strip where the layout is changing
Everything out, back to framing and subfloor.
Debris Haul-Away
Priced in, not added at the end
Everything removed is loaded and taken away by us.
How bathroom demolition works
Four steps, no obligation, and you only pay for work completed.
Free quote from photos
Photograph each wall, the floor and the tub or shower. You get a number back within two hours, guaranteed.
Water off and scope agreed
We confirm the water is isolated, agree how far the strip goes, and protect the route out.
The strip
Fittings, then tile, then floor, carried out and loaded as we go rather than piled on the landing.
Swept, and anything found is shown
Room swept and debris gone. If there is damage behind the tile you see it before we leave.
Bathroom Demolition across Central Kentucky
Based in Lexington, working the counties around it. Send the address rather than the town: access decides more than distance on most of these jobs.
The questions we get asked
Answered properly rather than deflected to a phone call.
Not sure it’s this job?
Send two or three photos. If it is really a different service we will say so and point you at the right page. It costs you nothing either way.
Send photos insteadWhat happens if you find rot or damage behind the tile?
We stop and show you. Water damage around a tub, a shower tray or a WC is common in older bathrooms and it is genuinely not visible until the tile is off, so nobody, us included, can price for it in advance. What we will not do is cover it back up or quietly work around it. Repairing a subfloor or framing is carpentry rather than demolition, so it is a separate scope and usually a separate trade, but you will know about it the day we find it rather than when your fitter arrives.
Do you turn the water off?
We work to a room where the water is already isolated, and we will tell you at quote stage exactly what needs shutting off and capping. Isolating and capping live supply is plumbing work. On a bathroom this matters more than in a kitchen because there are more connections in a smaller space, and a mistake is immediately expensive to the room below.
Can you take out a cast-iron tub?
Yes. They are broken down and carried out in pieces rather than lifted whole, because a cast-iron tub is heavy enough to make a staircase a genuine hazard. It is noisier than the rest of the job and it is worth knowing that in advance, particularly in a condo or a shared building where the neighbors have a view.
Do you strip it back to the studs?
If that is what your fitter needs, yes. That is the difference between a surface strip and a full strip-out, and it is the main thing that moves the price. A layout change usually needs the full strip; a like-for-like replacement often does not. Ask your fitter which one they are quoting to fit into, then tell us, because guessing in either direction costs somebody money.
How long does a bathroom demolition take?
Most single bathrooms are a day. What extends it is tile bedded on a mortar bed, a cast-iron tub, or an upstairs room where everything is carried down by hand. You get a time with the price rather than an estimate here.
Which areas do you serve?
Lexington and the surrounding counties: Lexington, Georgetown, Nicholasville, Richmond, Frankfort, Winchester, Versailles and Paris. The ZIP codes are listed above. If the house was built before 1978, read the lead-rule section on the interior gutting page first: it applies to bathrooms like any other painted room.
Get a price on your bathroom strip-out
Photograph each wall, the floor and the tub or shower. Tell us whether your fitter needs a surface strip or a full strip back to the studs: it is the main thing that moves the number.
- Quotes guaranteed within 2 hours, 8am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday
- Free and no obligation. You only pay for completed work
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