Bathroom remodeling written for Mountain View and the Santa Clara Valley: what work costs here, how city permits run, and what the 1950s tract and Eichler housing stock does to a bathroom project.https://mountainviewbathco.com/https://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/california-home-improvement-contract-rules/https://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/california-home-improvement-contract-rules/A $1,000 deposit cap whatever the project costs, a written contract above $500, and a lien that can attach even after you have paid the contractor in full.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMountain View Bath Cohttps://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/title-24-bathroom-fixture-limits/https://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/title-24-bathroom-fixture-limits/California caps showerheads at 1.8 gallons per minute, basin taps at 1.2 and toilets at 1.28 per flush. All tighter than federal, and it catches online orders.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMountain View Bath Cohttps://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/eichler-slab-radiant-heat-bathroom/https://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/eichler-slab-radiant-heat-bathroom/Mountain View has roughly 250 Eichlers with hot water tubing cast into the floor slab. How the tubing gets located before any concrete is cut, and why.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMountain View Bath Cohttps://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/postwar-tract-bathrooms-mountain-view/https://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/postwar-tract-bathrooms-mountain-view/Census data puts 32.8 percent of Mountain View housing in the 1950s and 1960s. Those houses share one bathroom pattern, and it predicts most of a remodel.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMountain View Bath Cohttps://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/venting-a-bathroom-with-no-attic/https://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/venting-a-bathroom-with-no-attic/Post-and-beam houses and flat-roofed additions leave nowhere to run a duct. The two routes that work, the one that ruins a roof, and how fans get sized.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMountain View Bath Cohttps://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/asbestos-and-lead-testing-before-demolition/https://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/asbestos-and-lead-testing-before-demolition/Over half of Mountain View housing predates 1980. Asbestos and lead testing runs $300 to $800 before demolition, and costs far more discovered mid-project.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMountain View Bath Cohttps://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/bathroom-remodel-resale-value-mountain-view/https://mountainviewbathco.com/blog/bathroom-remodel-resale-value-mountain-view/Cost recovery data, what a dated bathroom does to a listing in a two-million-dollar market, and why resale is usually the wrong reason to do the work at all.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMountain View Bath Co