Cutting an Eichler Slab Without Hitting the Heating
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.
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Primary Bathroom Remodel in Mountain View
Larger suite work: separate shower and tub, double vanity, the projects where design time earns its keep.
A primary bathroom remodel is the bigger, more design-driven end of the work: a separate walk-in shower and soaking tub, a double vanity, sometimes an enclosed toilet compartment and a linen closet. In Mountain View these projects generally run $45,000 to $95,000, and the higher end reflects Peninsula pricing on glass, stone and cabinetry rather than anything exotic in the construction. The design phase matters more here than on a hall bathroom, because a primary suite has enough room for layout choices to be wrong. Construction runs ten to sixteen weeks, longer if walls move or the roof structure is opened for a skylight.
What the scope covers
- Layout planning across shower, tub, vanity run, toilet compartment and storage
- Curbless or low-curb walk-in shower with a linear drain and a full glass enclosure
- Freestanding tub set on verified floor structure, with framing reinforced where the span calls for it
- Double vanity with undermount basins and a quartz or natural stone counter
- Electric radiant floor heating on its own thermostat and circuit
- Layered lighting: task at the mirror, general overhead, dimmable, all on code-compliant circuits
- Niches, benches and trim details specified during design rather than improvised on site
- Permit, trade coordination and final inspection handled by the contractor
Get a free quote for this work
A local remodeler walks the room with you, checks what is behind the wall and under the floor, and follows up with a written price broken down by scope.
Primary Bath questions
The things homeowners ask most often before committing to primary bath work.
+ What does a primary bathroom remodel cost in Mountain View?
Most primary bathroom remodels here run $45,000 to $95,000. A well-specified suite with a tiled walk-in shower, double vanity and quartz counters generally lands at $45,000 to $65,000. Adding a freestanding tub, a curbless shower, radiant floor heat and a full frameless glass enclosure moves it to $70,000 to $95,000. Structural work, moving walls or relocating fixtures across a slab, adds another $10,000 to $25,000 on top.
+ How long does a primary bathroom remodel take?
Ten to sixteen weeks of construction, plus the design and permit runway ahead of it. Custom cabinetry and imported stone are usually the critical path rather than any of the trades. Skylights, moved walls and anything that changes the roof or the load path extend both the permit review and the build.
+ Is a freestanding tub worth it, or is it a trend?
It depends on whether anyone in the house takes baths. A freestanding tub reads well in listing photos and is what buyers in this price band expect to see in a primary suite, so there is a resale argument even when it goes unused. The practical notes: a filled tub with a bather in it concentrates 800 to 1,200 pounds on a small footprint, so the floor structure needs checking during design, and a freestanding tub eats more floor area than a deck-mounted one for the same interior volume. Filler placement, floor-mounted or wall-mounted, is a decision that has to be made before rough plumbing, not after.
+ Should the shower be curbless?
A curbless shower is the better long-term choice in almost every primary suite, and it costs $3,000 to $6,000 more than a curbed one. On a raised foundation the shower pan is recessed between the joists. On a slab, which is most of Mountain View, the concrete has to be cut and recessed instead, which is where the extra cost sits. If you plan to stay in the house past retirement, it is the single highest-value decision on the project, and it is far cheaper to do now than to retrofit later.
+ How much of the budget goes to labor?
Roughly half, and on some projects more. Across the South Bay and Peninsula, licensed plumbers commonly bill $150 to $250 an hour and electricians $120 to $200. Tile setting is often priced per square foot rather than hourly, in the region of $15 to $30 installed on top of the material. Nationally labor tends to run closer to a third of a bathroom budget, which is why online calculators built on national averages come in low here, sometimes badly so.
Primary Bath across the valley
The same work runs across the north Santa Clara Valley and the lower Peninsula. Each area page covers the housing stock and the permit process for that specific city.
- Primary Bath in Mountain View
- Primary Bath in Palo Alto
- Primary Bath in Los Altos
- Primary Bath in Los Altos Hills
- Primary Bath in Sunnyvale
- Primary Bath in Cupertino
- Primary Bath in Santa Clara
- Primary Bath in Menlo Park
- Primary Bath in Atherton
- Primary Bath in Saratoga
- Primary Bath in Campbell
- Primary Bath in Redwood City
Further reading
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Does a Bathroom Remodel Pay for Itself in 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.
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California Contract Rules That Surprise Newcomers
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.
Other scopes worth pricing
Where a house has two bathrooms due for work, doing both under one permit and one mobilisation is usually cheaper than two separate projects a year apart, and it is worth asking for both prices at the same walkthrough.
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Full Bathroom Remodel
The room taken back to studs and rebuilt, typically eight to twelve weeks of construction once materials land
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Walk-In Shower Conversion
Pulling an unused tub or a tired fiberglass enclosure and building a properly waterproofed tile shower
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Small Bathroom and Powder Room Remodel
Hall baths and powder rooms in the 35 to 55 square foot range, where every layout decision shows
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Eichler and Mid-Century Bathrooms
Post-and-beam houses with radiant slabs and no attic, where a standard bathroom scope does not apply
Start your bathroom project
Call (650) 966-5276, or send the details through the form and a local remodeler prices the job up. The quote is free either way.