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Here’s the reality most contractors won’t tell you upfront: in South Huntington, where the median home was built in 1958, a bathroom remodel is almost never just cosmetic. Pull the tile off a wall that’s been holding moisture for 60 years and you’re likely looking at mold, deteriorated substrate, or worse. The contractor who isn’t licensed to handle that has two options pretend they didn’t see it, or stop your job and tell you to find someone else. Neither one works for you.
When the work is done right, the difference is immediate and lasting. You get a bathroom that’s waterproofed properly, vented correctly, and built with materials that can handle Long Island’s humidity swings from a sticky August to a dry January. No tile popping off the wall two years from now. No grout cracking because the substrate underneath wasn’t prepped correctly. Just a bathroom that functions the way it should, every single day.
For a home in South Huntington where you’re paying $10,000 a year in property taxes and sitting on a home worth close to $700,000 that’s not a luxury. It’s what the investment demands. A properly executed bathroom renovation protects your equity, improves your daily life, and doesn’t leave you calling a contractor back six months later to fix what should’ve been done right the first time.
We’re based in Bohemia, right here in Suffolk County. We’ve completed over 5,000 restoration and remodeling projects across New York State, and a significant portion of that work has been in older Long Island housing stock the Cape Cods, split-levels, and hi-ranches that make up most of South Huntington’s residential neighborhoods between Pidgeon Hill Road and West Hills Road.
What makes us different from most bathroom remodel companies isn’t a slogan. It’s licensing. We hold active certifications for asbestos abatement, lead-based paint removal, and mold remediation all handled in-house by the same team doing your renovation. We also carry a valid Suffolk County Home Improvement Contractor license, which the Town of Huntington requires before any permitted work can begin. You won’t be stuck coordinating between three different companies when something unexpected comes up. That’s our job.
We’re available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year not because emergencies are glamorous, but because burst pipes and water damage in 60-year-old homes don’t wait for Monday morning.
It starts with a walkthrough. We look at what you have the footprint, the plumbing layout, the condition of the walls and floor and give you an honest assessment of what you’re working with. In South Huntington’s older homes, that often means flagging things like galvanized supply lines that are past their useful life or a tub surround that’s been holding water against an unprotected wall for decades. You’ll know what’s there before we start, not after.
Once we agree on scope, we handle the permit process through the Town of Huntington’s Building and Housing Department. That means the building permit application, the separate plumbing permit, the construction drawings, and the Suffolk County Home Improvement License documentation all of it. You don’t have to figure out what Building & Housing requires or make trips to 100 Main Street in Huntington. We’ve done this before.
Demo comes next, and this is where our hazmat licensing matters most. If we encounter asbestos tile under the floor, lead paint on the window trim, or mold in the wall cavity which is genuinely common in homes built before 1978 we handle it in-house, legally, without stopping your project. From there, it’s waterproofing, new substrate, plumbing and electrical rough-in, tile, fixtures, and finish work. Before we leave, the Town of Huntington’s inspector signs off. You get a bathroom that’s permitted, legal, and built to last.
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A full bathroom renovation with us covers the complete scope demolition, hazardous material removal if needed, plumbing, electrical, waterproofing membrane, cement board or moisture-resistant substrate, tile installation, vanity and fixture installation, and all finish work. For South Huntington homes specifically, we pay close attention to ventilation. The original exhaust fans in 1950s construction were undersized by today’s standards, and in a community where summer humidity is real and bathrooms in exterior walls are common, proper ventilation isn’t optional. It’s what keeps your new bathroom looking new five years from now.
We also handle walk-in shower conversions, tub-to-shower transitions, accessibility modifications for aging-in-place needs, and full master bathroom expansions. Given that nearly half of South Huntington’s residents are between 45 and 64, we see a lot of requests for grab bars, curbless showers, and wider doorways features that make a bathroom work better today and add real value at resale.
If your renovation is connected to a homeowners insurance claim a burst pipe, a slow leak that finally showed up as a ceiling stain downstairs we handle the documentation and work directly with your insurance carrier on the covered portions. We’ve done it many times. You don’t need to manage that conversation alone.
Yes, and the requirements are more involved than most homeowners expect. The Town of Huntington’s Building and Housing Department requires a building permit for any bathroom alteration that involves structural changes or plumbing work. On top of that, a separate plumbing permit Form 87-13 is required and must be signed and notarized by a plumber licensed to work specifically in the Town of Huntington. The permit application itself requires a notarized owner signature, three copies of construction drawings, a licensed surveyor’s plot plan, and a copy of the contractor’s Suffolk County Home Improvement License.
If your contractor isn’t familiar with this process, it slows everything down incomplete applications get rejected, and your project sits waiting while the paperwork gets sorted out. We manage the full permit process from submission through final inspection, so you’re not making trips to 100 Main Street in Huntington or trying to figure out what the Building and Housing Department needs. We’ve done it enough times that it’s routine for us, even when it isn’t for the homeowner.
This is one of the most common scenarios we encounter in South Huntington, and it’s worth understanding before you hire anyone. Homes built before 1980 which covers the vast majority of South Huntington’s housing stock, given the 1958 median construction year frequently contain asbestos in vinyl floor tiles, pipe insulation, or joint compound. Lead-based paint on window trim and door frames is also standard in homes built before 1978. And mold behind a tub surround that was never properly waterproofed? That’s more common than not.
A contractor who isn’t licensed for hazardous material abatement has to stop work the moment they find any of this. They’re legally prohibited from disturbing it. That means your bathroom sits half-demolished while you locate a licensed remediation company, schedule them, wait for them to finish, and then reschedule your original contractor. We hold active certifications for asbestos abatement, lead-based paint removal, and mold remediation. We handle it in-house, without stopping your project or handing you a new coordination problem. The job keeps moving.
The honest answer is that it depends on what you’re starting with and what you’re trying to accomplish. Nationally, a midrange bathroom remodel averages around $26,000 but Long Island pricing runs 30 to 50 percent higher than national benchmarks because of labor costs, permitting requirements, and material costs in the metro area. A midrange full bathroom renovation in South Huntington typically starts around $35,000 and can go well above $60,000 for a larger master bath with high-end fixtures and tile.
What most cost estimates don’t account for is what’s behind the walls in a 1958 home. If asbestos tile removal, mold remediation, or galvanized pipe replacement is needed, that adds to the scope but it’s not optional, and a contractor who skips it is leaving you with a problem that will cost more to fix later. We give you a detailed written estimate with line items before any work begins, so you know exactly what you’re paying for and why. No ballpark numbers, no surprises after demo.
This comes up regularly in South Huntington and across Suffolk County’s older housing stock. Bathroom additions, expansions, and updates done in the 1960s through 1980s were frequently completed without permits either because the homeowner did it themselves or because a contractor at the time didn’t pull them. When that unpermitted work is discovered during a new renovation, it creates a decision point: leave it as-is and potentially inherit the liability at resale, or address it through the Town of Huntington’s legalization process.
The Town of Huntington has a formal pathway for legalizing existing improvements that were built without permits. It involves submitting as-built drawings, going through a review process, and bringing the work up to current code where required. We’re familiar with this process and can advise you on what’s involved if we encounter unpermitted prior work during your renovation. We’ve navigated it before in the Town of Huntington, and we can integrate the legalization into the overall project scope rather than leaving you to figure it out separately.
For a full gut renovation in South Huntington demo through final inspection you’re realistically looking at four to six weeks for a standard bathroom, assuming no major surprises and permits are pulled in advance. If the scope includes hazardous material removal, structural changes, or significant plumbing reconfiguration, the timeline extends accordingly. The permit review process through the Town of Huntington adds time on the front end, which is why we start that process as early as possible.
The most common reason bathroom remodels run longer than expected isn’t the actual construction it’s the coordination gaps. A project that involves a general contractor, a separate plumber, a separate electrician, and a third-party hazmat crew has four different schedules to align. When something unexpected comes up and in a 1958 home, something usually does each of those handoffs adds delay. We manage all of that under one contract, which keeps the timeline tighter and gives you one person to call if something needs to change.
It depends on what caused the damage. Homeowners insurance typically covers sudden and accidental water damage a pipe that burst during a January cold snap, a water heater that failed and flooded the floor, a slow leak behind the tub that went undetected long enough to damage the subfloor and the ceiling below. What it generally doesn’t cover is wear and tear or gradual deterioration, even if the end result looks the same.
In South Huntington, where freeze-thaw cycles in winter put real stress on older plumbing systems, insurance-triggered bathroom renovations are more common than most homeowners realize. When that’s the situation, we handle the damage documentation, work directly with your insurance adjuster, and bill the carrier for the covered portions of the work. You still make decisions about finishes, fixtures, and upgrades but you’re not navigating the claims process alone on top of managing a renovation. We’ve done this enough times to know how adjusters think and what documentation they need to process a claim without unnecessary back-and-forth.
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