Well home improvement is not cheap.

[haltz]

I thought maybe 15-20k and that was going to practically kill me. Lol.

Brother, that's the price of the cabinets, wholesale.. uninstalled

[cardinalkarp]

I thought maybe 15-20k and that was going to practically kill me. Lol.

Brother, that's the price of the cabinets, wholesale.. uninstalled

A double sink set of bathroom cabinets is 15-20k??? I just can’t imagine that, but I haven’t priced them.

Edit: I just did a quick browse and I can’t possibly see a set of bathroom cabinets for a double sink being anywhere close to 15-20k

[haltz]

I thought maybe 15-20k and that was going to practically kill me. Lol.

Brother, that's the price of the cabinets, wholesale.. uninstalled

A double sink set of bathroom cabinets is 15-20k??? I just can’t imagine that, but I haven’t priced them.

Edit: I just did a quick browse and I can’t possibly see a set of bathroom cabinets for a double sink being anywhere close to 15-20k

I started thinking about kitchen remodel costs at the end of my last post and all the sudden that's what I thought this was about for some reason. My bad.

Maybe because 100k for a bathroom is nuts my brain turned it into a kitchen

[IMADreamer]

Maybe that was his "I really don't want this job" price. That'd be how I interpret it.

Well he succeeded. lol I've got another guy coming Tuesday to give us a quote.

[haltz]

Maybe that was his "I really don't want this job" price. That'd be how I interpret it.

Well he succeeded. lol I've got another guy coming Tuesday to give us a quote.

Did you get anything itemized in the quote? Design? Was he just giving average material costs and final numbers tbd after you chose finishes?

[sighyoung]

I did an extensive bathroom remodel about 8 years ago that cost $20-25K, and included tearing up the thick concrete floor and walls around it, and installing a new shower, new tub, new toilet, moving the location of the toilet, new cabinetry, new tile floor, and installing a vent underneath one of the cabinets so that the floors FEEL heated but aren't.

In November 2025, I was quoted $35K for a much smaller remodel for the upstairs bathroom, but that did include insulating the walls and replacing the sink, the exhaust fan, the shower, and some of the lighting. So prices are going up.

$100K is insane, though. Prices may be higher depending on the number of available contractors, but that seems way too high.

Some folks just want to call an insert in a shower a "remodel," and anything more seems like you're asking Frank Lloyd Wright to build a cabin for you.

Definitely ask for other opinions if you can.

[ghostrunner]

Yeah I’d just get a second quote. But on the other hand a lot of contractors are in the positions to turn down any work, and we’ve had trouble getting people to even give a quote.

[Smith Corks One]

I mean I'm starting to think that selling my house and just renting for the rest of my life wouldn't be too bad.

[AdmiralKird]

The other thing you could do is ask what specifically is driving the cost up.

Certain things you're requesting, in the way you requested them, might be significant factors. For instance... I don't know, let's say you want to add a pocket door to the bathroom to save space, but you have electrical lines running through the cavity where the door would normally sit inside the wall when open. It might be they have in the budgeted running all new lines from the box because they can't splice them in the walls under code to move the outlets elsewhere, but they could alternatively just cut the lines short and put a small jumper box+cover in the corner to join them to new lines that will reach the new locations. But if you've specified you want everything to look like brand new construction or something they might not think this is an option.

Good contractors though will usually try and talk a client out of something like this though, or at least bring up alternatives. One thing that might apply to the heated floors situation is they might be able to put in something that just runs off the existing 15A/20A circuit instead of running new 40A wires up, but you'd have to be aware you'd throw the breaker if you tried to run a hair dryer on a bathroom outlet at the same time and the floor wouldn't heat up as fast. (this might be against code though idk) If they can't offer any ways for you to get the bill lower than they're just surcharging the price.

[heyzeus]

Tariffs have really increased the cost of materials and equipment (our new windows project cost us 20k but our contractor told us that if we waited a few months it would've been 35k), coupled with the fact that we're deporting the labor that does all the roofing, tiling, drywall, etc, at least here in Texas. It's not a great combo.