Bathroom Renovation in Hicksville, NY

Nassau County Building Department requires a permit for any project involving plumbing relocation, electrical upgrades, or structural changes (moving a wall, enlarging the bathroom footprint). Cosmetic refreshes — tile only, vanity swap, fixture replacement with no pipe moves — typically don't need one. We pull the permit on your behalf, coordinate all inspections, and deliver a closed permit card at job completion. This matters for your homeowner's insurance and for resale.

Our current backlog runs 6–10 weeks from contract signing to crew start. If you have a hard deadline — a relative moving in, a home sale, a contractor window — tell us at the estimate stage and we'll do our best to sequence accordingly.

Yes — Island Bath Studio serves all of Nassau County from our Mineola studio. Hicksville is well within our regular service area and we've completed projects there routinely. No trip fees within Nassau County.

Standard hall bath full gut-and-rebuild: 3–4 weeks. Master bath renovation: 4–6 weeks. Tub-to-shower conversion only (no full gut): 2–3 weeks. Shower-only tile rebuild: 2–3 weeks including frameless glass. Accessible bath retrofit: 3–4 weeks. Timeline starts the day the permit is in hand.

Yes. Island Bath Studio holds Nassau County HIC License #H2419300 and carries $1,000,000 General Liability plus Workers' Compensation. We are also NKBA Certified and EPA Lead Renovation Certified. We provide our license number and certificate of insurance before any contract is signed.

Hicksville falls under the Town of Oyster Bay Building Department. Any bathroom project involving plumbing relocation, electrical work, or structural framing changes requires a TOB permit. The Town of Oyster Bay typically processes residential bathroom permits in 7–14 business days from submission. We handle the full permit application — drawings, scope description, fee payment — and coordinate both the rough inspection (after plumbing and electrical rough-in) and final inspection (after tile and trim). You don't touch the paperwork.

Bathroom renovation costs in Hicksville follow Nassau County norms. A hall bath full gut-and-rebuild with tub-to-shower conversion — Schluter waterproofing, new PVC drain, PEX supply, porcelain tile, vanity, fixtures — typically runs $10,000–$20,000. A master bath renovation with walk-in shower, double vanity, and no plumbing relocation lands at $22,000–$42,000. Powder room refreshes run $4,500–$9,000. Accessible bath builds with zero-threshold shower and ADA hardware run $14,000–$30,000. We provide a firm written quote after an on-site walk — no ranges-until-you-sign business.

For most Hicksville hall baths and master baths, large-format porcelain is the right call — 12×24 on walls, 12×12 or 3×6 mosaic on the floor. Porcelain is non-porous, handles Long Island's seasonal humidity without swelling or cracking, and never needs sealing. Wood-look porcelain planks are very popular right now on Hicksville bathroom floors: warm visual, zero maintenance, safe wet-use with the right slip rating. If you want stone — marble or quartzite — we install it with Schluter Ditra uncoupling membrane under the floor tile and penetrating sealer applied in-house at install.

A full Hicksville hall bath gut-and-rebuild typically runs 3–4 weeks from crew start to final walkthrough. Master baths with plumbing relocations or custom stone work run 4–6 weeks. Tub-to-shower conversions without a full gut take 2–3 weeks. Add 7–14 days before crew start for the Town of Oyster Bay permit, which we file immediately at contract signing. Your total calendar from 'we agreed on price' to 'bathroom is done' is usually 5–7 weeks for a standard hall bath project. We build all of this into the schedule in writing.

Yes, and we recommend it on every full remodel in Hicksville homes built before 1985. Original cast iron drain stacks hold up for decades, but by the time a Hicksville home is 50–70 years old, the section running through the wall cavity to the main stack is often starting to corrode from the inside. During a full gut remodel we replace all in-wall drain sections with schedule-40 PVC as standard practice — it adds about half a day but eliminates the risk of a drain failure inside a freshly tiled wall. We show you the old cast iron section before we haul it away.