What a bathroom remodel costs in Tampa, FL.
Three things decide what your bathroom will cost, and they are the same three every time. This page names all three, so you can place your own room before anybody visits it. It also names what a suspiciously low bid is cutting to get under everyone else.
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Priced by written scope, never by the hour.
What a low bid is cutting.
When one bid lands far below the others, the money came from somewhere. There are only four places it can come from. Every one of them is buried by the time the job looks finished, so this section goes first.
The waterproofing
This is the most common cut of all. Tile and grout are a finish, not a waterproof layer. The membrane goes behind them, and it costs materials and a day of labor. Once the tile is on, nobody can tell you whether it is there. Ask for it as a named line, then ask for a photograph of that stage.
What is behind the old tile
A cheap bid assumes the wall is fine. That assumption becomes a change order the week after demolition, when the wall is open and you have no leverage. There is no other contractor in the house either.
Haul-away, protection and permits
Demolition leaves debris, and somebody has to haul it away. Floors get covered, dust gets controlled, and the job needs whatever permits it needs. These are small lines individually, and the first to vanish from a number that has to look low.
The allowance with no number on it
Some bids hold your tile and your fixtures inside an allowance. If that allowance carries no written limit, the bid is a placeholder and not a price. You discover the actual cost on the day you choose your tile.
The three questions that put you in a range.
Answer these three about your own bathroom, and you will know what kind of job you are looking at. You can do that before anybody visits your house.
Toilet, vanity or shower
Keeping every fixture where it is makes the least expensive project. Moving one is plumbing work, and on a slab it can mean opening concrete. Maplex Services is not a general contractor. A licensed general contractor we work with does that part and pulls the permit. This is the biggest lever available to you.
Behind the tile
Dry and solid means this is a finish job. Years of water behind the tile means structural repair first, priced when it is open and visible.
Ceiling, showerhead or tub line
Same room, same trades, three different numbers. Tile to the ceiling costs more than tile to the showerhead. This is the line most people adjust once they see it written down.
What Tampa homeowners pay for a bathroom, on average.
These are market averages for Tampa, from Angi, updated February 2026. They are not our quote. They show where most bathroom jobs land before anyone has seen your house.
A bathroom remodel in Tampa
$5,352 to $13,631 for most bathrooms, and $9,491 on average, by Angi's Tampa data. Per square foot that is $70 to $250, from basic to designer finishes.
Showers and tubs
A new shower averages $6,100. A tub to shower conversion runs $780 to $2,340. A walk in shower runs $2,730 to $5,525. A bathtub replacement runs $1,300 to $9,100.
What pushes a bathroom past the range
Moving the toilet or the shower drain on a slab, tile to the ceiling, and rot behind the old tile. Each one is a line in the scope before the price.
A full bathroom with moved plumbing lands above these ranges. A reglaze or a new vanity lands below. The three questions below tell you which way yours leans. Your written number comes after the walkthrough.
Source: Angi, bathroom remodel cost in Tampa, FL, updated February 25, 2026. Market figures, not a Maplex quote.
What happens before the first tile goes on.
Most of the money goes into work you will never see, and most of the days go there too. Two of the three below are set by code, not by us.
Demolition, and what it finds
The old tile and the old pan come out first. Only then can anyone see the wall behind them. If it is wet or soft, it gets repaired before anything new goes on. We price that repair while you can see it too.
The pan, the slope and the water test
A shower floor has to fall toward the drain. The Florida Building Code sets that fall at a quarter inch per foot. That works out to a 2 percent slope. The finished liner is then filled with water and tested. Only after it passes does any tile go on, and that day is already inside your price.
The permit, and who names it
Hillsborough County asks for a permit when a bathroom job touches plumbing. A job that is only tile and cabinets usually does not need one. Your written scope names which permits your job needs. You see that before you sign anything. Permit fees go on their own line, at cost.
What is included, and where it ends.
A written scope is only worth something if it says where it stops. These are the limits we put in writing before anyone starts.
How long the bathroom is out of use.
Cost and time move together, for the same reasons. A job where nothing moves is shorter and cheaper. A job that opens the slab adds a trade, an inspection and a wait.
Those first three come from actual jobs in this silo, and your own days get named in your own scope. We never guess days on the phone, for the same reason we never guess prices.
When we tell you not to do it
Every company on your list will say yes to this job. Below is when we say no, and why. It costs us a job now and then, and it saves you considerably more than that.
You are being asked to pay most of it up front
Payments should follow work you can see. A schedule tied to visible stages protects you, and that is how our scopes are written. If a bid wants most of the money before demolition, ask why.
Nobody has been to your house yet
A price given over the phone is a guess with a number on it. It will change, and the change will not be in your favor.
The cheapest bid will not name its waterproofing
Ask for that line in writing. If a company will not put it there, you already have your answer about where the difference went.
Lifetime warranty on our workmanship.
If the work we did fails, we come back and fix it. That holds for as long as you own the home. Not one year. Not five. As long as you live there.
A warranty is only worth what its exclusions say. Ours are above, in the same size type as the promise. Ask any other company for theirs in writing, then check how long the tile is covered.
Questions we actually get asked
Is an estimate the same as a quote?
Not always, and the difference costs money. An estimate is a guess and it can move, while a quote is a price for named work. What we give you is a written scope with one closed price. Ask any company which of the two you are holding.
Is the range on this page my price?
No. It is the Tampa market average from a public source, with its date. It tells you what most people paid. It cannot see your bathroom. The three questions above decide which end of the range you are in. It takes somebody standing in the room to know which side of each one you fall on.
Is the estimate free?
Yes. The walkthrough and the written scope come before you owe anything. The price in that scope is the price. You are not buying the estimate and you are not trading it for a signature. If you take our scope to another company, that is your right.
What makes the price go up after signing?
Only two things move it. The first is a change you asked for, priced in writing before it happens. The second is something nobody could see until a wall came off. That is either covered by a named allowance, or excluded by name from day one.
Do you charge by the hour?
Never. Every project is priced by written scope. An hourly price gives you no number to plan around, and nobody a reason to finish. You should be able to plan your money before the work begins.
Why is one quote half the price of another?
Usually because you are being quoted two genuinely different products. An acrylic panel system is fitted over your existing walls. A tiled shower is built in place, on a fully waterproofed wall. Those are different jobs, and neither company always says which one it sells. Ask both, in writing.
The other bathroom services
Where we work
Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee and Sarasota counties. If your town is not on this list, call and ask: the answer is often yes.
A walkthrough, then a written scope with one closed price.
Never hourly, never a verbal figure, and our workmanship carries a lifetime warranty. Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee and Sarasota counties.