Sixteen answers
Everything clients ask before booking
Grouped by the four things people actually worry about. If yours is not here, the studio number is at the bottom of every page.
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Cost and quoting
As a sample range, a tub-to-shower conversion runs $9,800 to $18,500, a full hall bath remodel $24,000 to $52,000, and a primary ensuite $32,000 to $78,000. The variables that move those numbers most are whether plumbing relocates, how complex the tile pattern is, and what we find behind the walls. Every figure on this site is illustrative.
The measuring visit and the written proposal are free. The proposal is a fixed price for the scope described, with a named contingency line for concealed conditions such as rot or failed supply lines. Nothing outside the scope is added without a signed change order.
Yes. A design retainer secures your place on the calendar and is credited against the build. The balance is split across agreed milestones, with the final payment due only after the punch list is closed.
Because the parts that decide whether a bathroom lasts, pan slope, membrane laps, drain fall and substrate flatness, are all labour. Material is the visible half. Labour is the half that stops your ceiling staining in four years.
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Schedule and living through it
Nine to twelve days for a conversion, three to five weeks for a full remodel, four to seven weeks for a larger ensuite. You get a week-by-week schedule at the pre-construction meeting and a photo update every Friday.
Yes, and we plan around it. We sequence the toilet so you lose it for a single day rather than the whole project, and we can arrange a temporary unit for the days when the floor is open.
We build a sealed dust wall at the doorway, run a negative-air machine while we demolish, cover the route from your front door, and vacuum at the end of every day. It is a construction site, but it stays contained to one room.
The crew arrives at 8 am and packs up by 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday. We do not work weekends unless you ask us to, and we never start early without agreeing it with you first.
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Design and materials
Everything that affects the rough-in, yes: valve type, drain style, fixture positions and vanity size. Paint colour and hardware finish can be settled during the build. We will tell you which decisions are on the critical path.
Client-supplied tile is usually fine if you order enough and we approve the specification. Client-supplied valves we handle case by case, because if the cartridge fails in year two we need to be able to get the part locally.
For most clients it is the single upgrade they mention a year later. An electric mat under porcelain on a two-hour timer costs relatively little to run and changes how the room feels on a January morning.
Non-negotiable in our work. Every bathroom we finish gets a fan sized to room volume, ducted in rigid pipe to the exterior, and wired to a humidity sensor rather than the light switch.
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Working with Still Water
Only bathrooms. No kitchens, no additions, no whole-home renovations. It is a narrow shop on purpose: the same crew builds the same kind of room every week, so the details stop being decisions and start being habits.
Yes. We carry North Carolina general contractor licensing, general liability and workers compensation cover, and we are a Lead-Safe Certified Firm for pre-1978 homes. Certificates are available on request.
A written workmanship warranty on our installation, plus manufacturer warranties on everything we supply, collected in a care folder at handover. We return at twelve months to check grout, sealant and glass hardware.
Roughly forty minutes from the Riverside Mill studio: Asheville, Biltmore Forest, Black Mountain, Weaverville, Hendersonville and Flat Rock. Beyond that the drive starts eating the schedule and we would rather refer you to someone closer.
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Still not answered?
Call the studio and describe the room. We would rather spend ten minutes on the phone than have you plan around a guess.

Next step
Tell us about the room
Send us a photograph and the rough dimensions. We will come back with an honest budget range before anyone books a visit.
Free measured survey · Fixed written proposal · Bathrooms only