Bathroom Remodeling in Newark, NJ

Bathroom Remodeling in Newark

Bathroom renovations in Newark uncover the same hidden problems across every neighborhood. In the Ironbound's row houses, original bathrooms from the early 1900s have cast-iron drain stacks so corroded they're held together by the plaster around them, galvanized supply lines with internal scale that reduces water pressure to a trickle, and hex-tile floors over a failed mud bed that lets water seep to the unit below. In Forest Hill and the North Ward, multi-family homes from the 1920s and 1930s have bathrooms with walls plastered directly over wood lath — no moisture barrier, no cement board, just wet plaster slowly degrading the framing behind it.

Our Newark bathroom team handles full gut renovations in these challenging older buildings. We demolish to the studs, replace all drain, waste, vent, and supply piping, install a continuous waterproof membrane behind every tiled surface, and add exhaust ventilation vented to the exterior — not into the attic or a shared ceiling cavity, which is a code violation we find in roughly half of Newark's older multi-family bathrooms. For tub-to-shower conversions, we reinforce the subfloor for a shower pan or linear drain and install grab bars anchored into blocking for safety.

Bathroom remodeling in Newark requires plumbing and electrical permits through the Department of Engineering. In multi-family buildings, fire-rated assembly requirements apply to any shared wall or floor-ceiling assembly that's opened during renovation.