We remodel bathrooms in the Star City.
We're a bathroom remodeling contractor based in Roanoke, Virginia. We work throughout the city and the surrounding valley — Salem, Vinton, Hollins, Cave Spring, and the New River Valley communities to the southwest.
Roanoke grew up around the Norfolk and Western Railway. When the N&W moved its machine shops here in 1882, a village of 600 people became a boomtown almost overnight. The city built thousands of houses in a compressed window — craftsman bungalows, brick foursquares, Victorian workers' homes — and those houses are still standing in Old Southwest, Grandin Village, Wasena, and Norwich. They were built well. Their bathrooms, however, were designed for a different era entirely.
The postwar decades added another layer: ranches and capes on the north and west sides of the city, split-levels in Cave Spring and southwestern Roanoke County. Good construction, dated bathrooms. That's the pattern across most of Roanoke's housing stock — solid bones, a bathroom that hasn't kept pace.
How We Work
We run one crew. You work with us directly — not a salesperson who disappears after the contract is signed. When you call the number on this site, you're talking to the people who will do your work.
We give honest assessments. If your bathroom needs a full gut, we'll tell you. If it needs a vanity swap and new fixtures, we'll tell you that instead — and we won't try to upsell you into a larger project. We've been in enough Roanoke bathrooms to read them quickly, and we tell people what we see.
Bathrooms are small rooms with a lot happening in them. Plumbing, electrical, waterproofing, tile, fixtures, ventilation — all of it in a few square feet. Getting it right requires attention to the order of operations, correct substrate preparation under tile, and proper waterproofing before anything permanent goes in. Shortcuts in a bathroom show up fast, and they're expensive to fix. We don't take them.
What We Know About Roanoke's Bathrooms
Every era of Roanoke's housing has its own bathroom characteristics. Railroad-era homes in Old Southwest and Grandin Village often have a single bathroom — small, original plumbing, tile over lath and plaster rather than modern cement board. The postwar ranches and capes have one main bath plus a half bath, usually tiled in the colors fashionable in 1955 or 1962. Cave Spring split-levels have bathrooms built to a builder standard that felt fine in 1971 and looks dated now.
We've worked in all of it. We know what to expect before we open the walls, and we know how to handle what we find when the situation is more complicated than the surface suggested.
Licensed and Insured in Virginia
Roanoke Bathroom Remodeling is a licensed contractor in the Commonwealth of Virginia. We carry full liability insurance and workers' compensation on every job.