Bathroom remodelers across Tarrant County and the wider Dallas-Fort Worth market post their package prices and project bands openly. This page gathers what they publish for the scopes an Arlington homeowner actually buys, beside the city permit fees and metro trade wages underneath them. Nothing here is a quote.
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Or call (682) 628-2026The schedule adopted by Resolution 25-258 and effective October 1, 2025 sets a $325 floor for additions, alterations, remodels and repairs. A residential building permit covers the building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing fees for the project rather than billing each trade separately.
City of Arlington Planning and Development Services fee schedule
Non-refundable and charged when plans are submitted, which on the $325 minimum adds $113.75 before an inspector has seen anything. Starting work without the permit carries its own charge, and a revision to an issued permit is $100.
Texas requires a Responsible Master Plumber behind the plumbing work, with commercial general liability coverage of at least $300,000. Renewal runs $300. That overhead is inside the plumbing line of a bathroom bid, whether or not it is broken out.
May 2025 median across 11,980 plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters in the metro. Tile and stone setters in the same metro sit at $23.04, and a gut bathroom needs several days of both.
Every range below is what companies working in Arlington publish for that job, gathered from the numbered price pages under the table. It spans what several of them show, so the figures move with the specifics of the property and with who does the work. Nothing here is a quote, and no business has set a price on this page. A real number comes from whoever looks at the job.
| The job | Range seen | Billed as | What moves it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tub pulled out, walk-in shower put in its place | $6,000–$15,0001234 | flat, wet area only | A basic acrylic base and tiled walls sit at the bottom. Frameless glass, a bench and a curbless entry take it to the top. |
| Hall bath refreshed without moving anything | $8,000–$20,0001456 | flat, same layout | Vanity, toilet, floor tile, paint and light fixtures. The plumbing stays where it is, which is what keeps it in this band. |
| Powder room, no tub or shower involved | $4,000–$9,00036 | flat | The smallest real bathroom job in the city, and the one where a single wall of feature tile changes the total most. |
| Hall bath taken to the studs and rebuilt | $15,000–$45,0003467 | flat, full gut | Arlington houses at the 1984 median year built often reveal galvanized drains or a rotted subfloor once tile comes up. |
| Primary bathroom, gutted and reconfigured | $15,000–$58,5001236 | flat, full gut | Double vanity, separate shower and tub, and relocated supply and waste lines. Layout changes are the expensive part. |
| Custom tiled shower on its own, glass included | $8,000–$24,50026 | flat, shower assembly only | A curb removed and the floor sloped to a linear drain is the single change that moves this line the most. |
| High-end or luxury bathroom, no compromises | $45,000–$95,000345 | flat, full gut with premium materials | Stone slab walls, heated floors, steam and custom cabinetry. Long material lead times stretch the schedule as much as the budget. |
Prices each of these companies publishes on its own site, read on the date shown in each listing. A published price can change without notice, so treat a number here as what was posted rather than what you will be told today.
Ask why one bathroom bid came in at eleven thousand dollars and the neighbor's at forty, and the answer is almost never the finishes. It is scope.
The first decision is whether plumbing moves. Leaving the toilet flange, tub drain and vanity supplies where they are keeps a job in the refresh band. Moving a drain means opening the floor, and on an Arlington slab-on-grade house that means breaking and repouring concrete. That one change separates the second row of the table from the fourth.
Second: whether the room comes apart to the studs. A refresh replaces what is visible; a gut replaces substrate, waterproofing and often supply piping, the only version that fixes what cannot be seen. With a 1984 median year built and over sixty-five percent of the stock predating 1990, Arlington bathrooms open up on galvanized branch lines, undersized vents, spent mortar-bed pans and subfloor that has been wet for years.
The third is the shower. An acrylic base with tiled walls, a tiled curbed pan, and a curbless pan sloped to a linear drain are three different builds, priced roughly ten thousand dollars apart from bottom to top in this metro. Curbless is the most expensive small decision in a bathroom.
The City of Arlington Planning and Development Services fee schedule, adopted by Resolution 25-258 and effective October 1, 2025, sets a $325 minimum for an alteration, remodel or repair, with plan review a separate non-refundable 35 percent of the permit fee. The floor on a permitted bathroom is therefore $325 plus $113.75, or $438.75, before an inspector arrives. A revision to an issued permit is $100, and starting work first carries its own charge.
On a residential project that one permit fee includes the building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing fees rather than billing each trade separately, so it does not multiply by four. Sequencing matters more than the money. An inspection request made after 7 a.m. is scheduled for the following business day, so the job runs demolition, rough-in, inspection, then waterproofing, tile and fixtures. A crew that tiles over uninspected rough-in either opens it back up or fails.
Plumbers across the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro had a median wage of $29.45 an hour in May 2025, and tile and stone setters $23.04, per the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. A gut bathroom needs several days of each, plus a carpenter, an electrician, a drywall finisher and a painter, all sequenced around inspections. Texas also requires a Responsible Master Plumber carrying at least $300,000 of commercial general liability coverage behind the plumbing. Trade labor is roughly half of a Tarrant County bathroom budget, which is why two bids with identical material lists differ by ten thousand dollars.
Two of them. The first is the flat package figure that reads all-in but excludes fixtures, tile or the vanity, leaving a five to eight thousand dollar selections bill after signing. Ask which of fixtures, tile, vanity, glass and lighting are included, at what allowance. The second is the tub-to-shower conversion sold as a one-day job. A same-day acrylic wall system is a legitimate product at the bottom of that row, but it is not a tiled shower.
Published bands assume a bathroom that stays where it is, sized as it is, with sound subfloor and framing. They exclude permit and plan review, structural repair found at demolition, replacing galvanized pipe back to the main, and a circuit for a heated floor. They also leave out asbestos or lead work in an older house, somewhere to shower while the only bathroom is out, and the lead time on a stone slab that keeps a finished room unusable.
Start with an Arlington bathroom visit and a scope that is specific enough to build. You should know what is being removed, what is being installed, how permit-related work fits the sequence, what the written price includes, and what finish date the plan is working toward before construction begins.
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