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Unilock Bathroom Remodeling: The Sacramento Owner’s Guide
Unilock bathroom remodeling in Sacramento typically runs $9,000 to $28,000 installed, depending on the size of the space, the pavers or wall units you choose, and how much waterproofing the existing floor needs before new material goes down. Most owners call us after a pan leaks or a few pavers crack and shift in front of the vanity, and they want to know whether the rest of the floor is worth saving. The honest answer is usually yes, with the right substrate work underneath it.
We stock Unilock-compatible pavers, wall caps, and edge restraints for bathroom floors and walk-in shower surrounds, and we can match most current Unilock paver lines and their dimensional specs without a special order. If you have a failed paver or a shifting section in a bathroom that uses Unilock products, call (279) 300-1177 and we’ll tell you over the phone whether it’s a quick reset or a full pull-and-rebed. We’re an independent Sacramento remodeling contractor, not a Unilock dealer, so the number you get from us reflects labor and materials here in the Sacramento market, not a national price sheet.
Which Unilock Models This Applies To
Unilock’s paver and wall systems show up in Sacramento bathrooms most often as thin-set or pedestal-set pavers on a mud bed, or as modular wall units around a freestanding tub or shower bench. The paver lines we see most in bathrooms are the smaller-format products, typically 6×6 or 6×9 units with a surface texture rated for wet areas. Unilock’s dimensional specs matter here: a driveway paver is too thick and too coarse for a bathroom floor, and a wall cap unit is not rated for foot traffic over a damp substrate.
The way to identify what you have is to look at the bottom of a loose paver for a molded code, or check the original order paperwork for the series name. Unilock changes pigment batches between production runs, so even a correct model number can show slight color drift from the original run. For bathroom floors, we generally recommend OEM Unilock units when the rest of the floor is in good shape and you only need a patch match. If the whole floor has failed, a quality aftermarket paver with the same dimensional footprint and a wet-rated surface can save you 15 to 20 percent on materials, and we’ll show you both numbers before you decide.
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Signs Your Unilock Bathroom Remodeling Is Failing
- Pavers rocking or clicking underfoot. The sand or mortar bed beneath the paver has eroded or broken down, usually from water working its way through a cracked grout line or a failed seal at the shower threshold.
- Dark staining around the toilet flange or tub base. Water is pooling under the pavers and wicking up through the joints. This means the waterproof membrane under the setting bed has a breach, not just a surface stain.
- A hollow sound when you tap a paver with a screwdriver handle. The paver has de-bonded from its mortar bed. One or two hollow spots can be spot-rebed; a whole field that sounds hollow means the bed itself is failing.
- Efflorescence, the white chalky film, appearing in one area only. Mineral salts are being drawn up through the pavers in that spot, which tells you moisture is moving through the bed right there, and it’s not drying out.
- Cracks running through multiple pavers in a straight line. The substrate under the setting bed has moved, usually a hairline crack in the slab or a rotted section of subfloor. Patching the pavers alone won’t fix it, the movement will just crack the replacements.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
A full Unilock bathroom remodel in Sacramento runs $9,000 to $28,000. A partial repair, like pulling and rebedding a 20-square-foot section of failed pavers, typically lands between $1,800 and $4,500 depending on what we find when the pavers come up. What drives the range on a full remodel is the condition of the subfloor and waterproofing, the paver line you choose, and whether you’re also doing a walk-in shower surround or a tub-to-shower conversion in the same space.
Every quote we write includes the pavers, the setting bed material, the waterproof membrane, grout or joint sand, edge restraints, and disposal of the old material. Nothing about the labor is hidden in a separate line you discover later. The price we put in writing before we start is the price on the final invoice, and it’s covered by our 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the work fails inside a year, we come back and fix it at no charge. That’s in writing, on every bathroom job.
DIY or Call Us?
You can safely check a few things yourself: whether a paver rocks, whether the grout lines are cracked, whether you can see water staining at the base of the tub. What you shouldn’t do is start prying up pavers to see what’s underneath. Bathroom paver floors in Sacramento are often set over a waterproof membrane, and one wrong pry bar can tear that membrane in a place you can’t see, turning a $400 repair into a $4,000 water-damage job.
If you’ve got one or two loose pavers and you’re handy, you can reset them with a polymer-modified thinset rated for wet areas. But if you see the same paver lifting again six weeks later, or the staining is spreading, the problem is under the bed, not on top of it. That’s when you call us at (279) 300-1177. We’ll send a background-checked, uniformed technician to look at it, give you a written price for the repair, and tell you straight whether you need a patch or a full pull-and-rebed.
FAQs
A properly installed Unilock paver bathroom floor over a sound waterproof membrane should last 25 to 30 years in Sacramento’s climate, with the pavers themselves outlasting the setting bed. What shortens that lifespan here is Sacramento’s dry-summer, wet-winter swing: the slab under the pavers expands and contracts with moisture, and any small waterproofing breach lets that movement work on the setting bed year after year. Call (279) 300-1177 if your floor is under 15 years old and already failing, something underneath is moving.
Yes, in most cases we can pull the failed pavers, repair or replace the setting bed in that section, and rebed new or salvaged pavers to match the surrounding floor, as long as the waterproof membrane underneath is intact. We’ll know within the first hour of pulling the pavers whether the repair will hold or whether the failure is widespread. Estimates are free, and the written price covers the repair and a one-year guarantee on the work.
A partial paver repair is usually done in one day. A full bathroom remodel with Unilock pavers, waterproofing, and a new shower surround typically takes two to three weeks from demo to final grout, depending on the size of the room and whether we’re moving plumbing. We’ll give you a written schedule with your written price, and we show up in the window we gave you, not sometime the following week.
We stock common Unilock paver sizes and colors on the truck for repair work, including the smaller-format units used in bathroom floors. If your exact color lot isn’t on the truck, we can order OEM Unilock units from a Sacramento supplier, usually within three to five business days. We’ll tell you before we start whether stock or a special order gets the best color match for your floor.
Need a straight answer on your Unilock bathroom floor? Call Trevor and the team at Penhallow Remodeling Sacramento at (279) 300-1177 for a free estimate. We’ll tell you what it costs, what it takes, and what happens if it fails again, and put all of it in writing before any pavers come up.
Written by Trevor Nash, Owner, Penhallow Remodeling Sacramento at Penhallow Remodeling Sacramento, serving Sacramento and nearby areas.
