By Vasile Teterea, Owner and CEO, Firm Remodeling LLC | LIC #: FIRMRRL783PU | Serving Issaquah, Sammamish, Newcastle, Renton, Kent, Covington, Hobart, and Maple Valley, WA We put in the same shower enclosures all over Issaquah. Same glass, same hardware, same guy installing it. Come back two years later and half of them look like … Issaquah Water and Your New Shower Glass: What Local Mineral Content Does to a Finished Bathroom
By Vasile Teterea, Owner and CEO, Firm Remodeling LLC | LIC #: FIRMRRL783PU | Serving Issaquah, Sammamish, Newcastle, Renton, Kent, Covington, Hobart, and Maple Valley, WA The first question I ask on a Mirrormont bathroom job has nothing to do with tile. It is whether the house is on septic, and if it is, whether … Squak Mountain and Mirrormont Bathroom Remodels: Septic Capacity, Steep Driveways, and What Changes
By Vasile Teterea, Owner and CEO, Firm Remodeling LLC | WA Contractor License #FIRMRRL783PU | Published August 6, 2026 | Based at 26424 233rd Ave SE, Maple Valley, WA 98038 Short version, because most people reading this are trying to settle an argument with a spouse or a contractor: in Maple Valley you need a … Maple Valley remodel permits: what needs one, what doesn’t, and how long the city actually takes
By Vasile Teterea, Owner and CEO, Firm Remodeling LLC. Washington Contractor License #FIRMRRL783PU. Serving Kent, Maple Valley, Covington, Renton, Black Diamond, Ravensdale, Hobart, Issaquah, Enumclaw, Auburn, and Federal Way, WA. Published August 2, 2026. A curbless shower is the most requested thing in our bathroom work right now, and it is also the one request … Curbless Showers in Kent Homes: When the Floor Joists Say No
By Vasile Teterea, Owner and CEO, Firm Remodeling LLC. Washington Contractor License #FIRMRRL783PU. Serving Kent, Maple Valley, Covington, Renton, Black Diamond, Ravensdale, Hobart, Issaquah, Enumclaw, Auburn, and Federal Way, WA. Published August 2, 2026. Every November I get the same call from somewhere on the East Hill. The mirror won’t clear. There’s black spotting in … Bathroom Ventilation in Kent’s Climate: The Fan Sizing We Use and Why 50 CFM Isn’t Enough
By Vasile Teterea, Owner and CEO, Firm Remodeling LLC | LIC #: FIRMRRL783PU | Serving Issaquah, Sammamish, Newcastle, Renton, Kent, Covington, and Maple Valley, WA Putting heat under the tile in an Issaquah bathroom usually adds somewhere between $1,200 and $2,600 to the job, and runs about $6 to $12 a month across a Puget … Heated Tile Floors in Issaquah Bathrooms: Cost, Comfort, and Whether It’s Worth It
By Vasile Teterea, Owner and CEO, Firm Remodeling LLC. WA Contractor License #FIRMRRL783PU. Published July 20, 2026. A few times a year I get the same phone call. Someone in Kent just listed their house, the appraiser walked the basement, and the “4-bedroom” they’ve been paying taxes on came back as a 3-bedroom. Or they’re … Can You Legally Call a Basement Room a Bedroom in Kent? What the Permit Office Checks
Almost everyone who hires us plans to keep living in the house while we work. That’s completely normal — on most of our Kent projects, the family stays put and works around the crew. And it can be done without misery. But there’s a catch: the households that come through it relaxed are the ones … How to Survive a Kent Home Remodel Without Losing Your Mind
The showers that fail in two years almost never fail at the tile. They fail underneath it, at the pan and the waterproofing, the parts you stop being able to see the day the tile goes on. A curbless shower raises the stakes, because there is no curb holding the water in. We build a … How We Waterproof a Curbless Walk-In Shower So It Doesn’t Leak in Two Years
Out of every bathroom project we get called for in Covington, this is the one that comes up most. Someone has a tub in the main bathroom or the guest bath, nobody has actually taken a bath in it for years, and it just sits there taking up space and holding a ring that will … Tub-to-Shower Conversions in Covington, WA: Why It’s Our Most-Requested Bathroom Project
