Quality Remodeling Services in Marana
Think about your first ten minutes awake in a Marana house. You reach for a light switch the builder put in the wrong place. You work around a cultured-marble vanity with one usable drawer. You step over the lip of an alcove tub to reach a shower behind tracked glass doors. None of it is broken. All of it is friction, and you meet it twice a day.
That is the case for remodeling a bathroom in a Marana house that is otherwise in good shape. These are not failing rooms. They are rooms that were laid out on a floor plan by someone who was never going to live in them, finished in whatever the builder had contracted that year, and handed over.
The primary bath is where most of it shows. A garden tub nobody has filled in six years eating floor area the shower needed. A water closet sized to code and nothing more. A double vanity that is technically double and practically one. Reworking that footprint is usually a better project than making the same layout prettier.
We build custom showers as a matter of course. Frameless glass, proper waterproofing under the tile, benches and niches placed where you will actually reach them, and tub-to-shower conversions when the tub has stopped earning its space. If accessibility is part of the picture, we do that as high-end aesthetic aging-in-place work, which means a curbless entry and concealed blocking rather than anything that looks clinical.
Frei is a design-build firm, three generations of one family, working in Southern Arizona since 1962 under AZ ROC 253812. Design and construction are the same team, so the tile layout and the plumbing rough-in are settled together instead of discovered in sequence.
Marana households tend to be families in the middle of things, close to Marana Unified School District campuses and running full schedules. So we care about the disruption as much as the design. We seal the work area, protect the route the crew walks, and sequence the trades so a family bathroom is not out of service longer than the work requires.
You will see CompanyCam photos every day. Waterproofing and blocking get buried behind tile, and a daily photo record is how you know they were done right. The craftsmanship warranty is five years with a six-month check-in, and we finish on schedule 98 percent of the time.
If the bath is one piece of something larger, we can carry it into a kitchen remodel or a home addition on the same plan.
Walk us through your bathroom in Marana and tell us how the morning actually goes. That is usually where the design starts.
Our Marana Remodeling Services
Whole Home Remodeling
When one room no longer fits the way you live, a whole-home remodel brings the entire house back into rhythm. We design and build it under one roof, so your kitchen, baths, and living spaces finally feel like one home again.
Kitchen Remodeling
After years of cooking, gathering, and running the household, a kitchen earns the right to be reimagined. We craft kitchens that work the way your family actually moves, with honest pricing and daily photo updates so nothing about the process feels like a mystery.
Bathroom Remodeling
Step into a bathroom built for the way you start and end each day. We blend comfort and function, from heated tile floors to frameless glass, and treat the space like the private retreat it should be.
Home Additions
Sometimes the home you love just needs more of itself. We design and build additions that match your existing house so seamlessly that guests cannot tell where the original ends and the new begins.
Remodeling Design
Every great remodel starts with a plan you can see before a single wall moves. Our design-build approach keeps design and construction on one team, which means fewer change orders, fewer surprises, and a finished space that matches what you pictured.
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Three Generations Since 1962
Frei has been a family-owned, design-build remodeler in Southern Arizona for more than 60 years, passed from grandfather to dad to Joe. That continuity shows up in how we treat your home and your timeline.
Design and Build Under One Roof
Because we design and build with one team, there are fewer change orders and fewer surprises. You also get daily CompanyCam photo updates, so you always know exactly what is happening at your home.
Backed by a 5-Year Warranty
We stand behind our craftsmanship with a 5-year warranty and a 6-month check-in to catch anything that needs attention. Our 98% on-time completion rate means we respect your schedule as much as your home.
Serving Marana and Surrounding Areas
Proudly serving Marana, AZ and the wider 30 mile radius.
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Our History in Marana
Marana grew outward across farmland rather than upward through an old core, and the residential building that defines the town today happened mostly from the late 1990s on. That gives the bathrooms here a fairly consistent profile. Plumbing runs are modern and predictable, the framing is straight, and the ventilation was at least specified to code.
What dates them is the fixture and finish package. Builder-grade shower pans with tracked glass doors. Alcove tubs installed because the plan called for a tub. Vanity tops in cultured marble. Tile set with minimal waterproofing behind it, which is the one place where age genuinely becomes a structural question rather than a taste question.
Shower waterproofing standards have moved considerably since these houses were built, which is not a knock on the original builders so much as a fact about the decade. It does mean we assume nothing about the substrate until the tile is off the wall, and we would rather tell you that up front than surprise you with it on day three. Homes near Dove Mountain STEM School and Marana High School sit squarely in this age range.
The upside is predictability. In a 1970s Catalina Foothills house we expect to find undersized supply lines and cast iron waste. In a Marana house from 2004 the supply is PEX or copper sized to modern fixture counts and the vent stack is where the plan says. More of the budget goes into the tile, the glass, and the fixtures you will actually use, and less disappears into correcting what came before.
Frequently Asked Questions - Marana Remodeling
Should I keep the garden tub in my primary bath?
It depends entirely on whether you use it. In a lot of Marana primary baths the tub is the least-used fixture and the largest footprint. Converting that space into a larger custom shower is one of the most common changes we make, and one of the most appreciated.
What do you usually find behind the tile?
Waterproofing built to the standards of that decade rather than to today’s. We plan for the possibility rather than assuming it, and we inspect the substrate as soon as demolition opens the wall, so any repair gets priced and scheduled instead of sprung on you.
How long will my family be down a bathroom?
We sequence the work to keep the disruption tight and, where the house allows, keep another bathroom in service throughout. You get a real schedule before construction starts, and Frei hits it 98 percent of the time.
Do you do accessible bathrooms in Marana?
Yes. Curbless showers, comfort-height fixtures, blocking set behind the tile for future bars, and lighting designed for aging eyes. We build it as high-end aesthetic work so the room still looks like the nicest bathroom in the house.
Can you match the new bathroom to the rest of the house?
That is part of the design phase. We look at the finishes already in the house so the bathroom reads as part of it, and if the plan later grows into other rooms the palette is already coherent.