Bathroom Remodeling in Ridgewood, NJ

Ridgewood is a Bergen County village of about 26,000 residents, and its housing is some of the oldest in the county — the median home was built in 1950, and roughly three in four homes went up before 1960. Those pre-war colonials, Tudors, and Victorians have the architecture people move to Ridgewood for, but their bathrooms were designed for a different era: smaller rooms, dated tile, and plumbing that has been working for seventy years or more. A well-planned remodel brings the bathroom up to the standard of the house around it. 3sixty Renovate handles full bathroom remodels in Ridgewood, from the first consultation to the final walkthrough.

Bathroom Services in Ridgewood

Every Ridgewood project is different, but most bathroom remodeling in Ridgewood, NJ falls into one of these categories:

• Full bathroom remodels — a complete renovation of the room: demolition, plumbing and electrical updates as needed, waterproofing, tile, fixtures, and finishes, rebuilt in the right order.

• Tub-to-shower conversions — replacing a hard-to-step-over tub with a walk-in shower, one of the most requested upgrades in Ridgewood’s older homes.

• Walk-in showers — custom tiled showers with proper waterproofing, niches, benches, and glass, from compact hall baths to generous primary suites.

• Tile and waterproofing — shower walls, floors, and surrounds installed over modern waterproofing systems, so the beauty on the surface is backed by what matters underneath.

• Flooring installation — bathroom flooring that can handle daily water and humidity, installed as part of a remodel or on its own.

You can see recent bathroom remodels by 3sixty Renovate in our project gallery, and when you're ready to talk about your own bathroom, request a free quote.

Our Work and What Homeowners Say

3sixty Renovate has been in business since 2017, remodeling bathrooms across New Jersey and Westchester County, NY. The photos in our gallery are our own recent projects — full renovations, walk-in showers, and tub-to-shower conversions — so you can see the standard of finish we bring to a Ridgewood home.

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“He did a beautiful job for my tub to shower renovation work. They were easy to work with and did excellent work! i definitely recommend working with them. the experience was great!!!!”

— JleMoH, Google review

“We appreciated their honesty and transparency throughout our project. Great quality and dependable service.”

— Andronic, Google review

“Amazing renovation experience from consultation to completion.”

— Mdharun, Google review

Bathroom Remodeling in Ridgewood: Local Guidance

Permits in Ridgewood.

Construction permits in Ridgewood are issued by the Village of Ridgewood Building Department (Village Hall, 131 North Maple Avenue), which enforces the New Jersey Uniform Construction Code and local zoning, and runs the building, electrical, and plumbing subcode inspections. You can read about the department on the village's official website: Village of Ridgewood Building Department and its Inspections page.

The village's own guidance is a useful rule of thumb: interior work in one- and two-family homes sometimes requires a permit, and new plumbing or electrical work, adding a bathroom where none exists, or rearranging the configuration of existing spaces does require one. Surface-level work that doesn't touch plumbing, electrical, or structure — painting, like-for-like fixture swaps, finishes — is generally treated as ordinary maintenance under the state code and usually doesn't require a permit. Permitted work is inspected as it progresses — typically a rough inspection while walls are open, before anything is closed in — and a final inspection is required for each subcode a permit was issued under. A tub-to-shower conversion, for example, often involves drain and supply adjustments, so it frequently lands on the permitted side of the line.

Because the specifics are confirmed per project, permits are part of the conversation from the start: our quote form asks whether you expect permits to be pulled — and “Not sure” is a perfectly good answer. We'll walk through what your project requires before work begins.

One Ridgewood-specific note: bathroom remodels are interior work, so they normally don't trigger the village's Historic Preservation Commission review, which covers exterior changes visible from a public street. If your plans ever extend to something visible from outside — a new window, venting, an addition — it's worth a quick check with the Building Department before you start.

What Ridgewood's housing stock means for your bathroom.

According to U.S. Census Bureau data, the median Ridgewood home was built in 1950, about 38% of homes date to before 1940, and about three-quarters were built before 1960; roughly four in five are single-family detached houses. Many are pre-war styles — Dutch colonials, Tudors, Queen Anne Victorians, and Colonial Revivals — along with post-war homes. In practice, that shapes almost every bathroom renovation in Ridgewood, NJ:

• Aging plumbing behind the walls. Homes of this era commonly still have cast-iron drain lines and galvanized supply piping, which corrode from the inside over decades. A full remodel opens the walls once — the right moment to inspect those lines and replace what's failing before new tile closes everything back in.

• Bathrooms sized for another era. Pre-war homes were often built with one modest hall bathroom for the whole upper floor. Thoughtful layout work, a walk-in shower in place of a bulky tub, and well-chosen tile can make the same footprint work far better for a modern household.

• Room to do more in the larger homes. Many Ridgewood houses are generously sized, and their primary bathrooms have the square footage for double vanities, a separate soaking tub and shower, and heated floors — the kind of primary suite the rest of the house deserves.

• Heavier demolition. Original bathrooms in pre-war construction can mean plaster walls and tile set in thick mortar beds, which makes demolition slower, heavier work than in newer builds — worth planning into the schedule rather than discovering mid-project.

• Homes built before 1978 can contain lead-based paint, so renovation work in older Ridgewood homes calls for lead-safe work practices during demolition and surface prep.

None of this is a reason to avoid remodeling an older Ridgewood home — it's a reason to hire a remodeler who expects it and plans for it.