A: Yes, the walls will have to come down to get the old tubs out. If you have ever seen a house under construction, you will notice that the tubs are installed right after the walls are framed in, so the wallboard and everything else required to finish a house is put up after that step. In fact, because the doors were added after the walls and tubs, you may have to remove entire door jambs and even some wallboard to get the tubs outside if they are very big.

And though I can understand why you might prefer to have only one bathroom out of commission at a time, it would still be advisable to do both bathrooms at once - not only is it more efficient for the plumbers to work on the common plumbing at the same time, but no one wants to live in the disruption of a remodeling project longer or more often than necessary, no matter how wonderful your contractors may be.

Moving a toilet more than two inches requires a major plumbing change. It's the hole underneath that is the big deal, not the pipes in the wall. It will cost about $500 to move each toilet from its original spot in a wooden subfloor, in addition to any other remodeling or flooring changes that occur in your project. It would cost about $800 for a toilet set in a concrete slab, which would be more common on a ground floor.

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by Kathy Maynard, reprinted courtesy of HomeAdvisor.com