Contractor to Re-tile a bathroom

[taipeitigers.livejournal.com]

Does anyone have any suggestion on finding a contractor to retile a bathroom?  
If you have hired someone to do it before, can you tell me how much it cost roughly?   How long did it take?  I only have one bathroom so I am worried that I cannot use it when the work is on-going.
Thanks. 

Comments

[smoterh.livejournal.com]

Are you talking only about floors or walls as well? If you're only talking about floor, the tile could be removed and placed in 1 day (average size bathroom) and then left overnight to cure and grouted the next day. You're technically not supposed to step on the tiles while they cure, buuuuuuutttt, you could get away with it and spend the night in your own house.

If you want your wall tile replaced, it is possible that the wall behind it needs to be replaced, or covered with another layer, depending on how cleanly the tiles come of. The mastic could be scraped off as well, but that can take a lot of time as well.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Sergio in Medford! http://www.yelp.com/biz/sergios-renovations-medford (lots of good recs on Angie's List too)

We called him in a panic a couple days before Thanksgiving one year because our shower had failed. So this was largely plumbing, but in order to make it work he had to take down all the tile on one wall. And then he put it back -- our bathroom is old and he couldn't find any matching tile and he didn't want us to have a weird-looking wall so he (well, the guy working for him, technically) did the demolition part without breaking a single tile, and put them back better than they'd started. And this all took around 24 hours, despite the holiday week. And then we could take showers again, yay!

I no longer remember the cost, sorry.

tl;dr Sergio is the man.