Bathroom remodeling in Litchfield Park, AZ

Litchfield Park started in the 1910s as a company town for cotton farming, and the Wigwam resort grew out of that early period. The community stayed small and became an incorporated city in the 1980s. Its center has palm-lined and tree-shaded streets with ranch homes from the middle decades of the last century, plus custom houses along the golf courses. Subdivisions from the 1990s and later surround that core, and several carry a Litchfield Park mailing address without being inside the city.

The two groups of houses have very different bathrooms. In the older ranch homes, baths are small and few, with a tub against one wall, tile set in a thick mortar bed and a vanity barely wider than the sink. Plumbing and wiring date from the same era and are usually renewed during a remodel. Newer subdivision homes have the opposite problem: plenty of floor area, spent on a big tub deck and a small shower, finished in builder materials.

Inside the city limits, the City of Litchfield Park handles building permits. A Litchfield Park mailing address does not settle the question, though. Much of Palm Valley belongs to the City of Goodyear, and other nearby subdivisions are in unincorporated Maricopa County, so the permit office differs by location. In any of them, new plumbing routes, electrical additions and wall changes normally need a permit, while replacing finishes in kind often does not. The jurisdiction and the requirement are both confirmed before a project is set.