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What we do

The part of a bathroom you never see is the part that fails

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Tile is the easy bit. What decides whether a bathroom is still sound in fifteen years is what happens behind it, and that is the work nobody photographs.

A shower opened to the studs, membrane not yet set

01

What's included

  • Design, drawings and a full selections schedule.

  • Demolition back to structure, and repair of whatever is found there.

  • Full waterproofing system, installed as a system rather than as products.

  • Plumbing and electrical alterations, permitted and inspected.

  • Tiling, joinery, glazing, fittings and decoration.

  • Mechanical ventilation that vents outside the building.

Fig. 01 — Waterproofing tested and held before tile
Fig. 02 — Supply and waste reset to the new fixture positions
Fig. 03 — Tile setting out, from the datum line up
02

What the work involves

Fig. 04 — The membrane, the flood test, and the water still standing

A bathroom is a waterproofing job with tile on top. Membrane, pre-slope, drain assembly, corners and penetrations all have to be one continuous system by one manufacturer, installed to that manufacturer's detail — mixing brands voids every warranty involved and is the most common failure we are called to fix.

We flood-test every shower pan before tiling and photograph it. It costs a day and it is the cheapest insurance on the job.

Fig. 05 — What was behind the old tile once it came off

Bathrooms in older Houston houses have usually leaked slowly for years. Rotten subfloor, corroded supply lines, and joists notched through by a previous plumber are all normal findings rather than surprises.

We assume some remediation and carry it as a named allowance, so finding it is a scheduled event rather than a difficult conversation.

Fig. 06 — Extract ducted to outside air, not into the roof

An extractor that terminates in a roof void is not ventilation; it is a way of moving the moisture problem somewhere you cannot see it. Every bathroom we do vents to outside air with a fan sized to the room.

03

What drives the cost

How long it takes

Four to eight weeks on site

Plus six to twelve weeks of design and preconstruction. Tile and fittings are ordered before the start date; a bathroom waiting on a tile delivery is a bathroom you cannot use.

A bathroom we take on generally lands between $45,000 and $140,000. Below that it is a refit rather than a renovation, and a specialist will serve you better than we will.

Remediation behind the tile
$3,000 – $25,000

Subfloor, joists and supply lines. Carried as an allowance because it is normal, not exceptional.

Waterproofing and substrate
$4,000 – $14,000

A full system to one manufacturer's detail, flood-tested and recorded.

Tiling
$8,000 – $50,000

Driven by material, format and pattern. Large-format and book-matched stone are labour, not just material.

Fittings and glazing
$6,000 – $40,000

Frameless glass to a stone threshold costs several times a standard enclosure.

Moving drainage
$2,500 – $18,000

Cheap in a pier-and-beam house, expensive through a slab.

04

How it runs

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We open the wet wall and find out what has been happening behind it.

  2. 02

    Design

    Layout, drainage positions and every selection.

  3. 03

    Preconstruction

    Estimate, permit, tile and fittings ordered, schedule fixed.

  4. 04

    Construction

    Four to eight weeks, with a flood test before any tile goes down.

  5. 05

    Handover

    Punch list, warranty, and the flood-test record in your close-out pack.

05

Living through it

If it is the only bathroom, this is genuinely disruptive and we will say so before you sign. Four to eight weeks without a bathroom is not something to discover in week two.

Where there is a second bathroom, most clients stay comfortably. The work area is sealed, and water is only off for short scheduled periods.

Dust from tile cutting is the worst of any room we work in. Cutting happens outside wherever the weather allows.

Fig. 07 — The second bathroom, and what a household of four does without
Fig. 08 — Protection on the landing and the stair run
Fig. 09 — Water off, and the notice that said which days

Work like this

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Houston Heights
1924 bungalow, taken back to the studs

The things people worry about

  1. 01What happens when something is wrong behind a wall
  2. 02Can we stay in the house?
  3. 03The full process

Common questions

That it is one system from one manufacturer, installed to that manufacturer's published details, and that we flood-test and photograph it before tiling. Most failures we are called to are not bad products. They are a membrane from one brand, a drain from another and a corner detail improvised on site, which no warranty covers.

In a pier-and-beam house, usually and affordably. Under a slab, it means breaking and repouring concrete, and the cost goes up several times. We establish which you have in discovery, because it changes what layouts are worth drawing.

Tell us about the bathroom

A walkthrough, an honest range, and a straight answer about what is likely behind the tile.

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