Bathroom renovations in Kitchener
We build bathroom renovations across Kitchener with walk-in showers, freestanding tubs, heated floors, and premium tile, from a compact family bath in Forest Heights to a full ensuite in Doon. Every wet wall gets a real waterproofing membrane, not a board that only resists moisture: cement board holds up to incidental water far better than drywall, but it still lets water reach the framing behind it without a membrane installed over or behind the board. Regular gypsum board and moisture-resistant "greenboard" don't belong behind a shower wall at all.
Kitchener prices interior bathroom work at $0.37 per square foot, the lowest permit rate of any city we serve, against a $95 minimum, with plumbing fixtures billed separately at $11 each. Every alteration permit here also carries a $250 rebate, charged at application and refunded automatically once the final inspection is approved, so the real net permit cost is lower than it first appears. Relocating a tub or toilet, or recessing a subfloor for a curbless shower, moves a project into the same structural review, since the floor has to slope continuously to the drain before the finished surface goes in.
Kitchener's single largest slice of housing, close to 30 percent of the city, was built between 1961 and 1980, the highest concentration of that era of any city we work in, and close to one home in five predates 1960 outright. A bathroom from that main wave usually has a lower ceiling than a modern build, a cast-iron or galvanized drain and supply line, and a cement board or gypsum board wall standing in for real waterproofing, so we check what's behind the tile before deciding what stays. We also frame in grab bar blocking on every full renovation regardless of the household's current needs, since it costs almost nothing while the wall is open and is close to impossible to add once it's closed.
Glass comes last on a Kitchener job too, since a frameless enclosure can only be templated once the shower base and walls are truly finished, then fabricated to that measurement. See the rest of our work in our Kitchener service area, or pair the project with a kitchen renovation while trades are already on site. That 1961 to 1980 wave does not stop at the city boundary: bathroom renovation cost in Waterloo deals with the newer stock next door, and bathroom remodeling in Cambridge with the older cores south of here.
Century-house rough-in west of here needs the same rebuilding once a wall is open, on a market that prices below the tri-city, covered on bathroom renovation cost in London.