Spa-inspired bathroom renovations in Toronto
We renovate bathrooms and ensuites across Toronto with walk-in showers, freestanding tubs, heated floors, and premium tile, and every wet wall is built on a real waterproofing membrane rather than a board mistaken for one. Cement board resists incidental moisture far better than drywall, but water can still reach the framing behind it unless a membrane sits over or behind the board, and that membrane, not the board, is what actually keeps a shower dry. Regular gypsum board and moisture-resistant "greenboard" don't belong behind a shower wall in any Toronto bathroom, gut renovation or repair.
Toronto Building prices bathroom-scale interior alteration work at $11.53 per square metre against a $214.79 minimum, the same rate that applies whether the job is a powder room refresh or a full gut. Relocating a tub, toilet, or vanity, opening a wall, or recessing a subfloor for a curbless shower all move a project into that structural review, since the floor has to slope continuously to the drain before the finished surface goes down, a decision made at framing rather than at tile selection. We also frame in grab bar blocking on every full renovation regardless of the client's current needs, since it costs almost nothing while the wall is open and is close to impossible to retrofit once it's closed.
Toronto carries the oldest housing profile of any city we build bathrooms in: 58 percent of the city's occupied dwellings predate 1980, split almost evenly between homes built before 1960 and the wave that followed through 1980. A bathroom in that older stock, in an Etobicoke semi or a North York bungalow, was rarely built with a true membrane behind its tile, so we check the wall assembly and the supply and drain lines before deciding what gets reused. Only about a quarter of Toronto's housing is single-detached, so the same brief here can mean a century semi one week and a mid-century bungalow the next, each with its own plumbing history to work around.
A frameless enclosure is normally the last piece of a Toronto job, templated only once the shower base and walls are genuinely finished, then fabricated to that exact opening. See more of our bathroom renovation work, pair it with a kitchen renovation, or browse everything we build across our Toronto service area. A century semi in the old city and an evenly aged suburban house are two different renovations, which is roughly the gap between this page and bathroom renovations in Mississauga or bathroom renovation cost in Oakville.