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.
Condo bathroom renovations in Toronto
A condo bathroom renovation is a different job from a house. The building usually wants an alteration request approved before work starts, sets the working hours, and asks for the service elevator to be booked for every demolition and delivery day. The drain stack is shared with the units above and below, so a toilet or shower can only move as far as its connection to that stack allows. We plan the layout around those limits first, then pick the tile and fixtures.
Most Toronto condo bathrooms, and plenty of semi bathrooms, are small, which makes every choice count. A curbless shower with a linear drain, a wall-hung vanity, and one large-format tile carried across the floor all make a small bathroom read bigger without moving a wall.
How long a Toronto bathroom renovation takes
A full gut runs about five to seven weeks of active construction, longer once permit review and inspections are on the calendar. Condo rules on working hours and elevator bookings can stretch that further, so we build them into the schedule from the start. Our week by week bathroom timeline walks through each stage.
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.
