Hills District
Bathroom Renovations Hills District
The bathroom every Hills District family complains about — until someone fixes it
A bathroom rarely fails all at once. It's a shower screen that won't close properly, grout that's gone grey no matter how hard you scrub it, one basin serving a household of five who are all trying to leave the house at 7am. That slow decline is usually what brings a family to a renovation — not one dramatic problem, just years of small ones stacking up.
For a growing family, the fix is rarely only cosmetic. It's a second basin, a layout that survives a school-morning rush, storage that isn't a plastic tub under the sink. For an investor holding a Hills District property, the maths runs differently — a dated bathroom is one of the first things a prospective tenant or buyer notices on a walkthrough, and it's consistently one of the better-returning rooms to update before a listing goes live.
Picture a typical West Pennant Hills household — two teenagers, one bathroom, mornings running twenty minutes over schedule. The fix usually isn't a bigger room, it's a smarter one: fitting a second basin into the existing footprint and semi-separating the toilet, same four walls, no extension, so the room can clear two people at once instead of one at a time.

3–4 weeks on site
Most bathrooms finished in three to four weeks, not months
Certified waterproofing
AS 3740 compliant, so leaks don't come back
Fixed quote
Itemised price before work starts, no surprise extras
Sydney bathrooms, one crew
What a Hills District bathroom renovation looks like with us
We've renovated bathrooms across Sydney long enough to know the difference between a 1970s Western Sydney brick home and a new two-storey build in the Hills. Every Hills District bathroom renovation is priced off a real on-site measure, waterproofed to AS 3740, and finished by the same team that started it.
- Licensed NSW contractor (Lic. 393475C), fully insured
- Waterproofing certified to AS 3740, with photo records at every coat
- Itemised written quote before demolition — every tile, mixer and fitting listed
- One crew, one supervisor, workmanship warranty
More on how we work: bathroom renovations Sydney · our process · all service areas
Housing & construction
The house behind the renovation
Most Hills District homes share a layout: main bathroom and ensuite upstairs, sitting on a timber subfloor, sometimes a powder room downstairs. That shapes how we sheet the walls, set the fall to the drain, and layer the waterproofing — a timber subfloor gives less room for error than a slab if the membrane isn't right the first time, which is exactly what Australian Standard AS 3740 exists to prevent. The build era shifts street to street — Pennant Hills and Baulkham Hills carry older stock, Kellyville and North Kellyville newer estates — and that gap is usually the first thing that changes a quote once we're behind the tiles.

What actually shows up on your quote
A lot of Hills District homes have two wet areas needing work at once. We measure both in a single visit when that's the scope, and every cost sits on its own line — tiles, tapware, waterproofing, rubbish removal. If a number isn't written down, it isn't part of the job — see our FAQs for how we handle variations.
Renovating in Hills District
What we usually find in Hills suburbs bathrooms
The age and build of the house sets the scope long before the tiles do. Here's what we plan for around Hills District.
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Most Hills homes have two or three wet areas, so we sequence main bath, ensuite and powder room to keep one shower live.
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Double-storey homes need upper-floor waterproofing done to AS 3740 with a proper puddle flange — the most common defect we're called to fix.
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Being local means the site supervisor is on the job daily, not once a week between suburbs.
Hills District specifics
What affects your price in the Hills District
Key variables that influence your renovation cost in Hills District, assessed upfront so your quote stays fixed.
The number of wet areas in scope
quoting a main bathroom and ensuite together usually costs less per room than two separate jobs.
Subfloor condition
a timber subfloor with existing water staining adds strip-out and repair time before waterproofing can start.
Fixture and tile selection
mid-range tiles and tapware keep a Hills District job predictable; imported stone or full-height feature tiling adds cost.
Access
most Hills District streets allow straightforward skip and delivery access, which keeps logistics costs down compared with acreage or inner-city jobs.
Local proof
Bathrooms we've completed across the Hills suburbs
We're in the Hills suburbs most weeks, so the same crew, waterproofer and tiler you meet at the quote stage are the ones on your job.
120+
Hills District bathrooms completed
3–4 weeks
Typical time on site
5.0
Google rating across Sydney jobs

Luxury Main Bathroom
A tired 1990s main bathroom stripped back to studs and rebuilt as a bright, hotel-style room with marble-look porcelain, a lit niche and a stone-top timber vanity.
4 weeks on site

One Bathroom Turned Into Two
A single long bathroom in a Woodcroft family home, reworked into a main bathroom and a separate ensuite so a household of five stopped queueing every morning.
5 weeks on site
Questions
Common questions from Hills District homeowners
Short answers to what people ask before booking a measure.
Across the eight hills suburbs we cover, the working figure is $22,000 to $38,000. The spread is real, and it tracks the era of the house rather than the postcode. Older stock in Pennant Hills and Baulkham Hills tends to sit higher once the floor structure and sheeting are brought back to standard. The newer estates in Kellyville and North Kellyville often land lower, because less has to be replaced behind the tiles. Wherever you are, the bathroom renovation cost is itemised line by line on the bathroom renovation quote, so you can see which end of the range you're buying. Compare your suburb against cost benchmarks by suburb.
Plan on three to four weeks per bathroom. That's the build itself, not the waiting around it — and the waiting is usually what stretches a renovation out. One crew and one supervisor cover the whole region and stay with your job from strip-out to handover, so there's no queue between trades and no re-booking. The measure happens within a week of your call, and the written quote follows a few days after that. A main bathroom and an ensuite upstairs can run as one project, because they share a subfloor and usually a wall.
Nothing gets buried and nothing gets billed without your say-so. If the strip-out turns up something the measure couldn't show, you get it in writing and you approve it before work continues. The regional pattern helps here: because the housing stock splits by era, we usually know before we start whether we're dealing with an older home where the subfloor and sheeting are the risk, or a newer one where the original build is more likely to be sound. Either way, bathroom waterproofing goes in to AS 3740 by a licensed waterproofer, photographed at every coat, with the compliance certificate handed over at the end. Licence 393475C.
Access is planned at the measure, not improvised on the day. Most of these homes put the main bathroom and ensuite on the upper level over a timber subfloor, sometimes with a powder room left downstairs, so the route in and out matters as much as the work itself. Stairs, landings and floors are protected before demolition, and materials are carried up by hand. The powder room is often kept live so the household still has a working toilet and basin while the upstairs rooms are rebuilt.
Yes — measure & quote is free, and there's no travel surcharge anywhere across the eight suburbs. We book the visit within a week and allow about an hour on site. The written quote follows a few days later, itemised so every line is visible. We won't put a fixed figure on paper before that visit, because a price given without seeing the room is a price that moves. One crew covers the whole region, so the same people who quote your job are the ones who build it. That's how a bathroom remodel Hills District project should begin.
Across the region the jobs have more in common than they have differences: a shower renovation here, a full strip-out and rebuild there, and the same trade sequence behind both. That means strip-out, rough-in, AS 3740 bathroom waterproofing, bathroom tiling, bathroom fixtures and fit-off. Layout changes are routine — combining a main bathroom and ensuite into one project, or reworking a powder room downstairs. Our bathroom renovation services Hills District work is delivered by bathroom renovation specialists who've completed 120+ bathrooms across the region and hold a 5.0 Google rating. The same crew and the same supervisor on every job, workmanship warranty, licence 393475C. Yes, we genuinely work here — the eight suburbs are our patch.
Free on-site measure and a written, itemised quote for your Hills District bathroom.
The three stages, and what "done" looks like
Strip-out, rebuild, finish — three stages, three to four weeks, one crew from the first morning to the last. You'll know the price before we start and how long the bathroom is out of use before you sign, not after.
A renovated bathroom with correctly installed waterproofing and adequate ventilation also reduces the risk of mould and moisture damage — see the Australian Building Codes Board on wet-area waterproofing for the standard itself.
How it works
What happens once you say yes?
Three stages and three to four weeks on site. You'll know the price before we start, how long the bathroom is out of use, and who is turning up each morning.
Measure, design and written quote
We measure the room, check the drainage and what's behind the walls, then give you a scaled layout with every fixture listed and a written price that holds once it's signed.
Strip-out, rough-in and waterproofing
Back to frame, licensed plumbing and electrical rough-in, then waterproofing to AS 3740 photographed at every coat. Same crew, same start time, swept down before we leave each day.
Tiling, fit-off and handover
Tiling, glass measured off the finished walls, tapware and joinery installed. Then we walk the room with you, fix anything you pick up, and hand over the certificates and a workmanship warranty.
Nearby Suburbs
Bathroom Renovations Across the Hills District
Our licensed renovation crew services the Hills suburbs with fixed-price quotes and certified waterproofing.
Free quote
Get a free quote in Hills District
Tell us roughly what you're after. We come out to Hills District, measure the room, and send back a written quote with every fixture and fitting listed.
- Free on-site measure anywhere in Hills District
- A local crew who already work across the Hills District
- A written quote with every tile, mixer and fitting listed
- Licensed, insured, fully documented
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