Bathroom Renovations Pennant Hills

Older housing stock is the reason the number sits where it does. A seventies or eighties brick veneer or full brick home here often still runs its original fittings, and the rebuild has to go back past them — cast iron waste replaced, waterproofing redone properly, subfloor movement corrected before a tile goes down. That work is what separates a full bathroom renovation from a cosmetic refresh, and it's why the bathroom renovation cost lands in the 22,000–38,000 band rather than below it. Every line is itemised on the bathroom renovation quote before demolition. See cost benchmarks by suburb for how that compares.

Three to four weeks on site, and the sloping block is the variable that decides whether it runs to the short end or the long one. Sub-floor access changes from property to property, so drainage gets surveyed before we commit to a start date — that survey is what stops the build stalling halfway through. Once it's done, the same team carries the job from the first day to the last, and the workmanship warranty covers what they build.

Three things turn up behind these walls more than any others, and we price for them up front: cast iron waste that's reached the end of its life, waterproofing that was never done to standard, and subfloor movement that only shows once the sheeting is off. If the strip-out reveals something outside that list, it's written up and costed before anyone picks up a tool again. New bathroom waterproofing is installed to AS 3740 by a licensed waterproofer, with a photo record at every coat and a compliance certificate when we hand back the room.

On a sloping block, the way in is rarely the way you'd expect. Sub-floor access varies wildly from one property to the next, so the route for materials and waste is walked and confirmed at the measure rather than assumed on the day. Upstairs, everything is carried by hand and the stairwell is protected before demolition starts. The vent stack is the other thing we check early — it often has to be relocated to suit a modern shower position, and that's a job for the planning stage, not the tiling stage.

Yes — the measure costs you nothing, and there's no travel surcharge. We book it inside a week and allow about an hour, because a sloping block takes longer to read than a flat one: we need to see the sub-floor, the drainage and where the vent stack sits before we can price anything honestly. The written quote follows a few days later, itemised line by line. That's how a bathroom remodel Pennant Hills project should start.

We take the job as far as it needs to go, and on this housing stock that usually means further than the tiles. A shower renovation on its own is work we'll do, and so is a complete bathroom renovation that strips the room back and rebuilds it. The scope covers strip-out, rough-in, AS 3740 bathroom waterproofing, bathroom tiling, bathroom fixtures and fit-off — plus the two jobs these homes almost always need: opening the wall between the separate WC and the bathroom to make one usable room, and relocating the vent stack to suit a modern shower. Our bathroom renovation services Pennant Hills work is delivered by bathroom renovation specialists under NSW Contractor Licence 393475C, fully insured, with a workmanship warranty.