Bathroom Renovations Surry Hills

Square metres are scarce here, so the price is set by what's behind the walls rather than the size of the room. A 1.6m-wide terrace bathroom on a timber floor needs substrate stiffening before anything else goes down, and old pipework usually gets re-run while the floor is open. Both sit inside the 22,000–38,000 band. The bathroom renovation quote is itemised before demolition, with no allowances line, and the price holds once you sign. Compare the spread against cost benchmarks by suburb.

Three to four weeks on site, and the street is what decides the shape of those weeks. With no driveway to work from, demolition waste goes into council-permitted bins placed on the road, so bin placement and noise windows get booked before the first tile comes off. Once those are locked, the build runs without stalling. The crew that starts your job is the crew that finishes it, and the same supervisor stays across the whole run.

We photograph it, price it, and wait for your go-ahead. Nothing is covered over and nothing is added to the invoice until you've agreed in writing. On these terraces the wall is usually hiding two things: a timber floor that has been carrying a wet area for a century, and pipework that predates anything current. Both are flagged at the measure and priced into the quote, so the exposure is visible before demolition. Anything beyond that becomes a written variation you approve first.

Everything goes up the stairs by hand, because there's no other way in. Two and three-storey terraces, warehouse conversions and boutique apartment blocks all share the same problem: no driveway, no crane, no room to stage materials outside. So the route is walked at the measure and the stairwell is protected before demolition. Upstairs, the floor gets stiffened and the bathroom waterproofing detail is worked through properly — a timber floor under a wet area is where shortcuts show up later. Where the building is strata-managed, the building manager is handled by us, not you.

Yes, and there's no charge for the measure or the travel. We book the visit inside a week and allow about an hour, because a room this narrow takes longer to read than a standard one — we need to see the floor structure, the pipework and how waste will leave the site. The written quote follows a few days later, itemised line by line. We won't put a fixed figure on paper before that visit. That's how a bathroom remodel Surry Hills project should start.

Whatever the room can physically take — and in a 1.6m-wide bathroom, that's the real question. A wall-hung pan and a concealed cistern claw back 200mm of floor you didn't know you had, which is often the difference between a usable shower and a cramped one. From there it's a shower renovation on its own or a complete bathroom renovation, covering strip-out, rough-in, AS 3740 bathroom waterproofing, bathroom tiling, bathroom fixtures and fit-off. Our bathroom renovation services Surry Hills work is delivered by bathroom renovation specialists under licence 393475C, fully insured, with a workmanship warranty.