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Bathroom renovation contractors in Bulli
We renovate bathrooms in Bulli as one contractor holding the whole job: strip-out, plumbing and electrical rough-in, waterproofing to the Australian Standard, tiling, then fit-off. You aren't engaging five trades and sequencing them yourself, and you get a fixed-price proposal before the old bathroom comes out.
That sequence is the reason to use one team. Every stage depends on the one before it, and waterproofing in particular has to be done properly and left to cure before a tile goes near it. When separate trades are booked by the owner, that's the step that gets squeezed, because it's invisible when it's finished and it's the only thing keeping water out of your wall and floor structure.
Bulli sits between the escarpment and the beach and its bathrooms cop the weather from both. Humidity is the quiet one: without decent extraction, a beautifully finished room grows mould in the corners within a couple of winters, so ventilation gets designed in rather than left to a builder's-standard fan. Coastal-grade tapware and fittings are the other call worth making here, since ordinary chrome doesn't hold up to this air.
If it's the only bathroom in the house, tell us early. We stage the job around that so the stretch without one is as short as it can be, which is a planning decision made before the first day rather than a problem discovered halfway through.
How we run a bathroom renovationWhat a bathroom renovation quote in Bulli should cover
A fixed-price bathroom proposal should account for the whole job rather than the visible end of it: strip-out and disposal, plumbing and electrical rough-in, waterproofing, screed, tiling, fit-off, and making good the rooms either side where the trades have been through. A quote that lists mainly fittings is a shopping list, not a price.
Allowances are where two quotes differ most. Tapware, tiles, the vanity, the screen and the toilet are usually carried as a nominated allowance rather than a chosen product, so two proposals can look nothing alike while describing the same room to different standards. Ask what the allowance is per item and they become comparable.
What moves a Bulli price is what sits behind the wall. The original bathrooms in the post-war homes through here went in before modern waterproofing existed, and once the linings are off it is common to find timber that has been damp for years, galvanised pipe worth replacing while it is exposed, or a floor that needs re-sheeting before anything can be tiled over it. We would rather open up and price that honestly than hand over a number that moves later.
For the same reason we quote after seeing the room. A photo will tell you what the tiles look like and nothing about the condition of what is holding them up, and on a house of this age that is the half of the job worth pricing properly.
What a full bathroom rebuild involvesOther areas we build in
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