Small bathroom and ensuite renovations across Melbourne’s south east. Fixed price agreed in writing before we start.
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Most bathrooms we call small are under about four square metres. In Melbourne that usually means one of three things.
A three piece main bathroom in a post war or 1960s home. Often around 1.8m by 2m. Shower over bath, vanity, toilet.
An ensuite added later, often carved out of a bedroom. Frequently under three square metres.
A second bathroom or powder room, sometimes with no window and limited ventilation.
If your bathroom is any of those, this page is about your job.
A small bathroom costs less than a large one. But not proportionally less, and here is why.
You still need a plumber, an electrician, a waterproofer and a tiler. Each of them still has to turn up, set up and come back. A room half the size does not halve any of that.
More cuts, more edges, tighter access. Tiling a small room with lots of corners can take as long as tiling a bigger simple one.
In a large bathroom a badly placed door or vanity is annoying. In a small one it makes the room unusable. The set out has to be right first time.
Fewer tiles, less waterproofing membrane, a smaller vanity. That is real, but it is a smaller share of the total than most people expect.
Straight answer first, then the detail.
Whether you move the plumbing, whether the existing waterproofing has failed, and how much of the wall you tile. Floor to ceiling tiling costs more but it is the single biggest visual change in a small room.
All labour, materials, waterproofing certification, rubbish removal and the final clean. Nothing gets added without your approval first.
Cosmetic update through to a full renovation with new plumbing
Honestly, not a full renovation. We would rather tell you that now than three weeks in.
What $5,000 realistically covers. A cosmetic refresh where the room is structurally sound and the waterproofing is intact. New tapware, a new vanity, a new toilet, resealing, paint and possibly re grouting. It can look considerably better.
What it does not cover. Stripping back to the frame, new waterproofing, new tiling and new plumbing. Once the waterproofing has to be redone, and in most older bathrooms it does, the number moves well past that.
How to tell which one you need. If there is movement in the floor, staining on the ceiling below, loose or drummy tiles, or a smell that does not go away, the waterproofing has likely failed. That is a full renovation, not a refresh.
Tell us your budget and we will tell you which one you are looking at. Sometimes the answer is to wait and save rather than spend money twice.
Seeing floor under the vanity makes the room read larger. It also makes cleaning easier.
Fewer grout lines means fewer visual breaks. The opposite of what most people assume.
Storage that does not stick out into the room.
A clear screen keeps the eye travelling to the far wall. A framed one cuts the room in half visually.
Draws the eye up. The single biggest change you can make in a small room.
A swing door can eat a surprising amount of usable floor space.
Small bathrooms often have neither. Both matter more than any finish.
Moving it is the fastest way to spend money you could have put into finishes.
Most of these cost little or nothing extra if they are decided before we start. See projects we have finished →
Ensuites are usually the smallest room we work in and often the most awkward. Many were added later, carved out of a bedroom, with plumbing run wherever it could go.
The usual constraints are ventilation, door swing and getting a usable shower into the space that is left. We work out the set out first, then choose fittings that fit it.
Six steps from first call to finished bathroom. The first three cost you nothing.
Call us or request a call back. Two minutes.
What you want and roughly what it costs. No obligation.
Free. In a small room the measurements matter more than anywhere else.
Itemised, with inclusions and exclusions listed.
Same team throughout. You know what is happening each week.
Cleaned, tested and ready to use.
Based in Clayton. We work across the south eastern suburbs.
Not on the list? We travel across the south east. Just ask.
If yours is not here, call us. You will get the same straight answer.
Small bathroom and ensuite renovations start from $4,000. A cosmetic update sits at the lower end. A full renovation with new plumbing sits at the top. We give you a fixed price in writing after we have measured.
Not a full renovation. At that budget you are looking at a cosmetic refresh in a room that is structurally sound with intact waterproofing. New tapware, vanity, toilet and paint. If the waterproofing needs redoing the number goes up considerably.
In a genuinely small bathroom, sometimes, if the layout stays the same and there are no surprises behind the walls. It is tight. We will tell you honestly on the first call whether your room is a candidate.
Cheaper than a large one, but not by as much as most people expect. Materials cost less. Labour does not shrink much because every trade still has to attend, and small rooms are fiddlier to work in.
Usually two to three weeks on site. Not much faster than a larger bathroom, because the number of stages is the same.
Usually not if the layout stays the same. If you move walls or plumbing, or your home is in a heritage overlay, approval may be needed. We tell you before we start.
Usually yes. Floor to ceiling tiling, a wall hung vanity, a clear shower screen and larger format tiles change how a room reads without touching the structure.
Melbourne’s south east, from Camberwell and Malvern through Bayside and Monash down to Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula. Based in Clayton.
Tell us the room and what you want to spend. We will tell you straight what it covers and whether we are the right fit. No obligation.
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