Bathroom Refurbishment: How the Project Runs

A bathroom is a small room with a lot of trades packed into it (plumbing, electrics, tiling, joinery, decoration) so it is more tightly sequenced than people expect. Here is how a bathroom refurbishment actually runs, stage by stage.

It starts with strip-out and first fix: the old suite comes out, and the plumbing, electrics and extract ventilation are run for the new layout. If walls are moving or the layout is changing, this is where it happens, and it is worth getting right, because every stage after it is built on this one.

The middle of the project is the stage you should never let anyone rush: waterproofing. Proper tanking of wet areas is a trade in its own right, with its own drying time and its own sign-off. The overwhelming majority of bathroom failures trace back to waterproofing that was skipped or tiled over too soon. We treat it as a hold point, not a formality.

Tiling, fitting the suite and second-fix follow once the tanking is signed off. Then decoration, sealants and a snagging walk before handover. For a single-bathroom home there is a window where the bathroom is genuinely out of use. We can phase the work to keep a basic WC available for most of it, and we set that out in the programme so you can plan around it.

If you want a realistic programme for your specific bathroom, get in touch. A site visit gives you a sequence you can actually plan around.