Week one, strip out
Everything comes out to the studs and the floor joists. This is also when we find out what the last renovation hid, which is why we look before we quote rather than after.
Bathroom renovation, Sydney
Quarter Turn
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A bathroom is eleven trades in a room the size of a car park space, in an order that cannot change. Here is what actually happens in the six weeks between the quote and the first shower.
Fixed price, fixed datesOne team, not eleven subcontractorsWaterproofing certifiedTen year workmanship warrantyWe tell you the bad news early
The thing every quote hides
The price is the easy part. The order is the job.
Everyone quotes the same eleven trades. What separates a six week job from a fourteen week job is not who does the work. It is whether the order was planned before anyone picked up a tool.
TradesEleven, from demolition to the final silicone bead.
DependenciesNine of them cannot start until a specific other one has finished.
SlippageOne trade a week late moves everything behind it by a week.
What the six weeks actually look like
- 01Week one, strip out
- 02Week two, rough in
- 03Week three, waterproofing
- 04Week four, tiling
- 05Week five, fit off
- 06Week six, finish and hand over
Week two, rough in
Plumbing and electrical go in the walls while the walls are open. Every tap position, every power point and the exhaust run are fixed now, because after this week moving one costs a wall.
Week three, waterproofing
Membrane goes down and then it cures. Nothing can happen in the room while it does. Every job that runs late has usually had this week rushed, and a failed membrane is a whole bathroom again in four years.
Week four, tiling
Floor, then walls, then the niche. Slow, and the one week where the room finally starts looking like a bathroom.
Week five, fit off
Basin, toilet, screen, tapware, mirror, towel rails. The week with the most visible progress and the least actual work in it.
Week six, finish and hand over
Silicone, door adjustment, the certificate, and a walk through where you point at things and we fix them.
Two ways to run the same renovation
Eleven separate trades
You book the trades yourself, or a builder books them as they become available. Each one turns up when they have a gap, does their part, and leaves.
Nobody owns the order. When the tiler cannot start because the membrane is still curing, the tiler takes another job and comes back in nine days. That happens three or four times and a six week bathroom is a fourteen week bathroom, with your only toilet in it.
One team, one schedule
The schedule is built backwards from the hand over date before anything is ordered, and every trade is booked against a dependency rather than against a gap in their diary.
It costs the same. What it buys is that the tiler is standing there on the Monday the membrane is signed off, because that Monday was in their calendar five weeks earlier.
What is in the fixed price
Everything to the studs and back
Demolition, removal, and making good anything the strip out uncovers up to an agreed limit that is written into the quote, not discovered later.
Certified waterproofing
Membrane, and the certificate that the council and your insurer both want to see.
All eleven trades, scheduled
Booked against dependencies before the job starts, which is the whole argument of this page.
The variation rule
Anything that changes the price is priced and signed before the work happens. No invoice at the end with a surprise in it.
Ninety degrees from off to full. The one part of the whole renovation you touch every single day.
Why the business is called what it is
Get a quote
Send us the room. A photograph of the bathroom you have and a rough idea of the bathroom you want is enough to start. We will tell you what it costs, what it takes, and what we would talk you out of.
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