Bathroom renovations in Sydney, fixed price, start to finish.

The finished room. Demolition of the old bathroom and removal of the rubbish, all plumbing and electrical work, certified waterproofing with a certificate, wall tiling and floor tiling, mould-resistant painting, and the supply and installation of the vanity, toilet suite, shower screen, tapware, mirror and accessories. It includes GST and it includes the labour of every trade. The things that are not in it are the things that genuinely vary: relocating plumbing to a new wall, structural repairs behind the old lining, underfloor heating, and selections that go past the package allowance. All of those are itemised in your quote before you sign.

Usually because they are labour-only, or because tile supply, the shower screen, the vanity, the waterproofing certificate and the rubbish removal all sit in an exclusions list you have to read carefully. Add those back and you are close to our number, except the risk of the variations has moved onto you. We would rather quote the complete room and be compared honestly. Send us any quote you are holding and we will map it line by line against ours.

Around four weeks — about 20 working days — for a standard single bathroom, from the first day of demolition to handover. Bathrooms where plumbing points move, second-storey bathrooms, or a main bathroom and ensuite done together run longer. Strata buildings can add a week for approvals before we start on site, which is why we lodge that paperwork as soon as you book. You get the start and finish dates in writing.

Yes, and it is one of the most worthwhile things you can do in an older Sydney bathroom — most were laid out around a 1960s plumbing stack rather than around how anyone uses the room. Moving a shower or vanity is straightforward. Moving a toilet is the expensive one because it needs the waste line re-run and often the slab cut. We will tell you exactly what each move costs at the quote stage.

Every week. We handle the by-law application and the paperwork for your strata committee, use acoustic underlay to meet impact-noise requirements, work within the building's approved hours, protect lifts and common areas, and deal with the building manager directly. We also carry the insurance certificates strata committees ask to see.

We stop, photograph it, price the fix and send it to you in writing before we touch it. Rotten studs, a failed old membrane, asbestos sheeting and corroded copper are the four we find most often in Sydney bathrooms built before 1990. None of them are your fault and none of them get quietly absorbed into the job and billed at the end.

Yes. Every package carries a supply allowance and we will take you through our supplier showrooms — Reece, Beaumont Tiles and others — to make your selections. If you would rather buy your own, we give you a complete shopping list with sizes and quantities and deduct the supply from the price. Just don't order anything until we have measured, or you will end up two boxes short of tiles on a discontinued line.

On eligible projects, yes — Home Building Compensation Fund cover is included in the package price. It is required by law in NSW on residential building work over $20,000, and it protects you if the builder cannot complete or rectify the work. You also get the NSW statutory warranty on top: six years on major defects, two years on everything else.