Narre Warren Bathroom Renovations

Frequently asked questions

How much does a bathroom renovation cost in Narre Warren?

Three bands, and the room you already own decides which one. Leave every fitting exactly where it sits and you stay in the lowest. Shift the toilet, tile up to the ceiling and build a tiled base and you are in the middle. Take out the wall to the old separate toilet and add a freestanding bath and you reach the top. The cost page carries the band figures and the square metre rates underneath them.

How long will the bathroom be out of use?

Around three to four working weeks when nothing moves, five to six when it does. A few of those days are membrane cure days where the site is deliberately empty. The glass screen is the usual straggler: it cannot be measured until the last tile is grouted, and it is then made to that measurement.

Will my job need a building permit?

Probably not, as long as nothing structural moves and the room stays within the walls it already has. Only a private building surveyor can give you that answer for your own house, and in Casey it is the owner who engages one. The permits guide lists the four things that force a permit, plus the registration classes and the deposit caps.

Can you just re grout a leaking shower?

Re grouting swaps the filler between the tiles and leaves the failed waterproof layer sitting exactly where it is, so the wall keeps getting wet while the room looks tidy again. Once water turns up outside the bathroom, on carpet, on a skirting board or on a ceiling below, the shower wants stripping back to the frame. Between 55 and 65 per cent of showers in this country are leaking somewhere.

My house is from the 1970s. Is asbestos likely?

Assume yes until a laboratory test clears it. Sheet lining used in wet areas at that time routinely contains it, behind the tiles and under the old shower base. It comes out under licence, priced as an item of its own rather than folded into the demolition figure.

Can the bathroom and the separate toilet become one room?

Usually, and it is the change asked for most often on the three bedroom plans around here. The dividing wall has to be tested for load before anything else, because a wall holding weight up brings in a permit and a beam designed for the opening. Get that answer while the quote is still being written.

What deposit is reasonable?

A small one. The maximum is fixed in legislation and it sits well below what some renovators ask for. Anyone who wants cash in hand before a contract exists has already told you how the rest of the job will run. The permits guide gives both caps and the price at which a written contract becomes compulsory.

What warranty will I actually have?

Two separate things, and they get confused constantly. There is a period set by legislation that applies to the building work itself, and there is a government backed scheme sitting over jobs above a set value, with new rules in place from the middle of 2026. A private lifetime waterproofing guarantee from a renovator is worth nothing. Both of the real ones, and their thresholds, are on the permits page.

Do I get paperwork for the plumbing and the wiring?

Yes, and you should end up holding it. The plumber issues and lodges a certificate covering the pipework, and the electrical side produces its own safety document for the fan, lights and power points. Ask for both at handover and put them with the house papers, because a buyer's conveyancer will want to see them one day.

How fast do you come back on a quote?

One business day. Tell us the suburb, roughly when the house was built and what the shower corner looks like, and you get either a written fixed price for that scope or a time to come and take a look.