A bathroom review from Ajax
A real customer, on camera, about their bathroom renovation.
Bathroom renovations · GTA
Powder rooms to master ensuites, taken back to the studs by our own crews. The building permit comes from the City of Welland, with Niagara Region above it for water and waste.
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Welland grew up around the canal and the mills beside it, and much of its housing dates from decades when one bathroom per house was the norm, so the question is often whether to add a bathroom rather than how to redo the one there is. A second bathroom in a Welland basement is a pumped bathroom: the drain sits below the sewer and needs an ejector pit, a cost of its own and a permit from the City of Welland, inside Niagara Region. What a bathroom costs across the GTA depends on the room more than the town — its size, how much of it is tiled, and whether the toilet, tub or vanity moves — and the exact price comes with the free in-home estimate, which three quick questions book.
What a bathroom costs Bathroom renovations in St Catharines Bathroom renovations in Niagara Falls How long it takes, day by day Questions to ask any bathroom contractor
Ranges are from our own quoted and completed bathrooms across the GTA, not a per-city average. Prices in Canadian dollars.
Before and after
Powder rooms, three-piece and four-piece bathrooms our crews rebuilt, photographed by us — the before shots are the same rooms, and each card says which kind of room it is. Tap any pair for the whole project.


3-piece · Mississauga · 5 days on site · Full refit · tub out, sliding-door shower with a niche in · quartz-top shaker vanity · LED mirror · dark porcelain floor


4-piece · Mississauga · 7 days on site · Full refit · freestanding tub · frameless glass shower with a tiled surround · grey vanity with a quartz top · LED mirror · dark porcelain floor


3-piece · Full refit · walk-in shower with a niche · navy shaker vanity · black fixtures
On site, most bathrooms run two to seven days; a large master ensuite can take ten. The time on each card is what that project actually took.
Built for complete renovations
We work with homeowners who want the room taken back to the studs and rebuilt by one team — waterproofing, tile, plumbing, electrical and glass — rather than finding a separate trade for each part of it.
All of it is included when we rebuild a bathroom. We just don’t sell any of it as a separate visit.
No fee and no obligation at any point before you have a written quote.





The part you never see again
A bathroom fails behind the tile, years later, where nobody can see it. So the shower is built as a sealed system first and finished second.
From our own channel.
The showroom is in Mississauga, but the crews work well past the GTA — Collingwood and Barrie to the north, out to Peterborough and Cobourg in the east, Kitchener and Brantford to the west, and down through Hamilton to Niagara.
Further out across the GTA depending on the size of the project — put your postal code in and we’ll tell you.
Has its own page - tap the pinWithin our service areaHover a town and the van drives there from the showroom.
A bathroom is the smallest room in the house and the most complicated one per square foot: plumbing, electrical, waterproofing, tile and glass all inside a space you can cross in two steps, and every one of them has to be right before the next one covers it up. Here is the honest version, from bathrooms we have built across the Greater Toronto Area.
Everything visible in a finished bathroom — the tile, the glass, the vanity — sits on top of the part that actually decides whether the room lasts. Tile and grout are not waterproof. A tiled shower needs a proper membrane system behind and beneath it, with the seams and corners treated, and the drain assembly matched to it. This is where cheap bathroom work goes wrong, and it goes wrong invisibly: the failure shows up two or three years later as a stain on a ceiling below, or as mould you have been breathing for years — a lot of the bathrooms we demolish have it on the drywall or the framing behind an old shower that was never properly waterproofed. If you are comparing quotes, ask each company what waterproofing system they use and how they treat the corners. The vague answers are informative.
Demolition first, back to the studs, because that is the only moment anyone can see what the last renovation left behind — and in an older GTA house it is routinely rotten subfloor or a stack that is not where the drawings say. Then any framing change, then plumbing and electrical roughed in while the walls are open and inspected at that point. Waterproofing next, then tile, then vanity, toilet, glass and fixtures. Glass is measured after the tile is on the wall, never before, because a shower opening is never quite as square as a drawing, and glass ordered from a plan is glass that arrives not fitting.
Keeping the toilet, tub and vanity roughly where they are is dramatically cheaper than moving them. A toilet in particular is fixed by a drain that runs through the floor structure, so moving it across the room means opening the floor and often the ceiling below. Swapping a vanity to the opposite wall is comparatively easy; moving the stack is not. It can be worth it — a bathroom you will use every day for fifteen years should not be arranged around where a pipe went in 1978 — but it is a decision to make deliberately at design, not one to discover in demolition.
Taking out a rarely-used tub and tiling in a proper shower is one of the most common things we are asked for, and in a three-piece it usually makes the room feel twice the size. The considerations are practical rather than aesthetic: a household with small children generally wants at least one tub somewhere, and resale in a family neighbourhood is easier with one bath in the house. If it is your only tub, think about it once more; if it is the second, it is usually an easy decision. A conversion is about two days on site.
Every bathroom needs mechanical ventilation, exhausted to the outside — not into the attic, which is the single most common fault we find when we open up somebody else's work, and the reason their ceiling paint keeps peeling. The fan has to be sized to the room and ducted properly. Separately, electrical work in a bathroom means an ESA inspection, and any new receptacle needs GFCI protection. Like-for-like fixture replacement generally does not require a building permit; moving a plumbing stack or adding circuits does.
This is the question people actually want answered, because unlike a kitchen there is often no substitute down the hall. A powder room or a tub-to-shower conversion is around two days on site. A standard three-piece taken back to the studs is about five. A luxury four-piece, or an accessible build with a level-entry shower, is around seven. Those are working days on site, and they assume the materials are all in before we start — which is why selections are finished at the quote stage rather than while the room is in pieces. We commit to finishing within 7 business days of starting, and there is a written guarantee behind that.