Bathroom Renovation in Richmond
Built for how the room needs to work now, and how it will need to work in twenty years.
Three full bathrooms and a powder room for one Richmond home, senior-friendly throughout: curbless showers, a second lighting circuit for night vision, and vanities with pull-out drawers set at a reachable height. None of it reads as a hospital fitting, because the blocking, the drain fall and the switch plan get decided before any wall opens — not retrofitted into finished tile afterward. Full gut-and-rebuild waterproofing on every wet wall, whatever the scope.
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Artin Homes recently completed renovating 3 full bathrooms and one powder room for us. We requested the bathrooms to be updated and senior friendly. The results turned out beautifully. Hugh and his team of professionals were attentive to …
What to check, and what to ask
General guidance for homeowners, not specific to your house — worth knowing before you sign with anyone, including us.
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Ask what happens if the wall behind the tile is wet
Bathrooms are the room where what is found behind the surface most often changes the job. It is fair to ask, before work starts, how a rotted subfloor or a leaking valve gets priced and approved rather than discovered as a surprise.
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Waterproofing is under the tile, which is where you will never see it
The membrane behind and under the tile is the part that decides whether this bathroom is still sound in ten years, and it is the part a low quote quietly leaves thin. Ask what system is being used and ask to see it before it gets covered.
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Ventilation is part of the renovation, not an accessory
A fan that is undersized, or that vents into the attic instead of outside, will make mould in a bathroom that is otherwise finished perfectly. Ask where the fan discharges.
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Count your bathrooms before you count your tiles
In a one-bathroom home the renovation is a household logistics problem as much as a construction one. Knowing roughly which stretch is unusable is worth more at the planning stage than any finish decision.
Before you take any quote
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1. Get the scope in writing first, down to who supplies what
Tub or walk-in shower. Tile to the ceiling or to the shower head. Whether the vanity, the fixtures and the glass are supplied by you or by the contractor. Until that list exists, comparing prices is comparing nothing.
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2. Ask what the estimate says about what is behind the wall
Bathrooms hide their condition until demolition. A one-page number does not tell you how rot, an old drain or a leaking valve will be handled. A real estimate says what is included, what is excluded, and how a discovery gets priced and approved before it is repaired.
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3. Check the tile and fixture allowances against what you actually want
Tile prices vary enormously and the allowance in a quote is a guess about your taste. Walk a tile shop first, then read the allowance. A quote that looks cheaper often just assumed you would choose differently than you will.
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4. Agree the payment schedule and the change-order rule in the same conversation
Money should follow completed, inspectable stages, and no extra work should begin without a written, priced change order. Both rules are easy to agree to before anything is demolished and nearly impossible to introduce afterwards.
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5. Ask which parts need a permit and who is pulling it
Moving plumbing or altering electrical generally requires a permit and an inspection, and the permit is what protects you — it produces a record that the work was inspected, which matters when you sell. A contractor who suggests skipping it is transferring the risk to you.
Before you call
- Can a bathroom be made accessible without looking like a hospital?
- Yes — a curbless shower, a fold-down seat and grab bars set into real blocking read as ordinary fittings when they are chosen and positioned properly, not bolted on afterward. The part that has to happen early is the wood behind the wall: adding a grab bar into finished tile later is a far worse day than putting the blocking in while the wall is still open.
- What decides whether a bathroom gets a curbless shower?
- The floor build-up and the drain location. Going curbless usually means dropping the subfloor to hold the fall to the drain rather than building a curb up — a structural decision made before demolition, not a fixture chosen at the showroom.
- How do I know the waterproofing was done properly?
- Ask to see it before the tile goes on, and photograph it. A bathroom is rebuilt on backer board with the seams and corners waterproofed and the shower floor floated to the drain — all of which disappears permanently under tile within a day or two.
- Can we live in the house with one bathroom out?
- Usually yes. In a three-bathroom job the rooms are sequenced one at a time so at least one stays usable throughout, and the working room is sealed and floor-protected on the route in and out. If the house has only one bathroom, say so before the quote — it changes the sequence.
What we do
Tell Hugh what's going on
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- Address
- 6188 Number 3 Rd, Richmond, BC V6Y 0J3
- Service Area
- Richmond · Vancouver · Burnaby