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A bathroom renovation in Toronto costs $15,000 to $30,000 and takes four to five days on site. A tub to shower conversion takes three to four. Most Toronto renovation companies quote two to three weeks for the same three piece bathroom. We finish in days because the work is done by our own licensed installers rather than a chain of subcontractors waiting on each other.
Toronto has a lot of old housing, and old housing fails in predictable ways. The same handful of things turn up once the tile comes off.
Cast iron stacks and galvanised supply lines. In houses built before the 1960s, the drain stack is often cast iron and the supply is galvanised steel. Cast iron rusts from the inside and thins at the joints. Galvanised closes up with mineral deposit until the shower runs at a trickle. Neither is visible until the wall is open, and neither is a reason to panic. It is a reason to have the conversation before you sign, not halfway through.
Knob and tube wiring. Still present in parts of the old city, usually spliced into at some point by someone who should not have. Bathrooms need grounded circuits and GFCI protection, and knob and tube provides neither. If it is there, it gets replaced in the bathroom regardless of what the rest of the house has.
Lath and plaster walls. Tile does not go onto plaster. It goes onto a proper backer board over studs, which means the plaster comes off and the wall gets rebuilt. It adds a day and it is not optional if you want the tile to still be there in ten years.
No waterproofing behind the old tile. This is the one that costs money later. Bathrooms built before the mid 1990s often have tile set straight onto drywall or plaster with nothing behind it. Water gets through grout. It always has. Without a membrane it soaks the framing, and in a second floor bathroom it eventually shows up on the ceiling below.
We look at all of this during the in home estimate, and again on demolition day. If the room turns out to need something we did not see, you hear about it before we carry on, not after.
Book a free, no obligation in home estimate. We measure the room, tell you what your building will and will not allow, and give you a written price before you commit to anything.
Tub or shower, vanity, toilet, flooring, lighting and waterproofing, all replaced. Four to five days for a standard three piece.
The old tub comes out, a walk in shower goes in. Three to four days. The most requested job we do.
Built to the actual dimensions of your room in tile, acrylic or cultured marble, with frameless or semi frameless glass. In an older Toronto house where no two walls are square, a stock enclosure leaves dead space you never get back.
Your old tub comes out, the new one goes in where it sat. Nothing moves behind the wall, so there's no permit and no surprises.
New floor, frameless or semi frameless glass, fitted to the room rather than ordered as a stock size.
For units that are not a standard shape, which covers most older buildings and almost every junior one bedroom.
Toronto is a city of two housing stories. Statistics Canada counted 2,262,475 occupied private dwellings in the Toronto area in 2021, and single detached houses make up 39 per cent of them. The rest is apartments and condominiums, with close to three in ten homes in buildings of five storeys or more.
Those two halves renovate completely differently. A semi in Leslieville or a bungalow off the Danforth is a house problem: cast iron, plaster, a bathroom squeezed above the stairs. A unit at Yonge and Eglinton is a building problem: shared risers, a board to satisfy, an elevator to book.
Within the houses, the decade matters more than the postcode. A 1920s semi in Riverdale and a 1985 detached out past the Junction are not the same job even if the bathrooms are the same size. The vanity you choose moves the invoice by a few hundred dollars. What is behind the wall moves it by thousands. That is what we are reading when we quote.
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Years of local experience, upfront pricing, and a warranty that actually means something.
Every installation is completed by our own licensed team. The same people are in your unit from the first day to the last, which matters more in a building where every visitor has to be signed in.
You’ll get a clear, itemized quote before we start, so you know exactly what’s included and what you’re paying for. We accept credit cards, e-Transfer, cheque, and cash, with payment plans also available.
We offer between 1 to 5 years depending on the materials used and the complexity of the job. Your consultant goes through the full guarantee and warranty terms at the in home quotation, before you commit to anything.
We work right across the city, from old Toronto out to the edges. East Toronto covers Leslieville, Riverdale, the Danforth, the Beaches and Corktown. West Toronto takes in High Park, Roncesvalles, the Junction, Parkdale, Bloor West Village, Swansea, Little Italy, Queen West, Mimico, Long Branch and Weston. Downtown Toronto and the central neighbourhoods run from Harbourfront and Liberty Village through Kensington Market, Cabbagetown, the Annex and Yorkville. Midtown Toronto covers Davisville, St Clair West and Rosedale, and uptown and north Toronto reach as far as Willowdale. If your home is in Toronto, we cover it.
We keep our process simple on purpose, because bathroom renovations already come with enough stress. It breaks down into three steps:
We come to the house, look at the room, and give you honest numbers. About 45 minutes. No pressure, no obligation.
We work with you on materials, colours, and layout so the finished bathroom actually matches what you pictured.
Four to five days for a full three piece, three to four for a tub to shower conversion, followed by a full clean up and walkthrough.
A lot of Toronto bathrooms are small. Semis and row houses across the old city have three piece bathrooms under fifty square feet, often carved out of a landing or squeezed in above the stairs when indoor plumbing arrived.
Small rooms cost less in materials and about the same in labour. The plumbing, the waterproofing and the fixture count barely change, and the work is concentrated into a space where two trades cannot stand at once. What small really changes is that every decision shows. A tub taking up a third of a fifty square foot room, in a house where nobody has taken a bath in years, is the most common thing we are asked to change.
Replacing it with a walk in shower, a wall hung vanity and a recessed niche buys back floor area and sight lines without moving a single pipe. In most small Toronto bathrooms that is the entire brief, and it is why so many of them finish inside a week.
Demolition day is where a bathroom budget holds or slips. In an older Toronto house, four things cause most of the surprises.
The first is a rotten subfloor under the tub. Slow leaks at the tub apron go unnoticed for years because nothing shows from above — the plywood underneath just softens, and you don’t find it until the tub comes out. It’s usually a day’s work. It’s just a day nobody budgeted for.
Then there’s the drain that’s been patched instead of fixed. Cast iron often gets a rubber coupling thrown at it somewhere along the way. If we open a wall and find one, we replace it properly, because once the tile’s on you’re not getting back in there.
Notched joists are the third. Old renovations cut into the framing to run pipes that have since been rerouted, and the floor ends up weaker than it looks. Easy enough to fix while the room’s open. Expensive once it’s closed.
Last is insulation in an exterior wall. Some Toronto homes have material that needs handling properly rather than a shop vac and a bin bag. If we find it, work on that wall stops until it’s dealt with the right way.
None of this should put you off. It’s normal for a house of that age. It’s just a reason to hire someone who’s opened enough walls to know what’s likely behind yours, and who’ll tell you before the work starts rather than after.
There is no shortage of bathroom companies in Toronto, so it is fair to ask why us. A few honest reasons.
The quote is the price you pay. No fees added once the work has started.
Our own licensed installers, insured and WSIB covered. No subcontractors, no waiting between trades.
An itemized written quote that names the fixtures and the timeline.
Four to five days on site for a standard three piece, not two to three weeks.
Straightforward communication from the first visit to the final walkthrough.
Free in home estimate, with a written price and no obligation.
If it is the only bathroom in the house, the timeline is the whole decision. That is a fair way to choose a contractor.
A tub to shower conversion is three to four days. A full three piece is four to five. Only a full gut with the plumbing relocated runs to two weeks. For comparison, most Toronto renovation companies quote two to three weeks for the same three piece bathroom, because they are coordinating a plumber, a tiler, an electrician and a glazier who each turn up when they can.
Our installers are our own, so the schedule holds. The work area is sealed off, the house is cleaned at the end of each day, and the room is back in service the same week.
Every project is completed by our own licensed installers. We do not subcontract the work out, which is the main reason our timelines are days rather than weeks.
Kitchen and bathroom renovations are often planned together, and in Toronto they are the two rooms homeowners ask about most. Where both are on the list, the bathroom is usually the one to start with, because it finishes in days rather than weeks and leaves the house with one completed room while the bigger job runs. You can see what that side of the work involves on our kitchen renovation page.
Condo bathrooms follow different rules. Your board will want a submission package and proof of insurance before work starts, the building sets the working hours, and the service elevator has to be booked. Shared plumbing stacks and post-tensioned concrete slabs also mean the layout usually stays exactly where it is.
We handle condo work across the city, including the board paperwork. The full detail is on our condo bathroom renovation page.
If your bathroom in Toronto needs an update, whether it’s a full tub-to-shower conversion or a smaller fix like a new vanity, reach out for a free, no-obligation estimate. We’ll come take a look, talk through your options, and give you real numbers before anything is decided.
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No sales pitch, just the real answers homeowners actually search for.
A bathroom renovation in Toronto typically costs $15,000 to $30,000 for a standard full bathroom. Scope drives the number more than finishes do. A renovation that keeps the fixtures in their existing positions runs $12,000 to $15,000, while relocating plumbing or gutting the room back to studs runs $25,000 to $50,000 and above. Keeping the layout where it is is the single largest saving available on any bathroom project.
A $15,000 bathroom remodel covers a mid range cosmetic to moderate update rather than a full gut. It includes a new vanity, toilet, faucet, mirror, lighting and standard tile flooring, with the existing plumbing locations left unchanged. It does not cover moving plumbing, custom tilework or premium finishes, which push the total to $15,000 to $20,000 and above.
A standard bathtub to shower renovation takes three to four days. A full three piece bathroom renovation takes four to five days. A fully gutted renovation with the plumbing relocated can take up to two weeks. These are best case timelines and site conditions can change them. Most Toronto companies quote two to three weeks for the same three piece bathroom.
Most of the time, no. The majority of our projects do not require a permit from the City, because replacing a tub, shower, toilet or vanity in its existing position is not permit work. A permit is required if you move a drain, alter a wall or add new electrical circuits. Should your project need one, One Stop Bath will assist you in getting it. Fees and processing times are set by the City of Toronto and published on toronto.ca, and only the City can determine how long the process will take.
No. Most Toronto homeowners stay in the house throughout. A standard three piece bathroom is out of use for four to five days and a tub to shower conversion for three to four. If it is the only bathroom in the house, that number is the whole decision, and it is the reason our timeline is worth comparing against companies quoting two to three weeks. The work area is sealed off and the house is cleaned at the end of each day.
Ask for three things before you sign anything. Proof of liability insurance and WSIB coverage, not a claim on a website. An itemized written quote rather than a single lump sum figure. And completed bathrooms you can actually look at. Then ask who does the work. A company using its own installers can commit to a date. A company assembling subcontractors is quoting you their best case, not their schedule.
Renovating is cheaper, because keeping fixtures in their existing locations avoids plumbing relocation. A renovation that keeps the existing layout costs $12,000 to $15,000. Relocating plumbing or carrying out a full gut runs $25,000 to $50,000 and above, and adds up to two weeks to the schedule.
Yes, but rarely dollar for dollar. It works mainly by removing a reason for buyers to negotiate the price down rather than by adding a premium on top. A dated or water damaged bathroom is one of the first things a buyer prices against you, particularly in an older house where they are already wondering what else has not been touched. Replacing an unused tub with a walk in shower also widens the pool of buyers.
Condition decides it, not preference. If the bathroom has a leak, failing grout, water damage or poor ventilation, it goes first, because those problems get worse and more expensive while you wait. If both rooms are merely dated and you are planning to sell within a couple of years, the kitchen usually returns more, since it is the room buyers judge a house on. If you are staying put, renovate whichever one annoys you daily. There is also a practical argument for starting with the bathroom when both are planned: it finishes in four to five days rather than weeks, so the house keeps one completed room while the bigger job runs. We handle both, and you can see what the kitchen side involves on our kitchen renovation page.
