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A condo bathroom renovation in Toronto costs $12,000 to $16,000 and takes four to five days on site. A tub to shower conversion takes three to four. The part most people underestimate is not the work. It is the approval. Your board will want a submission package and proof of insurance before anyone lifts a tool, and that usually adds four to eight weeks. We handle that paperwork, and we give you both dates at the estimate.
Toronto is the most condo dense city in Canada. Statistics Canada recorded 64.8 per cent of occupied dwellings in downtown Toronto as condominiums in 2021, and high rise apartments make up 67.4 per cent of all condominium units in the Toronto area. Across the wider region, close to three in ten homes sit in buildings of five storeys or more.
That matters because two identical looking bathrooms in two different buildings are not the same job. A 2015 tower on the waterfront has modern PEX, a documented renovation process and a property manager who has seen it fifty times. A 1978 building near Yonge and Eglinton has galvanised risers, a board that meets once a month, and a shut off that has to be scheduled around the whole stack.
The vanity you choose changes the invoice by a few hundred dollars. The building you live in changes the schedule by weeks. That is what we are reading when we quote.
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.
The old tub comes out, a walk in shower goes in. It is the most requested job we do, and in a condo it buys back floor space you cannot get any other way. Three to four days.
Like for like, in the same footprint. No drain moved, no slab cut, no permit.
The existing shower is stripped back and rebuilt, including the waterproofing behind it, which is usually the reason it failed.
Supplied and fitted to your choice, in the positions they already occupy.
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.
Condo bathrooms fail differently from bathrooms in houses. The same handful of things come up again and again.
The shower drops to a trickle when the neighbour runs a tap. In a stack, your unit shares a riser with everyone above and below you. Old galvanised risers close up with rust over decades, and pressure goes with them. We can rebuild everything inside your walls. What sits inside the shared stack is the corporation’s, not yours, and it is worth knowing which one you are dealing with before you start.
No floor drain, and nowhere for water to go. Most Toronto condos were built without one. A slow leak behind tile does not show up in your unit first. It shows up on someone’s ceiling downstairs, and by then it is an insurance claim with your name on it. Waterproofing is not a finish detail in a condo. It is the job.
A slab you cannot cut. In most buildings the floor is post-tensioned concrete with cables running through it. Moving a drain means cutting that slab, and in a lot of buildings that is simply not permitted. This is the single most common reason a condo layout stays exactly where it is.
We look for all of this at the in home estimate, and again once the old fixtures come out. If something turns up that changes the job, you hear it from us before we carry on.
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The insurance and documents condo boards require. Certificates of insurance naming the corporation, WSIB clearance, scope of work, product specifications. Most renovation companies leave this with the homeowner. We do not. It is the single biggest reason condo jobs stall before they start, and it is the part we take off your hands.
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 in condos across the city, downtown and the waterfront, the Entertainment and Financial Districts, Yonge and Eglinton, Yorkville, Davisville, Liberty Village, City Place, Fort York, Leslieville, the Beaches, Riverdale, the Danforth, High Park, Roncesvalles, Parkdale, Bloor West Village, North York along Yonge from Sheppard to Finch, Willowdale, Bayview Village, Don Mills, Scarborough Town Centre, Agincourt, Etobicoke, Mimico, Humber Bay Shores and Islington City Centre. If your building 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 out, look at your space, and give you honest numbers. 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.
Most Toronto condos have one full bathroom. Losing it is the part people worry about most, and it is a fair worry.
The work is planned around that. 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, and in most buildings that is not permitted anyway. Work happens inside your building’s approved hours, the unit is protected and cleaned at the end of each day, and the same licensed installers are there from start to finish, so the schedule holds.
For comparison, most Toronto renovation companies quote two to three weeks for the same three piece bathroom.
Almost every condo corporation in Toronto requires written approval before a bathroom renovation starts. The package normally includes a scope of work, product specifications, contractor licensing, and a certificate of insurance naming the corporation as an additional insured.
Boards do not sit on demand. Many meet monthly, some quarterly, so the full cycle from submission to permission to start usually runs four to eight weeks. Once approved, the building sets the conditions working hours are typically weekdays only, the service elevator has to be booked for deliveries and demolition, and most corporations hold a refundable damage deposit against the common areas. Those are the building’s charges rather than ours, and they belong in your budget from the start.
None of this is a reason to avoid renovating. It just has to start before the first day on site rather than during it. We prepare and submit the package as part of the job.
There are a lot of companies offering bathroom work 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.
We prepare the board package and the insurance certificates rather than handing you a list.
Our own licensed installers, WSIB covered and insured. No subcontractors.
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.
Most of our projects do not require a permit from the City. The dividing line is replacing versus relocating. Replacing a tub, shower, toilet or vanity in the position it already occupies is not permit work. A permit is needed when the layout changes, which means moving a drain, altering a wall, adding a bathroom where there was not one, or running new electrical circuits. In most condos that work is restricted by the building in any case.
Should your project require an official permit, One Stop Bath will assist you in getting it. Plumbing work is regulated under the Ontario Building Code and the City of Toronto Municipal Code, and applications go through Toronto Building. Electrical work is reported separately to the Electrical Safety Authority.
Permit fees and processing times are set by the City and published on the City of Toronto building permit fees page at toronto.ca. Only the City and the entities responsible for the process can determine how long a permit will take, so we will not put a timeline on something we do not control.
Board approval and a City permit are two different things. Most condo bathrooms need the first and not the second, because the layout stays where it is. That is also why so many of our condo jobs finish inside a week.
Toronto condo bathrooms are small, and getting smaller. A junior one bedroom built in the last decade often has a four piece bathroom under forty square feet, with the door swing, the vanity and the tub competing for the same floor.
Small does not mean cheap. The plumbing, the waterproofing and the fixture count are much the same as in a larger room, and the labour is concentrated into less space rather than spread across more. What small does mean is that every decision shows. A tub occupying a third of the room, in a unit where nobody has taken a bath in four 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 gives back floor area and sight lines without moving a single pipe. That is usually the whole brief.
If your condo 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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A condo bathroom renovation in Toronto typically costs $12,000 to $16,000. Scope drives the number more than finishes do, keeping the tub, shower, vanity and toilet in their existing positions holds a project at the lower end, while relocating anything inside the walls pushes it up. Condo work also carries costs a house does not, including board submission, elevator booking and restricted working hours.
Because access and approval cost money that materials do not. A condo job involves a board submission, insurance certificates naming the corporation, a booked service elevator, protected common areas and a working window that is usually weekdays only. The bathroom may be smaller, but the hours around it are longer.
Almost certainly yes. Most Toronto condo corporations require written approval before work begins, including a scope of work, product specifications, contractor licensing and proof of insurance naming the corporation. Approval commonly takes four to eight weeks from submission, because many boards meet monthly. We prepare and submit that package as part of the job.
Most Toronto corporations ask for a certificate of insurance naming the corporation as an additional insured, proof of WSIB coverage, and contractor licensing documentation. Some also require a minimum liability limit, commonly two million dollars, and a refundable damage deposit against the common areas. Ask any contractor for all of it in writing before you sign. One Stop Bath carries liability insurance and WSIB coverage and issues the certificates as part of the submission package.
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. Condo board approval is a separate requirement and is usually needed either way.
Three to four days for a tub to shower conversion, four to five days for a full three piece bathroom. A full gut with the plumbing relocated can take up to two weeks, though most buildings do not permit that work. These are best case timelines and site conditions can change them.
Usually not, and it is the building rather than the contractor saying so. Most Toronto condos sit on post-tensioned concrete slabs with steel cables running through them, and cutting one to relocate a drain is often prohibited outright. Where a corporation does allow it, expect engineering drawings, a longer approval and a materially higher cost. Nearly every condo bathroom is built with the plumbing exactly where it already is.
