01Bathrooms
One bathroom is a small job for a builder, but they treated it like the whole house. The tile lines up, the door finally closes properly, and they finished the week they said they would.
Rooms · 06 · Bathrooms, fully renovated
Bathroom Renovations in Mississauga
Bathroom renovations in Mississauga take a tub out for a walk-in shower, or build a new shower or tub for an ensuite or main bath. The surround is waterproofed before any tile goes up.
- Licensed builder
- WSIB
- Years building
- 15+
- Houses completed
- 300+
What’s included
What a bathroom
renovation includes.
Out of sight, waterproofing, ventilation and plumbing are in the scope too, alongside the surfaces you see.
Showers, tubs and tile
A tub can come out in favour of a walk-in shower. Ensuites and main baths take either, and the tile runs up to the fixtures.
Waterproofing and ventilation
The shower or tub surround is waterproofed before the tile goes on. The room is ventilated with a fan, planned in before the tile.
Vanities and fixtures
Drains and valves sit where the plumbing plan puts them. The vanity and fixtures are installed to that plan, after the tile.
Plumbing and electrical, coordinated
The builder schedules the plumbing and electrical, and keeps the walls open until the drains are tested.
How it runs
One bay of it,
stage by stage.
Five stages in the same order for a room and a whole house, with one builder answering for each.
- 01
Permits
Valve, drain and tub or shower are located on drawings. Where a permit is sought, the application uses them.
- 02
Structure
Ceiling height is part of the new layout, fixed once the old finishes and fixtures are out.
- 03
Trades
Leak tests follow the rough-in of the pipes for the drain and vent. The shower floor is sloped toward the drain.
- 04
Finishes
Before tile, vanity and fixtures, the fan and waterproofing are done.
- 05
Handover
Drains, fixtures and fan are run first, and only then is the bathroom handed back.
Why Hanna Homes
Why one builder
for all of it.
Small and wet as a bathroom is, the sequence of the hidden work counts for more than how big the room is.
A leak shows up while reaching it is still easy, because the drains and vents get tested ahead of fixtures and covered pipes.
The shower and tub areas are waterproofed before any tile goes on, because the tile covers them once it is up.
Ceiling height is checked before any bulkhead is drawn. It has to hold in the shower and tub, and anywhere else people stand.
The tile layout follows the valve and drain of the shower, which are placed with the wall open, so nobody has to cut tile around them.
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Client reviews
Their house,
their words.
Whole homes and single rooms, in the words of the people who live in them.
02Whole home
We put off the whole house for years because we couldn’t picture living through it. Akram walked us through every stage before it started, and each week went the way he said it would.
03Kitchens
The crew covered the floors and cleaned up at the end of every day, which mattered with two kids at home. The new kitchen is the room everyone ends up in now. Worth every week of takeout.
04Custom homes
Building a new house was the biggest decision we’ve ever made, and it never felt rushed. We walked the site most Saturdays and always knew exactly where things stood.
05Basement apartments
We turned the basement into a unit for my mother-in-law. She has her own entrance and her own kitchen, and we still get Sunday dinners. The paperwork I was dreading turned out to be the part I thought about least.
06Additions
We needed more room but didn’t want to leave the street. The second storey went on over the summer, and from the sidewalk you’d think the house was always built that way.
07Knockdown & rebuild
Our old bungalow wasn’t worth saving, so we took it down and built new on the same lot. They kept the neighbours in the loop from demolition to the final walk-through. We love coming home to it.
08Basements
The basement used to be storage and a furnace. Now it’s a family room the kids actually want to be in. A clear quote, no surprises, and the site was swept every night.
09Whole home
We bought an older house knowing it needed everything. Akram was straight with us from the first visit about what was worth keeping. Every room is new to us now, and it still feels like the house we fell for.
10Kitchens
Third builder we spoke to, and the only one who returned every call. When we changed our minds about the island halfway through, they made it work without any drama.
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Projects
Selected work,
inside and out.
Three rooms are done: a kitchen, a basement and a bath. So are two whole homes, a new house and a bungalow.
01Bathroom Renovations
A primary bath in honed limestone.
Walls are lime plaster. A trough vanity is cut from one block, a stone tub sits under the window and one pane of glass closes the shower.
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From the street
to the basement.
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Service area
Within an hour
of Burlington.
Towns we build in
- 01BurlingtonHaltonHome base
- 02HamiltonHamiltonby Hwy 403, 15 min, 18 km by road, approximately
- 03OakvilleHaltonby the QEW, 20 min, 24 km by road, approximately
- 04AncasterHamiltonby Hwy 403, 25 min, 28 km by road, approximately
- 05MiltonHaltonby Hwy 407, 30 min, 30 km by road, approximately
- 06MississaugaPeelby Hwy 407 and Hwy 403, 30 min, 41 km by road, approximately
- 07CambridgeWaterloo Regionby Hwy 8 and Hwy 5, 45 min, 51 km by road, approximately
- 08KitchenerWaterloo Regionby Hwy 6 and Hwy 401, 55 min, 72 km by road, approximately
And anywhere else inside the line.
Common questions
Common questions
in Mississauga.
What Mississauga homeowners ask about bathroom renovations: what it costs, how long it takes and what the city asks for.
In Mississauga the toilet, tub and shower decide how much paperwork a bathroom carries: any one that is added, removed or relocated needs a building permit. A bathroom that keeps all three where their drains are is a lighter job than one that rearranges them. Tile, the shower or tub work and the vanity follow. A figure comes from the plan.
Sequence matters more than size in a bathroom: demolition, then plumbing and electrical, then waterproofing behind the shower or tub, then tile, vanity and fixtures. In Mississauga a design step may sit ahead of all that, since the city asks for scaled drawings of existing and proposed work, and a moved fixture waits on its permit.
Only if something moves. Mississauga requires a building permit when a sink, tub, toilet or shower is added, removed or relocated, and structural changes need one too. Tile and surface finishes do not usually need one, and the city's building division settles the borderline cases.
Mississauga asks for drawings to scale that clearly show what exists and what is proposed. For a bathroom that means the room as it is, with its fixtures where they stand, and the room as it will be, with any toilet, tub, shower or vanity that has moved. They are prepared before the application, not during the build.
Both are done once the drawings are agreed and any fixture permit is issued, and ahead of the tile, which closes off the wall behind it. The waterproofing is built behind whatever shower or tub the drawings show, and the fan goes in at the same stage. Neither is an upgrade. Both belong to every bathroom renovation.
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Before you build,
people in Mississauga ask.
What people in Mississauga search before bathroom renovations, answered for the town.
Whether any sink, tub, toilet or shower is moving, and who draws the plan. A fixture that is added, removed or relocated needs a Mississauga building permit, so the answer sets the drawings and the schedule before a price means anything.
Yes. Mississauga requires a building permit when a plumbing fixture is added, removed or relocated, and a toilet moved even a short way is relocated. A toilet that stays where it stands keeps the job out of the plumbing review.
The city's building division settles the borderline cases. Fixture changes are the clear trigger, while tile and surface finishes sit outside the rule, so the plan lists which fixtures move and which stay before anything is demolished.
Good to know
Good to know
about bathroom renovations in Mississauga.
What changes the work in Mississauga: the rules, the houses and the ground.
Bathroom renovation permits in Mississauga
A plumbing fixture such as a sink, tub, toilet or shower that is added, removed or relocated needs a building permit in Mississauga. In a bathroom that covers a tub turned into a walk-in shower and a toilet moved along the wall. Each brings a permit and a plumbing review.
Tile and surface finishes sit outside it, and the city's building division settles the borderline cases. The plan separates fixtures that move from those that stay at the start, so the permit question is answered before the first fixture comes out.
Source: City of Mississauga: when a building permit is required
Bathroom remodeling in Mississauga: how room type changes the permit
On Mississauga's drawings, room type shows up as a fixture count. A powder room has a toilet and a sink. Making it a full bath adds a tub or shower, and an added fixture needs its own building permit. A main bath done like for like keeps its fixtures where they stand, so no fixture permit is in play. An ensuite enlarged into the room beside it moves its fixtures and picks up the permit.
The city asks for drawings of the bathroom as it stands and as it will be, so the fixture list is settled on paper before the first wall opens. The builder then arranges the plumbing and electrical to that list.
Fixtures, drawings and the price of a Mississauga bathroom remodel
Fixtures and drains that move, shower or tub work, and tile move the cost. In Mississauga, the fixtures that move also carry a permit and the scaled drawings that go with it, so a rearranged bathroom costs design and review time as well as plumbing.
The build order sets the rest of the timing: waterproofing before tile, tile before the vanity and fixtures. The step that can lengthen it is the permit review ahead of all three.
Source: City of Mississauga: residential interior alteration drawings
Swapping a tub for a walk-in shower in Mississauga
Taking out a tub and putting in a shower removes one fixture and adds another, which in Mississauga means a building permit and a plumbing review before the work begins. It is also where the waterproofing matters most: the surround is waterproofed as one system behind the tile, and the fan carries the steam out so the framing and drywall stay dry.
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15+ years
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