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 Oakville
Bathroom renovations in Oakville are run by one licensed builder, who books the plumbing and electrical trades and does not close the walls until the drains have been tested, then hands the room back.
- 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
Ensuites and main baths get a shower or a tub, tiled to meet the fixtures. Swapping a tub for a walk-in shower is possible.
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
Fixtures and the vanity are fitted once the tile is up. Each drain and valve is already in place by then, as the plumbing plan has it.
Plumbing and electrical, coordinated
The plumbing and electrical are scheduled by the builder. Walls stay open until the drains have been tested.
How it runs
One bay of it,
stage by stage.
Five stages run in the same order on a room or a whole house, and one builder is accountable for each.
- 01
Permits
The drawings set where the tub or shower, drain and valve go. Any permit application is based on them.
- 02
Structure
The existing fixtures and finishes are removed, and the new layout and ceiling height are set.
- 03
Trades
Drain and vent pipes are roughed in and tested for leaks. The shower floor gets its fall to the drain.
- 04
Finishes
Waterproofing and fan go in first. Tile, vanity and fixtures follow.
- 05
Handover
Handing the bathroom back for use comes after the fan, drains and fixtures are run.
Why Hanna Homes
Why one builder
for all of it.
Room size matters less in a small and wet bathroom than the order in which the hidden work is done.
Testing happens at the drains and vents before any fixture is set or pipe covered. A leak found then is still easy to get at.
Nothing is tiled in the shower or tub until its waterproofing is on, since tile hides it afterwards.
Ceiling height has to hold where a person stands, shower and tub included, so a bulkhead is checked against it before it is drawn.
With the wall open, the valve and drain for the shower go in. The tile layout is planned to fit them, so nothing is cut around them later.
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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.
A new house, a bungalow, a bath, a basement and a kitchen are all finished: three rooms and two whole homes.
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A trough vanity carved from one block, walls of lime plaster, a stone tub set under the window, a shower enclosed by a single glass panel.
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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 Oakville.
What Oakville homeowners ask about bathroom renovations: what it costs, how long it takes and what the city asks for.
An enlarged window is the item owners tend to miss. Oakville lists adding or enlarging a window as an interior alteration, in the same list as adding or relocating plumbing fixtures, so a bigger window and a moved toilet or shower each put drawings and permit work into the budget. Existing sinks, faucets and toilets replaced in place typically need none. Tub or shower work and tile come after that, and pricing waits for those decisions.
A bathroom that keeps its fixtures where they are needs no permit step, while one that moves a toilet or shower adds an application and an inspection. The stages then run in a fixed order: demolition, plumbing and electrical, waterproofing, tile, then vanity and fixtures. A window enlarged for light adds a permit too.
Not for replacing what is already there. The Town treats a toilet, sink or faucet swapped in place, and cosmetic surface changes, as typically permit-free. Relocating plumbing fixtures, or adding or enlarging a window, needs one, and Hanna Homes handles the paperwork when a permit applies.
Yes, and a house with two bathrooms makes it easy: the one being rebuilt is closed from demolition until the fixtures are set while the other stays in use. A house with a single bathroom has no such choice, so the household's plan for that stretch is made before the work is booked. Any of the three rooms stays outside the plumbing permit item if its toilet, shower and vanity keep their current lines.
Yes, with a permit. Oakville lists adding new windows or enlarging existing ones as an interior alteration, so the window is settled with the layout, before any tile is chosen. Cosmetic changes to the surfaces around it typically need none. Hanna Homes prepares the application when the window is part of the plan.
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Before you build,
people in Oakville ask.
What people in Oakville search before bathroom renovations, answered for the town.
The builder does. Hanna Homes prepares the drawings and the application for the Town, and the inspection is booked before the walls close. A bathroom where every fixture stays on its drain has no application at all.
Yes. Oakville lists added plumbing fixtures as an interior alteration, so a new shower, toilet or vanity in a bedroom brings drawings and an inspection. A replaced fixture does not, which is why an ensuite is a permit job and a refresh of an old one often is not.
Not if the new shower sits on the tub's drain, since the Town treats like-for-like replacement as permit-free. Shifting the drain to fit a larger shower base is relocated plumbing, and that moves the job onto the permit side.
Good to know
Good to know
about bathroom renovations in Oakville.
What changes the work in Oakville: the rules, the houses and the ground.
Bathroom renovation permits in Oakville
Oakville's guidance leaves replacements of existing sinks, faucets and toilets outside the permit, along with cosmetic changes to surfaces. Adding or relocating plumbing fixtures, and adding or enlarging windows, are the interior alterations that do need one. In a bathroom the drain decides which side of that line the job falls on. A toilet, shower or vanity that stays put keeps the work outside the permit, and one that moves puts drawings and an inspection into the schedule, so the plumbing plan is fixed before tile is chosen.
Bathroom remodeling in Oakville: what the job includes
The scope is the shower or tub with tile laid to the fixtures, the waterproofing and ventilation behind them, and the vanity and fixtures set to the plumbing. The builder sequences the plumber and electrician so their work is finished before the walls close. Hanna Homes is a licensed builder based in Burlington, 20 minutes' drive from Oakville. The job follows the same five stages as every other, and one builder answers for each of them.
Bathroom remodel in Oakville: cost and timing
Price follows whether the fixtures and drains stay put, how much shower or tub work the room needs, and the tile. In Oakville the first of these also decides whether a permit is part of the job. Timing follows the stages: old fixtures and finishes out, the plumbing and electrical run, waterproofing, then tile, vanity and fixtures. Where a permit applies, the inspection falls before the room is closed up.
Small bathroom layouts in Oakville
A small three-piece bathroom has little room to trade, so the choice usually comes down to light or layout. Oakville counts a window enlarged to bring light into a small room as an interior alteration, with the same permit as a moved fixture, so a plan that relies on a bigger window settles that first. Fixtures left on their current lines are the other half: they add no plumbing item, and the job becomes one of finishes. The smaller scope also matters when this is the only bathroom in the house, because the room is out of use from demolition until the fixtures are set.
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15+ years
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