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 Burlington
Bathroom renovation in Burlington, for ensuites, main baths and powder rooms. The plumbing and waterproofing go in first, and the tile, vanity and fixtures come last.
- Years building
- 15+
- Houses completed
- 300+
- Rated
- 5★
What’s included
What a bathroom
renovation includes.
A bathroom renovation covers the surfaces you see, and the waterproofing, ventilation and plumbing behind them.
Showers, tubs and tile
Showers and tubs for ensuites and main baths, with tile laid to the fixtures. A tub can be replaced with a walk-in shower.
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
The vanity and fixtures go in after the tile, set to the plumbing plan so drains and valves are already where they need to be.
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
Drawings fix the drain, valve and tub or shower positions. Any permit application is made from them.
- 02
Structure
Old fixtures and finishes come out and the new layout is set, ceiling height included.
- 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 the fan first, then tile, vanity and fixtures.
- 05
Handover
The fixtures, drains and fan are run before the bathroom is handed back for use.
Why Hanna Homes
Why one builder
for all of it.
A bathroom is small and wet, so the order of the hidden work matters more than the size of the room.
Drains and vents are tested before fixtures are set or pipes covered, so a leak shows while it is still easy to reach.
The shower and tub areas are waterproofed before any tile goes on, because the tile covers them once it is up.
Ceiling height has to hold where a person stands, shower and tub included, so a bulkhead is checked against it before it is drawn.
The shower valve and drain are placed while the wall is open, and the tile layout is drawn to them, not 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.
Two whole homes and three rooms, each one finished: a bungalow, a new house, a kitchen, a bath and a basement.
01Bathroom Renovations
A primary bath in honed limestone.
Lime-plastered walls, a stone tub under the window, a trough vanity cut from one block and a shower behind a single glass panel.
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to the basement.
Every service, from the street to the basement. Tap a picture to see it whole.Whole homes from the street, then kitchens, bathrooms and basements. Open any picture to see it whole.
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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
about bathroom renovations.
What people ask about bathroom renovations first, then about Hanna Homes itself. The short answer is on every line.
What moves the cost is the kind of bathroom and how much plumbing changes. A powder room with fixtures swapped in place is a smaller job than a main bath where the drain moves or a tub becomes a walk-in shower. Tile area, the waterproofing system, and the vanity and fixtures chosen set the rest.
Tile cannot start until the drain test has passed and the surround is waterproofed, so those two steps set the order more than the tiling does. Moving a fixture adds a permit step before demolition, and a tub-to-shower change adds a waterproofed floor and walls. The walls stay open until inspections pass.
Only if the plumbing changes. Painting, decorating, millwork and fixtures replaced with the same type in the same place need no permit. A moved shower drain or a tub changed to a shower does need one from the City, and new wiring for a fan or lights needs an ESA notification.
The tub comes out, a shower drain is set in its place or moved, and the floor and walls are waterproofed before new tile. A shower is a different type of fixture from a tub, so under Burlington’s list the swap needs a building permit. The builder coordinates the plumbing and any electrical for a new fan or lights.
A bathroom above grade needs 2,100 mm of ceiling height wherever a person would normally stand. The shower and tub areas count, so a low spot over the tub end or inside the stall matters as much as the middle of the room.
Yes. Hanna Homes Construction is a licensed builder, and the same licensed builder takes on the whole project, whether it is one room, a whole home or a new house.
Hanna Homes Construction is based in Burlington and builds within about an hour's drive of it, in places including Hamilton, Oakville, Ancaster, Milton, Mississauga, Cambridge and Kitchener. If your house is close to that drive but not on the list, ask.
Call Hanna Homes Construction on (519) 897-8564 and say where the house is and what you have in mind: a room, an addition, a whole-home renovation or a new house. That first call is where a project starts.
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Before you build,
people also ask.
What people search before bathroom renovations, answered by the builder.
Small tile. The floor falls toward the drain, and small pieces follow that fall with fewer awkward cuts. Larger tile suits the walls. The drain position is known before the tile is chosen.
The electrical contractor doing the wiring files a notification of work with ESA, and it goes in before the wiring starts. A building permit does not replace it.
Yes, if it is planned early. A niche or bench is framed and waterproofed together with the surround, so it goes on the plan before the walls close and not into finished tile.
Good to know
Good to know
about bathroom renovations in Burlington.
A bathroom hides more work than it shows: the drains and the waterproofed surround are out of sight for good once the tile is up.
Bathroom renovation permits in Burlington
In Burlington a plumbing fixture replaced with the same type in the same location needs no building permit. A toilet swapped for a toilet in its old spot qualifies, and so do painting, decorating and millwork.
Moving the toilet, relocating the shower drain, or turning a tub into a walk-in shower changes a fixture’s place or type, which puts the plumbing under a building permit. New wiring for a fan or lights is a separate step with its own notification.
Source: Burlington: do I need a permit?
Bathroom remodeling in Burlington: ensuite, main bath, powder room
The kind of bathroom changes the hidden work. A powder room has no shower, so there is no surround to waterproof. An ensuite or main bath has one, and a main bath that keeps its tub has the tub surround to waterproof and tile as well.
A small three-piece bathroom puts a toilet, a vanity and a shower or tub in one tight room, with little space to move a fixture. Keeping the drain where it is limits how much of the plumbing changes.
Drains tested, waterproofing, then tile
In a shower the floor is built with its fall to the drain before the waterproofing goes over it, so the tile that follows is laid on a floor that already drains. The vanity and fixtures are set last.
The Building Code requires a roughed-in drain and vent system to be tested before fixtures are installed or piping is covered. The test is a hold point: tile cannot start until it passes, so a leak turns up while the walls are still open.
Bathroom lighting, fan and ceiling height
A new fan or new lights mean electrical work, and ESA requires a notification of work before it starts. It is its own step on the schedule, ahead of any wiring.
Lights and the fan are placed on the plan before the walls close. Standing height has to hold in the shower and tub areas, so the lights over them are chosen with that height in mind.
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Burlington, Ontario
15+ years
Building
300+ houses
Completed