The Montford hex-tile bath
A 1923 bungalow bathroom with original hex floor worth saving and a shower pan that had been leaking into the dining room ceiling for years.
- Budget
- $31,400 (sample)
- Timeline
- 4 weeks
Six case studies
Rooms we have taken apart and put back
Each one lists what was wrong before we started, what we did about it, how long it took and a sample budget. The photographs are the easy part.
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Every project, with the real numbers
Budgets shown are sample figures for the scope described. Your room, your house and your selections will move them.
The nine-day shower, Malvern Hills
A single 5 by 8 hall bath in a 1948 cottage, converted from an unused cast iron tub to a full-height tiled shower without moving a wall.
- Budget
- $13,900 (sample)
- Timeline
- 9 days
Vanderbilt Road ensuite
A large 1960s ensuite replanned around two morning routines, with a steam shower, a separated wet area and book-matched stone.
- Budget
- $71,200 (sample)
- Timeline
- 7 weeks
Flat Rock level entry
A curbless shower and widened doorway planned four years before it would be needed, built so nothing in the room reads as medical equipment.
- Budget
- $27,800 (sample)
- Timeline
- 3 weeks
The Haywood Road powder room
Twenty-two square feet under a staircase, finished in hand-glazed zellige and a stone trough basin, in six working days.
- Budget
- $8,600 (sample)
- Timeline
- 6 days
Reems Creek farmhouse bath
A bathroom carved out of a bedroom in the 1950s, rebuilt with a level floor, a proper drain fall and a window in the wet area.
- Budget
- $38,750 (sample)
- Timeline
- 5 weeks
04
The Montford bath, before and after
Drag the handle. The parts that took the longest are the ones neither photograph shows.
BeforeAfter- Before
A 1980s mortar shower pan over felt, leaking quietly into the dining room ceiling below.
- Structure
Subfloor replaced across the wet area and the waste line re-hung to a correct fall.
- Waterproofing
Bonded membrane with banded corners, then a 24 hour flood test photographed at both ends.
- After
Handmade ceramic in a running bond, original 1923 hex floor lifted, cleaned and reset.
Next step
Your room could be the seventh
Send a photograph and rough dimensions and we will tell you which of these projects yours most resembles, and what it is likely to cost.
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