Bathroom Remodels service

Côte-Saint-Luc housing is mostly post-war, and that shapes almost every bathroom job we do there. The detached bungalows and split-levels built through the 1950s and 1960s came with one main bathroom and sometimes a half bath, both small, both built with cast iron tubs and original ceramic tile set directly onto mortar. That construction has one advantage and one problem. The advantage is that it was built solidly and much of it is still sound. The problem is that there is no waterproofing membrane behind any of it, because the technique did not exist yet. Once a grout line fails, water goes straight into the wall cavity and nobody knows for years. Removing original tile set in mortar is heavier work than stripping modern tile off drywall. It takes longer, generates far more debris, and occasionally reveals that the studs behind have already taken damage. We price that possibility into the quote rather than discovering it on day two and asking for more money. Accessibility comes up more often in Côte-Saint-Luc than in most areas we work. A lot of residents have been in the same home for decades and want to stay there. The bathroom is usually the first room that stops working for them. Converting a tub to a curbless shower, widening a doorway, setting a bench at the right height, and fitting grab bars into blocking rather than into drywall anchors makes a real difference, and most of it can be done without the room looking clinical. For the apartment and condo buildings along Cavendish, Kildare and Mackle, the constraint is usually the building. Management sets work hours, requires elevator booking for material and debris, and wants an insurance certificate on file. We arrange that before the crew arrives.