Milton Bathrooms: From the Builder's Original to a Room You Chose

A full gut-and-rebuild of a standard bathroom typically takes two to three weeks on site. That assumes the tile, vanity, glass and fixtures are chosen and delivered before demolition starts, which is how we schedule it. Two bathrooms done together take less than twice as long because the trades overlap. Permit review, where a permit is needed, happens before the crew arrives and does not add to the time the room is out of service.

If plumbing is moved or added, yes. Converting a tub alcove to a shower with a new drain position, relocating a toilet, or adding a second sink are permit work; replacing fixtures in the same positions with the same connections generally is not. The Town of Milton's building division decides, and we confirm before quoting so the permit is priced in. Applications go through the Town's Citizen Portal; the electrical work is inspected separately by the Electrical Safety Authority.

Usually, yes. A curbless shower needs the floor inside the shower to slope to the drain from a threshold that sits level with the bathroom floor, which means recessing the subfloor in that area or building up the surrounding floor. Both are routine framing tasks in a full renovation. A linear drain along one edge makes the slope simpler and the tile cleaner. Our Milton main-bathroom project story is a curbless shower on an upper floor.

A sloped mortar pan over a liner so water always runs to the drain; a waterproof membrane — liquid-applied or sheet — over every wall, bench and curb surface inside the shower, lapped and sealed at every joint; a manufactured, pre-waterproofed niche rather than a framed one; and a flood test before tile. Tile and grout are not waterproof. The membrane behind them is what keeps the framing dry for the life of the room, and it is the step that gets skipped when a bathroom is done cheaply.

In most Milton houses from the 2000s, yes, and it is usually the right call. The drain, supply and vent positions were set by the builder to work, so keeping the toilet, vanity and shower where they are avoids opening the floor below and keeps the permit scope small. Where a layout genuinely does not work — a door that hits the vanity, a tub nobody uses taking a third of the room — we tell you what moving it costs in disruption before you decide.

In an ensuite, almost always; in the only bathroom in the house, keep one tub somewhere if you may sell to a family. Two of the three Milton projects in our stories replaced a tub with a walk-in shower, and the third replaced a corner jetted tub in the ensuite while keeping a tub option elsewhere. A tub-to-shower conversion inside the existing alcove is the most common Milton bathroom job we do.

Yes, and it is more efficient. Demolition, rough-in and tiling run in parallel across both rooms, the bin and floor protection are set up once, and the house is disrupted for one period instead of two. Our two-bathroom Milton project story did exactly that, and added a tiled fireplace wall and popcorn-ceiling removal on the main floor in the same mobilization.

A free site visit. We measure the room, check the subfloor and the venting, confirm whether your plans need a permit, and talk through tub versus shower, layout and finishes. You get a fixed price for the scope agreed, and a start date that follows the material lead times rather than guessing at them. Call 905-749-4608 or use the form below.