Bathroom renovations in Tarragona
The bathroom is the smallest room in the house and the one you step into most often each day. We rebuild it completely — plumbing, waterproofing, tiling and sanitaryware — with the installation properly sorted so damp doesn’t come back.
That bathroom has already been asking for a change
You know it from the small signs: the shower screen with a layer of limescale that won’t shift, the grout line that’s changed colour no matter how hard you scrub it, the shower tray that drains slowly, and that tap that drips at night, when the house goes quiet.
It might be nineties tiles that don’t match anything, or a pedestal basin eating up the little space there is. A bathroom can be patched up for a while, until it stops being worth it. From then on, every loose repair is money down the drain. The honest thing is to open it up and do it properly, once.
What gets properly sorted, where the eye doesn’t reach
A good-looking bathroom with old plumbing behind it is a breakdown waiting its turn. That’s why the first thing we touch is what nobody will see once it’s finished:
- New plumbing from top to bottom: water pipes, drains and the soil stack checked or replaced, with proper falls so everything drains away without puddles or noise.
- Real waterproofing: membrane across the whole wet area, reinforcement at corners and joints, and a watertightness test before a single tile goes up.
- Ventilation against steam: extraction that refreshes the air so damp doesn’t settle into the walls.
In Tarragona this matters twice as much. In the older Eixample flats the soil stacks have decades on them, and near the sea — in El Serrallo or around Llevant — damp bites harder. Sorting it properly now means not having to open the bathroom up again in ten years.
Shower trays, baths and materials that stand up to daily use
With the groundwork sorted, we choose what you see and touch — and this is where it really shows:
- Level-access shower tray, in resin or porcelain, non-slip and easy to clean. No more stepping over the old bath’s rim.
- Large-format porcelain tiles: fewer grout lines, less mould, a wall that reads as more continuous and cleaner.
- Thermostatic taps and sanitaryware from brands you can still get spare parts for, not the kind where you can’t find a replacement part three years on.
- Wall-hung units to gain a sense of space and sweep the floor in one go.
And if you love a bath and actually use it, we’ll fit one: it doesn’t all have to be showers. We decide it on the drawings, according to the size of the room and who lives in the house.
Swapping the bath for a shower, and gaining years of peace of mind
It’s the bathroom change we’re asked for most, and it almost always pays off. Taking out the bath and putting in a level-access shower adds space, removes the step that one day turns into a trip hazard, and leaves a bathroom that’s far easier to use at any age. If there are older people at home, we future-proof it: non-slip flooring, a fold-down seat, grab rails properly anchored where they’re actually needed, and room to step in without dodging anything.
We’re not talking about a hospital bathroom, but the same good-looking bathroom, designed to still work well in twenty years’ time. And when the change is part of something bigger, it fits naturally within a full home renovation.
Tell us what your bathroom is like today and we’ll tell you what we’d change and what we wouldn’t. No messing about.
Frequently asked questions
How many days will I be without a bathroom?
As a benchmark, a complete bathroom renovation takes between two and three weeks of work: demolition, plumbing, waterproofing with its drying time, tiling and fitting the sanitaryware. We tell you the start date and the handover date from the outset, and we sequence the trades so there are no dead days in between.
How do you guarantee the damp won’t come back?
It’s the part of the job we take most seriously. We fit waterproof membrane across the whole wet area, reinforce corners and joints, and run a watertightness test before tiling. We add ventilation so steam doesn’t linger on the walls. It’s all covered by a written guarantee in the contract.
I only have one bathroom at home — how do we manage it?
We plan it so the disruption is minimal: the toilet is the last thing to come out and the first thing to go back in working order. If you have a cloakroom or a second bathroom, we keep it usable throughout the job. We agree the schedule before starting, so you know exactly which days to plan around.
Can I keep the tiles and just change what’s on top?
Sometimes you can tile over the old tiles if they’re solidly fixed and level, and that saves days. But if there’s old plumbing behind them, or any suspicion of damp, covering it up without opening it is just putting off the problem. We check it with you at the site visit and tell you the truth, even when it’s not the answer you were hoping for.
Let’s talk about your renovation.
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