BATHROOM RENOVATION

Bathroom Renovation

A modern bathroom should be both functional and inviting. At Big Boy Enterprises, we specialize in bathroom renovation that transforms your space into something stylish, comfortable, and energy-efficient. Whether you’re looking to upgrade outdated fixtures or completely redesign the layout, we make it happen. Our services are about more than looks. Renovating your bathroom can significantly increase your property’s value, making it a wise choice for homeowners considering future resale. We also tackle common issues like plumbing problems or mold, creating a space that works for your lifestyle.

For homeowners needing focused services, including water heater repair, we ensure that your systems run efficiently and reliably as part of your renovation project. Additionally, we incorporate energy-saving solutions into every design. From water-saving toilets and showers to energy-efficient lighting, our upgrades can lower utility bills while benefiting the environment. As trusted general contractors, we bring a wealth of experience to every job, which allows us to deliver results you’ll love. Book now!

Recent Bathroom Renovations

What a Full Renovation Involves

Demolition and disposal, then any framing changes, then the plumbing and gas rough-in, then inspection where the scope requires it, then insulation and boarding, then waterproofing, then tile, then fixtures, then finishing. Each stage has to be complete before the next starts, which is why the sequence matters as much as the workmanship and why a renovation that loses a week waiting on a subcontracted trade loses it in the middle rather than at the end.

On our projects the plumbing, the gas and the tile are done in house. That is the majority of a bathroom, and it is the reason we can commit to a schedule rather than to an intention. Wider projects are covered on our general contracting page.

Waterproofing Is the Part You Will Never See

It is also the part that decides whether the room lasts fifteen years or four. Tile is not waterproof and grout is not waterproof. Water passes through both, slowly, all the time. What stops it reaching the framing is the membrane behind and beneath the tile, and whether that membrane is continuous, correctly lapped, sealed at every change of plane, and properly integrated with the drain.

A shower built without it looks identical on handover to one built with it. The difference appears years later as a soft floor outside the shower, a stain on a ceiling below, or tile that starts letting go. By that point the repair is the whole room rather than the shower. We build the waterproofing as a system rather than as a product applied to a surface, and it is not the place to save money on a bathroom.

Ventilation, Which Is Usually Wrong

Two faults recur, and they are both common enough to check in your own house. The fan is undersized for the room, so it runs and runs and never actually clears the moisture. Or it is ducted into the attic rather than to the outside, which does clear the moisture from the bathroom and deposits it in the roof space, where it becomes somebody's mould problem in a few winters.

A renovation is the right moment to fix both, because the ceiling is open. Sized correctly, ducted outside in insulated duct, and ideally on a timer or a humidity sensor rather than the light switch, since the moisture leaves the room after you do.

Layout, and When Moving Things Is Worth It

Moving a tap or a vanity is straightforward. Moving a toilet is a different job, because the drain has to fall continuously to the stack and the floor structure decides whether that is possible without opening the ceiling below. Whether that is worth doing depends entirely on what the current layout costs you every day, and it is a conversation worth having honestly at the quote rather than a change decided halfway through.

Ageing in place is worth raising here as well, because it is far cheaper to build in than to retrofit. Blocking in the walls for future grab bars costs almost nothing during a renovation and a great deal afterwards. A curbless shower, a wider door and a comfort-height toilet are decisions, not extras, and they are the difference between a bathroom that works for twenty years and one that works for ten.

Where We Work

Chase

The village housing stock is largely from the seventies and eighties, which puts a great many original bathrooms exactly at the point where patching stops being sensible. These jobs share a shape: a small room built around a plumbing stack in a spot nobody would choose now, a floor that is not flat, and drainage that is early ABS or cast iron. None of that is a problem, but it is all found once the room is open, which is why we look before quoting rather than after.

Kamloops

Forty minutes west. The older North Kamloops and Brocklehurst homes bring a specific complication: galvanized supply pipe still in service behind the wall. A bathroom renovation is the one moment that pipework is accessible, and replacing the supply while the wall is open costs a fraction of what it costs as its own job later. If your water pressure has been quietly getting worse, that is the conversation to have before demolition rather than after tiling.

Salmon Arm

Thirty-five minutes east, and the widest spread of building age in our area. The newer end of it is mostly upgrade work, taking a builder-grade bathroom to a properly specified one, where the plumbing is sound and the value is in waterproofing, tile and fixtures done to a standard the original build did not reach. The older lakeside properties are closer to the Chase pattern.

The Shuswap

Sorrento, Blind Bay, Scotch Creek, Sicamous and the lake communities. Bathrooms in seasonal properties take a specific kind of punishment: heavy use in short bursts by people who are not the owner, then months of no use and often no heat, which is hard on seals, traps and anything that relies on staying wet. Specifying for that is different from specifying for a family home, and so is scheduling it. The work has to fit between the last booking and the first, which in practice means autumn or early spring.

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