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25 July 2026

A Guide to Bathroom Renovation: Sequence of Works, Timescale and Where the Budget Goes

The bathroom is the smallest room in the house and the most expensive per square metre. The reason is not the price of tiles but the number of systems stacked on top of one another in a confined space. In this guide we approach bathroom renovation through three questions: in what order the work is done, where the money actually goes, and what stretches the programme.