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The Bathroom and Laundry Jobs We Take On
This page lists every kind of bathroom and laundry job Alchemy takes on across Auckland, with a link to the page that covers each one in detail. Nick McKelvie, Licensed Building Practitioner BP1021390 and waterproofing Producer Statement Author PSA127420, runs every job from the first site visit to handover. If you are not sure which page fits your job, call 09 884 6535 and describe the room.
Complete Bathroom Renovations Across Auckland
We strip a bathroom back to the framing and rebuild it: waterproofing, plumbing, electrical, tiling, fixtures and finishing by one team. This is the job most Auckland homeowners call about, and our main page on bathroom renovations in Auckland covers it in full, including the $15,000 to $45,000+ price range and the ten-step process. Choose this when more than one of the tiles, the shower, the vanity and the plumbing needs replacing at the same time.
Small Bathroom Renovations
We renovate small bathrooms where the layout has to earn every centimetre: wall-hung vanities, wet-room showers and storage built into the walls. Older Auckland homes often hide rot or old plumbing behind the lining, which is why a small room can cost more per square metre than a large one. Our small bathroom renovation page covers layouts, tile choices and what to expect on day one.
Ensuite Renovations
We renovate ensuites off the main bedroom, most of them compact and most of them finished in two to four weeks from demolition to handover. Ventilation and a proper waterproof membrane matter more here than anywhere else in the house, because the room sits next to where you sleep. The ensuite renovation page explains the signs an ensuite needs a full rebuild and how we plan one.
Luxury Bathroom Renovations
We build luxury bathrooms for owners who want freestanding baths, rainfall showers, underfloor heating and stone or large-format tile, with the same 15-year waterproofing guarantee behind them. The premium sits in the fittings and the finish, on a build that runs the same way as any other. Our luxury bathroom renovation page shows the finishes we work with and recent Auckland examples.
Villa Bathroom Renovations
We renovate bathrooms in Auckland villas and bungalows, where the floors, wall linings and old plumbing are rarely what you expect once the lining comes off. Keeping the character of the house while bringing the wet area up to the current Building Code is the point of the work. The villa bathroom renovation page sets out the problems these houses bring and how we deal with them.
Commercial Bathroom Renovations
We renovate commercial bathrooms for Auckland businesses, staged so the business keeps trading while the work happens. Accessibility and compliance decide the layout before anything else does, and the fit-out has to survive far heavier use than a home bathroom. Read the commercial bathroom renovation page for how we schedule around opening hours and what a refit involves.
Bathroom Design Auckland
We design bathrooms before we build them: layout, fixture positions, tile selection and a plan the trades work from. A design settles the awkward questions, such as where the drain can go and whether the shower fits without moving a wall, before any money is spent on site. The bathroom design page covers what the design service includes and how it feeds into the quote.
Laundry Renovations
We renovate laundries as a job in their own right or alongside a bathroom, with the same waterproofing and tiling standards, because a laundry floods just as easily as a shower. Small and awkward laundry spaces are the usual brief. The laundry renovation page covers layouts that work in narrow rooms and how we stop mould coming back.
