Service
Bathroom renovation
A bathroom is the room where a hidden mistake becomes an expensive one. Almost everything that decides whether it lasts is covered up before you ever see the finish.
Contacting Rawdha starts a review, not a project. Site information is not a quotation, offer, contract or binding price; the inquiry may be declined.
Waterproofing, falls to drainage, pipework and substrate preparation are all concealed by the tiling. A bathroom that looks identical to another can have been built to a completely different standard underneath, and you cannot tell by looking. Our answer is to record the hidden work before it is covered — so what is behind the tile is documented rather than asserted.
How we work
Proof before promise
Know the scope. Know the price basis. Then we build.
We do not compete on a headline figure or a headline duration. We compete on whether you can see what you are buying before you commit to it.
- Existing condition, recorded. What is physically there, written down at survey.
- Findings, stated. Including the ones nobody wanted, because those are the ones that move the price.
- Scope, defined. Item by item, so that "included" is a document rather than a memory.
- Inclusions, exclusions and assumptions, written. What is in, what is deliberately out, and what is being assumed until something is opened.
- Approval considerations, identified. Which permissions apply to your property and who issues them.
- Price drivers, visible. Measured items, named allowances and stated provisional sums rather than one absorbed rate.
- Construction and hidden work, evidenced. Recorded before it is covered.
- Finished result, against the document it started as.
Scope
What bathroom renovation covers
Scope is set per property. This is the range the service works within, not a fixed inclusion list.
- Asset
- RWD-AI-010
- Truth status
- AI-generated illustration — not a photograph, not project evidence
AI-generated illustration of a renovated space. It is not a photograph, not a Rawdha Alaqsa project and not a record of completed work.
- Strip-out and substrate assessment — removing existing tiling, sanitaryware, screeds and waterproofing, and recording the condition of what is underneath.
- Waterproofing — tanking to the wet zones, junctions and upstands, applied to a prepared substrate and recorded before it is covered.
- Falls and drainage — screeds laid to fall towards the outlet, with drainage positions and connections set out before the finishes are ordered.
- First and second fix services — hot and cold supply, waste, ventilation, lighting and power reworked to the new layout and to the specified sanitaryware.
- Sanitaryware and brassware — installed to the manufacturer's requirements, with the services set out to the specific items being fitted.
- Tiling, joinery and finishes — wall and floor tiling, vanity joinery, mirrors, screens, niches and the sealing details at every junction.
Inclusions, exclusions and cost drivers
What moves the figure
Every item below is priced as a measured item, a named allowance or a stated provisional sum. Nothing is absorbed into a rate and recovered somewhere less visible.
What the strip-out reveals
Existing waterproofing, screed condition and the state of the substrate behind the tiles are the single biggest variable in a bathroom price, and they are genuinely unknown until the room is opened.
Whether drainage moves
Relocating a soil connection is a different job from reusing it, and in a slab it can be a structural conversation rather than a plumbing one.
Tile format and layout
Large-format tiles need a flatter substrate, more preparation and more careful setting out; a patterned or mitred layout is more labour than a straight one. The price follows the labour.
Sanitaryware and brassware specification
Wall-hung items need a supporting frame and a service void that floor-standing items do not. That is a construction decision, not just a product one.
Ventilation
Whether an adequate extract route exists, and what has to be built if it does not.
Process
How the work runs, stage by stage
Inquiry review
We read what you have sent, check the property type and the community against what we actually take on, and tell you plainly whether it is work we should be quoting for. An inquiry we should decline is declined here rather than three meetings later.
Site survey and existing-condition record
We attend the property and record what is physically there: service capacity and routes, wet-area construction, substrate condition, structural arrangement, access and waste routes, and whether the household stays in occupation. This record is the input to everything after it.
Findings and defined scope
What the survey found is written down, including the things that were not what anyone assumed. From that, the scope is defined item by item — what is being done, to what, and to what standard.
Price basis: inclusions, exclusions, assumptions
Each item is priced as a measured item, a named allowance or a stated provisional sum. Anything deliberately left out is written as an exclusion. Anything that cannot be known until something is opened up is written as an assumption rather than buried in a rate.
Approval path
We identify which permissions your specific property and scope require and who issues them — authority, master developer, community or utility — and build that route into the programme instead of discovering it during construction.
Mobilisation and protection
Work areas are separated from living areas, routes and finishes that are staying are protected, and the waste route, working hours and service-shutdown windows are agreed before the first tool comes out.
Controlled construction with written changes
Work proceeds against the agreed scope. Anything that departs from it becomes a written instruction stating the scope change, the cost effect and the programme effect, and it is carried out only once you have accepted it.
Hidden-work record
Waterproofing, first-fix services, substrates and anything else about to be concealed is recorded before it is covered, so that what is behind the finish is documented rather than remembered.
Snag list and clearance
We walk the completed work with you, write the snag list down, clear it item by item and record each item as closed rather than treating completion as a verbal agreement.
Handover and documentation
You receive the completion record for the work: the defined scope as built, the written changes, the hidden-work record and the cleared snag list.
Workmanship
What the finished standard looks like
The illustrations below show the type of space and standard of finish this service addresses. They are AI-generated illustrations, not photographs of work we have carried out.
- Asset
- RWD-AI-013
- Truth status
- AI-generated illustration — not a photograph, not project evidence
AI-generated illustration of a renovated space. It is not a photograph, not a Rawdha Alaqsa project and not a record of completed work.
- Asset
- RWD-AI-004
- Truth status
- AI-generated illustration — not a photograph, not project evidence
AI-generated illustration of a renovated space. It is not a photograph, not a Rawdha Alaqsa project and not a record of completed work.
AI-generated illustration These images are AI-generated illustrations of renovated spaces and site activity. They are not photographs, not Rawdha Alaqsa projects and not records of completed work. No client name, project name, address, date or completion claim is attached to them.
Evidence
Published records for this service
Evidence slot pending
No project record is published for this service yet.
A published Rawdha record has to carry the project code, the community and property type, the customer objective, the before condition and findings, the scope with inclusions and exclusions, the approvals, price drivers and changes, the hidden-work and completion record, and exact written publication permission. Until a project completes all of them, this slot stays visibly empty rather than being filled with an anonymous interior.
FAQs
Questions people ask before they write
How do we know the waterproofing was done properly?
Because it is recorded before it is covered. Waterproofing, falls and first-fix services are documented as part of the hidden-work record, and that record is handed over with the completed work. It is the difference between being told it was done and being able to see that it was.
Where do the tiles and sanitaryware come from?
They are specified item by item in the scope document. Where you have already selected a product, it is named. Where a selection is still open, a stated allowance is carried so you can see exactly what has been held and what changing it would cost.
What happens if the strip-out finds something the survey could not see?
That is precisely why the survey writes assumptions down. When the assumption turns out to be wrong, it becomes a written change stating the scope, cost and programme effect, and the work proceeds only once you accept it. Nothing is done first and invoiced afterwards.
How long is a bathroom out of use?
That depends on the scope, the drying times the waterproofing and screeds genuinely need, and the lead time on the specified items. A programme is issued for your bathroom once the scope is defined. We do not publish a fixed duration, because rushing a tanking or a screed cure is how bathrooms fail.
Can you renovate one bathroom while we stay in the house?
Frequently yes, and the sequence is written into the scope rather than agreed week by week — including which bathroom the household uses at which point, and when water is off.
Do bathroom works need approval?
It depends on the property and the exact scope. Moving drainage, altering structure or changing the external appearance usually engages a different route from a like-for-like replacement. We identify which applies to your property before the programme is built.
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Enquiry
Ask about bathroom renovation for your property
Tell us the community, the property type and what you want the finished space to do. We will tell you whether it is work we should be quoting for, and what a survey would need to establish.
Or email info@rawdhaalaqsa.com.
Contacting Rawdha starts a review, not a project. Site information is not a quotation, offer, contract or binding price; the inquiry may be declined.