5 Mistakes To Avoid When Renovating Your Bathroom

But there're few things you must keep in mind to get your bathroom upgrade right! If you make the wrong decisions or fail to follow some simple steps, you could potentially have a disaster on your hand with a budget blowout and a remodelled bathroom, adding little to no value to your home.

Let's have a look at five potential traps you must look out for when remodelling your bathroom.

Your bathroom upgrade budget will vary depending on your individual needs, the value of your home, the space you got to work with, and the style of your home. As a rule of thumb, you should target two percent of the current value of your property for your bathroom renovation.

In a family home, the bathroom gets used more; therefore, it needs a more practical design compared to, say, a bathroom for a young couple living in a small, one-bedroom unit. The style of your home can also play an important role. Perhaps investing in an upmarket bathroom setup might be the right thing to do to complement a house that has an overall luxury finish. Regardless of what design you go with, one way to minimise bathroom remodelling costs is to find a reputable tradesperson who is honest and will do your bathroom remodelling at the best possible price. Spending too much on your bathroom facelift is a mistake. Still, it's equally essential to not under-spend, which could potentially make your bathroom facelift look cheap in the eyes of potential buyers one day if you plan to sell your home.

Ask yourself if you need to rip out everything and rearrange your entire bathroom. Perhaps it's possible to achieve an excellent outcome by maybe replacing the tiles and fittings while making just a few cosmetic changes to the rest of the bathroom. Changing the layout of your bathroom, on the other hand, could put you out of pocket by thousands of dollars because of new plumbing and the extra time needed to complete the job.

We all want to cut costs and eliminate unnecessary spending on our bathroom facelift, but selecting a tradesperson purely on price could potentially get you into a whole lot of trouble. It's essential to use tradespeople who are licensed, insured, and frankly know what they're doing. All electrical works and any plumbing must be done by a specialised professional. If not careful, poor workmanship by a tile setter could ruin the entire look of your bathroom due to uneven tiles and gaps.

Also, it's very critical that the bathroom waterproof membrane has to be done by a qualified waterproofer to ensure the correct installation to avoid any potential leaks down the track.

Instead of project managing the bathroom upgrade yourself, you can always have a company experienced in bathroom renovations do the coordination between high-quality tradespeople for you saving you the hassle. 

With so many styles and fittings to choose from, you may get carried away with the latest trends, meanwhile losing focus on functionality. Since trends can come and go, selecting a style that can age reasonably well will maintain the relevance of your bathroom for years to come. You should always aim to be consistent when it comes to choosing the style of your bathroom to that of the home itself. For example, you want to avoid making your bathroom look completely different from the rest of the house unless you plan to do a matching renovation also to your home soon.

Sometimes it's easy to become overconfident of our skills after watching a few youtube videos and the TV home renovation shows. For small jobs like painting, repairing grout, and building storage shelves, DIY can be a viable solution. When there's plumbing, electrical, and waterproofing, it's advisable to leave it in the capable hands of experienced tradespeople.

The advantage of using a licensed tradesperson is that you always have someone to go back to in case if something goes wrong.