Refurbishment
Hotel bathroom refurbishment and reinstatement, delivered by the same team that surveyed and remediated the room.
Who this is for
The team that surveyed and remediated a room is the team best placed to put it back. We already know what was behind the tiles, what was removed and what condition the structure was left in, so reinstatement follows on directly, with no second contractor to brief and no gap in the programme.
Hotel bathrooms: what we do most
Hotel bathrooms are the refurbishment work we do most, usually reinstating rooms after our own remediation on hotel group contracts.
Bathrooms are one of the most common places in a hotel for hidden leaks to cause mould and timber decay. Failed sealant, leaking traps and wastes, and shower trays that have moved can let water into floors, boxing-in and wall linings for months before anything shows on the surface. When the room is opened up, the repair is rarely just cosmetic.
We handle the whole bathroom:
- Strip-out of sanitaryware, tiling, boxing-in and damaged linings, carried out under the same controls as the remediation.
- Making good the structure: replacing decayed timber and damaged substrates once remediation and clearance are complete.
- Reinstatement: first and second fix plumbing, electrics, wall and floor finishes, sanitaryware, sealing and decoration.
- Handover of a finished room, ready to return to service.
Reinstatement after remediation
Closing up too early is how problems come back. A bathroom retiled over a damp or contaminated substrate can hide the same defect for the next refurbishment to find.
We don’t start reinstatement until clearance testing is acceptable and moisture readings show the structure is dry enough to close up. The clearance results and the reinstatement sit in the same record, so you can see the room was verified before it was finished. See our laboratory tests for the clearance methods we use.
Planned refurbishments
We also take on planned bathroom and room refurbishments where there’s been no remediation. Where we haven’t already surveyed the building, we recommend starting with a pre-refurbishment survey: mould, damp and dry rot found before strip-out can be priced into the programme instead of stopping it.
Working in a trading hotel
We plan bathroom work around occupancy so the rest of the hotel keeps trading, and we report progress room by room.
Trades we coordinate
One project manager coordinates every trade on the job, so you deal with one contractor and one programme.
What you receive
- A scope covering remediation and reinstatement together, priced as one job.
- One project manager and one programme from strip-out to handover.
- Clearance results showing the room was verified before it was closed up.
- A photo-documented record of the works.
- A finished room, ready to return to service.
For the full picture of how survey, remediation and reinstatement fit together under one contractor, see our end-to-end service. For hotel groups specifically, see hospitality and hotel groups.
Common questions
Do you only refurbish rooms you've remediated?
No. Most of our refurbishment work follows our own remediation, particularly in hotel bathrooms, but we also take on planned refurbishments. Where we haven't surveyed the room ourselves, we can start with a pre-refurbishment survey so hidden defects are found before strip-out rather than during it.
Why use the remediation contractor for the refurbishment?
Because the team that removed the contamination knows exactly what was found, what was taken out and what condition the structure was left in. There's no handover to a second contractor, no gap in the programme between clearance and reinstatement, and one point of accountability for the finished room.