Bathroom Design

Ask your contractor to demonstrate a water-ponding test before tiling — flooding the waterproofed area with a measured water level for 24 to 48 hours and checking for any seepage from below. A contractor unwilling to do this test is a warning sign worth taking seriously.

Yes, but changing the drain or main water supply point involves breaking the floor and typically adds significant cost and time versus keeping the existing plumbing points. Minor changes, like moving a washbasin, are usually straightforward.

Larger format tiles with fewer grout lines tend to make a small bathroom feel less busy and are also easier to keep clean, though they need a genuinely level substrate to lay well.

It keeps the rest of the bathroom drier and reads as more contemporary than a shower curtain, at a meaningful additional cost. In a smaller bathroom it can also make the space feel larger by avoiding a solid partition wall.

Typically 15 to 25 days, with waterproofing curing time being a fixed minimum that cannot be rushed regardless of how quickly other work proceeds. Attempting to compress this timeline is exactly how waterproofing failures happen.