How long does a bathroom installation take?
Two to three weeks for a full renovation; about one week for a like-for-like swap; four to seven days for a bath-to-shower conversion; two to three weeks for a wetroom. The hidden schedule inside every job is drying time — tanking, adhesive and silicone each need cure windows that cannot be compressed.
A typical full-renovation fortnight: days one to three, strip-out and first-fix plumbing and electrics; day four, boarding and tanking (then the membrane cures); days five to nine, tiling — walls then floor — with adhesive set times between; days ten to twelve, second fix, sanitaryware, glass and lighting; final days, grout, silicone, snagging and the clean. Weather does not matter; drying chemistry does.
What extends it, in frequency order: strip-out discoveries (rot, dead pipework, walls that come off with the tiles — the reason week one ends with a fixed picture of the rest), supply gaps (the missing shower valve stalls everything around it — why we check deliveries before strip-out day, not after), and mid-job changes, which cost double because they undo as well as do.
The one-day and three-day bathroom offers you will see advertised compress the cure times — silicone over damp surfaces, traffic on half-set adhesive. It shows within the year. Two honest weeks beats one fast one and a callback.
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