Toilet renovation in Nieuwegein

A toilet is a small room with a lot of work in it. The drain, the cistern, the walls, the floor and the sanitary ware all have to fit in a few square metres. In a toilet renovation I take those parts one after the other, so nobody has to wait for anybody else.

Fitting a wall-hung toilet or replacing a toilet

A wall-hung toilet hangs on the wall. The floor underneath stays free, which makes cleaning easier and a small toilet feel bigger. The cistern sits in a frame that disappears into the wall or behind a false wall. If you want a smooth wall with no visible cistern, that is the way to go.

A floor-standing toilet stands on the floor and is the smaller job if the wall can stay closed. If all you want is a new toilet in the same place, it is a smaller job: replacing a toilet.

Where the job sits: the drain

When you go from floor-standing to wall-hung, most of the work is in the drain. With a wall-hung toilet the drain has to come into the wall, and if it is now in the floor, something has to be opened up to move it. That is why I look at how the drain runs before I say what the job will be. If the old pipes turn out to need replacing once things are open, we discuss whether I replace them there and then, because replacing pipework is something I do as well.

Fitting a concealed cistern

I have done several toilets with a concealed cistern. The frame goes in first, and only after that do the tiles go on. You cannot reverse that order: a frame that sits behind the tiles does not come out again.

Tiling and flooring in a small toilet

In a small toilet every cut and every grout line shows. So I set out first where the first whole tile goes, especially on a floor with a pattern such as Portuguese tiles. Around the concealed cistern and in the corners is where most of the cutting is.

I have done toilets with a Portuguese tile floor, with dark green wall tiles and a wood-look floor, with large white wall tiles on a dark floor and with walls that are half tiled and painted above. What suits your home we work out on site. More about tiles and floors is under floors and tiles.

Fitting a bidet or urinal

A small hand basin can go in a small toilet too, if there is wall space for it. It has its own water supply and drain, so those have to be in place before the tiles go on.

I fit a bidet in an existing toilet room, connected to water and drainage. You do need space next to the toilet for it.

I fit urinals in commercial premises, offices and restaurants and bars, with the pipework and the tiling around them. In hospitality I plan the work with you, so the place is closed for as short a time as possible. How I handle that is under commercial and hospitality.

The toilet next to the bathroom

If the toilet is next to a bathroom that is also due, it is one job: strip-out, pipework, tiling and sanitary ware in one go. How that works is on the page about bathroom renovation in Nieuwegein. For a whole house or flat, the toilet fits into a complete renovation.

How a toilet fits into a whole home you can see in the house I fitted out completely: the wall opened for a new concealed cistern, the drain reset and the wall-hung toilet mounted on it.

How I go about it

I come and look, measure up the toilet and check how the drain runs. After that you know what is possible and what the job involves, and only then does a quote follow. Send me a photo of the toilet beforehand, and one of the place where the drain goes into the floor or the wall, through the contact page. Then I can already tell you whether a wall-hung toilet will work in your toilet room.