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Hills Plumbing & Gas
Inland
Arundel, Gold Coast QLD

Bathroom Renovations in Arundel

Established residential housing on town water and sewer. Hills Plumbing & Gas covers Arundel for bathroom renovations, fixed-price quoting, 24/7 emergency, workmanship guarantee in writing.

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Bathroom Renovations in an inland suburb like Arundel

Arundel's housing is 80s and 90s family stock, and the original bathrooms are at the end of their life. The beige-and-apricot fitouts that went in when these estates were built have done their thirty years: cartridges failing, grout gone, layouts that waste half the room. Hills Plumbing & Gas renovates them on a fixed written price, with a workmanship guarantee in writing and a 24/7 line on 0472 657 042. The good news about renovating in Arundel is what we usually do not find. Town water, town sewer, sound slab drainage and in-wall copper that has never seen salt air. Strip-outs here are predictable, which means quotes here are reliable. The job is about the bathroom you want, not the problems hiding behind the old one.

Bathroom Renovations across Arundel

Arundel plumbers covering the residential estates between Parkwood and Coombabah, a relatively young suburb with mostly 1990s-2010s family housing on standard 500-700 m² estate lots. The Arundel State School and Arundel Plaza precinct anchors the family-housing core, with the Gold Coast Sports Precinct and Arundel Hills Country Club shaping the western side of the suburb. The light-rail extension along Olsen Avenue has lifted activity around the Parklands area.

What we typically see in Arundel specifically

Arundel's housing is newer on average than most Gold Coast suburbs, so original in-wall infrastructure is still serviceable. The most common jobs are tapware upgrades, hot water replacements as 15-20 year old builder-grade units reach end-of-life, gas BBQ point installs and bathroom renovations as original fitouts age out. Estate properties around Arundel State School often need warranty fit-off follow-up where the original builder's plumber used the cheapest mixer cartridges, replacements are constant. Lower-lying lots near the Coombabah Lake catchment see slow-running gully drains and stormwater pit clearing after heavy rain due to the higher water table.

How the bathroom renovations job runs in Arundel

A typical Arundel reno runs three to five weeks strip-out to fit-off, with our plumbing work spread over about four visits:

  • Strip-out and disconnection of the original fitout, or coordination with your builder's demo
  • Drainage check. Keeping the layout means reusing sound drainage with new fittings. Moving the toilet or shower means coring the slab and setting new drainage at proper fall.
  • Hot and cold rough-in, isolation valves at every fixture
  • Pressure test before the walls close, every joint proven before the tiler arrives
  • Set-out with your tiler for niches, floor wastes and mixer centres
  • Fit-off after waterproofing and tiling, final test, written workmanship guarantee handed over

Pricing for bathroom renovations in Arundel

Realistic ranges for an Arundel reno:

  • Plumbing portion, same-layout refresh: quoted on inspection, below the mid-tier band
  • Plumbing portion, mid-spec refit: $6,000 to $9,000
  • Plumbing portion, premium fitout: quoted on inspection above the mid-tier band
  • Moving the toilet or a wet area: adds $1,500 to $4,000 plus
  • Whole renovation, all trades: $18,000 to $25,000 basic, $28,000 to $40,000 mid, $45,000 to $70,000 plus premium

Arundel quotes hold better than coastal ones because the surprises are rare, but we still recommend a $2,000 to $3,000 contingency, mostly for drainage discoveries in the earlier 80s streets.

Why Arundel homes call Hills Plumbing & Gas

  • Gold Coast plumber, 13+ years experience in the trade, Arundel jobs are part of our weekly schedule
  • Plumbing licence through the QBCC plus a gas fitting licence, insured, gas certs issued same day
  • Fixed price quoted in writing before the first spanner comes out, no surprise invoices
  • Real after-hours line, same number day or night, person on the other end
  • Written workmanship guarantee handed over at the end of every job

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Common questions

Things Arundel homeowners ask us about bathroom renovations

Do I need a waterproofing certificate for a bathroom renovation?Yes. Queensland requires a waterproofing compliance certificate for any new or replaced bathroom membrane, issued by the licensed waterproofer who applied it under AS 3740. Waterproofing is licensed work in Queensland, so an unlicensed membrane cannot be certified. In our experience, missing certificates surface most often at insurance claim and house sale time, so keep it with your renovation paperwork.Read more →What causes bathroom leaks after a renovation?Most bathroom leaks after a renovation come from failed or skipped waterproofing, a floor that does not fall to the waste, or poorly sealed penetrations. Other culprits are movement cracking at the wall-to-floor junction, a badly connected waste or trap, and membrane tiled over before it cured. Older coastal homes add corroded in-wall pipework. Get it diagnosed properly rather than re-siliconed and hoped over.Read more →What is the correct floor fall for a shower?Bathroom floors in Queensland are graded to a fall of 1:60 to 1:80 under AS 3500, roughly 12mm to 16mm of drop per metre. The shower area is set slightly steeper so water reaches the waste instead of pooling at the screen. On the Gold Coast, most of the pooling showers we attend were tiled before anyone checked the falls, and the fix is a re-screed, not more silicone.Read more →
FAQs

Bathroom Renovations in Arundel, common questions

Do I need a waterproofing certificate for a bathroom renovation?+
Yes. Wet-area waterproofing in Queensland must be done by a licensed waterproofer to AS 3740 and certified in writing, applicator, membrane product and date. File it with your house documents. In estates like Arundel where plenty of neighbours are renovating identical bathrooms, that certificate is also what separates a compliant reno from a cheap one at resale time.
What causes bathroom leaks after a renovation?+
Skipped or failed waterproofing, floors without proper fall, unsealed penetrations, a badly made waste connection, and membranes that were tiled over before they cured. In 80s and 90s Arundel homes the underlying pipework is rarely the culprit, so a post-reno leak here almost always points back at workmanship. That is exactly why we pressure test before sheeting and hand over a written guarantee, so the accountability is on paper.
What is the correct floor fall for a shower?+
Around 1:60 to 1:80 to the floor waste, which is 12mm to 16mm of drop per metre, with the shower area graded a touch steeper. It is set in the screed under AS 3500 before any tile goes down, and getting it wrong means lifting the floor to fix it. Plenty of original 90s bathrooms were screeded flat and pooled water for decades. The reno is where that gets corrected for good.
My Arundel bathroom is the 90s original. Full renovation or just new fittings?+
At thirty years, usually the full job. Swapping tapware onto original tiles and original waterproofing spends real money without fixing the parts that are actually ageing out. A full reno resets waterproofing, falls and fittings in one hit, and in Arundel it is the highest-value room to bring up to date, because most buyers here are comparing near-identical 90s floor plans and the renovated bathroom is what separates them.
Can we turn the 90s bathroom-plus-separate-toilet layout into one bigger bathroom?+
Very often, yes, and it is one of the most requested changes in these floor plans. Removing the dividing wall and bringing the toilet into the main room means new drainage positions, which involves coring the slab and adds $1,500 to $4,000 plus to the plumbing. Done as part of a full reno it turns two cramped rooms into one properly sized bathroom.
The builder-grade mixers in our estate keep failing. Will the new ones do the same?+
Not if the reno specs them properly. A lot of Arundel estates were fitted with the cheapest cartridges the original builder's plumber could buy, and we replace them constantly. Mid-range tapware from Phoenix, Methven or Caroma on trade supply costs little more at reno time and outlasts builder-grade by years. We supply at trade pricing or fit what you have bought, either way you get the recommendation list up front.

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