How to save money on Bathroom remodeling

You remodel your bathroom for many reasons. Sometimes you remodel the whole wall system of the building, add some floors and give it newer architecture elements and design looks. In such cases, you entirely move the bathroom to another location inside the building. Most of the times, you change the looks of the bathroom, change the plumbing and sanitary system of the bathroom.

Here are some of the ways you can save the cost on bathroom remodeling.

Plan your bathroom with Load Bearing wall unchanged

You will encounter highest cost when you try to shift load bearing wall. While changing a load bearing wall you have to put scaffolds during dismantling. And this process will involve more cost because load bearing walls are thicker than non-loadbearing walls and will have a lot of volume. You have to make sure that you will dismantle non-load bearing walls only during bathroom renovation as far as possible.

Optimize your Electrical and Plumbing System

Most of the times, you don’t have to change your electrical system during bathroom remodeling. Those times involves the bathrooms that were properly planned beforehand. Sometimes, the electrical requirements of a bathroom after renovation increases. For example, new lighting, heating systems may be added later on. For additional electricity, you might have to change the wiring and wire encasing. You can optimize this by calculating the exact wattage of electricity and planning for the wire thickness according to wattage.

Installing and Replacing a Toilet using DIY approach

Replacing a toilet is often considered a Do it yourself job. You can save hefty bill of plumber if you attempt to replace the toilet yourself. If you are installing a new toilet, you have possibility of making a mistake. So don’t attempt to install a new toilet by yourself.

Make sure you don’t change plumbing System

If you are relocating your bathroom to altogether a different location, you must change your plumbing system. But if you are making minor changing or correcting mistakes during bathroom remodeling, you can save your cost by not changing the plumbing system.

Don’t go for an expensive toilet bathroom system until you need it

Toilet bathroom system that have improved functionality have come to the market. These features include remote control system, Bluetooth music, air drying mechanism and many others. If you really have a problem in your bathroom without a Bluetooth music, then you have to go for improved functionality. However, most of the people really don’t need Bluetooth music and other extravagant system and that’s why they don’t require an expensive toilet bathroom system. So, you should satisfy with a limited budget.

Considering replacing only the Toilet Lid

Sometimes, what we do is we tend to replace the whole porcelain of the toilet when the lid is not in place. When you have a broken lid, consider replacing the lid instead of replacing the whole toilet porcelain. This will save the cost of remodeling your bathroom to a great extent.

Arrange your tiles only up to required heights

Tiles in your bathroom doesn’t have to go to the ceiling. Tiles are enough only up to their functional heights. The functional height could be anywhere from 5 feet to 6 feet. After this height, tiles have no functional use. If you want to save money on your bathroom remodeling, you can cut short the height of tile in your bathroom. You could install wooden planks above the tile or you may leave them plastered and painted. It will still give you a good aesthetic look.

Install budget Lights

Lights can make your bathroom beautiful. But you will have lots of cost with those light. Some of you may not think it necessary to have expensive light in your bathroom. If you want more light, you can install cost-effective natural light source like solatube. Such a lighting could save your money and still give you a good looking bathroom.

Have colorful paint that matches your tiles

If you paint your bathroom walls with suitable color that will match the tiles, your bathroom will look very great. It will be a beautiful bathroom at a cheap cost. Don’t underestimate the power of colors to save your precious earning.