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Bathroom Renovation · Newmarket, York Region

Bathroom renovations in Newmarket.

Bathroom renovations in Newmarket, whether the room is stripped to the studs or only refreshed: walk-in showers, heated tile floors and custom vanities, built by a licensed, WSIB insured contractor with a 5.0 rating from 50 Google reviews.

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Years in business
15+
Insured & licensed
WSIB
50 Google reviews
5.0★

What’s included

What a bathroom
renovation includes.

Our bathroom renovations in Newmarket cover main bathrooms, ensuites and powder rooms, a bathroom added on the lower floor and old tubs swapped for walk-in showers. The finished room might hold a shower behind glass, a vanity made to measure with deep drawers and a stone top, tile set out on a drawn layout and a warm floor.

  1. Showers and tubs

    Walk-in shower, soaking tub, or the two together, arranged to suit your room.

    • Walk-in showers
    • Soaking tubs
    • Shower glass
    • Waterproofing behind the tile

  2. Vanities and storage

    Cabinets built for a bathroom’s small footprint, so everything has a drawer.

    • Custom vanities and cabinets
    • Full-extension drawers
    • Stone counters
    • Mirrors and lighting

  3. Tile and heated floors

    Tile set out so the cuts fall where you won’t notice them, over a floor that is warm underfoot.

    • Custom tile layouts
    • Heated tile floors
    • Wall and floor tile

  4. Plumbing, electrical and ventilation

    The trades behind the walls, coordinated so the room is opened once.

    • Fixture rough-in and installation
    • Lighting and fan wiring
    • An exhaust fan vented outside

Why Sonce

One contractor,
both sides of the door.

The back door is where most renovators finish and most landscapers begin. We plan the work on both sides and build it.

  1. 15+ years in business

    With over 15 years in business, Sonce Homes works inside the house and outside in the yard.

  2. Licensed and WSIB insured

    Sonce Homes is licensed and WSIB insured. Ask us about the credentials relevant to your project.

  3. Design before construction

    We work through the design with you, with drawings to help you picture the work, before you approve it for construction.

  4. A conversation throughout

    At the outset we talk over your budget and the job with you, and after that you hear from us stage by stage.

With over 15 years in business, Sonce Homes works inside the house and outside in the yard.

Sonce Homes is licensed and WSIB insured. Ask us about the credentials relevant to your project.

We work through the design with you, with drawings to help you picture the work, before you approve it for construction.

At the outset we talk over your budget and the job with you, and after that you hear from us stage by stage.

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Selected Projects

Inside the house.
A closer look.

Choose a scene, then follow its numbered points to the materials beside it. Illustrative scenes to help you picture the possibilities.

Daylit bathroom with a navy double vanity, cream stone tile and a frameless walk-in shower.
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Stone tile, navy, brass

Stone, light and a walk-in shower

A navy double vanity beside a generous shower in warm stone tile.

A clear glass panel keeps the shower open to the room, and a niche for bottles is set into its tiled wall.

On the picture

  1. LightingBrass wall lights
  2. VanityNavy, two basins
  3. ShowerBrass rain head
Plan a project like this: Stone, light and a walk-in shower

Cream cabinetry, oak, stone

A kitchen made for gathering

Cream cabinetry, a navy island and pale stone in a bright family kitchen.

Open oak shelves stand either side of the hood, and black-framed windows wrap the corner of the room.

On the picture

  1. HoodCream, with an oak band
  2. BacksplashHerringbone tile
  3. IslandNavy, slatted oak ends
Plan a project like this: A kitchen made for gathering

Oak, navy cabinetry

A lower level to settle into

A basement lounge with built-in storage and daylight from generous windows.

Strip lighting runs above the shelves, and a desk is built into the same wall beside them.

On the picture

  1. Built-insOak shelves, navy cabinets
  2. DeskSet into the wall unit
  3. WindowsThree, facing the garden
Plan a project like this: A lower level to settle into

Cedar, glass

Cedar behind the glass

A glass-fronted cedar sauna beside a calm wellness space.

Cedar boards line the walls and the ceiling inside and carry on across the wall outside the glass, so the sauna reads as part of the room.

On the picture

  1. CladdingVertical cedar boards
  2. BenchesTwo levels, slatted
  3. HeaterFloor-standing, with stones
Plan a project like this: Cedar behind the glass

Oak, pale stone, navy

An open main floor

A kitchen, dining space and living room connected by warm oak flooring.

Tall windows and a glazed door run the length of the back wall, so the island, the table and the sofa share the same daylight.

On the picture

  1. IslandNavy, pale stone top
  2. Back wallGlazed door, tall windows
  3. FloorWide oak boards
Plan a project like this: An open main floor

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Gallery

Room to imagine.
Details to build on.

Bathrooms, kitchens, basements and saunas. Explore layouts, materials and details for your own home.

Walk-in shower in cream stone tile
Cream shaker kitchen with a deep navy island
Basement recreation room with a wet bar
Outdoor cedar sauna cabin in the yard

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  2. Kitchens1/3

  3. Basements1/3

  4. Saunas1/3

Illustrative scenes for planning your project.

Service area

Close to home.
Across York Region.

Renovation and general contracting from our office in East Gwillimbury. The rings show roughly how long the drive is from there, outside rush hour.

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Towns we serve

38 towns · 6 regions

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Questions

Bathroom renovations in Newmarket:
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What people ask
before they start.

Good to know

Bathroom renovations in Newmarket:
good to know.

Bathroom renovation permits in Newmarket

What changes the answer is whether anything moves. A new vanity on the old drain, fresh tile and a new floor are finishes, and the Town of Newmarket says floor and ceiling finishes typically need no permit. Shift the toilet a metre, give the shower a new drain position or run the fan duct a new way, and the job becomes a mechanical alteration that needs a building permit.

Once a permit is in play, the schedule gains two fixed points: a review of roughly 10 to 15 working days for a complete application, and two days' notice for each mandatory inspection on the reviewed plans. We help with the application and plan the rough-in so the room is ready on the day an inspector comes.

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Pipes, drains and subfloors in older Newmarket houses

Houses in what Newmarket's Official Plan calls the Traditional Suburban area went up from the 1940s to the 1990s, so a bathroom there can be thirty to eighty years old. Old tile coming off can expose a soft subfloor, tired supply lines or framing that has taken on water, and any repair it needs is priced with you as a change before we carry on.

In a bathroom built between the 1940s and the 1990s, the subfloor around the toilet flange and along the tub edge is where water damage shows first. Supply lines and drains may be original or patched from earlier work, and the framing behind an old surround can be soft. We open the room to the framing and renew what needs it before any board or membrane goes up, so the new tile sits on something sound.

From tub to walk-in shower

Turning a tub alcove into a walk-in shower runs in a set order. The tub and its surround come out, and the plumber sets the new drain and valve. If anything moved, the inspection listed on the permit plans is booked with two days' notice, so the inspector sees the work before the floor is built up over it. Then the floor is formed with a fall to the drain, the membrane goes over it and up the walls, and tile, glass and any niche follow. Choosing the glass and the valve before demolition keeps the room out of use for the shortest stretch.

How a bathroom job runs with us

Behind every finished room sit the fixture rough-in, the fan and light wiring, an exhaust fan ducted outside and a waterproof membrane in every wet area. The job itself starts with a conversation and a site measure, then a design with the fixtures, tile and vanity chosen and a budget range agreed with you. Work begins once you approve the design and sign the agreement. You hear from us at each stage, a change partway through is priced in cost and time before it goes ahead, and the job ends with a walkthrough of the finished room.

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Years in business
15+
Insured & licensed
WSIB
50 Google reviews
5.0★