One contractor for the whole bathroom — design, strip-out, waterproofing with a flood test, tiling and stone, plumbing and electrics, showers and glass, vanities built in our own workshop, and every fitting named on the quotation. Book a free site visit.
Everything above was built by Halo. We do not publish client names or addresses without written permission, so rather than inventing case studies the notes below describe the three bathroom situations we are called about most, and how each one is handled.
The problem: A stain on the ceiling of the apartment below, an annoyed neighbour and a building manager already involved. How we approach it: Investigate before demolishing, establish whether it is the membrane or a waste connection, then strip out, re-tank, flood test and rebuild — with the record handed to the building.
The problem: A 2000s master bathroom with a corner jacuzzi nobody has filled in a decade, beige tiling and a vanity that has swollen at the base. How we approach it: Remove the bath, form a proper walk-in shower, run one large-format tile across floor and walls, and rebuild the vanity in moisture-resistant board.
The problem: A Marina or JLT apartment where the WC cannot move, the room is under four square metres, and the building restricts working hours. How we approach it: Design to the stack, go wall-hung to free the floor, use one tile everywhere to stop the eye counting edges, and keep site time short.
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Halo covers the whole bathroom: design, demolition, waterproofing, plumbing, electrics, tiling, stone, glass, joinery and fittings. Take all of it, or the piece you actually need — a shower conversion or a waterproofing renewal is a perfectly reasonable project on its own.
Bathrooms are the hardest small rooms to plan, because every fixture has a service behind it and none of them move easily. We survey the room, find the soil stack, check the floor build-up you have to work with, then set out the layout in 3D — shower against bath, vanity width, door swing, where the towel actually hangs. Getting this right on paper is far cheaper than discovering it in tiles.
Everything out, back to the slab and blockwork, then rebuilt. Old tiles, screed, sanitaryware and vanity removed and disposed of, chases cut for new services, walls made good, waterproofing applied and tested, floors screeded to falls, and the room finished with tiling, fittings, joinery, lighting and glass. This is what most people mean when they search for bathroom remodeling in Dubai.
This is the part nobody sees and everybody eventually pays for. Cementitious or liquid-applied membrane, taken up the walls to the correct height, with corner bands, pipe collars and puddle flanges at every penetration. Then it is flood-tested and held before anything covers it. Most bathroom leaks in Dubai apartments are not plumbing failures — they are membranes that stopped 100mm too low or were never tested.
Large-format porcelain, book-matched slabs, marble, mosaic, zellige, terrazzo, microcement. The material matters less than the setting out: full tiles at eye level, cuts pushed to the corners, floor falls that actually take water to the drain, and grout joints that line through from wall to floor. Anti-slip ratings are specified for shower floors rather than left to chance.
Walk-in showers are what almost everyone asks for now, and they are the detail most likely to leak if the fall, the linear drain and the glass junction are not coordinated. We build formed shower floors to falls, install linear or point drains, and template the glass on site after tiling so the panel actually fits the room rather than the drawing. Freestanding baths, alcove baths and shower-over-bath arrangements are all handled the same way.
Concealed cisterns with proper access, wall-hung WCs on a rated frame, shattafs plumbed correctly, thermostatic mixers, rain heads and hand showers. We work with Grohe, Hansgrohe, Duravit, Villeroy & Boch, Geberit, RAK and Kohler among others — and we will tell you where a mid-range fitting performs the same as a premium one, because in a guest bathroom it often does.
Vanities are made in our own Al Quoz workshop from moisture-resistant board with sealed edges, because standard furniture board in a Dubai bathroom swells within a year. Basin cut-outs, stone or solid-surface tops, drawer runners that clear the waste trap, backlit or demister mirrors, tall storage and niches formed during the blockwork rather than chiselled in afterwards.
Hot and cold feeds, waste runs, floor drains, water pressure, and the concealed shut-off valves that mean a future repair does not involve breaking tiles. Moving a WC is limited by the soil stack and the fall available in the floor build-up — we check both at the survey and tell you honestly what the room will allow before you fall in love with a layout it cannot take.
IP-rated downlights where they belong, mirror lighting at face height rather than overhead, and a shower zone that is lit properly instead of dramatically. Extraction is sized for the room and ducted somewhere that actually works — a fan spinning into a ceiling void does nothing for humidity. Moisture-resistant gypsum, stretch ceilings and access hatches for the concealed cistern and valves.
The small ones are worth doing well. A powder room is the bathroom your visitors actually use, and it is small enough that a book-matched slab wall or a strong basin is affordable in a way it would not be in a master ensuite. Maid’s bathrooms and pool WCs get the same waterproofing and the same fittings standard, because a leak from a small room floods just as much floor.
A bathroom is the smallest room in the house and the one with the most trades in it. When they are booked separately the sequence breaks: the tiler arrives before the membrane has cured, the glass is measured off a drawing rather than the finished wall, and nobody was there to check the floor actually falls to the drain.
Halo designs it, strips it, waterproofs and tests it, runs the services, tiles it, builds the vanity and fits it out — one contract, one project manager.
Book a Free Bathroom Site VisitSurvey, layout, 3D views, tile setting-out drawings and fixture selection against real samples.
Chasing, screeding to falls, membrane application and a flood test recorded before tiling begins.
Feeds, wastes, drains, IP-rated circuits and ventilation resolved before anything is closed up.
Tiling, glass, joinery, fittings, silicone, testing, snag close-out and a clean room at the end.
Bathroom quotations are the hardest of any room to compare, because most of the money goes into work you will never see again once the tiles are on. These are the five things worth testing on any bathroom renovation company you shortlist — this one included.
Membrane, banding, collars, flood test — on every bathroom, in every property, whether it is a master ensuite or a maid’s WC. It is the single most common corner cut in Dubai bathroom work, and the one that costs the most to put right two years later when the ceiling below stains.
Demolition, plumbing, waterproofing, tiling, glass, joinery, electrics and fittings under a single contract. Nobody is waiting on someone else’s subcontractor, and there is one person to call when you want to know what happened today.
Tiling area in square metres, waterproofing system named, sanitaryware brand and model listed, glass thickness stated, vanity specification written out. Put it next to another bathroom renovation quote and you will finally be comparing the same job.
Apartment bathrooms are the scope buildings scrutinise most, because a wet-area alteration above someone else’s ceiling is their risk too. Our approvals team submits the contractor documentation, insurances and any drawings required.
Almost three decades of bathrooms in this climate — hard water, high humidity, thin floor build-ups and buildings with rules. We are still here, and still reachable when something needs adjusting.
Two bathroom quotations can land within a few thousand dirhams of each other and describe completely different standards of work. Most of the difference ends up buried under the tiles. Here it is, line by line.
Bathroom conversations start with a saved photo and end with a drainage detail. Below is the range Halo actually builds — the bathrooms we renovate, the shower and bath arrangements that work in Dubai properties, the finishes our teams deliver, and the fittings worth reading closely on any quotation. What decides your layout is listed underneath, and it is technical rather than aesthetic.
Every bathroom in a Dubai home has a slightly different brief. These are the ones we are asked for most, and they all get the same standard of waterproofing underneath.
What the room can take depends on the floor build-up and the drain position more than on preference — but these are the arrangements that work here.
The style changes the tile, the brassware finish and the joinery. The waterproofing, the falls and the drainage do not change at all.
The specification list where budgets are genuinely decided — and the part of a quotation most worth reading closely.
Two bathrooms of identical size in the same building can carry very different designs. These are the five constraints we check at the site visit, and any one of them can rule out a layout on its own.
A WC has to reach the stack with adequate fall. In apartments this is usually fixed, and it is the constraint that decides most bathroom layouts before anything else does.
Level-threshold wet rooms and linear drains need depth. If the slab-to-threshold dimension is not there, the design has to change rather than the physics.
A fan needs a duct route to somewhere real. If the only route is into a ceiling void, the humidity stays in the room and the grout pays for it.
Lighting, shaver points, mirror circuits and heated rails all have zone restrictions around water. It is not negotiable and it affects where things can go.
Towers restrict wet-area alterations differently, and some require inspection of the waterproofing. The permitted scope is confirmed before the design is signed off.
We measure the room, locate the soil stack, check the floor build-up and look at what the building will allow you to change.
Layout options, 3D views, tile setting-out, and selection of sanitaryware, brassware, stone and glass against real samples.
A line-by-line quotation against a written scope, with the programme attached. Nothing is ordered until you sign it.
Contractor documentation, insurance and access permits submitted to your tower or community office where required.
Demolition, chasing, first-fix plumbing and electrics, screeding to falls, membrane applied — then flooded, held and checked.
Tiling and stone, glass templated and fitted, vanity and sanitaryware installed, silicone, testing, snags closed and a final clean.
Here is the honest shape of it, because a website that refuses to mention money is not much use when you are trying to budget. Bathroom renovation in Dubai generally falls within the ranges below — indicative market figures for planning, not a quotation.
Tiled area and tile specification set the baseline. After that it is the sanitaryware you choose and whether the fixtures move — relocating a WC pulls in the soil connection, the fall and often the floor build-up, and that is where bathroom budgets quietly go.
So treat the ranges above as a starting point. After the site visit you get an itemised proposal against a defined scope, with the waterproofing system named and every fitting listed — which is what makes it comparable to anyone else’s.
Bathrooms are priced by wall and floor square metreage before anything else. Full-height tiling costs noticeably more than tiling to a datum.
Standard porcelain, large-format slabs, book-matched marble and mosaic sit at very different points, and the harder ones cost more to cut and lay.
The gap between a competent mid-range suite and a designer one is often larger than the gap in the rest of the room combined.
Keeping the WC where it is saves real money. Relocating it means the soil connection, the fall and often the floor build-up all change.
Full tanking with a flood test on a large wet room is a different scope to a shower enclosure treated on its own.
Lift bookings, restricted hours, waste removal routes and water isolation windows all affect how the work has to be resourced.
Three to five weeks on site for a single bathroom, six to nine weeks from signed quotation once design, selections and procurement are counted. The phases below are what we plan against. Waterproofing has a curing and testing period that cannot be compressed, and it is the one week nobody should be talked into skipping.
Phases overlap. Procurement runs alongside approvals and design, so adding the ranges together does not give you the project duration.
Most of a bathroom renovation ends up hidden. These are the commitments that sit around the work — including the one that proves the hidden part was done.
Nothing comes off the wall until the scope and the itemised quotation are signed. If the substrate turns out worse than it looked — which in older Dubai bathrooms it sometimes does — the extra work is priced and approved in writing first.
The waterproofing is flooded, held and checked before tiling, and we photograph it. You get the record. It is the only evidence that the most important layer in the room was actually done.
Mobilisation, waterproofing signed off, tiling and fittings, then completion. Each release is against work you can inspect, so you are never paying substantially ahead of progress.
A named project manager coordinates the demolition crew, the plumbers, the tilers, the glass fabricator and the fit-out team, books the lift, and is the number you call.
Halo submits as a licensed contractor with the documentation towers and community offices expect — which matters more for wet-area work than for almost anything else.
Silicone moves, a mixer needs adjusting, a drain wants clearing. The team stays contactable, and Halo has been at the same Dubai address since 1996.
Almost every bathroom client stays in the property. It is manageable — the trick is planning the practical side before day one instead of improvising on day three. These are the controls we put in place, and the right combination depends on your home and your building.
Where the home has more than one, we sequence the works so the family never loses every bathroom at the same time.
A defined path from the lift or front door, boards over finished floors, and screening at the bathroom doorway.
Tile removal is the loudest, dustiest day of the job. It is screened, extracted at the tool, and scheduled inside permitted hours.
Isolation is arranged with building management, timed into one short window, and the rest of the home stays supplied.
Lift bookings, permitted hours, weekend restrictions and waste routes are agreed before the first day on site.
Pick the one that sounds like your situation. The site visit confirms the scope from there.
Master ensuites, family bathrooms, guest WCs and maid’s bathrooms — often several at once, sequenced so the household keeps one working throughout.
Plan a Villa BathroomTower rules, restricted hours, lift bookings and a soil stack you cannot move. We work inside those limits and handle the building NOC.
Discuss an Apartment BathroomCompact rooms where wall-hung fittings, a slimmer vanity and better lighting buy back the space a bath was wasting.
Price a Small BathroomFor bathrooms that are already staining a ceiling below. Investigation, strip-out, new membrane, flood test and a rebuilt room.
Report a Bathroom Leak
We engaged Halo Interiors for a turnkey renovation project at our property in Dubai Creek Harbour. Halo handled the entire project including design, procurement, permits, and execution of the works. Halo worked to a tight deadline and delivered a stunning design, which they then implemented to a very high standard. The quality of execution was head and shoulders above anything else I have seen in Dubai, with attention to every detail and very thorough quality control. As a client, I also felt that Halo were very honest in our dealings and this really made a difference. The pricing was also competitive and fully transparent. I cannot recommend Halo highly enough.
See full Google reviewI am so thankful Jason and Zishan from Halo for their help to conduct a property inspection and support us in how to handle a renovation project that went terribly wrong. If I could do things over again, I would have consulted with Halo prior to our renovation project and would have asked for their guidance and project management support. There are a lot of shady contractors in Dubai apparently and these guys are the only honest people you can rely on. I would give them 6 stars if I could!
See full Google reviewWe have had the pleasure of working with Halo Interiors on three different projects, and the experience has been nothing short of exceptional. Our clients have praised the quality and service provided, and we have not faced a complaint. Their premium quality joinery speaks for itself. A special mention to Huzefa, the project manager, who expertly handled our most recent renovation. I highly recommend Halo Interiors to anyone seeking top-notch craftsmanship and reliable service.
See full Google reviewWe contracted Halo for our first villa upgrade project in early 2022 and we have been using their services since then. I cannot but help appreciate the extra effort they take to ensure all our requirements are addressed. Extremely professional and reliable. I would recommend them without hesitation!
See full Google reviewHalo renovates bathrooms in villas, apartments and townhouses right across Dubai — from Emirates Hills and Palm Jumeirah to Marina towers, Downtown apartments, Arabian Ranches, Dubai Hills, Jumeirah, Mirdif and Al Khawaneej. Wet-area work is the scope buildings look at hardest, so access rules, permitted hours and what you are allowed to change are confirmed for your address before the programme is fixed.
Halo works with homeowners, interior designers and developers across Dubai, and has delivered projects for Dubai Properties, Jumeirah, Majid Al Futtaim, One&Only, Rotana, Sheraton and Siemens.
Community not listed? Send the location and a photo of the bathroom — the process is the same wherever you are in Dubai.
Check My CommunitySome people renovate because the room looks tired. Just as many do it because something behind the tiles has already started going wrong.
A failing membrane in an apartment does not damage your bathroom — it damages the ceiling of the unit below, and that becomes a building matter very quickly. Renovation is when it gets fixed properly.
Removing a rarely used bath, moving to a wall-hung WC and a slimmer vanity, and losing a bulkhead can make a small Dubai bathroom feel a size larger without touching a wall.
Bathrooms and kitchens are the two rooms buyers and tenants judge hardest here. A dated bathroom quietly discounts an otherwise good apartment at every viewing.
Undersized extraction and ducting that goes nowhere are why bathrooms here grow mould in the grout. Sizing the fan and giving it somewhere to discharge solves it at source.
Dubai water is hard, and it shows on chrome, glass and grout within months. Better brassware finishes, treated glass and epoxy grout in the wet zone make the room far easier to keep looking new.
Correct anti-slip ratings, a level threshold instead of a step, thermostatic valves that will not scald, and grab provision where an older family member needs it.
Bathrooms attract more scrutiny than any other room in a Dubai renovation, and for a sensible reason: the consequences of getting a wet area wrong land on somebody else’s ceiling. What you need on paper depends on your building and on how much you are changing. We identify the route at the site visit and handle the submissions.
Most Dubai towers and gated communities require a works NOC, a licensed contractor and valid insurance before access is granted — and bathrooms are looked at more closely than any other room.
Moving a WC, a floor drain or a waste run may require drawings and approval. What is permitted depends on the stack layout, the slab and the building’s own rules.
Some buildings ask to inspect the membrane or see the flood-test record before tiling. We plan for that rather than being surprised by it.
Turnkey fit-out with tiling and stone installation
Tile and screed waste is heavy. Lift protection, service-lift bookings, disposal routes, permitted hours and access passes are arranged in advance.
Licensed contracting, site supervision and vanity joinery handover
There are a lot of bathroom contractors in this city, and the cheapest quotation is cheap for a reason that is usually invisible. Six questions worth asking every one of them — us included.
If the quotation just says "waterproofing", you have no idea what is going on your floor — or whether it will be tested.
The membrane system is named on the quotation, applied with bands and collars, then flood-tested and photographed before tiling.
A membrane that has not been tested is an assumption. Testing costs a day and saves a ceiling.
Every Halo bathroom is flooded, held and checked before tiling, with the record handed to you.
"Premium European fittings" is a marketing phrase, not a specification, and it is where budgets get quietly recovered.
Every fitting is named on the quotation with its brand and model, so you can price-check it yourself.
Falls, traps, drain positions and access provision are the difference between a bathroom that works and one that smells.
Our own MEP team handles feeds, wastes, drains and extraction under the same contract and project manager.
Wet-area alterations are the scope Dubai buildings scrutinise most, because the risk sits with the apartment below yours.
Our approvals team submits the documentation, insurances and any drawings the building or community requires.
A bathroom is judged on silicone lines, tile alignment, glass fit and whether the drain actually clears.
We snag it ourselves before handover, close the list, and stay reachable afterwards.
Falls, membranes, drainage and the technical decisions that have to be settled before tiling starts.
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As an indicative market range, a cosmetic refresh that keeps the existing tiling starts around AED 12,000. A full guest bathroom renovation typically runs AED 22,000 to AED 38,000, and a master ensuite taken back to substrate and rebuilt generally falls between AED 38,000 and AED 70,000. Large or heavily specified master suites go above that. Those are planning figures rather than a quotation. The real number depends on the tiled area, the tile or stone specification, the sanitaryware brand, whether fixtures move, how much waterproofing is involved and what your building permits — which is why we survey the room before pricing it.
On site, a single bathroom is normally three to five weeks: strip-out and first fix in the first week, waterproofing and its flood test in the second, then tiling, fittings, glass and snagging. Add design, selections and procurement at the front and the whole thing usually runs six to nine weeks from signed quotation. Imported stone or a specific sanitaryware model on back-order is the most common reason a bathroom programme stretches, which is why we fix the specification early.
Yes to both, on every bathroom regardless of size. We prepare the substrate, screed the floor to falls, apply the membrane system with corner banding and pipe collars at every penetration, then flood the area, hold it and check it before a single tile goes down. You get a photographic record. This is the single most commonly cut corner in Dubai bathroom work and it is the reason so many apartments end up with a stained ceiling in the unit below.
Yes, and much of our bathroom work is in towers. Wet-area alterations are the scope buildings scrutinise most closely, because the risk sits with the apartment underneath yours. Our approvals team submits the contractor documentation, insurance and any drawings required, agrees the working hours and lift bookings, and plans water isolation into a single short window. What towers usually restrict is moving the WC or the floor drain, and we confirm that at the survey before drawing a layout that will not be permitted.
Usually, and it is one of the most requested jobs we do. The bath comes out, the floor is formed to falls, a linear or point drain is installed, the area is waterproofed and tested, then tiled and finished with a site-templated glass panel. Whether you can have a fully level threshold depends on the depth available between the slab and your door — where there is not enough, a very low upstand does the same job without pretending the physics are different.
Basins and showers, usually. The WC is the difficult one, because it needs to reach the soil stack with enough fall in the floor build-up you actually have. In villas there is often room to work with. In apartments the stack position frequently fixes the WC within about a metre of where it already is. We check the stack, the slab and the available depth at the site visit and tell you what is realistic before the layout is drawn.
Either works. Some clients enjoy choosing their own tiles and simply give us the supplier and the quantities; others prefer us to supply the whole package, which is quoted as named, itemised lines you can price-check. What we do ask is that the selection is locked before the strip-out, because tile format changes the setting-out and sanitaryware changes the first-fix positions. A late change to either is genuinely expensive.
Large-format porcelain is the sensible default: hard, non-porous, available in convincing stone and concrete looks, and it copes with hard water far better than natural stone. Real marble is beautiful and will etch, stain and need sealing — worth it in a powder room, more of a commitment in a family bathroom used twice a day. Microcement gives a seamless finish with no grout lines at all, provided the substrate and the detailing are right. For shower floors, what matters most is the anti-slip rating rather than the material.
Small bathrooms are some of the most satisfying work we do, because the difference is dramatic. Wall-hung fittings free the floor visually, a slimmer vanity buys circulation, removing an unused bath for a walk-in shower changes the whole room, and running the same large-format tile across floor and walls stops the eye counting boundaries. Good lighting does more for a compact bathroom than almost any material choice.
Design and 3D visuals, strip-out and disposal back to substrate, chasing and first-fix plumbing and electrics, screed to falls, waterproofing with a flood test, wall and floor tiling or stone, shower glass templated on site, vanity and mirror, sanitaryware and brassware, lighting and extraction, sealing and testing, then snagging and a final clean. The exact inclusions are written into your scope after the survey rather than assumed from a package name.
Yes. Most Dubai towers and gated communities require a works NOC, a licensed contractor and valid insurance before access is granted, and bathrooms attract more scrutiny than other rooms because of the wet-area risk. Some buildings also ask to inspect the waterproofing or see the flood-test record. Our in-house approvals team handles the submissions, and the applicable route is identified at the site visit rather than promised in advance.
Yes, and it is worth acting quickly because the building will usually get involved. We investigate to find whether it is a failed membrane, a leaking waste connection or a cracked seal, which sometimes means opening a small area rather than the whole room. If the waterproofing has gone, patching it is a false economy — the honest answer is normally a full strip-out, new membrane, flood test and rebuild. We will tell you which of the two you are looking at after the inspection.
Yes, and it is usually cheaper per room because mobilisation, waste removal, tiling gangs and deliveries are shared. The thing to plan is the household rather than the site: we normally sequence the work so at least one bathroom stays in service throughout, unless you are out of the property or would rather take the disruption in one hit and finish sooner.
All of it. Villa communities including Emirates Hills, Palm Jumeirah, Arabian Ranches, Dubai Hills Estate, The Meadows, The Springs and DAMAC Hills; apartment districts including Downtown, Business Bay, Dubai Marina, JBR, JLT, Dubai Creek Harbour and JVC; and established areas such as Jumeirah, Umm Suqeim, Al Barsha, Mirdif and Al Khawaneej. Each building sets its own access rules, permitted hours and wet-area restrictions, so those are confirmed for your address rather than assumed from the district.
Send the location, roughly how big the bathroom is, whether fixtures are moving, and a few photos — WhatsApp is easiest. We can give you a realistic range from that, then arrange a free site visit to measure the room, locate the stack and check the floor build-up. The itemised quotation follows, priced against a written scope you can compare line by line with anyone else you are talking to.
A few details and a couple of photos are enough for a realistic range on WhatsApp. If it looks like a fit, we will arrange a free site visit, measure up and check what the building will allow.
Membrane applied, flooded, held and photographed before a single tile goes down.
Tiled area, waterproofing system, sanitaryware brand and glass spec — all named, nothing hidden.
Contractor documentation, insurance and wet-area approvals submitted by our team.
From concept to completion, we deliver every aspect of interior design, fitout, and property services under one roof.
Send the location, how many bathrooms and a few photos of them as they are today. We will visit, measure, check the stack and the floor build-up, and give you an itemised quotation. Since 1996 • DM Approved • DEWA Certified • In-House Waterproofing, MEP & Joinery
