UAE bathroom renovation
We renovate bathrooms across Dubai and the UAE, from the waterproofing under the tiles to the last fitting. Tell us how many bathrooms and what you want changed, and we come back with a price.
The numbers
Bathroom renovation Dubai prices are published per bathroom, almost never per square foot, so this page works in the same unit: what one room costs at each finish level, what pushes it into the next band, and what a quote has to itemise before you sign it.
How much does a bathroom renovation cost in Dubai?
A full bathroom renovation in Dubai starts at about AED 8,000 per bathroom: six independent published sources put the floor for a small guest bathroom at AED 8,000 to 8,500. Published bands put a standard bathroom at AED 15,000 to 45,000 and a luxury master suite at AED 50,000 to 150,000 and above. A refresh that moves nothing starts near AED 3,000. Every figure is per bathroom, so a villa with four bathrooms is four prices. The price guide names the source of each band.
Each row below is built from bands that UAE renovation companies and one property portal publish on their own sites, collected in September 2026. We keep them for a plain reason. A bathroom quote on its own tells you very little. Set against what the rest of the market charges for the same room, it tells you whether you are being asked a fair price.
| Scope | What it covers | Published band in AED |
|---|---|---|
| Refresh, not a renovation | Fittings and surfaces updated in place. No strip-out, no new pipework. | AED 3,000 to 9,000 |
| Small guest bathroom | Full strip-out and rebuild at basic finishes. | AED 8,000 to 15,000 |
| Standard bathroom | The same scope with mid-range tiles and fittings. | AED 15,000 to 45,000 |
| Luxury master suite | Premium stone, fittings and glass, usually the largest bathroom in the home. | AED 50,000 to 150,000 and above |
Count the bathrooms before comparing anything. The market prices each one as its own job, so a three-bathroom apartment is three rows from this table, often at two different finish levels. A single total for all the bathrooms together cannot be checked against anything.
A refresh keeps the room as it was built. The tiles stay, the pipes stay, and the work is fittings, sealant, accessories and perhaps a new vanity. Published refresh bands start at AED 3,000, and one company caps its refresh band at AED 9,000. A renovation strips the room back to the walls and the floor slab and builds it again. The extra cost buys work you will never see once the tiles are down: the membrane, the drainage and the bed the tiles sit on.
Three signs say a refresh will not be enough.
Floor area matters less than people expect. A small bathroom still needs a strip-out, a drain connection, a membrane and a full set of fittings, so the bands move on four other things.
Use the published scope as your checklist. A quote that shows each of these as its own line can be compared with another one. A quote that folds them into one figure cannot.
We ask contractors for quotes in that shape before any of them reach you. The full cost breakdown sets out every band with the company that published it.
Scope
New fittings, sealant and accessories, sometimes a vanity, with the tiles and pipes left where they are. Emaar needs no NOC for regular maintenance or electrical fixtures, and Dubai Holding says like-for-like fixture replacement needs no permit.
from AED 3,000
Stripped out and rebuilt: membrane, tiling, sanitaryware, vanity, shower glass, plumbing and lighting. This is the job the per-bathroom bands describe, and the one where the waterproofing decides how long the room lasts.
from AED 8,000 per bathroom
The largest bathroom in the home at a premium finish: stone, a freestanding bath or a walk-in shower, better glass and fittings. Published bands for this tier start around AED 50,000, and one company lists spa-grade master bathrooms past AED 200,000.
from AED 50,000
Why Corvana
A finished bathroom hides its most important decisions. The membrane under the tiles, the slope to the drain and the seal around each waste pipe are covered on the first day and tested by every shower after it, and in an apartment a failure shows up first on somebody else's ceiling. So that is where we start. We price the waterproofing, the drainage and the tiling as separate lines, check the total against the per-bathroom bands UAE companies publish, and then our team does the work. The quote you sign describes the bathroom you asked for.
How it works
Count your bathrooms and match each one to a row in the table above. That alone tells you whether the budget you have in mind is realistic.
How many, roughly how big, villa or apartment, which community, and what you want changed. Photos help. A WhatsApp message is enough to start.
One written price, with waterproofing, drainage and tiling as separate lines, bathroom by bathroom.
You approve the price and our team does the work, at the price we quoted.
Where we work
A bathroom belongs to a building, and the building decides the paperwork. The authority changes at each emirate border, the community rules change from one master developer to the next, and an apartment adds a layer a villa does not have: shared drains, and a ceiling underneath that belongs to your neighbour. Each emirate page sets out who approves what.
Dubai Municipality's circular 3-12-1 of 2022 lists replacing floors and maintaining sanitary fittings and drainage among simple maintenance works that need no permit and no completion certificate, as long as a Municipality-accredited contractor does them. The community layer is stricter. In Town Square, removing a bathtub for a flat shower is a major alteration, while a shower glass partition is a home improvement item at AED 160. The Dubai approvals page goes developer by developer.
Abu Dhabi draws its line at the walls. The maintenance permit covers maintenance, improvement and decoration as long as nothing changes the internal spaces, opens a wall or touches the structure, and the contractor files it. Move a wall and the job needs a building permit that only a licensed design consultant can file. Aldar communities add the Owners Union Director's written approval. The Abu Dhabi routes page explains both.
Sharjah City Municipality calls the residential renovation permit a maintenance permit, issued by its Inspection and Follow-up Section against a refundable deposit. A layout or structural change needs approved engineering drawings and a building permit, both filed by an engineering consultancy the Municipality accredits, and its engineers calculate the fee for each application; there is no published table. The Sharjah page sets out what that means for a bathroom.
Ajman prices its permits in public. A maintenance permit costs AED 1,000, takes two days, includes a site inspection and is open to individuals as well as contracting companies. A change to the architecture or structure is a separate request at AED 200, and its file needs the Ajman Sewerage Company's approval among others. The Ajman permits page lists the documents.
A bathroom is often one room in a bigger job. If the kitchen is being redone at the same time, the same method runs at Corvana Kitchen Renovation. A whole apartment has its own building rules at Corvana Apartment Renovation, and a full villa programme starts at Corvana Villa Renovation. Every service line we cover is listed at Corvana Renovation.
Where we do this: Bathroom Renovation in Ras Al Khaimah: Quotes per Bathroom.
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Questions
How many bathrooms, their size, the community and what you want changed. We come back on WhatsApp with a written price.
