Bathroom renovations in Puerto Real.
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Three bathroom realities in Puerto Real, three distinct approaches
A bathroom in a UCA student flat has very specific requirements: lasting four or five academic years in a row with rotating tenants without losing its appearance, withstanding intense cleaning and careless use, and costing just enough that the owner recoups the renovation within a few years of rental income. We work with materials like non-slip porcelain tile (not low-quality laminate that swells with damp), melamine wall-hung vanity with aluminium edging (not lacquered MDF that flakes), frameless fixed screen with no moving parts to break, and standard WC with cistern embedded in masonry (more robust than wall-hung in young rental flats). Typical range €3,500-5,000 for a full bathroom.
In Puerto Real's old Centro the challenge is radically different. We're talking about properties with 50-70 cm thick masonry walls, no horizontal damp barrier, where groundwater rises by capillary action and shows up at the base of bathroom walls as efflorescence, flaking and bad odour. Renovating the bathroom here without addressing that is throwing money away. We apply damp treatments by pressure resin injection into the affected wall, install ceramic skirting with an inner ventilated cavity, and review all the bathroom's natural ventilation, often just opening up a blocked light well is enough to resolve the issue. Only then does new tiling make sense.
In Río San Pedro and the lower part of Las Canteras there are many ground-floor flats and duplexes with bathrooms at street level, where the issue is filtration from the ground due to defective slab or absent waterproofing. In these cases you can't just tile over it, the floor has to be lifted, a polyethylene membrane and waterproof render applied across the whole slab, raised 20 cm up the wall, and only then the shower tray and flooring laid. The work takes 2-3 weeks and definitively resolves a problem that neighbours can spend decades putting up with.
Bathroom price ranges in Puerto Real (indicative)
Non-slip porcelain, melamine vanity with aluminium edging, frameless screen, masonry-embedded cistern.
Wall resin injection, ventilated ceramic skirting, restored natural ventilation, new tiling.
Floor lifted, polyethylene membrane, waterproof render, 20 cm wall upturn, new tray and flooring.
Ultra-flat tray, screen, thermostatic mixer, partial tiling. 4-6 days of work.
* Guide figures for Cádiz. Your quote is fixed after the visit, based on size and finishes.
What you ask us most.
I have a flat near the UCA campus to rent to students. Which bathroom holds up best?
The bathroom that works best in student rentals is one that prioritises practically indestructible materials over design: non-slip porcelain tile (not laminate), melamine vanity with aluminium edging (not lacquered), frameless fixed screen with no moving parts to come loose, WC with cistern embedded in masonry (sturdier than wall-hung) and single-lever taps with spare parts available in any Puerto Real hardware shop. Range €3,500-5,000, recouped within a few academic years.
I have damp on the lower wall of my Centro house bathroom. Can it be renovated?
Yes, but order matters: first capillary damp treatment (pressure injection of hydrophobic resins into the affected wall at around 10-15 cm from the floor), then installation of ceramic skirting with an inner ventilated cavity that lets the wall breathe, restoration of the bathroom's natural ventilation (often there's a blocked light well that can be reopened), and only then tiling. If you skip the damp treatment, the renovation fails within 18-24 months.
My bathroom is on the ground floor in Río San Pedro and always has filtration. How is that fixed?
With full slab waterproofing, not solved just by changing the shower tray. We lift the bathroom floor down to the structural slab, apply a high-density polyethylene membrane across the entire surface, pour flexible cementitious waterproof render that rises 20 cm up the wall forming a watertight tank, and on that support lay a new shower tray and flooring. 2-3 weeks of work, range €5,500-8,500. It's the only way to definitively eliminate the filtration.
Can you do a bathroom for rental before the start of the UCA academic year?
Yes, and it's a common request in July and August. A full bathroom aimed at student rentals is delivered in 10-14 calendar days, so if you sign the quote at the start of August you have the bathroom ready well before mid-September, with margin to list the flat on the platform. Since we only take on one project at a time, the delivery date we sign is the date we deliver, critical if you depend on renting before term starts.
Is a permit required to renovate the bathroom in Puerto Real?
For a bathroom renovation without structural changes or movement of communal soil stacks, a responsible declaration to Puerto Real's town hall is enough, which we file before starting. If the house is in the Centro and listed with any level of heritage protection, or if facade or structure has to be touched, a minor works permit is required. We check the planning status before quoting to avoid surprises.
Puerto Real's bathroom landscape is shaped by three very different realities: flats near the UCA campus that need durable, cost-effective bathrooms to rent year after year to students; older houses in the Centro with chronic damp problems from rising moisture and poor ventilation; and ground-floor properties in Río San Pedro and Las Canteras where ground filtration is the first issue to solve. We design each bathroom around that real context, we don't apply the same project to a student flat as to a manor house.
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