Full apartment renovation in Batumi

What a full apartment renovation includes, item by item

A full apartment renovation in Batumi starts where a cosmetic one stops: with what is hidden in the walls and floor. In the estimate it is broken down into blocks, each with its own line, quantity and price.

Our comparison of cosmetic and full renovation shows when an apartment can do with less. A private house needs a wider scope: the roof, facade and foundations come on top of the services and finishes, and that is a separate service, full renovation of a private house.

Measurements and test openings before the detailed estimate

We work out a preliminary estimate from photos and a plan, and the detailed one after the foreman has gone round the apartment with instruments. A measuring mistake costs more here than in a cosmetic job, because the measurements decide the screed thickness, the amount of plaster and the length of the service runs.

• We tap the old screed and tiles and, with your consent, open up the floor in one corner: this shows how thick the screed is and what lies beneath it. That decides whether we take the floor back to the slab or level over it, and the difference shows both in the strip-out line and in the timing.
• We check the walls with a straightedge and by tapping: how far a wall leans decides how much plaster it needs, and the sound shows where the old layer has come away and will have to be knocked off.
• We look at the supply: the apartment's main circuit breaker and the cable from the floor distribution board. If it can't carry a water heater, an induction hob and air conditioners, we settle the capacity question before you buy the appliances.
• We open the boxing around the risers to see what the pipes are made of and whether there are valves on the branches.
• We check the building documents to see which walls are load-bearing. Under the rules as of 2026, taking down partitions needs no permit, while load-bearing structures are only altered to a design and with a permit.

Anything that only becomes visible after the strip-out, such as the condition of a pipe inside a wall, we mark in the estimate as a possible item with a price. If you are not in Batumi, you can watch the test openings and measurements by video: that is how renovation while the owner is abroad works.

Why the stages go in this order

A full renovation in a resale apartment starts with shutting things off. We close the water at the valves by the riser, isolate the old wiring at the consumer unit and put in a temporary board for tools and lighting. Strip-out goes from top to bottom: ceiling, walls, tiles. The screed comes up last, so that there is a floor to carry the waste out over.

After the strip-out the foreman measures the apartment a second time. The exposed slab and walls show what was hidden under the finishes: cracks, old embedded fixings, partitions out of true. With this information we close the possible items in the estimate. Only then do we build the partitions and replace the windows, so that the plaster on the reveals and walls goes on once.

Cable and pipes are laid on the bare walls and slab. The water pipes are pressure-tested before plastering, the bathroom waterproofing is tested with water before tiling, and both steps are photographed. From there the bathroom follows the same rules as a turnkey bathroom renovation, and laminate or engineered wood goes down only once the moisture meter shows an acceptable moisture level in the screed.

How long a full renovation takes

We count the timing from the day the crew arrives on site to the final clean. For a resale apartment with a complete strip-out, new services and finishing, without made-to-measure furniture, it usually works out as below. We'll give the exact timing after the measurement and test openings:

• studio of about 30 m²: 8–10 weeks;
• 1+1 (one-bedroom) of about 45 m²: 10–14 weeks;
• 2+1 (two-bedroom) of about 70 m²: 3.5–4.5 months;
• 3+1 (three-bedroom) of about 100 m²: 4.5–6 months.

It takes longer in apartments where the screed is taken back to the slab and poured again, and where the tiles are only chosen once tiling is under way: the bathroom then stands idle while the delivery is on its way.

Full apartment renovation in Batumi: risers, neighbours and building rules

In a full renovation we replace an old steel riser within your apartment, from slab to slab, by agreement with the building's management company or maintenance service. Where it meets the neighbours' pipe we fit an adaptor coupling, valves go on the branches, and we leave an access hatch to the riser. The water in the riser is shut off by the building's maintenance service, so we fix the shut-off day with them in advance and warn the neighbours above and below.

Hammering on screed and tiles carries through the floor slabs for several storeys. We do this work within the legal hours of 08:00 to 23:00, or under the building's rules if they are stricter, and we warn the neighbours about noisy days in advance. Waste goes out in bags, the lift and corridor are covered with protection, and waste removal is agreed with security or reception. Before work starts we video the stairwell and lift, so that later there is no argument about scratches we had nothing to do with.

Mistakes that mean ripping up the tiles later

• An old piece of pipe is left between the riser valve and the new pipework. The pipes in the wall are new, but the leak starts on the old metre by the riser.
• Pipe joints are buried in the wall with no access. The manifold and valves should sit behind a hatch.
• New screed is poured over old screed that sounds hollow. A year later cracks run through it, and the tiles split along the same lines.
• No separate circuits are put in for the air conditioners, oven and water heater, and later the finished walls get chased.
• A damp external wall is plastered without drying and antiseptic, and after one winter the black stain is back in the corner.
• Nobody thinks about the floor height in the bathroom. With a floor drain and waterproofing it ends up higher than the hallway, and a threshold appears that nobody agreed to.

In resale apartments, a quick renovation for sale often looks just like this, and then renovating a resale apartment starts with a complete strip-out. We photograph each of these spots before it is closed up, and the routing diagrams go into the handover file.

Full renovation price per m² and what it includes

A full apartment renovation costs from 570 to 780 ₾ per square metre of floor area. This price includes the work at every stage and the rough-work materials: mixes, cable, pipes, waterproofing, metal profiles, aerated concrete blocks. Finishing materials, that is tiles, flooring, doors, sanitary ware and light fittings, are priced separately according to your choice.

The price per metre is built up from items you can see in the estimate. Partition masonry in aerated concrete or breeze blocks costs from 76 to 100 ₾ per m² of wall, and floor screed to guide rails from 40 to 66 ₾ per m². A plumbing point, meaning one water or drain outlet, costs from 96 to 145 ₾. A bathroom with a shower, basin, toilet and washing machine has about ten of them: three each for the shower and basin (cold water, hot water and drain) and two each for the toilet and washing machine. That is why a second bathroom noticeably raises the price of an apartment of the same size.

Thick screed on an uneven slab, moving wet areas, replacing a riser and a large number of electrical points push the price towards the upper end. An apartment where the plaster holds and we don't knock it off, and where the layout stays the same, is closer to the lower end. The final cost is set after the site measurement and agreement of the estimate, and we don't raise the price of a stage in the contract unless the scope changes.