Partial apartment renovation in Batumi: one room or one job

What we mean by partial renovation

Partial apartment renovation in Batumi covers one room, one wet area or one type of work across the whole apartment, while everything else stays as it is. Most of the time someone is living in the apartment while we work: the owner and their family, or a tenant. That shapes the protection, the schedule and the order of work, and the estimate shows it as separate lines.

If the surfaces need refreshing in the whole apartment at once, that is a cosmetic renovation of the whole apartment. Pricing it room by room doesn't pay: the crew loses days moving between rooms and protecting each one all over again.

Joins with the old finishes

Almost every dispute after a partial renovation starts at the line where new meets old. We look at these places at the site measurement and write the solution into the estimate, so that it doesn't come up on site on the last day.

• Floors. New flooring with underlay rarely comes out flush with the old floor in the hallway. We compare the heights at the site measurement and choose the underlay thickness or the subfloor levelling before the flooring is ordered.
• Paint. A wall the work has touched gets painted in full, from corner to corner. If it runs on into the hallway with no corner, we take the boundary along an architrave or the edge of a recess, not across the middle of the wall.
• Tiles. The same range is hard to find a few years later. In a bathroom it usually works out cheaper to retile the whole wall or the whole floor than to hunt for a similar tile for one strip.
• Doors. A new leaf sits badly in an old frame, so we replace the whole door set and match the architraves to the neighbouring doors.
• Electrics. A room's circuit often runs through a junction box in the next room, and new points load both. Before adding them, we run a continuity check on the circuit, and if it is aluminium or overloaded, we offer to replace the wiring in that room as a separate line.

How we keep the dust in one room

No renovation is completely dust-free, but the dust can be kept in one room. We fit a zip door in plastic sheeting over the doorway and tape it round the edges. The hallway floor from the front door to the room is covered with heavy cardboard with taped joints, and over parquet we add plywood sheets as well, for the bags and the trolley.

The sander and the wall chaser are connected to a construction vacuum. We cover the ventilation grille and the air conditioner in the room with plastic sheeting and keep them off: the indoor unit draws dust in and then blows it round the apartment. Waste goes out in bags the same day, and in the evening we vacuum the route from the room to the front door.

On your side, it helps to put clothes and electronics in the other rooms away in closed wardrobes and to keep the doors shut on strip-out and sanding days. These are the dustiest days, and we tell you the dates in advance.

Scheduling when people live in the apartment

We group the noisy work together and give you its dates in advance: strip-out, chasing, drilling for fixings. The law allows noisy work from 08:00 to 23:00, but in an occupied apartment we usually agree a shorter working day, and in buildings with strict rules we follow them. Skim coating, painting and assembly are quiet and barely get in the way.

If the apartment has only one bathroom, you won't be able to use it during the strip-out, waterproofing and tiling. That is a noticeable part of the timing, and on those days it is easier to stay somewhere else, so we put the dates without water and a toilet into the schedule before work starts. The kitchen is simpler: we move the fridge and the microwave into the next room and leave a working socket there.

If a tenant lives in the apartment, we agree the schedule with them too: when the tradesmen come, who has the keys, which rooms are closed. What matters most in the finishes to someone renting for a year is covered on the page about renovation for long-term rental.

Bathroom, kitchen or balcony on its own

A wet area in a partial renovation needs more than its floor area suggests. We don't lay tiles over old waterproofing that nobody knows anything about. We remove the tiling, check the pipes from the isolation valves on the riser and redo the waterproofing: a liquid membrane in the bathroom and a flexible cement-based compound in a trayless shower. The order of work and the choice of sanitary ware are described on the page about turnkey bathroom renovation.

In the kitchen, a partial renovation often starts with new appliances. An induction hob, an oven and a dishwasher each need their own circuit from the consumer unit, and it is easier to run them before the new splashback goes on. What to think about when replacing the units and moving the sink is covered on the page about kitchen renovation. A balcony is priced per square metre, and the first things we check are the threshold and the fall: that is how water gets under the floor of the room.

Minor repairs without a crew

Sometimes the whole renovation comes down to a couple of hours' work: replacing a mixer tap, moving a socket, adjusting a door, redoing the silicone in the shower. That doesn't need a crew. A tradesman comes with the tools and consumables. If lots of small jobs like these pile up, especially in an apartment that is let, apartment maintenance with scheduled visits is more convenient.

How much partial apartment renovation in Batumi costs

Renovating a single room of 12–18 m² costs from 5,100 to 7,800 ₾. This price includes labour and mid-range materials for the walls, ceiling and floor. Wet areas are separate lines and are priced differently, for labour and rough-work materials: a turnkey bathroom of 4–6 m² costs 5,880–8,400 ₾ without tiles and sanitary ware, and a kitchen of about 10 m² 5,400–7,800 ₾ without the units. A tradesman's call-out for minor repairs, plumbing or electrics costs 69–96 ₾ per visit, and parts are paid for against receipts.

The price goes up with furniture that has to be moved and covered, a new circuit from the consumer unit, joining the floor and tiles to the adjacent rooms, and a short working day in an occupied apartment. An empty room with level walls and a sound screed is closer to the lower end. The final cost is set after the site measurement and agreement of the estimate. The price of each stage is written into the contract and doesn't go up unless the scope changes.