Urgent apartment renovation in Batumi to a move-in or sale date

What can be sped up in a renovation and what can't

We plan an urgent apartment renovation in Batumi back from a date: a tenant moving in, the first booking of the season, a viewing with a buyer. We shorten the timing wherever the work can be split between people and shifts. Where everything depends on a material drying, extra hands won't help, and then we change the solution itself.

In urgent mode we replace pipes and wiring only in short sections. Replacing all the services, with a pressure test, plaster and a new screed, is a full renovation, and we don't take on squeezing that into a couple of weeks.

Parallel crews and a second shift

In an ordinary renovation one crew works through the apartment stage by stage. In an urgent one the foreman splits the apartment into sections, and the work runs at the same time: the electrician in the bedroom, the tiler in the bathroom, the painter in the living room. The stages don't wait for each other, but every day there has to be a plan of who works where, so that the tradesmen don't get in each other's way or raise dust over fresh paint.

The second shift takes the quiet work: skim coating, painting, furniture assembly, fitting light fittings. The hammer drill and the wall chaser stay on the day shift: by law noisy work is allowed from 08:00 to 23:00, and if the building's rules are stricter, we follow them.

We buy materials from stock at warehouses in Batumi rather than ordering them in. If the tiles or laminate you picked aren't available, we offer two or three options that can be collected the same day. The timing also depends on your answers: when the wall colour or the mixer tap model is approved within a day, the crew doesn't stand idle.

Drying that can't be rushed

For the first week a cement screed is kept damp so that it gains strength, and only then is it dried until the moisture meter shows the right reading. How we cure and sign off the base is described on the page about floor screed. Plaster and skim coat give up water faster, but they don't follow the calendar either. Rush them with hot air from close up and only the surface dries: a month later a network of cracks runs across the wall, and laminate on an under-dried screed swells at the joints.

So in an urgent renovation we avoid wet processes wherever we can. We cover a crooked wall with plasterboard instead of thick plaster and the ceiling with a stretch ceiling that goes up in a day, and we lay click-lock flooring over a sound old screed. Where a wet stage can't be avoided, we put in a dehumidifier with heating and tell you straight away how far the date moves.

Timing for typical apartments

The usual timings here are the same as on the page about cosmetic apartment renovation. The urgent ones come from our own practice, for an empty apartment with working services and a sound screed. They are a guide, not a promise: we give the exact timing after the site measurement and write it into the schedule in the contract.

If people live in the apartment or there is furniture in it, the timing is longer: the crews have no room to work around each other. A bathroom with new tiles adds days for waterproofing and grouting even with rapid-setting adhesive, so we start it first.

When it isn't worth compressing the timing

Urgency makes sense when the date has a price: the apartment standing empty between tenants, cancelled bookings, a buyer who won't wait. If there is no such date, the same renovation at a normal pace will cost less.

It isn't worth hurrying either when the apartment needs new pipes, wiring or screed. Fresh finishes over old services last until the first leak, and then they get opened up together with the new tiles. We say so before the estimate and suggest moving the launch date rather than covering the problem with paint.

After painting, an apartment for short-term rental gets a day or two of airing and a clean, and only then do we take the photos for the listing. Which materials stand up to a steady stream of guests is covered on the page about renovating apartments for short-term rental.

Emergency call-outs when something breaks

Urgent repairs can also mean something else: something has broken right now. A supply hose is leaking, a circuit breaker has tripped and won't switch back on, a lock has jammed, the sink won't drain. This doesn't need a crew, just one tradesman, and you can call one out at night or at the weekend too. On a call-out like this, the tradesman first stops the damage: shuts off the water, isolates the circuit, fits a blanking cap. If the right part is to hand, the repair is done on the spot; if not, it moves to a working day.

If water has already got into the ceiling, the walls or under the floor, one tradesman isn't enough. The apartment first has to be dried out and opened up, and the order of this work is described on the page about water damage repair.

How much urgent apartment renovation in Batumi costs

An urgent cosmetic renovation costs from 305 to 450 ₾ per m² of apartment floor area. The price includes labour and basic materials: skim coat, primer, paint and adhesive. The scope is the same as an ordinary cosmetic renovation, plus a 30–50% surcharge for the compressed timing. The surcharge pays for the second shift and the extra tradesmen, while dehumidifiers and heating in the wet season are a separate line in the estimate.

In the price table, individual jobs are priced by their own area. Spray painting costs 24–30 ₾ per m² of wall, and a stretch ceiling with film and installation 78–120 ₾ per m². An urgent call-out at night or at the weekend costs 145–180 ₾.

An empty apartment where painting and click-lock flooring are enough, and where you approve the materials quickly, is closer to the lower end. The price goes up with weekend work, tiling in the bathroom and the wet season, when coats won't dry without dehumidifiers. The final cost is set after the site measurement and agreement of the estimate, and the price and timing of each stage are written into the contract.