Apartment renovation cost in Poland 2026: job by job

So we split the renovation into jobs that are priced separately: walls, floors, doors, electrical points, bathroom and kitchen. The ranges are guide prices from the HandyMan24 price list (Warsaw); rates in other cities may differ. At the end we say plainly what you won’t find on the platform.

What the renovation bill is made of

Before you compare quotes, split the bill into layers. Each one behaves differently.

• Labour. The tradesperson’s work, charged per metre, per item or per point. This is what the ranges in the price list show.
• Materials: paint, finishing plaster, laminate, doors, fittings, tiles. You buy them yourself or ask the tradesperson to, but they’re not part of the labour price.
• Preparation. Stripping out the old, sheeting over floors and furniture, washing and priming walls. Cheap quotes often leave it out, and it comes back later as an extra.
• The starting condition. Crumbling plaster, crooked walls or a damp bathroom push the cost up more than your choice of paint.
• Logistics: carrying materials in, taking rubble away, cleaning up after the job. Usually separate items.

That’s why two quotes for “doing up a room” can be miles apart. One covers painting only, the other adds skimming, primer and sheeting. Compare item by item, not total against total.

Prices by room and by job

Below are guide ranges from the HandyMan24 price list (Warsaw), labour only, materials extra. Units and full service names are in the table; the final price comes in the tradesperson’s bid.

• Walls and ceilings. Painting in one colour, two coats, runs from 30 to 45 zł/m², measured on the wall area, not the floor. If the walls need a skim coat, add from 55 to 90 zł/m². More often than not, the skim coat is what sets the price of a room.
• Floors. Laying laminate: from 70 to 90 zł/m². Skirting, thresholds and sometimes trimming doors that stop closing over the new floor are charged separately.
• Doors. Replacing an interior door: from 800 to 1300 zł per door.
• Electrics, point by point. A new electrical point: from 120 to 180 zł per point. Sockets, switches and light fittings are priced per item.
• Bathroom. Fitting a shower enclosure: from 900 to 1200 zł. Tiling prices are hidden in the price list: too much depends on tile size, the base and the grout, so the tradesperson gives them in the bid after seeing photos or the room.
• Kitchen. Fitting a base kitchen cabinet: from 250 to 400 zł. Then the worktop, cut-outs for the sink and hob, and connecting appliances.
• To finish. Post-renovation cleaning: from 8 to 15 zł/m².

Say you’re refreshing a bedroom: a skim coat on one wall, painting the whole room, new laminate and one door. Multiply each item by your own metres or count, and only the total starts to tell you something about the budget. Add materials on top.

Before you book the first job, go through the pre-renovation checklist.

Why a price “per m² of flat” misleads

“Renovation from so many zloty per m²” sounds handy. The catch: it’s counted on the floor, while most of the work sits on the walls, the ceiling and in the services.

• A room’s walls usually have two to three times the area of its floor. Painting and skimming are charged on the walls.
• A bathroom has a few metres of floor but holds all the plumbing, the tiles and the fitting of sanitaryware. Per metre, it’s the most expensive room in the flat.
• In the kitchen you pay mostly per item and per running metre: cabinets, worktop, connections. Floor area says nothing about them.
• The state of walls and wiring has nothing to do with floor area. Two identical flats in the same block can need very different work.

A price per square metre of flat is fine for a very rough comparison and not much else. Plan the budget from a list of jobs: room by room, with wall metres and item counts. If the scope is big, see how a renovation quote in Warsaw works.

Turnkey renovation with a site manager? Not here

Let’s be straight: HandyMan24 is not a renovation company. There’s no site manager, no single contractor for the whole flat and no single cost estimate for everything. The platform connects you with tradespeople, and each one prices and does their own part.

The app also doesn’t cover heavy construction work:

• moving or running pipes inside walls,
• floor screeds,
• machine-applied plaster,
• design work: interior design, electrical or plumbing plans.

If the renovation means moving risers, pouring a new screed or rewiring the whole flat, you’ll first need a building firm or an electrician with a design. Bring in tradespeople from the app for the finishing stage: skimming, painting, floors, doors, fitting the bathroom and kitchen. There’s more on that stage on the page about apartment finishing in Warsaw.

With electricity, water and gas, don’t save on qualifications. Don’t touch live sockets or light fittings, not even to take them off for a photo. Leave electrical work and gas connections to someone licensed for it. A tradesperson’s profile shows which licences have been checked against public registers.

How to build your renovation from items in the app

Having no single contractor has an upside: you see the price of every job separately rather than one lump sum.

1. List the jobs room by room and measure what you can: wall metres to paint, floor area, the number of doors, sockets and light points.
2. Set the order. Dusty, messy work first: electrics, plumbing, skimming. Then painting, then floors, doors and skirting. Kitchen, taps and cleaning go last.
3. Describe the job in the app: photos, address, a few words. The app asks about anything missing and puts the list of jobs together itself.
4. The order goes to tradespeople in the matching categories. Each one bids on a specific job with a price, a date and a message. You don’t enter a budget; the tradesperson proposes the price.
5. Compare bids on price, rating and reviews. One tradesperson can take the painting and another the kitchen.
6. Until you choose, you talk in the platform chat; contact details and the exact address are shown only after you pick someone. You pay the tradesperson directly, and they issue the receipt or invoice.

Whoever did the work answers for it: they redo their own fitting, but cracked walls and someone else’s mistakes are not on them. So take photos of how things look before work starts. The app takes orders from anywhere in Poland.

Smaller scope, like fixes before handing back a rented flat? Have a look at the list of minor repairs before moving out. Hourly rates are in the handyman price list.

Common questions

Got your list of jobs? Describe the job in the app, add photos and compare tradespeople’s prices item by item.

Are you a tradesperson? Join if you do skimming, floors or bathroom and kitchen fitting: set up a profile on HandyMan24. You work for yourself and pick your own jobs.