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Home Renovation Cost Calculator Canada — CAD Estimates by Province and Metro

US renovation cost tools are useless in Canada — the materials, the sales tax, and the Toronto/Vancouver labour premium are all different. Get CAD estimates for your kitchen, bathroom, or basement, built from measurable quantities and your province's own GST/HST/PST.

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2026 national range

C$27,000–C$107,100/ by project type, before tax

Calculator output, national labour bands (no Toronto or Vancouver premium), contract price before GST/HST/PST, at the calculator's default answers. Kitchen: polyester cabinetry 22 linear ft, quartz 35 sq ft, mid-range appliances, sink stays, flooring, backsplash, lighting and sink/faucet, installation labour and plumbing. Bathroom: main 4-piece, standard renovation, fixtures stay, hidden-damage allowance. Basement: 800 sq ft mid-range finish, one new egress window cut in concrete, a full bathroom, no waterproofing or underpinning. Building permits outside Toronto are not modelled. CAD.

  • Kitchen (before tax)C$30,688–C$64,500
  • Bathroom (before tax)C$27,000–C$43,000
  • Basement (before tax)C$82,300–C$107,100

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Your renovation

01Room and home value

Each room runs the same engine as its dedicated Canadian calculator. Home value only sets the share-of-value figure.

Which room are you renovating?

Each option runs the same engine as its dedicated Canadian calculator, so the answer here matches that page for the same inputs.

Cabinetry, countertop, appliances and trades, with provincial sales tax.

What is your home currently worth?

Used only to show the renovation as a share of the home's value.

C$
C$100KC$5M
02Where the house is

Kitchens and bathrooms carry the province's sales tax on the contract. Toronto and Vancouver labour is priced at ×1.25; no discount is applied elsewhere.

Which province or territory is the house in?

Sets the sales tax on the contract — the biggest Canadian cost you cannot negotiate.

HST 13% on the whole contract, labour included.

Which labour market?

Toronto and Vancouver trades run materially above the rest of Canada for identical scope.

×1.25 labour. Permit computed exactly from the City's 2026 schedule.

03The job itself

The questions that move this room's cost most, with the same defaults as the dedicated calculator.

What are the cabinets made of?

Canadian cabinetry is priced by carcass material, per linear foot.

The common Canadian mid-range choice.

How many linear feet of cabinetry?

Measure along the wall, at counter height. A typical Canadian kitchen is 20–25 feet.

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What countertop?

Priced per square foot, installed, in CAD.

The Canadian default. No sealing, consistent pattern.

How many square feet of countertop?

A typical Canadian kitchen runs 30–40 sq ft, including the island.

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What appliance package?

No regional adjustment applies — appliances cost the same everywhere in Canada.

Is the sink staying where it is?

Moving it is the kitchen equivalent of moving a toilet.

C$1,500–4,500 to work to the existing rough-in.

What else is being replaced?

Select all that apply. Each is a published whole-kitchen band, not a per-foot rate.

How many square feet is the kitchen floor?

Used only for the City of Toronto permit calculation.

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Kitchen renovation · Toronto / GTA · Ontario

C$41,227 – C$86,586

Out the door, including 13% sales tax · all figures in Canadian dollars (CAD)

Contract price, before taxC$36,484 – C$76,625
Sales tax on your invoice (13%)C$4,743 – C$9,961
Building permitC$214.79 (shown, not added)
Share of your home's value5.5% – 11.5%

This is the same engine, and the same answer, as the kitchen renovation cost calculator for Canada. Open it for the full breakdown and the reasoning behind each line.

Every line, itemised — all CAD, before tax

Cabinetry — 22 linear ft, polyesterC$12,375 – C$16,500

Estimated — Canadian market band

C$450–600 per linear foot. ×1.25 for Toronto / GTA labour. Canadian cabinetry is quoted by the linear foot and priced by carcass material — melamine, polyester, thermofoil, solid wood — which is not the same ladder as the American stock / semi-custom / custom convention.

Countertop — 35 sq ft, quartzC$4,813 – C$7,875

Estimated — Canadian market band

C$110–180 per square foot installed. ×1.25 for Toronto / GTA labour.

Mid-range package — C$6,000–12,000C$6,000 – C$12,000

Estimated — Canadian market band

No regional adjustment is applied to appliances — a refrigerator costs the same in Calgary as in Toronto. The labour multiplier belongs on labour.

FlooringC$1,875 – C$7,500

Estimated — Canadian market band

Published as a whole-kitchen band of C$1,500–6,000. ×1.25 for Toronto / GTA labour.

Backsplash and tilingC$1,000 – C$3,125

Estimated — Canadian market band

C$800–2,500. ×1.25 for Toronto / GTA labour.

LightingC$1,000 – C$3,750

Estimated — Canadian market band

C$800–3,000. ×1.25 for Toronto / GTA labour. Under-cabinet and pot lights are where this band spends itself.

Sink and faucetC$625 – C$2,500

Estimated — Canadian market band

C$500–2,000. ×1.25 for Toronto / GTA labour.

Installation labourC$6,922 – C$17,750

Derived — see note

The source states installation labour as 20–25% of TOTAL project cost. Because every line above is a materials figure, the multiplier on materials is 0.2500–0.3333, not 0.20–0.25 — applying 20–25% to materials directly is the obvious mistake and understates the trades by thousands. Plumbing is excluded from this base because it is already trade labour.

Plumbing — working to the existing rough-inC$1,875 – C$5,625

Estimated — Canadian market band

C$1,500–4,500 where the drain and supply stay where they are. ×1.25 for Toronto / GTA labour.

City of Toronto building permitC$214.79

Government schedule · shown, not added

City of Toronto minimum permit fee. At 120 sq ft with 2 plumbing fixtures the computed charge does not reach the C$214.79 floor, so the fee is flat. The crossover for a two-fixture kitchen sits at about 135 sq ft. Shown for transparency but NOT added to the total: the source's own budget allocation already sets aside 5% for permits and contingency inside the component bands above.

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All figures in Canadian dollars (CAD). Sources for this kitchen renovation, each with the date it was read:

No US cost data is used. Home additions and resale return are not estimated: no dated Canadian source for either is on file. Nothing is collected or stored — the calculator runs in your browser and there is no form.

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What you'll need

  • Type of renovation: kitchen, bathroom, or basement
  • Your market: Toronto/GTA, Vancouver, or elsewhere in Canada
  • Your province (determines your GST/HST/PST rate)
  • Current home value (to see the renovation as a % of home value)

What you'll get

  • Cost estimate — Built from cabinetry, counters, scope, and labour
  • Toronto/Vancouver premium — Applied where it's sourced, not guessed elsewhere
  • Sales tax — Your province's GST/HST/PST, out the door

How it works

1

Pick the room

Kitchen, bathroom or basement. Each runs the same engine as its dedicated Canadian calculator, so the answer matches that page for the same inputs.

2

Tell it where the house is

Kitchens and bathrooms take the province, for GST/HST/PST/QST on the contract. Toronto and Vancouver labour is priced at ×1.25 against the national bands, and the basement asks for its city.

3

See the itemised estimate

A low–high range in CAD with every line itemised, the building permit where it can be priced (Toronto), and the job as a share of your home's value.

Default kitchen, bathroom and basement jobs by province (CAD)

WhereKitchen (incl. sales tax)Bathroom (incl. sales tax)Basement (before tax)
Toronto / GTA, OntarioC$41,227–C$86,586C$38,138–C$60,738C$103,872–C$134,872
Vancouver, British ColumbiaC$38,309–C$80,456C$35,438–C$56,438C$102,875–C$133,875
Calgary, AlbertaC$32,222–C$67,725C$28,350–C$45,150C$82,300–C$107,100
Montréal, QuebecC$35,283–C$74,159C$31,043–C$49,439C$82,300–C$107,100

Engine output at each calculator's default answers. Calgary and Montréal use the national labour bands, because the source publishes a Toronto/Vancouver premium but no discount. The Toronto basement includes the City's C$996.66 permit; other permits are not modelled. BC figures exclude the 7% PST the contractor pays on materials and builds into the quote.

Doing a basement? This form already prices it the same way

This calculator's basement scope now delegates to the same sourced engine as the dedicated basement tool — the same per-square-foot finish band, plus underpinning or bench footing where the ceiling is short, interior or exterior moisture work, a code-compliant egress window per basement bedroom, a legal secondary suite premium, and the City of Toronto's 2026 permit fee. For identical inputs, the total here matches the dedicated page to the cent.

Use the Canadian basement renovation cost calculator if you're only doing the basement and would rather walk through one room instead of a combined kitchen/bathroom/basement form.

Just doing the kitchen or the bathroom? Use the dedicated tool for the full walkthrough

This calculator now runs the same sourced engine as the two room-specific tools below — same cabinetry-per-linear-foot and countertop-per-square-foot build-up for a kitchen, same scope bands for a bathroom, same Toronto/Vancouver 1.25x labour premium, same province GST/HST/PST. For identical answers, the total here and the total on the dedicated page are the same, to the cent. What the dedicated pages add is a walkthrough focused on one room, rather than picking a project type first on a combined kitchen/bathroom/basement form.

The Canadian kitchen renovation cost calculator builds a budget from quantities you can measure — cabinetry per linear foot by carcass material, which is how Canadian cabinetmakers actually quote, and countertop per square foot by material — then applies your province's tax.

The Canadian bathroom renovation cost calculator prices by scope and adds the two drivers this page has no separate input for: moving the plumbing, and the damage found behind the tile. Both include the City of Toronto's exact 2026 permit fee, computed per plumbing fixture.

Replacing the roof is priced somewhere else

This calculator covers kitchens, bathrooms and basements — the three project types its Canadian cost dataset carries. A roof is not one of them, and it does not behave like them: the price is driven by provincial roofing labour rather than by city finish level, and Canadian code adds a line item interior work never has, in the eave-protection membrane that has to run at least 900 mm up the slope against ice dams.

Use the Canadian roof replacement cost calculator for that — ten provinces, Job Bank roofer wages, Canadian installed bands in C$, and the membrane quantity to put on a quote.

So is building a deck

A deck is outside this calculator's dataset for the same reason a roof is, and it fails to behave like an interior project for a more specific one: its cost driver is underground. Canadian municipalities each publish their own minimum footing depth below frost, and the spread is more than five to one — 457 mm in Victoria against 2,438 mm in Saskatoon, for a deck that looks identical from the patio door. No city finish level expresses that.

Use the Canadian deck building cost calculator for that — municipal frost depths for nineteen cities, the Ontario Building Code guard threshold that adds a railing at a single millimetre of deck height, and Canadian installed bands in C$.

And new eavestroughs

Eavestroughs are priced by the linear foot, not by room or finish level, so they are not one of this calculator's project types. In Toronto they also come with a municipal rule: downspouts must be disconnected from the sewer, and the City reimburses eligible owners up to C$500.

Use the Canadian eavestrough installation cost calculator for that — vinyl, aluminum, steel and copper per foot in C$, downspouts, and your province's GST/HST/PST.

Authoritative resources

By RealCost Editorial TeamReviewed by RealCost Editorial TeamLast updated September 21, 2026 with September 2026 data

The dollar ranges this calculator produces sit on top of a construction-cost base that moved 0.5% nationally in Q2 2026 — but not evenly: Statistics Canada's own city breakdown shows Québec up 2.6% and Toronto down 0.8% in the same quarter. Two federal tax credits can also cut the net bill on specific renovation types — the Multigenerational Home Renovation Tax Credit and the Home Accessibility Tax Credit — neither of which this calculator's cost ranges account for.

The cost base moves by city, not by one national number

This calculator's ranges are a snapshot; the input costs behind them are not static. Statistics Canada's residential building construction price index for the second quarter of 2026 shows a 0.5% national increase, but city moves ranging from +2.6% in Québec and +2.5% in Montréal to −0.8% in Toronto and −0.2% in Vancouver in that same quarter. A renovation priced against a Toronto-tier estimate that's actually being quoted in Montréal is being compared against the wrong quarter's cost trend, not just the wrong city's base price.

Two federal credits can lower the net cost of specific renovation types

A renovation that builds a self-contained secondary unit for a senior or disability-tax-credit-eligible relative can qualify for the Multigenerational Home Renovation Tax Credit — 14.5% of qualifying costs up to C$50,000 for the 2025 tax year, a maximum credit of C$7,250. A renovation for accessibility — grab bars, ramps, wider doorways — without a self-contained unit may instead qualify under the Home Accessibility Tax Credit, up to C$20,000 of eligible expenses per year. These are two different programs with two different qualifying tests; neither applies to a kitchen or bathroom refresh with no accessibility or multigenerational purpose.

A bigger footprint can change property tax and insurance, after the renovation is done

A renovation that adds finished, assessable space can trigger a property reassessment: Toronto's own 2026 combined residential property tax rate is 0.767311% of assessed value, applied to whatever the property is assessed at after the work is done, not before. Insurers also structure coverage in levels — comprehensive, named-perils, broad, and no-frills, per the Insurance Bureau of Canada — so a renovation that changes how part of the home is used is worth flagging to an insurer to confirm which level still applies, rather than assuming the pre-renovation policy covers the new layout automatically.

Methodology

Construction-cost trend figures are Statistics Canada's own quarterly index; the tax-credit worked example applies CRA's published 2025 MHRTC rate and cap directly to a hypothetical qualifying amount within that cap; property tax and insurance context cite each authority's own published rate or coverage-structure page.

Sources

  1. Statistics Canada — Building construction price indexes, second quarter 2026 — accessed 2026-09-21
  2. Canada Revenue Agency — Multigenerational home renovation tax credit (MHRTC), line 45355 — accessed 2026-09-21
  3. Canada Revenue Agency — Home accessibility expenses, line 31285 — accessed 2026-09-21
  4. City of Toronto — Property Tax Rates and Fees — accessed 2026-09-21
  5. Insurance Bureau of Canada — Types of home insurance coverage — accessed 2026-09-21

Frequently asked questions

How much does a kitchen renovation cost in Toronto?

This calculator prices a Canadian kitchen from measurable quantities — cabinetry per linear foot by carcass material, countertops per square foot by material, an appliance package, and plumbing — rather than a flat budget/mid/high tier, so the answer depends on what you're installing. At the calculator's own default (polyester cabinetry, quartz counters, mid-range appliances, plumbing unchanged, 120 sq ft, flooring, backsplash, lighting and sink/faucet all replaced) a Toronto/GTA kitchen comes to C$41,227–C$86,586 including Ontario's 13% HST — that includes the 1.25x Toronto/GTA labour premium published by Reno Quotes ("Kitchen Renovation Cost in Canada: 2026 Price Guide," updated 4 September 2026, read 7 September 2026). Cheaper cabinetry (melamine) or a smaller kitchen lands below that; solid-wood cabinetry or premium appliances land above it.

How much does a bathroom renovation cost in Canada?

Using Reno Quotes' national scope bands ("Bathroom Renovation Cost Canada 2026," updated 13 April 2026, read 7 September 2026), a bathroom renovation costs C$18,000–C$24,000 for an aesthetic update, C$25,000–C$38,000 for a standard renovation, and C$45,000 and up (closed here at C$65,000 for arithmetic only) for a high-end one — all before tax and before any city premium. Toronto and Vancouver carry a 1.25x labour multiplier on top of those bands; every other Canadian market uses the national band unchanged, since the source publishes no discount for smaller centres. At the calculator's own default — a standard renovation in Toronto/GTA with the hidden-damage allowance on — that comes to C$38,137.50–C$60,737.50 including Ontario's 13% HST.

Does this calculator estimate resale ROI or home additions?

No. This calculator covers kitchen, bathroom and basement renovations only. Home additions and resale ROI are not estimated, because no sourced Canadian model for either was on file — a prior version of this page published ROI percentages and an addition band with no citation, and both have been removed rather than kept as a guess.

Do I need a permit for a basement renovation in Canada?

Most basement finishing work that adds walls, plumbing, electrical or a legal egress window needs a building permit, but every Canadian municipality publishes its own fee schedule and they are not comparable, so this calculator models and quotes only the one that could be read at a government source: the City of Toronto's, C$13.41 per square metre of altered floor area plus C$23.20 per plumbing fixture, with a C$214.79 minimum (City of Toronto, "Building Permit Fees," 2026 schedule, read 7 September 2026). For the calculator's own default basement (800 sq ft, full bathroom), that comes to C$996.66, which the basement result adds to the total. Outside Toronto, check your municipality's own building department — no other city's schedule is modelled here.

How much do renovation costs vary between Canadian cities?

This calculator applies exactly one regional adjustment: a 1.25x labour multiplier for Toronto/GTA and Vancouver/Lower Mainland, the bottom of Reno Quotes' published "25% to 40% above the national average" range for those two markets. Every other Canadian market — Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, Halifax and the rest — uses the national band unchanged, because the source states no discount percentage for smaller centres, only a premium for Toronto and Vancouver. Sales tax then varies separately by province: 5% GST in BC, AB, SK and MB (with an unrelated, not-visible-on-the-invoice 7% provincial tax on materials in BC and MB), 13% HST in Ontario, 14% in Nova Scotia, 15% in NB, NL and PEI, and 14.975% combined GST/QST in Quebec.

Methodology & sources

The cost figures on this page are generated from a single, sourced cost-data file (Calculator output, national labour bands (no Toronto or Vancouver premium), contract price before GST/HST/PST, at the calculator's default answers. Kitchen: polyester cabinetry 22 linear ft, quartz 35 sq ft, mid-range appliances, sink stays, flooring, backsplash, lighting and sink/faucet, installation labour and plumbing. Bathroom: main 4-piece, standard renovation, fixtures stay, hidden-damage allowance. Basement: 800 sq ft mid-range finish, one new egress window cut in concrete, a full bathroom, no waterproofing or underpinning. Building permits outside Toronto are not modelled. CAD.). Every figure is the output of the sourced engine behind each scope's dedicated Canadian calculator; this page adds no cost data of its own. Toronto and Vancouver labour is priced at ×1.25 against the national bands — the bottom of Reno Quotes' published "25% to 40% above the national average" (Kitchen Renovation Cost in Canada 2026, updated 4 September 2026, read 7 September 2026). No discount is applied elsewhere because the source publishes none. At the calculator's default answers (Toronto, Ontario) the same three jobs come to C$41,227–C$86,586 for the kitchen and C$38,138–C$60,738 for the bathroom including 13% HST, and C$103,872–C$134,872 for the basement before tax. Home additions and resale ROI are not estimated: no sourced Canadian model is on file for either. Last verified August 2026.

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Home Renovation Cost Calculator Canada is built and maintained by the RealCostIQ editorial team. Cost ranges and rates are checked against published industry data and contractor quotes, and revised when the underlying figures move. Read our data methodology or more about who builds this. Every calculation runs in your browser — no account, and none of your inputs are stored.

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