Commercial fit-out decisions
Hotel suite refurbishment: plan kitchenette and bathroom removals together
- Interior scope
- Renovation planning
A hotel suite can contain two wet-service areas as well as its sleeping and living space. Refurbishing the kitchenette and bathroom may affect different fixtures, finishes and connections, even when both are included in the same room design. Define those removals together without treating the whole suite as a full gut by default.
CoreCut provides commercial strip-outs for agreed interior-removal packages. Where the new design specifies concrete openings, core drilling is a separately assessed contribution with its own location and installation requirements.
Compare the three parts of the suite
Begin with the kitchenette, bathroom and remaining room as separate areas on the plan. Identify what the new design retains in each.
| Area | Removal decision | Receiving work to identify |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchenette | Attached cupboards, counter, selected finishes and prepared fittings | New cabinetry, connections and surrounding finishes |
| Bathroom | Included fixtures and wall or floor layers | Substrate work, new installation and finish system |
| Living and sleeping space | Retained furniture, fixed joinery and selected surfaces | New furniture or finishes and their boundaries |
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Owner-managed furniture and specialist equipment need their own destinations. The removal drawing should make clear which attached components remain after that separate work.
Follow the new layout into the service decisions
Keeping a sink or fixture in a similar position does not, by itself, settle the installation requirements. The responsible trades and design team identify the connections affected and the preparation needed before removal.
If a new opening through concrete is specified, identify its purpose, position and required dimensions for the cutting assessment. Do not infer new holes from a changed fixture symbol alone. The design and receiving installation determine the requirement.
The bathroom-layer guide helps describe the interior endpoint. Removing a visible finish and removing its backing are different decisions, just as taking out kitchenette cupboards differs from preparing the exposed wall for new joinery.
Compare room types before repeating the work
A standard suite, larger suite and room with a different kitchenette arrangement may need different removal lists. A first assessment can clarify the proposed package and reveal questions to check in the other room types.
Use those findings to improve the enquiry, without assuming that every room has identical concealed layers or previous alterations. The refurbishment team should also identify the floor and wall condition required where retained and renewed areas meet.
Fit the package to the building’s access
Provide the proposed room group and the property’s loading and elevator arrangements. CoreCut’s loading-and-elevator brief develops those practical inputs. The hotel and project team determine the operating arrangement and shared-route conditions for the actual work.
Demolition handover is the start of the next trade’s package. It is separate from new installations, final checks and the hotel’s decision to return a suite to use.
Illustrative example: kitchenette replacement with a selective bathroom update
This is an illustrative planning example, not a completed CoreCut project.
A suite design replaces the kitchenette cupboards and counter while retaining the bathroom layout and renewing selected bathroom surfaces. Most sleeping-area finishes remain. The removal list identifies those three different boundaries, along with the responsible trades’ connection decisions.
The assessed package leaves the specified surfaces for joinery and bathroom work. A separate concrete-opening item is added only if the installation design requires it.
Discuss the suite design with CoreCut
Request an assessment with the room types, proposed kitchenette and bathroom changes, retained areas and refurbishment contact. Identify any specified openings and the first room group being considered.
A room-by-room renovation may intersect with building riser renewal. Resolve that shared dependency before treating each bathroom as an independent repeat.