Build a Room or Buy a Booth: The Honest Comparison

The honest comparison

You need one more private room. Not a renovation. One room where a call can happen with the door shut.

There are two ways to get it. Build it, or buy it.
Most offices only ever hear the contractor's side. Here is both.

• 30 dBSpeech reduction
• One outletStandard 120V, no electrician
• 2 to 4 hoursTwo-person assembly
• 4 yearsFrame and panel warranty

We find out that even the simplest renovation cost tens of thousands.

A buyer fitting out a new open office in North York, on a call with our team

That call is not unusual. Since May, more deals in our pipeline have been lost or paused to built space than to any other booth brand. The real competitor is drywall. So this is the comparison that matters.

What Building a Room Takes

Every building is different. This is the usual order of events for a closed room inside a leased office.

1. Design
   DrawingsA designer or architect draws the room. This happens weeks before anyone picks up a tool.
2. Consent
   Landlord approvalMost leases need written consent for anything attached to the floor, walls or ceiling.
3. Permit
   Permit and inspectionFull-height walls, a new circuit and a moved sprinkler head usually mean a building permit, then a wait for the inspector.
4. Build
   Trades, in sequenceFraming, drywall, taping, paint, electrical, an HVAC diffuser, the sprinkler, a door, a flooring patch. Each trade waits for the one before it.
5. Meanwhile
   Your team works around itDust, drilling, taped plastic sheets, and after-hours labour billed at after-hours rates.
6. Invoice
   The surpriseThe line that was not in the quote. There is always one.
7. Lease end
   Restoration when you leaveMany leases say put the space back the way you found it. You pay to build the room, then pay to take it out.

What a Booth Takes

A real install of a Collaborative Work Booth, photographed on site. Custom red finish.

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• 94 inEvery model fits under a standard 8 foot ceiling.
• One plugLighting, ventilation and the outlets inside run off one standard wall outlet.
• About a weekDelivery when the model is in stock in the GTA. A certified installer builds it, after hours if you need.

Side by Side

The Day You Move Out

This is the part the contractor's quote never shows. The lease ends, or the team outgrows the floor. A built room stays behind. If the lease has a restoration clause, you pay a crew to turn it back into open floor.

A booth leaves with you. Across the floor, it rolls. To another floor or another building, it comes apart into panels and goes back up the same way it came in. One client moved two floors up in the same building and took all four of their rooms with them.

Whenever we wanna move the office, we can take couple of screws off and then move to the next.

A buyer explaining why they chose a booth over drywall, on a call with our team

When Building the Room Is the Right Call

We would rather tell you this now than on the phone.

• You own the building and plan to be in it for a decade.
• The room needs plumbing, a sink or a window.
• The room needs an odd shape, or has to share a wall with something fixed.
• You need a boardroom-sized space, not a room for one to six people.

If that is you, build. Everyone else is paying for walls they cannot take with them.

The Money

A built room typically runs $180 to $350 or more per square foot once drywall, electrical, HVAC and permits are in. Ask your contractor for the all-in number, including restoration at the end of the lease.

We do not publish a price list, because the number depends on four things: the model, how many rooms, whether you add professional installation, and where it is going. Tell us those four below and you get one itemized written quote within one business day. The room, delivery and assembly are separate lines, so you can see what each part costs. Three rooms or more steps the per-room number down, and financing is available with the booth yours at the end.

Two steps, one business day

Get the Booth Number First

Pick the rooms you need and tell us where to send pricing. A real person replies with one itemized quote: room, delivery and assembly as separate lines.

• Reply within one business day
• Volume pricing from three rooms
• Financing quoted beside the purchase price
• No price list, no call centre, no spam

Request Pricing & Availability

Tell us the model, how many, and your postal code.

Website

1. 1 The space
2. 2 Where to send pricing

Is this for a workplace or a home? *

Commercial Office, clinic or school Home Home office or personal use

Which booths, and how many? *

ZUM Series SoundBox VRS

Single Booth 1 person

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Comfort Booth 1–2 people

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Double Booth 2 people

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Collaborative Booth 4–6 people

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Executive Booth 6–8 people

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Select at least one booth

Will this fit your space? See your run drawn to scale and check it against your wall Check size

• Delivery & install quoted based on location
• Furniture customization available

When do you need it? (optional)

This month Next 1 to 3 months Just planning

Next: where should we send pricing?

Pick at least one booth to continue. No contact details yet.

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No spam, no call centers. Just the info you need.