Bathrooms in Daventry, priced in writing before anything starts.
A bathroom is mostly a question of where the water can go, and in Daventry the answer depends on which half of the town you are in.
On the estate housing the soil stack is usually internal or on a rear elevation nobody is protecting, so a bathroom can be moved with a good deal of freedom. In the town centre conservation area an external soil pipe on a street facing elevation is a different matter, because the Article 4 direction already controls the appearance of the frontage. Behind the building line there is far more room to work, which is where most relocated bathrooms end up.
Floors are the second constraint. Upstairs joists were sized for a bedroom, not for a filled bath sitting on a tiled floor. Where a waste run means notching or drilling them there are permitted zones, and the wrong cut in the wrong place is both common and serious. We will move a fitting a foot rather than cut a joist where it must not be cut.
Ventilation gets treated as an afterthought and then causes years of trouble. An extractor discharging into a roof void puts the moisture straight back into the house. We duct it outside.
Tanking is not optional on a walk in shower, because tiles and grout are not a waterproof layer and never were. Our bathroom installations page sets out what a full refit involves.
Four things we commit to on every job, rather than four things we say about ourselves.
Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations. We arrange the West Northamptonshire Council inspections, meet the inspector on site at each stage and see the work through to sign off. We do not make the application itself, and we will tell you what is needed and when.
Free, and you get it before you commit to us. Party walls and skip licences are raised at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
The same people do the groundworks, the brickwork and the fit out. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
You get a straight answer rather than a padded price. It costs us a job occasionally and saves you a great deal more.
Process, specification and what moves the price are set out on our bathrooms page.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Daventry street to the next.
In a house with one bathroom the whole household is affected for the duration, so we plan the strip out and first fix inside the same week and leave the existing toilet connected as long as the plumbing allows. On the older stock in the centre, cast iron waste and lead supply pipe both still turn up and both change the day if they appear unexpectedly.
Water pressure is worth checking before a suite is chosen rather than after it is fitted. A large rainfall shower head on a gravity fed system will disappoint you every morning for years, and in the older properties in the centre that is exactly what is often there. We check the incoming supply and the system type first, so the specification follows what the house can actually deliver rather than the other way round.
Part of our wider building work in Daventry.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
Southfield Construction (Rugby) Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company 14209138.
