Bathrooms in Burton Latimer, priced in writing before anything starts.
Bathrooms in Burton Latimer are more often about adding one than replacing one, because a lot of the estate housing has the space and only one bathroom in it.
Adding an en suite or a second bathroom raises three questions in order. Where the waste goes, since a new run needs a route to an existing stack with adequate fall and cannot cross a room at ceiling level without somebody noticing. What the floor is doing, because joists sized for a bedroom are being asked to carry a filled bath on a tiled floor. And what it does to the room it comes out of, because a bedroom cut below a usable size to gain an en suite is not always a good trade.
On the older terraces the soil stack runs externally and the layout options are narrower, so the drainage gets worked out before a suite is chosen rather than after.
Ventilation gets treated as an afterthought and causes years of trouble. An extractor discharging into a roof void puts the moisture straight back into the building rather than outside it.
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 North 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 Burton Latimer 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.
Adding a second bathroom changes the demand on the hot water system, and a cylinder that coped with one may not cope with two. That is worth establishing before the suite is chosen rather than after the first cold shower.
Water here is hard, which shortens the life of a shower valve and furs a rainfall head until the spray pattern goes patchy. Fittings that can be descaled and serviced are worth more over ten years than the difference in purchase price.
One advantage of the modern stock here is that pipework generally runs in accessible floor voids rather than being buried in solid construction, which makes adding a second bathroom cheaper than it would be on older housing. Where that is not the case we will say so at the survey rather than discovering it once the floor is up.
Part of our wider building work in Burton Latimer.
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.
