Bathrooms in Solihull, priced in writing before anything starts.
Bathrooms in Solihull are more often about adding one than replacing one, because the houses have the space and the layouts frequently have somewhere sensible to put it.
Adding an en suite or a second bathroom raises three questions in order. Where does the waste go, because a new run needs a route to an existing stack with adequate fall and it cannot cross a room at ceiling level without somebody noticing. What is the floor doing, because joists sized for a bedroom are carrying a filled bath on a tiled floor, and on the longer spans in these houses that needs checking rather than assuming. And what does it do to the room it comes out of, because a bedroom reduced below a sensible size to gain an en suite is not always a good trade.
Where the property is in the affected part of Olton, any external work that goes with it, a new soil pipe on an elevation or an extractor outlet, may itself require permission under the Article 4 direction.
Ventilation matters and gets treated as an afterthought. An extractor discharging into a roof void puts the moisture straight back into the building.
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 Solihull Metropolitan Borough 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 Solihull 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 larger houses there is often a cloakroom, which makes the programme considerably kinder.
Adding a second bathroom changes the demand on the hot water system, and a cylinder that coped with one bathroom may not cope with two. That is worth establishing before the suite is chosen rather than after the first cold shower.
On the post-war stock, floor tiles and the adhesive beneath them can contain asbestos, so we check before lifting rather than afterwards.
Where a new extract terminal or soil pipe would appear on an external wall in the affected part of Olton, that is caught by the Article 4 direction along with most other householder work, so we settle it before first fix rather than after.
Part of our wider building work in Solihull.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
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