Bathrooms in Bedworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
A bathroom is mostly a question of where the water can go, and in Bedworth the answer depends on whether the front of the house is protected.
On modern housing the soil stack is internal and a bathroom can be moved easily. On the older terraces it runs on an outside wall, and in Bermuda or a conservation area, where an Article 4 direction may apply, altering a street facing elevation becomes a conversation with the borough rather than a decision on site. Behind the building line there is far more freedom, which is where most relocated bathrooms end up.
Floors are the second constraint. Older upstairs joists were sized for a bedroom, not for a filled bath 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 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 causes years of trouble. An extractor discharging into a roof void puts moisture straight back into the building, and in an older roof it finds the timber. We duct it outside.
Tanking is not optional on a walk in shower, because tiles and grout are not a waterproof layer. 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 Nuneaton & Bedworth 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 Bedworth street to the next.
In a terrace with one bathroom the whole house 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. Cast iron waste and lead supply pipe both still turn up in the colliery era housing and both change the day if they appear unexpectedly.
Ground floor bathrooms and wet rooms come up more here than in most towns, because a good deal of the older housing was built without an upstairs bathroom at all and the ground floor is where the space is. Those are good jobs to do properly: the drainage falls are tighter, the tanking has to be right because there is no forgiving void beneath, and the ventilation needs real thought. They are not simply an upstairs bathroom moved downwards.
Part of our wider building work in Bedworth.
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.
