Bathrooms in Hinckley, priced in writing before anything starts.
A bathroom is mostly a question of where the water can go, and in Hinckley the answer depends on whether the front of the house is protected.
On modern housing the soil stack is internal and moving a bathroom is easy. On the late Victorian stock near the centre it runs on an outside wall, and if that wall faces the street inside a conservation area then altering it becomes a conversation with the borough rather than a decision on site. Behind the building line there is far more freedom, which is why most of the bathrooms we relocate end up at the back.
Floors are the second constraint. Victorian 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 both common and serious. We will move a fitting a foot rather than cut a joist where it must not be cut.
Ventilation is treated as an afterthought and then causes years of trouble. An extractor discharging into a roof void puts the moisture back into the building, and in an older Hinckley roof it finds the timber. We duct it outside properly.
Tanking is not optional on a walk in shower. 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 Hinckley & Bosworth 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 Hinckley 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. Cast iron waste and lead supply pipe both still turn up in the older Hinckley stock, and both change the day if they appear unexpectedly.
Water pressure is the Hinckley question we get asked least and should be asked most. Older properties near the centre often still have a small bore supply and a gravity fed system, and a large rainfall shower head fitted to that will disappoint you every morning for years. We check the incoming supply and the system type before you choose a suite, because the specification should follow what the house can actually deliver rather than the other way round.
Part of our wider building work in Hinckley.
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.
