Bathrooms in Lutterworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
A bathroom in a Lutterworth town house is mostly a question of where the water can go. In a modern house the soil stack is inside and the answer is easy. In an older one it is on an outside wall, and if that wall faces the street inside the conservation area then moving it is a conversation with the council rather than a decision on site.
Floors are the other constraint. Older upstairs floors run on joists that were sized for a bedroom, not for a filled bath sitting on a tiled floor. Where the layout means notching or drilling those joists to run a waste, there is a right way and a wrong way, and the wrong way is common. We work to the permitted zones and 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 that discharges into a roof void rather than outside will put the moisture back into the house, and in an older Lutterworth roof it will find the timber. We duct it out properly.
Tanking is not optional on a walk in shower. We tank the wet area rather than relying on the tiles and the grout, 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 Harborough District 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 Lutterworth street to the next.
Bathrooms are the smallest room and the most disruptive job, because the whole house is without one while the work runs. In a Lutterworth terrace with a single bathroom we plan the strip out and the first fix to happen inside the same week, and we will fit the new suite before the tiling rather than after where the layout allows it, so you get the room back sooner. Cast iron waste and lead supply pipe both still turn up in the older houses here, and both change the day if they are found unexpectedly. Where the house has only one toilet we leave the old one connected until the last possible day rather than leaving you without.
Part of our wider building work in Lutterworth.
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.
