Bathrooms in Market Harborough, priced in writing before anything starts.
A bathroom is a question of where the water can go, and in Market Harborough the answer is shaped by which elevation the soil stack can appear on.
On the older housing the stack runs externally, and in Little Bowden a new or relocated stack on a front elevation is caught by the Article 4 direction covering front elevation alterations. In the Market Harborough conservation area the same work would be looked at closely as well. Behind the building line there is considerably more freedom, which is where the bathrooms we relocate almost always end up.
Floors are the second constraint. Older upstairs joists were sized for a bedroom, not for a filled bath sitting 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 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, and in an older roof it finds the timber.
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 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 Market Harborough 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.
Water in this part of Leicestershire 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.
Cast iron waste and lead supply pipe both still turn up in the older stock, and both change the day if they appear unexpectedly. We would rather find them at the survey.
An extract terminal appearing on a front elevation is caught by the same controls as any other front alteration, so we route it elsewhere or agree it with the council first.
Part of our wider building work in Market Harborough.
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.
