Bathrooms in Nuneaton, priced in writing before anything starts.
A bathroom is mostly a question of where the water can go, and in Nuneaton the answer depends on the age of the house rather than on where in town it is.
On modern housing the soil stack is internal and a bathroom moves easily. On the Victorian stock it runs on an outside wall, and in the Abbey or town centre conservation areas, where an Article 4 direction may apply to external work, altering a street facing elevation becomes a permission question rather than a site decision. Behind the building line there is far more freedom.
Floors are the second constraint. Victorian 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 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. We duct it outside properly.
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 Nuneaton street to the next.
In a terrace 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 Nuneaton stock, and both change the day if they are found unexpectedly. We would rather find them at the survey than on the first morning, which is one of the reasons we survey.
Water here is hard, and that has practical consequences for a bathroom rather than just for the kettle. Scale shortens the life of a shower valve, furs up a rainfall head until the pattern goes patchy, and takes the efficiency out of an unvented cylinder. Choosing fittings that can actually be descaled and serviced, rather than sealed units that cannot, is worth more over ten years than the difference in the purchase price.
Part of our wider building work in Nuneaton.
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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