Bathrooms in Rugby, priced in writing before anything starts.
Most bathrooms we fit in Rugby are upstairs, and on the older stock that is the whole job in one sentence: everything depends on what the floor and the soil stack will let us do. In the Victorian and Edwardian terraces near the town centre the joists run the wrong way as often as not, so moving a bath or a shower means notching and reinforcing rather than simply re-routing a waste.
The post-war semis out towards Bilton and Hillmorton are usually more forgiving: solid ground floors, an external stack, and enough room to reposition without structural work. We survey the floor and the stack before quoting, not after, because that is the item that moves a bathroom price.
The full specification, and what changes the cost, is set out on our bathrooms page.
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 Rugby 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 Rugby street to the next.
A bathroom refit inside the existing footprint is not normally a planning matter. It is a Building Regulations matter, and the parts that bite are the electrical work and the drainage.
We arrange the Building Control inspections and see the job through to sign off, and the electrical work is certified.
A bathroom is a small skip and a big disruption. The waste volume is low enough that on most Rugby streets we can work from a skip bag or a small skip on a driveway, which avoids a highway permit entirely.
The terraces are the exception. Where there is no off-street parking the skip stands on the road and needs a licence from the council, and the strip-out has to come through the house, so we sheet the hallway and stairs before anything moves.
The question that matters more than the skip is whether the house has a second toilet. If it does not, we sequence the work so the room is out of use for the shortest run we can manage and tell you that number before we start.
Part of our wider building work in Rugby.
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.
