How long does a bathroom installation take?

A full bathroom usually takes one to two weeks from strip out to making good. The stages are strip out, first fix, tiling, second fix and making good, and tiling is the one that stretches when the walls are not square. You get a schedule before we start, including which days you are without a bathroom.

How much does a bathroom installation cost?

A full bathroom fitted in the UK commonly runs from £4,000 to £8,000, with the suite and the tiles accounting for much of the gap between those two figures. What moves the price most is not the taps. It is whether walls move, whether the hot water system can supply what you want, and how much making good is left afterwards. We price after a survey.

Do I need a plumber or a bathroom fitter?

It depends which part of your bathroom is going wrong, and most disappointments are plumbing rather than tiling. A fitter is a joiner and tiler first; the shower that dribbles, the bath that takes twenty minutes to fill and the towel rail that never heats are system problems. We are plumbing and heating engineers, so that is the part we settle at design stage.

Do you need a plumber to install new taps?

Not legally, and a basin tap swap is a common DIY job. Two things turn it into a call-out: isolation valves that will not shut, and a back nut you cannot reach behind a pedestal. On a bath it is the space under the rim that defeats most people. Check both before you buy the taps.

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The commonest complaint about a new bathroom is that the shower is weak. That is almost never the shower. It is the water pressure, the boiler, or a cylinder that cannot keep up — decisions made before the first tile went on.

Design

We start with what the house can actually deliver. If you want a rainfall shower and two outlets running at once, we will tell you what that needs from the system and what it costs to get there. Then we plan the layout around it.

Installation

Strip out, first fix, tiling, second fix, and making good. We handle the plumbing and heating ourselves; where a job needs an electrician or a plasterer we bring in people we have worked with for years rather than whoever is free.

Getting the hot water right

This is the part we are actually specialists in. Whether that means a pump, a bigger cylinder, an unvented system or a different boiler, it gets solved during design rather than discovered afterwards.

Timescales

A full bathroom is usually one to two weeks. You will get a schedule before we start, and you will know which days you are without a bathroom.

Guarantee

Two-year workmanship guarantee. WRAS approved, G3 qualified, and insured.

Frequently asked questions

How long does a bathroom installation take?
A full bathroom usually takes one to two weeks from strip out to making good. The stages are strip out, first fix, tiling, second fix and making good, and tiling is the one that stretches when the walls are not square. You get a schedule before we start, including which days you are without a bathroom.
How much does a bathroom installation cost?
A full bathroom fitted in the UK commonly runs from £4,000 to £8,000, with the suite and the tiles accounting for much of the gap between those two figures. What moves the price most is not the taps. It is whether walls move, whether the hot water system can supply what you want, and how much making good is left afterwards. We price after a survey.
Do I need a plumber or a bathroom fitter?
It depends which part of your bathroom is going wrong, and most disappointments are plumbing rather than tiling. A fitter is a joiner and tiler first; the shower that dribbles, the bath that takes twenty minutes to fill and the towel rail that never heats are system problems. We are plumbing and heating engineers, so that is the part we settle at design stage.
Do you need a plumber to install new taps?
Not legally, and a basin tap swap is a common DIY job. Two things turn it into a call-out: isolation valves that will not shut, and a back nut you cannot reach behind a pedestal. On a bath it is the space under the rim that defeats most people. Check both before you buy the taps.