Bathroom Installation

A bathroom is a plumbing job with a nice finish on top. The tiles and the brassware are what you see every day, but what decides whether the room actually works is underneath them: pipe sizes, the hot water supply, the pressure at the shower head, the falls on the waste, and the seals around the tray. We're a plumbing and heating firm first, so that's where we start — and it's why the bathrooms we fit across Essex & East London still drain, still don't leak and still give a decent shower years later.

What We Install

• ✓Full bathroom refits — strip out to finished room
• ✓Family bathrooms, en-suites, cloakrooms and downstairs WCs
• ✓Walk-in showers, shower rooms and level-access wet rooms
• ✓Shower-over-bath conversions and bath-to-shower swaps
• ✓Freestanding, back-to-wall and standard baths
• ✓Wall-hung toilets with concealed cisterns and frames
• ✓Vanity units, basins and wall-mounted taps with concealed pipework
• ✓Heated towel rails and bathroom radiators, tied into your heating
• ✓Thermostatic and digital showers, rainfall heads and body jets

Why a Plumbing & Heating Firm Should Fit Your Bathroom

The most common bathroom disappointment isn't the tiling — it's a rainfall shower that dribbles because nobody checked whether the hot water system could feed it. A big shower head needs flow as well as pressure. A combi boiler gives roughly 10–14 litres a minute of hot water in total; if two people shower at once, or you've added an en-suite, that runs out fast. An older gravity-fed system with a tank in the loft may only manage 0.2–0.5 bar at an upstairs shower, and a lot of showers won't run properly on that at all.

Because we install and service boilers and hot water cylinders every week, we check this at the survey and tell you honestly what your system will and won't deliver. Sometimes the answer is a shower pump; sometimes it's an unvented cylinder, or upgrading the boiler while the walls are open. Sometimes the existing setup is fine and we say so. The point is you find out before the tiles go on, not after. Read more on combi vs system boilers if you're weighing this up.

If your job involves moving the boiler, altering gas pipework or relocating a flue to make room for the new layout, our engineers are Gas Safe registered and do that work themselves — no waiting for a second firm.

The Plumbing Underneath a Good Bathroom

• •Hot and cold supplies re-run in the right size (22mm to the bath and shower where it counts, not everything squeezed through 15mm)
• •Isolation valves on every appliance so a future tap change doesn't mean draining the house
• •Correct falls on waste pipes and a properly positioned soil connection — no slow basins, no gurgling
• •Anti-vacuum and non-return protection where showers and pumps require it
• •Shower trays bedded, sealed and tested before a single tile goes near them
• •Concealed pipework for wall-hung suites and wall-mounted taps, with access left for maintenance
• •Towel rails and radiators balanced into the existing heating circuit, not just plumbed in and hoped for
• •Old lead or imperial pipework replaced while the floor is up — common in the Victorian and 1930s houses around here

Tiling, Electrics & the Other Trades

A full bathroom needs more than a plumber, and we won't pretend otherwise. Tiling, plastering, flooring and electrical work are done by the tilers, plasterers and electricians we work with regularly on our own jobs — people whose work we've seen and are happy to put our name next to. We run the whole thing as one project: one survey, one quote, one schedule, and one number to call if you have a question. You aren't left coordinating three firms who each blame the other.

Bathroom electrics — electric showers, shower pumps, extractor fans, lighting and shaver sockets — must be done by a qualified electrician and certified under Part P. We schedule that work into the job so it happens at the right stage and you get the paperwork at the end.

How a Bathroom Installation Runs

1. Free survey — We measure the room, check water pressure and flow, look at the existing pipework and drainage, and talk through what you want from the space
2. Design & quote — A layout that works with your plumbing (or a clear plan for changing it), a specification for the suite, and an itemised written price
3. Strip out — Old suite, tiles and flooring removed; water isolated so the rest of the house keeps running
4. First fix — New hot, cold and waste pipework, shower valve and concealed frames set into the walls and floor; pressure-tested before anything is closed up
5. Boarding, tanking & tiling — Walls boarded, wet areas tanked, floor and walls tiled by our tiler
6. Second fix — Suite, taps, shower, towel rail and accessories fitted and connected; everything sealed and tested under running water
7. Handover — We walk you through the shower controls, isolation valves and how to look after the seals and grout

How Long Does It Take?

• •Shower-over-bath swap or new shower enclosure in an existing layout: 1–2 days
• •Cloakroom or downstairs WC: 2–3 days
• •En-suite or small shower room, same layout: around a week
• •Full family bathroom refit including tiling: typically 7–10 working days
• •Layout changes, moving soil stacks or knocking through: allow 2 weeks plus

Bathrooms in Essex & East London Homes

We're based in Barkingside, and most of our bathroom work is in the housing we know well: Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Walthamstow, Leyton, Hackney and Forest Gate, where the bathroom is often a later addition above the kitchen with a long waste run and marginal pressure; 1930s semis across Ilford, Gants Hill, Romford and Hornchurch with the original cold-water tank still in the loft; and the larger houses in Chigwell, Woodford and Loughton adding a second or third bathroom that the existing hot water system was never sized for. Each of those has a plumbing answer, and we've fitted enough of them to know what it is before we've lifted a floorboard.

Need something smaller than a full refit — a leaking shower, a new tap, a toilet that won't stop running? That's our general plumbing service, and we're happy to do it.

Bathroom installation across Barkingside, Ilford, Gants Hill, Newbury Park, Hainault, Chigwell, Woodford, Wanstead, Loughton, Buckhurst Hill, Romford, Hornchurch, Dagenham, Walthamstow, Leytonstone, Stratford, Hackney and surrounding areas.