Can the bath and shower be moved anywhere in the room?

Within limits, and the limit is the waste rather than the supply. Hot and cold can be run almost anywhere, but a waste needs a continuous fall to the stack within the floor depth you have. Moving a shower to the far wall sometimes means a raised tray or a step, and that is worth knowing at layout stage rather than at tiling stage.

How far can a toilet be moved?

A short, direct gravity run to the soil stack is what a WC wants, and a couple of metres is a comfortable limit in most floors. Beyond that it is either lifting the floor to gain the fall, or a macerator, which works but adds a pump, a noise and a maintenance item. Both are legitimate; they are just different jobs.

Why does my new shower feel weak?

Nearly always flow rate rather than pressure, and the two get confused constantly. Pressure is the force behind the water; flow is how many litres a minute actually arrive. A high output mixer on a low flow supply cannot invent water. Measuring flow at the start is what stops that outcome, and it takes a jug and a stopwatch.

How long does a full bathroom take?

A straightforward single bathroom refit, same layout, is commonly around two weeks of trades, with waiting time inside that for tanking, adhesive and grout to cure. Changing the layout, moving the soil connection or dealing with a rotten floor extends it. The programme goes in the quote stage by stage so you can see where the waiting is.

Do you handle the tiling and electrics too?

They are coordinated around the plumbing rather than left to you to arrange. The sequence matters more than the supplier: tanking cannot start before first fix is tested, and second fix cannot start before the tiling is grouted. The quote names which trade is on site at which stage so there is no dead week in the middle.

Bathroom Installation
In London

A bathroom goes wrong at first fix and shows it at the end. Every expensive mistake in a bathroom is a pipe in the wrong place, discovered after the tiler has been.

Waste falls set before tiling
Mains flow measured at the start
Every stage listed in the quote

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What Customers Say About The Work

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First Fix Decided Early
Soil connection, waste falls and pipe routes are fixed before a tile goes on.
Flow Rate Measured
The shower you want has to suit the water your property actually gets.
Stage By Stage
Strip out, first fix, boarding, tiling and second fix, each one listed.
One Room, One Quote
The whole refit in one written price rather than a trade at a time.

A levelled shower tray with its waste trap connected and tanking on the walls around it

Bathroom Installation

The order it has to run in

Strip out. Then first fix: hot, cold and waste brought to the exact positions of the fittings, soil connection set, any studwork or boxing built, and the floor levelled. Then the wet trades, which is boarding, tanking in the wet area, screeding and tiling. Then second fix: the sanitaryware, brassware, shower valve and screen fitted to pipework that is already where it should be. Then the sealing, the trims and the testing.

The point of that order is that nothing in the middle can be undone cheaply. A waste run that ends up 60mm off its fitting is twenty minutes at first fix and a day of broken tiles afterwards.

Bathroom Installation is priced after the job has been seen, anywhere in the areas we cover. Send the postcode and a few lines about what it is doing when you contact us, and the answer comes back in writing.

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The Job In Detail

What Bathroom Installation Involves

Falls and the soil connection

Waste pipes run on a fall, and a bathroom has to find that fall within the floor depth available. A bath and a shower tray both sit low, so getting a continuous fall from them to the stack is often the single constraint that decides where the shower can go at all. Where the stack is on the other side of the room, the fall needed over that distance may mean a step up into the shower or a different layout.

A WC needs a short, direct run to the soil stack. Moving a toilet more than a couple of metres means either a macerator, which brings its own rules and noise, or opening the floor.

Flow rate decides the shower

This is the measurement to take before choosing anything. Mains pressure sells showers; mains flow rate delivers them. A property with good pressure and poor flow will disappoint with a high output mixer, and the honest answers are a pump on a stored system, or a shower chosen to suit the flow that is actually there. We measure it at the start rather than discovering it at handover.

Who does what

Plumbing, first and second fix, waste and soil work are ours. Tiling, electrics and plastering are coordinated around the plumbing sequence so nobody is waiting on anybody, and the programme is set out in the quote with the trades named against each stage.

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How It Works

How A Bathroom Installation Job Runs

Describe the room

Its size, what is in it now, and what you want in it when it is finished.

The fixed points

Soil stack, waste route and incoming pressure are checked, since they decide the layout.

A staged quote

Every stage in order with the price beside it, so nothing is a surprise mid-job.

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FAQs

Bathroom Installation Questions

Within limits, and the limit is the waste rather than the supply. Hot and cold can be run almost anywhere, but a waste needs a continuous fall to the stack within the floor depth you have. Moving a shower to the far wall sometimes means a raised tray or a step, and that is worth knowing at layout stage rather than at tiling stage.
A short, direct gravity run to the soil stack is what a WC wants, and a couple of metres is a comfortable limit in most floors. Beyond that it is either lifting the floor to gain the fall, or a macerator, which works but adds a pump, a noise and a maintenance item. Both are legitimate; they are just different jobs.
Nearly always flow rate rather than pressure, and the two get confused constantly. Pressure is the force behind the water; flow is how many litres a minute actually arrive. A high output mixer on a low flow supply cannot invent water. Measuring flow at the start is what stops that outcome, and it takes a jug and a stopwatch.
A straightforward single bathroom refit, same layout, is commonly around two weeks of trades, with waiting time inside that for tanking, adhesive and grout to cure. Changing the layout, moving the soil connection or dealing with a rotten floor extends it. The programme goes in the quote stage by stage so you can see where the waiting is.
They are coordinated around the plumbing rather than left to you to arrange. The sequence matters more than the supplier: tanking cannot start before first fix is tested, and second fix cannot start before the tiling is grouted. The quote names which trade is on site at which stage so there is no dead week in the middle.

Bathroom Installation

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The Bathroom

Room size, what stays and what goes, and the shower or bath you have in mind. A photo of the room as it is helps most.

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What Customers Say About The Work

First Fix Decided Early

Flow Rate Measured

Stage By Stage

One Room, One Quote

Bathroom Installation

The order it has to run in

The Job In Detail