Bathroom renovation in North West London

We do not publish standard prices for a bathroom renovation. Period fabric, access, extract, tenure and consent in Hampstead, St John's Wood, Maida Vale and the wider list change the figure. We visit, then write a proposal against a defined scope. 020 7101 3168.

Internal bathroom renovation within existing rooms often does not need planning permission. Conservation-area, listed-building, Article 4 and freeholder rules still apply to extract, windows and elevations. We check the address. We do not assume permitted development in Hampstead, Highgate or Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Bathroom Renovation pages on this site cover Hampstead, West Hampstead, Belsize Park, St John's Wood, Maida Vale, Swiss Cottage, Primrose Hill, Highgate and the wider list. If the property sits just outside those pages, contact us and we will say whether we can take it on.

Tell us the address, whether there is a second bathroom, and whether a managing agent is involved. We visit, then write a proposal. A licence to alter is often needed before the room is stripped.

Yes. Wet rooms run together, then decoration closes around them. Separate contractors sequencing themselves is how a finished bathroom is opened again.

Yes. Stacked bathrooms in St John's Wood, Maida Vale and Swiss Cottage, and timber-floor conversions in Hampstead and West Hampstead, are ordinary work. The stack and the neighbour below decide the layout.

Yes. Compact stacked rooms in St John's Wood, Maida Vale and Swiss Cottage are ordinary work. Layout follows the stack and the neighbour below. A bath crate is often a stair problem until we measure the lift.

Where the floor depth, the waterproofing system and the extract will take it. A conversion rarely has the build-up of a new-build slab. We will not draw a level-access wet room onto joists that cannot accept the fall.

Internal bathroom renovation within the existing room is ordinary work. Listed and conservation rules bite when extract or the elevation change. We check the address before we plan a grille.

New external soil pipes on principal elevations, structural openings, and work that cuts into another demise without the building's process. The bathroom stays in the envelope that exists unless the stack will honestly serve a change.

Wet areas are waterproofed to a documented system. We do not treat tanking as optional in a shower or around a bath, particularly on timber floors in Victorian and Edwardian conversions.

Often, where drainage can reach a stack without damaging principal rooms, and where extract can be routed without an insensitive grille on a conservation elevation. Some rooms cannot take a shower without a pump or a revised layout; we will say so at survey rather than force it.

A single bathroom with drainage in the right place is commonly a small number of weeks. Two bathrooms, or a room that needs a new extract run or freeholder consent, takes longer. The written programme follows the survey.

Internal bathrooms in conversions need mechanical extract with a clear route to outside. We will not leave a room dependent on a window that does not exist. Duct routes through common parts or roof voids are agreed before we open up.

In mansion blocks and stacked conversions, drainage and water connections are shared. We isolate, test, and coordinate access if a connection is in a neighbour's ceiling void. We do not cut into another demise without the building's process.

Yes. We are fully insured.

Sometimes, if it is sound and the layout is unchanged. Reusing a bath or basin does not remove the need to renew tanking, wastes and seals. We will advise what is worth keeping after we see it.

British and European sanitaryware is often available within ordinary merchant lead times; some brassware and tiles are longer. We programme strip-out after the critical items are dated, so the room is not left open waiting for a tap.

Only where the floor depth and the waterproofing system will take the fall. A conversion rarely has the build-up of a new-build slab. We will not draw a level-access wet room onto joists that cannot accept it.

New electrical circuits, a change to drainage and some heating work need notification. We identify that at proposal stage. Gas work, if it arises, is by a Gas Safe registered engineer.

Often, if there is a second bathroom or a short arrangement for washing. A single bathroom in a one-bathroom flat is usually cleaner if you decant for the programme. We will say which, after we have seen the plan.

Where the stack will serve the new position without cutting into another demise. Moving a WC a long way is often the item that is not possible. Ensuites in former dressing rooms are ordinary where drainage and extract can be routed honestly.

Not as a default. Failed adhesive and trapped moisture in this housing stock make it a false economy. We strip to a substrate we can waterproof.

Sometimes. Available floor depth decides it. We treat it as an electrical circuit and a build-up problem, not as a brochure extra, and we will say at survey if the room cannot take it without thinning insulation.