Bathroom renovation in Hampstead, NW3

We do not publish a price list for bathroom renovation in Hampstead. Hampstead bathrooms sit on timber floors in conversions; tanking and extract that a conservation elevation will accept decide the layout. Addresses sit with London Borough of Camden. We visit from Unit 3 Palace Court, 250 Finchley Road, London NW3 6DN, then write a proposal against a defined scope. 020 7101 3168.

Internal bathroom renovation within existing rooms in Hampstead NW3 often does not need planning permission. London Borough of Camden still controls extract, windows and elevations where conservation, listing or Article 4 apply. We check the address. We do not assume permitted development.

A single Hampstead bathroom with drainage in the right place is commonly a small number of weeks. Two bathrooms, or a room waiting on extract or a licence, takes longer. Timber floors and extract in Hampstead NW3 shape the programme. The written programme follows the survey.

Often, if there is a second bathroom. A single bathroom in a Hampstead NW3 flat is usually cleaner if you decant for the programme. We will say so plainly at survey.

Where drainage and extract can be routed without damaging principal rooms or the elevation. Some rooms cannot take a shower without a pump; we will say so at survey.

By measuring the stair and the lane, then timing the drop. Village lanes are not loading bays. The survey records the vehicle and the carry.

Only where the timber floor has the depth for a fall and a documented waterproofing system. A village conversion is not a new-build slab. We will say so at survey rather than draw a level-access room onto joists that cannot take it.

Once the room is open, a single bathroom is measured in weeks rather than months. The variables sit before that: confirming listing and conservation status, a freeholder's paperwork where the lease calls for it, and firm delivery dates for tiles and brassware. Whether the house has a second bathroom changes how the programme is written more than the size of the room does.

Inside the wet zone it comes off, because a waterproofing system needs a substrate it can bond to and old lime is not it. Outside that zone, sound plaster and original architraves stay and are made good rather than stripped for convenience. Where a bathroom sits off a principal landing, the door, the frame and the floor beyond it are protected for the whole programme.

Where there is a second bathroom, yes, and the programme is written around that room remaining available. Where the house has only one, staying means living without it for the wet weeks, and materials cannot be stored on a village lane. We date sanitaryware before the only bathroom comes out. A short decant is sometimes the cleaner route in a listed interior; we say so at survey.

It is a depth question on timber joists that have already moved. A wet-room fall plus insulation plus a heating mat can lift the finished floor above a principal landing that was never meant to step. We measure at survey and will say if the mat belongs. Extra-low-voltage underfloor heating is an electrical circuit; building-control notification is arranged where the work falls within the current regulations.

Not as a default. Period floors here rarely offer a level fall, and failed adhesive over lime or later boarding traps moisture that a new finish will not cure. Extra thickness also fights original door clearances and architraves we are keeping. We strip the wet zone to a substrate the waterproofing can bond to.

Often, and the limiting factor is floor depth rather than floor area. A level entry needs room for fall, a waste and a trap below the finished surface, and a Victorian or Georgian timber floor rarely gives what a new-build slab does. We measure the available build-up at the survey. Where it is not there, a low-profile tray achieves nearly the same look honestly, and we say which you can have before you pay for a drawing.

The point of the specification is that it does not. The wet zone is tanked as a documented system with recorded detailing at the corners, junctions and waste penetrations, and the room is tested with water before handover rather than trusted. If something does go wrong later, you have a record of what was installed and by whom, which matters both for the repair and for any conversation with the household below. We are fully insured.

Only if the extract is not solved properly. An internal bathroom needs mechanical extract with a real route to outside and enough capacity for the room, and in a conservation-area house the acceptable terminal may not be the nearest wall. We trace the route at the survey. A fan that discharges into a roof void or a redundant duct is not ventilation, and it is a common thing to find when stripping out a bathroom somebody else fitted.

Sometimes, and where it is sound it is worth keeping. The questions are whether the floor will carry it once you allow for the water and the occupant, whether the enamel is in a condition worth re-using, and how it will be moved while the room is stripped. Re-enamelling is a specialist trade and we will say honestly whether the piece justifies it. What we will not do is put a heavy bath back onto a floor we have not verified.

Longer than the work looks, because of the curing. Tanking has a stated cure time before tiling can start, and grout and silicone need their own time before the room takes water. Compressing those is exactly how a bathroom fails quietly. We write dates after the room has been measured and we concentrate the fully unusable days rather than spreading them across a month.

Because you are shown it. The membrane is photographed at every stage before tile covers it — corners, junctions, the tray upstand and each waste penetration — and you receive that record with the system details at handover. It is the only way anyone will ever see the waterproofing again, and it matters both for your own confidence and for any future conversation with a household below.

Not under this service. Work outside this main service is covered in our Other services catalogue; the scope and responsible business are confirmed before an instruction. What we can do inside the existing room is often more than people expect: a wall-hung basin, a reconfigured layout and a better door swing can transform a small bathroom without touching the structure.

Often, and the constraint is depth rather than cost. An electric mat needs to sit above the tanking with insulation beneath it to be worth running, and the resulting build-up still has to clear the door. In a village conversion the available depth is frequently marginal, so we measure at the survey and say plainly whether it works or whether it would leave you with a threshold you catch your foot on.

Usable at handover, fully cured a little later. Grout and silicone need time before the room takes heavy use, and we advise against a long hot shower on the first evening for that reason. The longer waits are inside the programme rather than after it: the tanking cure before tiling is fixed by the manufacturer and compressing it is how a defect gets built in.