Bathroom Renovation Camden

GS Renovation renovates bathrooms across Camden, from compact en-suites in Camden Town flats to family bathrooms in Hampstead and Highgate townhouses. We handle the tanking, drainage, tiling, heating and electrics, designing layouts that work within the tight footprints of period homes.

In Camden, a full bathroom refit typically costs £6,000 to £20,000 or more (indicative London ranges, MyBuilder and Checkatrade, 2026). GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Camden: we carry the tanking, plumbing and tiling as one contract, with the electrics certified by a registered electrician.

How the job runs

1. Free design visit at your Camden home and an itemised quote.
2. Strip-out, then first-fix plumbing and electrics.
3. Tanking to the wet areas, then tiling.
4. Sanitaryware and second fix, with notifiable electrics certified by a registered electrician. Typically 10 to 15 working days on site.

Wet rooms and waterproofing in Camden

A wet room or walk-in shower only lasts if the waterproofing is done properly, which matters even more in Camden's period buildings with timber floors and flats stacked above neighbours. We fully tank the area, forming falls to the drainage, sealing the joints and boarding out before a single tile is laid. Getting the substrate and membrane right first is what prevents leaks reaching the flat or room below.

Ventilation and drainage are planned to suit the property, whether that means running a new soil connection in a Kentish Town terrace or upgrading extraction in a converted flat. We add underfloor heating where it helps, tile to a high standard and finish with the sanitaryware and screens. New circuits, and changes to circuits around the bath or shower, are notifiable, so the work is certified by a registered electrician under Part P, or notified to building control.

Housing in Camden

For Camden the Council Tax list gives about 113,890 homes; by type 88% flats and 12% houses, by age 42% post-war, 9% interwar and 48% older than 1919. Where most homes are flats, a bathroom in a flat in Camden sits over a neighbour's ceiling, so it is tanked before tiling and a moved WC needs the freeholder's licence.

Bathrooms stacked over neighbours in Camden's converted houses

88% of Camden homes are flats, and in a converted house the bathrooms on each floor are not always stacked over one another. That makes the waste route the design problem. A new bathroom in a room with no stack nearby may need a pipe run through the ceiling of the flat below, which belongs to someone else, or a pumped WC, which some leases forbid. Before a layout is drawn, we trace where the existing soil stack runs and which flats it serves, and we read the lease clauses on sanitary fittings and floor finishes with you.

The outside of the building matters too. About half of Camden lies within its 40 conservation areas, and a new soil pipe or extract outlet on a street facing wall of a flat is an external alteration without householder permitted development rights behind it. It can need planning permission, with a heritage statement setting out what is significant about the heritage assets affected. Keeping new pipework inside the building avoids that question, and a rear route is less exposed than the street front, though it can still need permission. We agree the route with you and the freeholder before tiles are chosen, because it fixes where the shower and WC can sit.

Space-saving bathrooms in Camden period homes

Period Camden houses were not built with modern bathrooms in mind, so a WC squeezed into a return or an en-suite carved from a bedroom corner demands clever planning. We design layouts that use every inch, choosing wall-hung sanitaryware, walk-in showers and slim fittings to open up small rooms while keeping them practical. Awkward slopes under a Georgian roof or a tight box room become usable, well-proportioned spaces.

In leasehold flats we coordinate with the freeholder and managing agent where consents or building-management rules apply, and pay attention to sound insulation and waterproofing between flats. For listed homes and conservation areas across Camden we work within the council's requirements, protecting original features while delivering a warm, well-drained and fully tiled bathroom that suits the character of the house.

• Ventilation and extraction ducted to outside
• Grout, silicone and trim detailing at completion
• Pressure and leak testing before any tiling starts

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for all 27 statistical areas in Camden. Counts rounded by the VOA.

Next steps that tend to follow bathroom renovation in Camden: chimney breast removal in Camden, our Camden area guide, bathroom fitting in London, our London bathroom renovation page and Underfloor Heating Cost.

Why Choose GS Renovation in Camden

Camden homeowners choose GS Renovation because a bathroom stands or falls on what sits behind the tiles. We tank and drain properly, arrange the electrics, certified by a registered electrician, and the heating, and plan layouts that suit period proportions and leasehold flats alike. With our founder's 30+ years on the tools, we deliver bathrooms that are watertight, well finished and built to last.

Checked by Abdelaaziz Saaid, founder and director of GS Renovation Ltd (Companies House no. 14611254). Structural design is by the consulting engineer appointed to your project.