A bathroom renovation is decided by water in and water out, and then by the fabric you are fitting into. Get those two settled and the rest is sequence and finish quality. We plan the services, coordinate any consent or building control element, and keep one point of contact from strip out to snagging. Free, no obligation quotations, and the company is fully insured.
Two companies supply drinking water in this district
Drinking water in the Epping Forest district is supplied by two companies, Thames Water and Affinity Water, so knowing which one serves your address is a sensible starting point. What actually governs the specification is the incoming pressure and flow at the property, which decides whether a mixer shower will perform or whether a pump or an unvented cylinder is the right answer. We measure that at the property before the specification is signed off, rather than discovering it at commissioning when the tiling is already on.
Where the soil pipe runs sets what can move
A WC needs a short, well fallen run to the soil stack, so its position drives the rest of the layout around it. Thames Water is the statutory sewerage undertaker for the Epping Forest district and maintains the shared foul and surface water sewers, and your waste has to reach them at a gradient that works. Where the stack sits on an external elevation, altering it becomes an external alteration as well as a plumbing one. We establish the drainage route first and design the room around what it allows.
In a listed building, an internal bathroom is still a consent question
Listed building consent covers internal alterations as well as external ones, so an internal bathroom in a listed house is not automatically free of consent. The Essex Historic Environment Record holds 134 heritage records for Epping parish, 62 of which are listed buildings. The Epping Town Neighbourhood Plan records two of those as Grade II*, St John's church and Epping Place, with the remaining listed buildings Grade II. A new stud partition, a dropped ceiling for services or a new soil pipe through a wall all need checking against that before they are priced.
- Freestanding and built-in bath installation
- Concealed cisterns, frames and wall-hung sanitaryware
- Walk-in showers and wet-room installation
- Drainage falls set to the gully in wet rooms
- Downstairs cloakroom and WC installation
Trusted Bathroom Renovation in Epping
A bathroom is a small room containing every service in the house, so the order of work decides the result. We settle the water supply and the drainage route first, then first fix, then tanking and tiling, then the finish. Where the building is listed or sits in a conservation area, we get the consent question answered before the strip out rather than after. One point of contact throughout, fully insured, registered in England, company number 14611254.
- Free, no-obligation quotations
- A dedicated project manager from first survey to handover
- Pipework pressure and leak tested before tiling starts
- Tile setting out planned so cuts land where they are not seen
- Concealed frames and cisterns set out for the finished tile line
- Paperwork and certificates handed over for when you sell