Bathroom Renovation Hoxton

GS Renovation fits bathrooms, en-suites and wet rooms across Hoxton's flats, making the most of the tight spaces these homes offer. We handle the waterproofing, drainage, tiling and heating in-house, turning dated bathrooms and awkward internal rooms into properly built, hard-wearing rooms that last.

In Hoxton, 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 Hoxton: 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 Hoxton 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 Hoxton

A bathroom fails when the waterproofing is skipped, so every one we build in Hoxton is fully tanked before a single tile goes on. For wet rooms and walk-in showers we form the falls, fit a bonded tanking membrane across floor and walls, and set the drainage so water runs cleanly away. This matters even more in a block of flats, where the bathroom almost always sits above a neighbour's ceiling and a leak causes real damage.

Drainage and ventilation are just as important as the finish. A Hoxton flat drains to a shared soil stack, so we set the falls correctly and upgrade the pipework where the old runs are undersized or sluggish. Post-war floors are usually concrete, which leaves little depth for a trap, so a level shower is planned around the floor build-up, and we fit proper extraction, ducted outside or to the building's riser, to clear the moisture that blackens grout.

Housing in Hoxton

Hoxton has around 9,920 homes on the Council Tax list: 81% post-war, 4% interwar and 8% predate 1919, with 98% flats and 2% houses. Where most homes are flats, a bathroom in a flat in Hoxton sits over a neighbour's ceiling, so tanking comes first.

Adding an en-suite in a Hoxton flat above another home

Adding a bathroom where there was none, such as an en-suite off a bedroom, is building regulations work in a way that refitting an existing one is not. The new drainage is notifiable, and the room must then meet the ventilation rules too. In Hoxton, where 98% of homes are flats, the new room also sits over someone else's ceiling. So the design has to show the waste route to the shared stack and its fall and the extract route to outside. It also shows how each pipe crossing the floor or a compartment wall is fire-stopped so the separation between flats is kept.

Hackney Building Control has three main application types, and for an en-suite in a flat full plans is the one that settles those details before the floor is opened. It also puts them on record for the freeholder's surveyor, who asks the same questions under the licence to alter. In a Hoxton block built since 2000, the fire-stopping product and method may be set out in the building's own fire strategy, so we ask the managing agent for it and match it. We photograph each sealed penetration before the ceiling or boxing closes over it.

Space-saving bathrooms in Hoxton flats

Space is the constant challenge in a Hoxton flat, where the bathroom is often an internal room built around the shared stack. We plan every millimetre, using wall-hung basins and WCs, walk-in showers in place of bulky tubs, and recessed niches to keep the walls clear. Where a second bathroom or en-suite is wanted, the licence to alter and the route back to the existing soil stack decide whether it can be done.

Underfloor heating works well in these rooms, freeing up the wall space taken by radiators and warming cold solid floors, and we run it under tile with the controls and insulation done properly. We match the finish to the age of the house, from classic metro tiling and traditional fittings to sharp contemporary schemes, and handle the plumbing, electrics, tiling and decoration as one job so the bathroom is delivered complete and ready to use.

• Concealed cisterns, frames and wall-hung sanitaryware
• Niches, benches and recessed storage formed in the wet area
• Floor strengthening before large-format tiles or stone

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for Hoxton North & West and Hoxton South & East. Counts rounded by the VOA.

When comparing bathroom renovation in Hoxton with other work, it helps to read chimney breast removal in Hoxton, bathroom renovation across Hackney, bathroom fitting in London, bathroom renovation anywhere in London and Wet Room Guide.

The GS Renovation Difference in Hoxton

Hoxton homeowners choose GS Renovation for bathrooms because we get the parts you cannot see right, the tanking, the falls, the drainage and the ventilation, not just the tiles on top. One team handles the whole room, from strip-out to final seal, working cleanly in an occupied home. With our founder's 30+ years on the tools, we build bathrooms that stay watertight for years.

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.