Bathroom Renovation Kentish Town

GS Renovation renovates bathrooms throughout Kentish Town, fitting out the period homes of NW5 from compact family bathrooms to loft en-suites near Highgate and Hampstead. We handle the waterproofing, drainage, tiling, heating and fit-out in-house, delivering watertight, well-ventilated rooms that make the most of a Victorian terrace's tight footprint.

In Kentish Town, 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 Kentish Town: 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 Kentish Town 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 NW5 homes

Getting a bathroom watertight in a Kentish Town terrace starts long before the tiles go on. We fully tank the walls and floor, bond the waterproof membrane into the corners and around the pipe penetrations, and lay proper falls to the drain so a wet room or walk-in shower never leaks into the timber floors below. In these older NW5 houses that discipline protects the joists and the ceilings of the rooms beneath.

Drainage and ventilation get the same attention. We rework the soil and waste runs to suit the new layout rather than forcing fixtures onto old positions, and we fit effective extraction to clear moisture, which matters in solid-wall Victorian houses prone to condensation. Underfloor heating warms the tiled floor and helps keep the room dry, and the notifiable electrical work is certified by a registered electrician under Part P, or notified to building control, at completion.

Housing in Kentish Town

Roughly 8,940 dwellings sit on the valuation list for Kentish Town. 13% are houses and 87% flats, and by age 44% predate 1919, 4% are interwar and 52% post-war. Where most homes are flats, a bathroom in a flat in Kentish Town sits over a neighbour's ceiling, so tanking comes first.

Bathrooms in Kentish Town's post-war blocks

52% of Kentish Town homes were built after 1945, and in a flat of that age the bathroom is often an internal room with no window. Its extract usually connects to a shared duct or a fan on the roof, and the drainage joins a stack that serves the flats above and below. Where the floor is a concrete slab it cannot be notched for a new waste, so the fall has to be found in the floor build-up or the ceiling void below. Those fixed points decide where a new shower or bath can go.

Before the Kentish Town layout is drawn, we ask the managing agent for the services drawings and check how the shared extract runs, since a new fan can fight the system or break into a fire-rated duct. At the end, Camden holds back the completion certificate until the finished bathroom has passed a surveyor's inspection, the charges are settled and any other certificates are in. For a bathroom that means the certificate for any new shower circuit, so we collect it before the final visit is booked.

Space-saving bathrooms for Kentish Town terraces

Bathrooms in NW5 terraces are often squeezed into a former closet wing or a slice of a rear bedroom, so clever planning matters more than size. We use wall-hung basins and toilets, slimline shower enclosures and recessed niches to reclaim every inch, and we build fitted storage into awkward alcoves. Where a family bathroom feels cramped, reconfiguring the layout can create a far more usable room from the same footprint.

Loft and bedroom en-suites are increasingly popular in Kentish Town, and sloping ceilings and long pipe runs make them a specialist job. We position the shower under the highest part of the roof, run the drainage back to the stack correctly, and boost the flow with a pump where the pressure needs it. Internal bathroom work needs no planning permission, so a well-planned en-suite is often quicker to deliver than owners expect.

A listed building is the exception: work that affects its character, inside or out, including an extension or taking out a wall or chimney breast, needs listed building consent from Camden Council, and doing it without consent is a criminal offence.

• Niches, benches and recessed storage formed in the wet area
• Drainage falls set to the gully in wet rooms
• Tanking membranes and waterproof boards behind tiles

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for Kentish Town West and Kentish Town East. Counts rounded by the VOA.

For the wider picture around bathroom renovation in Kentish Town, see chimney breast removal in Kentish Town, bathroom renovation across Camden, bathroom fitting in London, bathroom renovation anywhere in London and Tiling Cost.

Trusted Bathroom Renovation in Kentish Town

Kentish Town homeowners choose GS Renovation because we handle the whole bathroom in-house, from tanking and drainage to tiling, underfloor heating and the final fit-out. Our founder's 30+ years on the tools means we understand solid-wall condensation, tight footprints and awkward pipe runs, so you get a watertight, well-ventilated room built to last, with the electrics certified by a registered electrician.

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.