GS Renovation fits bathrooms, en suites and wet rooms throughout Mill Hill, in houses where the family bathroom is often the original one and the bedrooms are generous enough to take an en suite. We handle the drainage, the tanking, the ventilation and the tiling as one job, with more than 30 years of hands on experience behind it.
En suites and drainage in Mill Hill houses
The bedrooms in these houses will usually take an en suite; the real question is where the waste goes. Gravity beats a pump every time, so we plan the route to the existing soil stack first, keeping the fall correct and the run short, because a 40mm waste pipe can only travel so far at the right gradient before it needs a vent or a larger diameter. A macerator is a last resort rather than a starting point, since it needs power, servicing and an outlet that nobody will ever block.
In a wide detached house the stack can sit a long way from the bedroom you want to use, which sometimes means a new soil stack or a boxed vertical run through a cupboard. That is worth designing before you commit to a layout, not after the sanitaryware is chosen. Head height and joist direction matter as well, because there are limits on where a floor joist may be notched or drilled, and a pipe run cut through the wrong part of a joist quietly weakens the floor above.
Tanking, ventilation and the electrics
A bathroom fails from behind the tiles. We tank the wet zones onto a sound substrate before any tiling starts, form the falls properly in a wet room, and use a decoupling layer where the floor is timber and will move a little with the seasons. Ventilation is the other half of it. An intermittent extract fan has to shift enough air to clear the moisture and must be ducted outside in rigid pipe over the shortest run available, not left venting into a loft where the moisture simply lands somewhere else.
Bathroom electrics are zoned, so fittings have to suit the zone they sit in and the circuits need the right protection. That work is notifiable under the Building Regulations and is certified as part of the job. Underfloor heating goes down over insulation rather than straight onto a cold slab, otherwise you spend the winter gently warming the ground beneath your house. Where a Mill Hill property sits high with weak mains pressure, we check flow rates before anyone specifies a large rainfall shower head.
- Full plumbing, drainage and waterproofing (tanking)
- Notifiable bathroom electrics certified under Part P
- En-suite creation in bedrooms and loft rooms
- Complete bathroom design and planning
- Concealed cisterns, frames and wall-hung sanitaryware
Why Choose GS Renovation in Mill Hill
The parts of a bathroom that fail are the parts you cannot see: the tanking, the fall on the waste, the fan that was never actually ducted outside. We get those right first, then tile. One team handles the plumbing, the notifiable electrics, the waterproofing and the finish, so nobody is left waiting on a trade who is not coming back. More than 30 years of hands on experience.
- Photographs kept at each stage for your records
- Floors checked and stiffened before large-format tiles go down
- Founder-led team with 30+ years of hands-on experience
- Fully insured, with cover in place on every site
- Waste cleared as we go, not left piled in the garden
- Pipework pressure and leak tested before tiling starts