Bathroom Renovation Slough

A bathroom refit is a services job until a wall moves or a floor comes up, and then it becomes a building control one. We survey, appoint a structural engineer where the work needs one, build to the calculations issued, and coordinate the application and inspections. We never produce structural calculations ourselves. This page covers the Slough side of a bathroom project, including what to do about work that someone else did without approval.

For Slough, on London-derived ranges a full bathroom refit typically costs £6,000 to £20,000 or more; Berkshire work generally runs below that. GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Slough: 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 Slough 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.

Slough runs its own building control, with four ways to apply

Slough Borough Council operates its own building control service and offers four application routes: a full plan check, a building notice, regularisation for unauthorised work, and reversion from an approved inspector. A bathroom that stays where it is and keeps its walls is a different proposition from one that takes out a partition or moves a soil pipe, and the route follows the scope.

The council publishes a list of charges for common building projects, covering fees for most types of work, and quotes for other work through buildingcontrol@slough.gov.uk. We establish which route applies and put the correct fee into the quotation, so the number you approve is the number you pay.

Housing in Slough

Count the homes in Slough and you get about 57,360: 73% built since 1945, 20% between the wars and 5% before 1919, with flats at 37% and houses at 63%. 34% of homes here are terraced; a terrace bathroom in Slough vents front, back or up, never into a party wall.

Work a previous owner did without approval

Slough Borough Council takes building control regularisation applications for unauthorised work carried out on or after 11 November 1985. It warns that you may be required to uncover certain aspects of the work so it can establish whether it complies. A bathroom is where that tends to surface, because the floor comes up and the joists are visible.

The council states that its building control service enforces the building regulations by informal means wherever possible, and that it is the responsibility of all designers, builders and building owners to make sure they comply. If we find notched or cut joists under an old bathroom floor, we tell you, photograph it and price the repair rather than boarding over it.

A bathroom in a conservation area house

Slough Borough Council has five conservation areas in the whole borough: Upton Park and Upton Village, Colnbrook, Sussex Place and Clifton Road, St Bernard's School, and St Mary's Church, Langley. Two of the five are named after residential streets, a third covers the historic village at Colnbrook, and the other two are named after single institutional buildings.

If your house sits inside any of these boundaries, the council states that an extension there is assessed more rigorously than elsewhere in the borough, and it advises checking the boundary before you design. On a bathroom that matters where the work shows on the elevation: a new window, an extract terminal or a soil vent pipe. Confirm the position with the council before the room is stripped.

• Bespoke vanity units and storage
• Freestanding and built-in bath installation
• Pressure and leak testing before any tiling starts

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for all 15 statistical areas in Slough. Counts rounded by the VOA.

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Why Slough Homeowners Choose GS Renovation

A bathroom is where a house shows what has been done to it before. We survey properly, lift a board where we need to, and tell you what is under the floor before the quotation is fixed rather than afterwards. Where the work needs building control, we agree the route with you, apply to Slough Borough Council's own service and book the inspections against the programme. Where an earlier owner's work needs regularising, we say so plainly instead of covering it up. We appoint and coordinate structural engineers where the job needs one and build to their calculations, and we never produce those calculations ourselves. GS Renovation Ltd is fully insured and registered in England, company number 14611254, and rated 4.9 from 31 reviews on MyBuilder. Quotations are free and carry no obligation.

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.