Bathroom Renovation Stoke Newington

GS Renovation refits bathrooms across Stoke Newington, making the most of the often tight spaces in the Victorian and Edwardian terraces near Clissold Park. We handle the waterproofing, drainage, tiling and heating so your new bathroom is watertight, warm and built to last.

In Stoke Newington, 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 Stoke Newington: 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 Stoke Newington 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 walk-in showers in Stoke Newington

Many Stoke Newington bathrooms sit in a converted closet wing or a boxy back addition, so proper waterproofing is essential before anything decorative goes in. We tank the walls and floor, form the falls for a wet room or walk-in shower, and lay fully bonded tanking so water goes where it should and nowhere else. Drainage and extraction are set up correctly to avoid the damp problems these older N16 houses are prone to.

Underfloor heating warms cold ground-floor and solid-floor rooms without eating into wall space, which matters in a period home. We tile floors and walls to a high standard, fit the sanitaryware and screens, and balance ventilation so moisture clears quickly. New circuits, and changes to circuits around the bath or shower, are notifiable under Part P, so the wiring for lighting, heating and extraction is installed and certified by a registered electrician as part of the work.

Housing in Stoke Newington

The stock in Stoke Newington runs to roughly 12,540 dwellings, 74% of them flats and 26% houses, built 68% before 1919, 1% between 1919 and 1939 and 31% after 1945. Where most homes are flats, a bathroom in a flat in Stoke Newington sits over a neighbour's ceiling, so it is tanked before tiling and a moved WC needs the freeholder's licence.

Shared soil stacks in converted Stoke Newington houses

74% of Stoke Newington homes are flats, and in a house converted decades ago the bathrooms of several flats can drain into one soil stack, sometimes on the rear wall and sometimes boxed inside. Before a new branch is cut in, we find out what the stack is made of. Cast iron needs the right couplings, and a grey fibre cement stack from a mid-century conversion may contain asbestos, which is sampled and tested before anyone cuts it. That check takes days, so it happens at survey stage in Stoke Newington, not on the morning of strip-out.

Working on a shared stack also means working on a pipe other households use. A new connection is made quickly and at an agreed time, with the flats above asked not to run water while the stack is open. The lease will normally treat the stack as the freeholder's, so the connection belongs in the licence request. Where the old branch serving your bathroom is lead or has been joined with makeshift fittings, replacing it back to the stack while the floor is open avoids a leak into the ceiling of the flat below a year later.

Space-saving en-suites in N16 terraces

Adding an en-suite to a Stoke Newington terrace usually means borrowing from a bedroom or squeezing a shower room into an awkward corner of the closet wing. We plan these tight layouts carefully, using compact sanitaryware, wall-hung units and sliding or pivot doors so the room works without feeling cramped. Concealed cisterns and recessed storage make the most of every centimetre.

New drainage in a period house has to run somewhere, so we plan pipe routes and falls before we start, connecting into the existing soil stack where possible. Waterproofing, tiling, heating and ventilation are all specified for the small space, and the electrics are certified by a registered electrician under Part P. The finished en-suite adds real value to an N16 home while sitting neatly within the constraints of a Victorian floor plan.

• Drainage falls set to the gully in wet rooms
• Bespoke vanity units and storage
• Soil pipe and waste re-routing within the floor build-up

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

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Why Choose GS Renovation in Stoke Newington

Stoke Newington homeowners choose GS Renovation because we get the hidden work right, from tanking and drainage to electrics certified by a registered electrician, before the tiling ever goes on. We know how N16 period bathrooms and closet wings behave, we make small spaces work hard, and our founder's 30+ years on the tools means a watertight, warm result you can rely on.

Reviewed jobs near Stoke Newington

1 MyBuilder review from Stoke Newington, with each customer's own job title:

• Install new dishwasher, Stoke Newington, 24 May 2021 (5 out of 5)

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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.