Bathroom Renovation Tooting

GS Renovation fits bathrooms across Tooting, from family bathrooms in Victorian terraces to en-suites carved out of awkward SW17 spaces. We handle the tanking, drainage, tiling, heating and finishing in-house, so your new bathroom is properly waterproofed and built to last, not just refreshed on the surface.

In Tooting, 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 Tooting: 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 Tooting 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 Tooting

Wet rooms and walk-in showers are popular in Tooting, but they only work if the waterproofing is done properly. On the suspended timber floors typical of these terraces, we form the falls, fully tank the floor and walls, and bond the tiles onto a waterproof system rather than relying on grout alone. Getting the drainage right matters too, so we set the gully and pipework to fall correctly into the existing soil stack without ponding or leaks.

Ventilation is the other essential in a period Tooting house, because a solid-wall bathroom holds damp if the moist air has nowhere to go. We fit proper extraction, add underfloor heating to keep the room warm and the floor dry, and choose tiling and finishes that suit both the age of the house and daily family use. The result is a warm, watertight bathroom that will not suffer the black mould and failing seals of a poorly built one.

Housing in Tooting

The stock in Tooting runs to roughly 23,930 dwellings, 62% of them flats and 38% houses, built 67% before 1919, 8% between 1919 and 1939 and 24% after 1945. Since most homes here are flats, a bathroom in a flat in Tooting sits over a neighbour's ceiling, so it is tanked before tiling and a moved WC needs the freeholder's licence.

Bathrooms over someone else's ceiling in Tooting flats

62% of homes in Tooting are flats, so a new bathroom may well sit over a neighbour's rooms rather than your own. That changes the priorities. The waste has to reach a shared soil stack with enough fall, which in a converted house means working with the joist direction rather than against it, and a properly tanked floor matters more when a failure lands in another home. Ask the freeholder what the lease says about bathroom positions, flooring and sound insulation before the layout is drawn, because moving a bathroom over a bedroom below can be restricted.

Listed buildings add a second layer. Wandsworth has around 500 listed buildings, and consent is needed for interior alterations that affect a listed building's special character. In a bathroom that can mean the route of a new soil pipe through an original floor, boxing in a period fireplace, or taking out a panelled door to fit a pocket door. Check whether your Tooting address is listed before the plumber plans the runs, because listed building consent has to be in place before the first joist is notched.

En-suites and space-saving layouts in Tooting

Finding room for an extra bathroom in a Tooting terrace usually means being clever with space. We often carve an en-suite or a second bathroom out of a bedroom corner, the closet wing, or the space over the stairs, using compact fittings, walk-in showers and hidden cisterns to fit a full bathroom into a tight footprint. Careful planning of the drainage runs back to the soil stack keeps these new rooms practical rather than a plumbing compromise.

The original family bathroom in an SW17 terrace is often the old closet wing off the half-landing, a narrow, cold room that needs rethinking. We reconfigure the layout, reposition the soil and waste, upgrade the ventilation and heating, and tank and tile it to a high standard. New circuits and circuit changes near the bath or shower are notifiable under Part P, so the wiring and any electric underfloor heating are certified by a registered electrician or notified to building control, and everything is finished by one team from strip-out to the final seal.

• Underfloor heating and heated towel rails
• Complete bathroom design and planning
• Niches, benches and recessed storage formed in the wet area

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for all 7 statistical areas in Tooting. Counts rounded by the VOA.

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Trusted Bathroom Renovation in Tooting

Tooting homeowners choose GS Renovation for bathrooms because we get the parts you cannot see right, the tanking, drainage and ventilation, before the tiling ever goes on. We know how SW17's period terraces are built, we fit en-suites into tight spaces, and the notifiable electrics are certified by a registered electrician. One team, backed by our founder's 30+ years on the tools, and a bathroom built to last.

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.