A large Totteridge house often has a family bathroom, two or three en suites and a cloakroom, which turns a bathroom project into a hot water and drainage question as much as a tiling one. GS Renovation tanks properly, sets the falls correctly and certifies the electrical work, so the room stays sound rather than just looking right.
Hot water across several bathrooms in one house
The complaint we hear most in big N20 houses is not the tiling, it is that two showers running at once turn into a dribble. A combi boiler sized for a semi cannot serve four outlets, so a house with multiple en suites usually needs a properly sized unvented cylinder, or a vented system with a decent pump, chosen against the actual simultaneous demand rather than the number of bedrooms. That decision is made before the sanitaryware is ordered, because a rain head with a low flow rate is an expensive disappointment.
Distance is the other issue on a wide plan. Where an en suite sits twenty metres of pipe from the cylinder, you wait, and you waste the water sitting in the pipe. A secondary return loop, or a small local water heater for a distant cloakroom, fixes it, and both are far easier to install while floors are up. We work this out at the design stage and lay the pipework accordingly, rather than discovering the problem on the morning the first person tries to use the new shower.
Tanking, falls and old floors in Totteridge bathrooms
Every wet area is tanked before a tile goes on, walls and floor, with the membrane taken up behind the tray or across the whole floor in a wet room. Falls are formed to the drain and tested with water before tiling, not after, because a shower that ponds will find its way into the ceiling below eventually. Where a new bathroom sits above a habitable room in an older house, that discipline is the difference between a room that lasts twenty years and a repair bill in three.
Floors in the older village properties rarely start level, and joists in any house of age have usually been notched and drilled by earlier plumbers. We check the deflection before laying rigid tiles, strengthen or overlay where the engineer or the specification requires it, and route new waste pipes with the correct fall without cutting joists where they cannot take it. Electrical work, from the shower circuit to the extractor and the underfloor heating, is installed and certified under the relevant Approved Document and inspected as part of the building control record.
- Grout, silicone and trim detailing at completion
- Downstairs cloakroom and WC installation
- Soil pipe and waste re-routing within the floor build-up
- Shower pumps and pressure improvements where flow is poor
- Walk-in showers and wet-room installation
Trusted Bathroom Renovation in Totteridge
Bathrooms fail from behind the tiles, and in a large Totteridge house they also fail from an undersized hot water system that no amount of good tiling can fix. GS Renovation sizes the system for the real simultaneous demand, tanks and tests the wet areas before tiling, respects the floor structure it is working in and certifies the electrics. One team from strip out to final grout.
- Free, no-obligation quotations
- A written scope and programme agreed before work starts
- Dust screens and floor protection in occupied homes
- Grout, silicone and trims detailed by hand at the end
- Site left safe and secure at the end of every day
- The shortest sensible downtime where it is the only bathroom