Bathroom, Kitchen & Joinery Fitters in Doncaster

One council, many kinds of house: working in Doncaster

City of Doncaster Council is both the building control authority and the highway authority for the whole borough, from the town centre out to Edlington, Rossington and Armthorpe. A job that brings the Building Regulations into play, such as a new electrical circuit, a new drainage connection or a load-bearing wall coming out, is notified to the council's building control unless it is certified under a competent person scheme. A skip or scaffold standing on the road or pavement needs a council permit as well. We work out which of these applies to your address at survey, so the paperwork is settled before the first day.

The housing varies more across one borough than people tend to expect. The former pit communities have terraced rows alongside large interwar and post-war estates, and in some of those houses the bathroom was added later, downstairs at the back. Around Hyde Park and other streets near the centre, Victorian and Edwardian terraces usually have solid walls and floors that are rarely level, and older pipe runs can turn up once the room is stripped. Newer estates on the edges bring stud walls with plastic pipework hidden behind them. Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens plans the trades around the house you actually have, not a standard specification.