Bathroom Fitters in Gainsborough, plus Kitchens & Joinery

What Are Gainsborough Homes Like to Renovate?

Gainsborough grew as a river port and then as an engineering town, and the housing still shows it. Rows of late Victorian and Edwardian terraces fill the streets between the town centre and the old works, built close together with small back yards and, very often, a bathroom that was added to the rear of the first floor long after the house went up. Along the Trent, some of the old warehouses have been turned into flats. Further out are interwar and post-war semis, the village housing of Morton to the north and Lea to the south, and larger modern estates on the eastern side of the town.

In the terraces, the bathroom tends to be the coldest room in the house, with an outside wall on two sides and pipework that has been extended in stages. That is why we often recommend a full refit rather than a new suite on old plumbing: the pipes, the boarding and the heating get sorted while the room is empty. In the riverside flats the challenge is different, with shared walls, waste routes that cannot move far and access by stairs or a lift for every sheet of board and box of tiles.

What Do Gainsborough Homeowners Ask Us For Most?

These are the jobs Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens is asked to do most often in Gainsborough:

• Full bathroom refits in the terraces, with the heating and ventilation sorted while the room is stripped
• Walk-in showers in place of the bath, including in rooms with little floor space to spare
• Bathrooms in converted riverside flats, planned around fixed waste routes and shared walls
• Kitchens supplied and fitted, or fitted from a supplier you have chosen