Bathroom Fitters in Ilkeston
Bathroom fitting across Ilkeston and Erewash, from the Victorian terraces off Bath Street and the Market Place to the semis and estates at Kirk Hallam, Cotmanhay and Larklands. Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens designs the room with you and fits it with its own plumbers, electricians, plasterers, tilers and joiners, for a fixed written price agreed after a free survey at your home.
- Est. 30+ years' trade experience
- NVQ Level 3 Carpentry & Joinery
- Fully insured
- All trades in-house
- Rated 5.0 on Google (6 reviews)
- Distance from us
- about twenty-one miles — around forty minutes by road
- Survey usually within
- a week or so
- Travel charge
- None anywhere inside our 30-mile radius
- Trades on the job
- All ours — no subcontractors
How Do We Approach Bathroom Installation in Ilkeston?
Most new bathrooms in Ilkeston start in one of two rooms. In the brick terraces around the town centre, built for the families who worked the pits and the lace and hosiery mills, the bathroom was never part of the original plan: it sits at the back, over the kitchen or in a converted bedroom, with a long run of waste pipe to the stack and walls patched many times over. In the interwar and post-war semis and on the larger estates it is a small room at the top of the stairs, often with the toilet in a separate cubicle next door.
As bathroom fitters coming to Ilkeston from Creswell, about twenty-one miles and around forty minutes away, we start with a design visit to help you plan the room, then give you a fixed written price that already includes the plastering, electrics, tiling, flooring and making good. There is no travel charge anywhere in our thirty-mile radius, and because every trade is ours the project is managed as one programme: most complete bathrooms are ready in seven to twelve working days from strip-out to handover.
What Do Ilkeston Bathrooms Usually Need?
In the town-centre terraces the work usually begins with the walls. They are often solid brick with lime or early gypsum plaster behind decades of paper and old tiles. Where the plaster has blown we hack it back and re-plaster rather than covering it, and the boards are levelled before anything goes down. Because the room is narrow and the stack is at the far end, the suite is planned around the waste run: a shorter bath or a shower across the end wall, a wall-hung basin to keep the floor clear and neat boxing for the pipework.
In the interwar and post-war semis the most common request is turning the bathroom and separate WC into one room. In most of these houses the wall between them is a stud partition that can come out. We check at the survey whether it carries anything, re-run the waste and supplies, plaster where the wall stood and finish it as one room, which often leaves space for a full-size shower as well as a bath.
On the Kirk Hallam, Cotmanhay and Larklands estates, and in the newer housing at Hallam Fields and towards Shipley, the rooms are squarer and the work is usually an upgrade: a bath-to-shower conversion, a walk-in shower in place of a tired cubicle, an en suite in the main bedroom, underfloor heating and an extractor fan ducted outside that clears the steam properly. Whether the style is traditional or modern, the design is drawn to suit the room, your home and the way you use it.
What are we asked for most?
- Full strip-outs in the Victorian terraces, with the plastering and making good done by the same team
- Bathroom and separate WC made into one room in the interwar and post-war semis
- Bath-to-shower conversions, walk-in showers and en suites on the Kirk Hallam, Cotmanhay and Larklands estates
- Made-to-measure boxing, cupboards and joinery for older rooms that are not square
What Does Our Bathroom Installation Include?
Every bathroom installation job Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens takes on covers all 10 parts of the work, from strip-out and first fix to making good and the final clean, carried out by one in-house team of seven trades. See the full list of what is included.
What does a bathroom installation in Ilkeston include?
A complete bathroom installation by Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens covers the strip-out and removal of the old suite, first-fix plumbing and electrics, plastering and boarding, tanking in the shower area, wall and floor tiling, fitting the suite, taps, shower and towel rail, second fix and the final clean. Every stage of the project is done by our own team and listed in the written quote, including what is not included, so nothing is added once the room is stripped.
Can we buy our own suite and tiles?
Yes. We can supply the whole bathroom, or fit a suite, tiles and products you have bought yourself online or from other suppliers, installing them with the same quality and attention to detail. Tell us what you are considering before you order and we will check the shower tray, waste and tap specifications suit your room, because some combinations cause problems in a narrow terrace bathroom or under a sloping ceiling.
Can you fit a wet room or an accessible bathroom?
Yes. Wet rooms, level-access showers and easier-access bathrooms are installations we do regularly. A wet room is tanked continuously before it is finished, with the floor laid to a fall to the drain; on an upstairs timber floor the joists are checked first, and where they are shallow a low-profile shower tray gives near-level access instead. For an accessible bathroom we can help with grab rails, a fold-down shower seat, non-slip flooring and a basin and toilet set at a comfortable height.
Do you need building control for a new bathroom in Ilkeston?
A like-for-like bathroom replacement does not usually need building control approval. A new circuit for an electric shower comes under Part P, new drainage under Part H and the extractor fan under Part F, and a replacement consumer unit or a structural wall taken out is notifiable too. Ilkeston is in Erewash, so Erewash Borough Council handles building control if the local authority route is used. We confirm at the survey which parts are notifiable and sort the paperwork before first fix, so the certificates are in hand when the job is finished.
Why one team for every trade?
A bathroom in a solid-walled terrace needs the plumber, electrician, plasterer, tiler and joiner following each other in a small room, and that only runs smoothly when they are one team. Our bathroom services cover everything from installing a new shower to a complete refit, and the trades are all employed by Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens, the joinery is by a joiner qualified to NVQ Level 3, we are fully insured, and certified work is signed off by an appropriate registered tradesperson. We have over thirty years' experience, are rated 5 on Google by our customers, and the same people see your bathroom through from design to finishing.
What Else Might You Need?
Where Else Near Ilkeston Do We Fit Bathrooms?
- Derby — about twenty-six miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Belper — about twenty miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Nottingham — about twenty-two miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Alfreton — about thirteen miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
- Hucknall — about sixteen miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
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