Bathroom, Kitchen & Joinery Fitters in Kirkby-in-Ashfield

Keeping a one-bathroom Kirkby house running during a strip-out

Most homes in Kirkby and East Kirkby have a single bathroom upstairs, so the order the work is done in matters as much as its length. We isolate only the pipework being worked on, keep hot water and heating running to the rest of the house, and get the WC back into service at the end of each working day wherever the layout allows. First-fix plumbing and electrics go in together, so the walls are opened once and closed once rather than twice.

Building control for Kirkby is Ashfield District Council, and a skip on the road needs a Nottinghamshire County Council permit, though on the post-war estates most houses have a drive or a front garden deep enough to avoid that. At survey, Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens checks three things in particular: whether the floor under the old bath is level and sound, where the soil pipe leaves the building, and whether a cold-water tank in the loft still feeds the bathroom. Gravity tanks remain common in housing of this age, and they decide whether a mixer shower will perform, so we look before the design is settled.