Bathroom, Kitchen & Joinery Fitters in Maltby

Back lanes, the A631 and tired floors: planning a job in Maltby

Maltby's building control and its roads are both run by Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. If a job needs a structural opening signed off, or a skip placed on the street outside a terrace in the old colliery village, the application goes to that one authority, and for the skip it is normally made by the skip company on our behalf. Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens books it before we confirm a start date, because a skip that cannot be placed stalls the strip-out on the first morning.

Many of the older terraces were laid out with back lanes, and the back is often the better way in, with materials coming through the yard rather than down a narrow front hall. For houses fronting the A631 through the town, we avoid unloading at the busiest times of day. Inside, the thing we look at hardest is the floor. Suspended timber floors in housing of this age can have softened joist ends where they sit in the outside walls, and a new tiled floor or a heavy bath is only as good as what is underneath it.