Bathroom, Kitchen & Joinery Fitters in Southwell

Working around the Minster: permits, parking and old walls

Building control for Southwell is Newark and Sherwood District Council, which also deals with listed building consent through its planning service. They are separate processes, and a job in one of the older houses near the Minster can need both. A skip on the street needs a Nottinghamshire County Council permit, and in the tighter streets of the centre the permit is only half the problem, because there is often nowhere sensible to put one. Where a skip will not fit, we agree another way of dealing with the waste.

Much of Southwell's older property was built and plastered with lime, and those walls need to breathe. Patching them with gypsum, or sealing them behind cement render and impermeable boards, can trap moisture and push damp somewhere else. In these houses Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens keeps the fully waterproofed area to the shower and bath zone where it is genuinely needed, with the surrounding plaster repaired in a compatible material, so the rest of the wall behaves as it always has. We also look for extract routes that avoid a new terminal on a visible elevation.