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Answers to the questions people actually ask before committing to a bathroom, kitchen or renovation — written by the people doing the work rather than by a marketing department.
No hedging, no upselling, and where the honest answer is "it depends", we explain what it depends on.
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28 guides on bathrooms, kitchens, joinery and what a renovation actually involves. Filter by what you're planning, or read straight down the list.
Every one is written from jobs we have done, and updated when the rules or the prices change. We publish a new one every few weeks — follow the feed if you want them as they land.
Kitchen Trends 2026: The New Look for Kitchens
The new look for kitchens in 2026 is warm and natural: wood cabinets in oak or walnut, earthy colours such as sage green and warm white in place of grey…
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Bathroom Design Trends for 2026: What They Mean for Your Bathroom
The bathroom design trends for 2026 are walk-in showers and wet rooms, warm and soft colours in place of grey, natural textures such as wood and…
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What I Wish I Knew Before My Bathroom Renovation: 12 Lessons
The things people most often wish they had known before a bathroom renovation are that the room should be measured before the suite is bought, that the…
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How Much Do Plasterers Cost? Day Rates and Room Prices for 2026
Published 2026 UK cost guides put a plasterer's day rate at roughly £180 to £300, and skimming the walls of a medium-sized room at about £425 to £625…
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How Much Does a Tiler Cost? Day Rates and Prices per m² for 2026
Published 2026 UK cost guides put a tiler's labour at roughly £20 to £40 per m² for standard tiles, and a day rate of £150 to £250, with some sources going…
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How Much Do Kitchen Fitters Charge? Day Rates and Labour Costs for 2026
Published 2026 UK guides put a kitchen fitter's day rate at £200 to £350, and the labour to fit a standard kitchen at roughly £1,700 to £4,600. The spread…
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How Much Is Kitchen Installation? What to Budget in 2026
Kitchen installation labour typically costs £1,700 to £3,000 for a standard kitchen in 2026, and a new kitchen supplied and installed typically costs…
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How Much Does a Bathroom Renovation Cost? UK Prices for 2026
A bathroom renovation in the UK typically costs £3,000 to £15,000, with an average of around £7,000, according to MyJobQuote (July 2026) and Homebuilding &…
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How Much Value Does a New Bathroom Add to a House?
A new bathroom adds value in two different ways and people usually only count one of them. On the asking price, estate agents generally put a good new…
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Skimming Over Artex: What Works, What Does Not, and the Asbestos Question
Artex — the textured coating swirled, stippled or combed onto the ceilings of most British houses between the 1960s and the 1990s — can be plastered over…
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Do You Need Planning Permission for a Wet Room?
Almost never. Planning permission covers the outside of a building and how it is used, and a wet room is an internal alteration to a house that stays a…
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Underfloor Heating in a Bathroom: Electric vs Wet & Costs
Electric underfloor heating is the right choice for almost every existing bathroom: it adds little to the floor height, MyJobQuote puts a 4m² en-suite at…
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1930s Bathroom Renovation: Ideas, Suites & Layouts
A 1930s bathroom style combines simple Art Deco lines, white sanitaryware, black-and-white or geometric floor tiles and soft pastel colours such as mint…
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Eight Signs Your Bathroom Needs Replacing, Not Repairing
Most bathrooms are replaced because they look dated, which is a perfectly good reason. The ones that need replacing are different: they are showing signs…
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Best Bathroom Flooring UK: Tile, LVT, Vinyl & Stone Compared
The best floor coverings for bathrooms are porcelain tile, luxury vinyl tile (LVT) and welded sheet vinyl, because all three cope with standing water…
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How to Prepare Your Home for a Renovation
Before a renovation starts: clear the room and the route to it, agree access and parking, plan a temporary kitchen or bathroom, sort pets and deliveries…
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Small Bathroom Ideas That Actually Work
The changes that gain most in a small bathroom are structural rather than decorative: removing the wall to a separate WC, replacing a bath with a walk-in…
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Kitchen Worktop Materials Compared: Which Should You Choose?
There is no best worktop material, only the right one for how a household actually cooks. Quartz is the most practical all-rounder and resists almost…
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What Is Tanking? The Bathroom Waterproofing Nobody Sees
Tanking is defined as a continuous waterproof membrane applied to walls and floors before tiling, so that water passing through grout and tile joints is…
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Fitted Wardrobes vs Freestanding: Which Is Worth It?
A fitted wardrobe is built into the room and uses its full height and depth, including the awkward space around chimney breasts and under sloping ceilings…
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Do You Need Building Regulations Approval for a New Bathroom?
Replacing a bathroom in the same layout generally does not require building regulations approval. Approval is needed where you add new electrical circuits…
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Good kitchen design is decided by measurements before it is decided by taste: the width of the room, the gaps between runs, and where the water, waste…
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How Long Does a Bathroom Renovation Take?
A full bathroom installation takes 7 to 12 working days from strip-out to handover. A like-for-like replacement in an unchanged layout is often nearer…
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Ask a kitchen fitter four things above all: will you survey the room before I order, is fitting quoted separately from supply, who does the electrics and…
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What Order Should a Bathroom Be Renovated In?
A bathroom remodel should be done in this order: design and order the materials, strip out, first-fix plumbing and electrics, floor preparation, boarding…
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How Long Does a Kitchen Installation Take?
A full kitchen installation takes 5 to 10 working days from strip-out to handover. A like-for-like replacement in the same layout is at the short end…
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How to Choose a Bathroom Fitter (and What to Ask Them)
Choose a bathroom fitter on three things: whether the trades are in-house or subcontracted, whether the quote states what is excluded as well as what is…
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Cost Guides Are Coming
We are not going to publish price ranges we have not checked.
Plenty of sites publish national averages that fall apart the moment somebody gets a real quote, and directories publish aggregates drawn from thousands of jobs that have nothing in common with yours. Neither helps you budget.
Our cost guides will publish genuine ranges for this area — what a bathroom, kitchen, wet room and fitted wardrobe actually cost around Worksop, Mansfield, Chesterfield and Bolsover — with the date they were last reviewed, what is included, and what moves the figure up and down.
Until then, call or WhatsApp us on 07811 466054 and we will give you an honest ballpark for your room over the phone, then a fixed written figure after we have seen it.
Read up first, then get it priced properly. The survey and the written quote are both free.
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