Our Services
Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens carries out bathrooms, kitchens, bespoke joinery, plastering, tiling and full home refurbishment across North Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire. Every trade is completed by our own team.
- Est. 30+ years' trade experience
- NVQ Level 3 Carpentry & Joinery
- Fully insured
- All trades in-house
- Rated 5.0 on Google (6 reviews)
- Trades in-house
- All seven — no subcontractors
- Experience
- Over 30 years in this housing stock
- Quotes
- Fixed, written, free, after a home visit
- Coverage
- 30 miles of Creswell, no travel charge
One Team. Seven Trades. No Subcontractors.
One team. Seven trades. No subcontractors, no chasing, no gaps between trades where things go wrong.
Most bathroom and kitchen companies are one fitter and a phone book.
The plumber comes. Then you wait for a plasterer. Then the plaster needs three days to dry and the tiler has taken another job — so the room sits half-finished for a fortnight.
We carry out joinery, plastering, plumbing, electrics, tiling, bathroom installation and kitchen installation with our own team. That removes the gaps between trades where jobs stall, and it puts one person in front of the whole result rather than six people each answering for a fifth of it.
Bathroom Installation
A full bathroom installation is the complete removal of the existing bathroom and the fitting of a new one — including all the plumbing, electrical, plastering, tiling and joinery work needed to finish the room. It is not the same as a bathroom refresh, where the suite is swapped and the tiling left alone. Six separate trades are involved in a typical bathroom. On most jobs in this area, they are all ours.
Kitchen Installation
A kitchen installation is the removal of the existing kitchen and the fitting of a new one — units, worktops, appliances, and all the plumbing, electrical, plastering and tiling work needed to make the room work. Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens does all of it with its own team, so the whole job is done by one firm from strip-out to handover. Fitting is a separate cost from supply, and the two should always be quoted separately. A fitting-only price that leaves out the plumbing, electrics and making good is a different job from one that includes them, so compare quotes line by line, not by the total. The work is usually underestimated, because units are the easy part. These are the jobs that decide whether you end up with a beautiful kitchen that looks built for the room, or one that merely looks installed:
Bespoke Joinery
Bespoke joinery is timber furniture and fittings designed and made for one specific space, rather than bought in standard sizes. It is measured from the room itself — which is why it fits walls that are out of square, ceilings that slope, and chimney breasts that leave awkward recesses either side. The practical difference is usable space. In older properties, where nothing is a standard size, bespoke is often the only thing that works at all.
Plastering
Plastering is the application of a smooth finish coat to a wall or ceiling — either over existing sound plaster (skimming) or over new plasterboard (board and skim). Where the original plaster has blown or is damp, it is stripped back to the brick and rebuilt in a backing coat and a finish coat. That is a re-plaster, not a skim. The distinction matters because it is where quotes diverge. Skimming a sound wall is a day's work; a blown, damp or artex-covered wall in a solid-walled terrace needs preparation that doubles the labour.
Wall & Floor Tiling
Tiling is preparing a surface, setting tiles into adhesive to a true line and level, then grouting and sealing the finished surface. Roughly 70% of the work is preparation. Almost every tiling failure traces back to it rather than to the tiling itself. Getting the substrate right is unglamorous, and it is the entire job.
Home Refurbishment
A home refurbishment is the renovation of several rooms or a whole property as one managed project, rather than as a series of separate jobs booked with different trades. It usually combines bathroom, kitchen, plastering, joinery, flooring, electrical and plumbing work, sequenced so each trade starts on a surface the last one left ready. The value is in that sequencing. Run as one project, a refurbishment takes noticeably less calendar time than the same work booked room by room — the drying, first-fix and second-fix stages of different rooms overlap instead of queueing.
What About Plumbing and Electrical Work?
Plumbing and electrical work are carried out in-house as part of every bathroom, kitchen and refurbishment project we run. We do not advertise them as standalone trades, and there is a deliberate reason for that.
Work that is notifiable — new circuits, gas appliances, changes to drainage — must be certified by somebody holding the relevant registration. Rather than take on standalone plumbing and electrical callouts we cannot legally certify, we handle those elements within our own projects and bring in the appropriate registered tradesperson for anything requiring sign-off. It is a narrower offer than some competitors advertise, and it is an honest one.
If you need a standalone plumber or electrician rather than a renovation, we would rather point you somewhere suitable than take the booking.
Whichever of these you are planning, the survey and the written quote are free.
Questions About Cost and Pricing
Why do bathroom quotes vary so much between companies?
What is the most expensive part of a bathroom renovation?
Can I save money by supplying my own materials?
How much value does a new bathroom or kitchen add to a house?
Tell Us What You Are Planning
Not sure which of these your project actually needs? Most jobs cross two or three of them, and that is exactly why having all the trades under one roof matters.
- We visit, measure up and check what is behind the walls
- You get a fixed written price with the exclusions stated plainly
- No travel charge anywhere inside our 30-mile radius
- No obligation and no follow-up sales visit
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Every quote starts with a home visit. We measure up, look at what's actually behind the walls, and give you a fixed written price with nothing hidden in it.
Much of our work comes from repeat customers and recommendations, reflecting the standard we work to.