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What you get
Stripped back to the walls and floor, the pipework and floor put right, then rebuilt.
OUR SERVICES
Bathroom refurbishments in Oldham and Greater Manchester
Stripped back and rebuilt, with the pipework and the floor sorted before anything is tiled.
WHAT IT INVOLVES
What a bathroom refurbishment involves
Stripped back and rebuilt, with the pipework and the floor sorted before anything is tiled.
The common failure
Not a leaking pipe. Water getting behind tiling because the board was ordinary plasterboard, or a shower tray on a floor with too much flex.
What moves the price
Layout changes. Keeping everything where it is makes for a straightforward job; moving the WC means moving the soil pipe.
IN THE QUOTE
What is in the quote
Strip out back to the walls and floor, and disposal- Any alterations to waste, supply and the floor structure
- Moisture resistant boarding, and tanking where there is a shower
- Floor build-up, levelling and the falls if there is a wet area
- Tiling, second fix, sanitaryware and extraction
- Making good and decoration outside the room where pipework has been chased
Bathrooms reward doing the boring parts properly. The board behind the tiles and the floor under the tray are the whole job.
HOW WE DO IT
How a bathroom job actually goes
Four steps, start to finish, so you know what happens and when.
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Tell us what you want in there
A bath, a walk in shower, or both if the room takes it. A photo of the room from the doorway shows us more than measurements do.
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What is under the floor and in the walls
Where the soil pipe runs decides where a WC can go, and the floor under an old bath is the thing that most often needs replacing before anything is tiled.
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A written quote with the fittings listed
The work, and the fittings if you want us to supply them, priced separately so you can see both. Tiling is priced by what is actually being tiled rather than by the room.
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Stripped back and rebuilt properly
Out to the walls, pipework and floor sorted, boarded and tanked where it needs it, then tiled and fitted.
THREE WAYS TO START
Talk to us about your bathroom
Whichever is easiest. You get the same answer from all three.
Or send it in a minute
Three boxes and a photo if you have one.
PAST WORK
Recent bathroom refurbishments
Photographs of his own work.
Call us for your bathroom quote
A written quote, itemised, with no obligation.
USEFUL TO KNOW
Bathroom questions
How long does a bathroom take?
A straightforward refit with the layout unchanged is usually a matter of days rather than weeks. Moving the soil connection or converting to a wet room adds to it because the floor has to come up. The dates go in the quote.
Can you turn our bathroom into a wet room?
Often, and the deciding factor is the floor. A wet room needs falls built into the floor and proper tanking, which is straightforward on a solid floor and more involved on a timber one. Both are possible and they are not the same price.
We only have one bathroom. What do we do?
It is worth planning around. Where it can be shortened by having materials on site before the strip out, it is, and you are told the realistic number of days rather than an optimistic one.
Is tiling straight onto plasterboard a problem?
In a shower area, yes. Ordinary plasterboard behind tiles in a wet zone is the single most common reason a bathroom fails after a few years. Moisture resistant board and proper tanking cost very little extra at the time and are the difference between a bathroom lasting five years and twenty.
Often booked alongside
Brickwork and repointingGET A PRICE
Tell us about your job
Three boxes and a photo if you have one. We price it in writing, with no obligation.
Where we work from
Based in Oldham, covering Greater Manchester.
07542 569 403
office@akjohnbuilders.co.uk
Oldham, Greater Manchester