your new bathroom, designed, supplied and fitted, free design consultation included
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Bathroom Renovation in Barnet
Bathroom fitters in Barnet: full refits, en suites and wet rooms, designed, supplied and fitted by one team, with a 2 year guarantee on our work.
Bathroom fitters in Barnet for everything from a straight refit in a Whetstone semi to a four bathroom house on the Totteridge ridge where the water pressure is the first problem to solve. Plumbers and heating engineers who also do the floor, the tiling, the electrics and the finish. One team, two to three weeks, a price fixed before the old suite comes out. Ring 01462 506 374 or send two photographs of the room.
Pressure first, tiles second
In most towns we start a bathroom conversation with the layout. In Barnet we start with pressure, because the borough is on a hill and the hill decides what your shower will do.
The High Street at Chipping Barnet is 427 feet above sea level. Totteridge sits on the ridge between the Dollis Brook and the Folly Brook. Mill Hill is on its own ridge along The Ridgeway. Mains pressure falls with height, so a house at the top of any of them gets less than a house in the valley at Whetstone or Hendon, and a 1930s semi with a cold tank in the loft and a vented cylinder gets its first floor shower pushed by a metre of head and nothing else. A loft en suite on that arrangement, at the top of the hill, is a shower that dribbles no matter what is spent on it.
The remedies are a pump on the shower, a cylinder of the unvented type holding hot water at mains pressure, an accumulator where the mains itself cannot cope, or a combi for a house with modest demand. Which one is right depends on the boiler, the number of bathrooms being fed and where on the hill you live, and we test the mains at the property before anyone chooses a tile.
Get a fixed price before we start
Call and talk to an engineer, or send us the details and we will come back to you with a price.
What our bathroom fitters in Barnet install
Complete refits, the old room stripped to the walls and a new one built. En suites and bathrooms in lofts, pumped or macerated where there is no gravity route. Wet rooms and walk in showers on a tanked floor laid to fall. Cloakrooms. Baths swapped for showers where the rest of the room can stay. And the electrical side, done and certificated by the electrician who works with us.
Five kinds of Barnet bathroom
The ridge house. Totteridge, Arkley, Monken Hadley, Hadley Green. Late Victorian and Edwardian houses that the 1872 railway brought, or their post-war replacements, with an en suite off every bedroom and a demand that a single combi cannot meet. The bathroom project here usually includes an unvented cylinder and a system boiler, sometimes an accumulator, and it is done as one job rather than two firms. Inside the Totteridge, Monken Hadley and Wood Street conservation areas an external soil pipe or vent on the front elevation can need consent, and we tell you before it is ordered.
Hampstead Garden Suburb. A conservation area with its own Trust, Lutyens’ Grade I listed churches at its centre, and the strictest controls on alterations in the borough. A bathroom here is a design exercise around the building, with the Trust’s requirements checked before anything is drawn, and we have the patience for it.
The 1930s semi. Whetstone, East Barnet, Friern Barnet, Mill Hill, Finchley, Hendon. A sensible room in an honest structure. Refitting one means going back to the studs: the vented cylinder leaves if better pressure is wanted, the brittle plastic wastes go, the tiles that were stuck to bare plasterboard come off in favour of a proper backer board, and the extractor is ducted to the open air instead of the loft.
The Victorian terrace near the station. High Barnet, New Barnet along Station Road, East Finchley, Cricklewood. Bathroom in the back addition, joists running across the line a new soil pipe wants to take, a shallow floor and a cast iron stack. A wet room has to fall to its drain and that takes depth; if the joists cannot provide it we tell you before the former is bought, not after. The iron stack comes out in favour of plastic while the wall is open anyway.
The flat. Colindale and Grahame Park, the conversions along the High Street, the new blocks around Brent Cross. Shared risers, a pressure reducing valve you may not know about, and a lease that decides what can be altered. We put the questions to the managing agent before you spend anything.
Two water companies and one lot of limescale
Affinity Water’s northern zones read 271 mg/l of calcium carbonate around New Barnet and Whetstone, 295 along the ridge and 352 at Mill Hill, a figure Affinity itself classes as very hard. Thames Water’s zones at Hendon and Golders Green sit at 269. Whichever side of the boundary you live, the water is hard, and at Mill Hill and Edgware it is punishing. On a new bathroom that means the bloom on the glass in a fortnight, the crust on the rainfall head within the year, and a cheap thermostatic valve that seizes. We specify brassware and valves that tolerate scale, isolate everything so a scaled cartridge is a ten minute change, and at Mill Hill we will talk seriously about a scale reducer on the main before the bathroom goes in, not after.
Hot water that takes a minute to arrive
The complaint we hear most in the bigger Barnet houses is not pressure but patience: the far bathroom runs cold for a minute before the hot arrives, and every morning a bath of water goes down the drain waiting for it. That is a long primary run without a secondary return, and it is common in the Totteridge and Arkley houses where the cylinder is in a plant room at one end and the master en suite is at the other. A secondary return is a small pump and a loop of insulated pipe that keeps hot water circulating so it is at the tap instantly, and it is far cheaper to fit while a bathroom is open than at any other time. We look for the opportunity on every survey in those houses, because a new bathroom that still takes a minute to get warm is a job half done.
Ventilation and the electrics
A bathroom that never dries grows mould. We fit an extractor sized for the room in every bathroom, ducted to the open air on a timed overrun, never into the loft space. It is wired, along with the lighting, a shaver socket and an electric shower if one is wanted, by the registered electrician who works with us, and the certificate stays with the house for the day it is sold.
Designed, supplied and fitted by one team
A written scope before anything comes off the wall, our own fitters, and a 2 year guarantee on our work.
The loft en suite on the hill
The loft en suite is the most requested bathroom in Barnet’s semis, and on the ridge it has two questions rather than one: the soil route, and the pressure. Where a gravity connection to the stack exists we use it, and where it does not a macerator is an honest answer if it is specified for its fittings and fitted where it can be reached. The pressure question is answered by the mains test, and the answer is sometimes that the house needs an unvented cylinder before it can have the en suite it wants. We say so.
How the job runs
Day one is strip out and first fix. Then floor build up and boarding, tanking, plastering, tiling and grouting, second fix, sealing and snagging. A working toilet every night. The days without water announced on day one. The route from the front door protected before a tool comes in. Two to three weeks for a full refit.
What it costs
No single number, because a replacement in a Whetstone semi and a wet room in a Totteridge house with the stack moved and an unvented cylinder added are different jobs. What moves the price is the layout staying or changing, the depth of floor work, whether the stack is relocated, the grade of sanitaryware and tile, and whether the hot water system is rebuilt for the pressure. Each of those appears as its own line on the quote after the survey, and the total on that quote is the total on the invoice.
Related work in Barnet
Where the boiler is what limits the shower, see boiler installation in Barnet. Slow drains and bad smells in a bathroom point to drainage. Everyday taps, toilets and leaks are plumbers in Barnet.
Frequently asked questions
Recent bathrooms we have designed and fitted
A few of the finest rooms from our own jobs. Tap any photo to see it full size, or see every room in the gallery.
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12 months on repairs, installations and everything else. Two years on a full bathroom refit. If anything we did develops a fault, we come back and put it right.
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The price is agreed with you before any work begins. No hidden extras on the invoice.
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The emergency line is answered every day of the year by someone who can send an engineer, not a call centre.
Fully stocked vans
Five vans carrying the parts that fail most often, so most jobs are fixed on the first visit.
An office team behind every job
An established local business with multiple engineers and a dedicated office team to keep you informed.
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Accredited installer status means extended manufacturer warranties on the boilers we fit.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the timescale for a Barnet bathroom?
A full refit runs two to three weeks. Swapping a shower like for like is two or three days.
Do I need to find my own tiler and electrician?
No. Tiling, plastering and finishing are ours, and the electrical work is certificated by the electrician who works with us.
I live at the top of the hill and the shower is weak. Does a new bathroom cure that?
Not on its own. The plumbing design has to change. On the ridge the answer is usually an unvented cylinder, sometimes with an accumulator, and we test the mains before we recommend either.
Will a Victorian terrace near the station take an upstairs wet room?
Usually, if the joists are deep enough for the fall, which we measure before you commit.
Does the quote move?
Not unless the specification does. It is itemised after the survey and it holds.
Do you work in Hampstead Garden Suburb?
Yes, and we tell you what the Suburb’s controls require before anything is ordered.
How much does a new bathroom cost in Barnet?
A full bathroom renovation starts from £8,500. The final price depends on the size of the room, the layout and the products you choose, and every bathroom is priced from a free design survey with a fixed written quote before any work starts.
How long does a bathroom renovation take?
A typical family bathroom takes 7 to 12 working days on site. A full strip-out and re-fit, or a wet room with proper tanking and drainage falls, is usually 10 to 14 days. We give you the realistic sequence before we start rather than an optimistic one, because tiling and grouting need drying time between stages.
Does a new bathroom add value to a house?
A well-fitted bathroom is one of the few rooms buyers judge in the first thirty seconds, and estate agents consistently put it alongside the kitchen as the room that sells a home. The honest answer is that it rarely returns more than it cost on paper, but a dated or damaged bathroom takes money off an offer and slows a sale. Fit it for the years you will use it first.
Can you fit an accessible bathroom or a level-access wet room?
Yes. We fit level-access wet rooms, walk-in showers with low or flush trays, fold-down seats, grab rails and thermostatic controls, and we design the layout around how the room will actually be used. The floor is tanked and the fall is set to the drain so water cannot sit or get behind the tiles.
Who does the plumbing, tiling and electrics?
Our own team. Vantage is a plumbing and heating company first, so the pipework, the drainage and any boiler or cylinder changes are done in-house, and our tilers and electricians work to the same programme. One quote, one point of contact, one 2 year labour guarantee on the whole job.
Areas we cover for bathrooms around Barnet
Bathroom fitting across the borough: High Barnet, Chipping Barnet, New Barnet, East Barnet, Monken Hadley, Hadley Wood, Arkley, Cockfosters, Totteridge, Whetstone, Oakleigh Park, Friern Barnet, Mill Hill, Edgware, Burnt Oak, Colindale, Hendon, Finchley, North Finchley, East Finchley, Golders Green and Hampstead Garden Suburb, EN4, EN5, N2, N3, N11, N12, N20, NW4, NW7, NW11 and HA8, plus Potters Bar and Borehamwood.
Bathrooms we have fitted near Barnet
Real rooms, photographed by us when we handed the keys back. Pick one to see every photograph of it and how it was built.
Calacatta Viola marble bathroom with a freestanding bathWatford, about 8 miles from Barnet
Sage green panelled bathroom with a slipper bathShillington, about 25 miles from Barnet
White marble-effect en suite with a backlit mirrorShillington, about 25 miles from BarnetRelated services
Designed, supplied and fitted
Rooms we have designed and fitted
Level access, tanked properly
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