your new bathroom, designed, supplied and fitted, free design consultation included
Applies to full bathroom renovations designed, supplied and fitted by Vantage Plumbing and Heating. The discount comes off the quoted price and is shown as a line on your written quote. Fixed price agreed before we start. Cannot be combined with any other offer.
NORTH LONDON, HERTFORDSHIRE & BEDFORDSHIRE
Bathroom Fitters in Wembley and Brent
Family bathrooms, en suites and loft bathrooms for Brent homes, from the semis of Wembley Park and Kingsbury to the converted Victorian houses of Kilburn and Queen’s Park. Designed, supplied and fitted by one team. Ring 01462 506 374 for a survey, a written price and two years of cover on our workmanship.
BATHROOM FITTERS IN WEMBLEY AND BRENT
The semi and the conversion, Brent’s two bathrooms
Of the Brent households that live in a house rather than a flat, about half are in a semi. In Wembley those semis were built continuously from 1925 to 1939, and in Kenton the largest group of buildings dates from 1919 to 1944. A house of that age usually has one bathroom, a soil stack on an outside wall and a loft with room for a second. The survey there is about headroom, the waste route and whether the hot water can keep up with two showers.
In the south of the borough the picture turns round. Kilburn, Queen’s Park and Kensal Rise are Victorian, and 19% of Brent households now live in a house that has been converted into flats. A bathroom in one of those is set by the shared stack, the lease and the ceiling of the flat below. Gas Safe registered under 956889, and every bathroom we fit carries 2 years of cover on our workmanship.
259 to 333
mg/l reported, Willesden in the south to Kingsbury in the north
Hard water on both sides of the borough
Whether your tap is fed by Affinity Water or Thames Water, the water is hard, and the first things it damages in a new bathroom are the thermostatic cartridge and the glass screen. We fit valves whose cartridges come out on their own, and in a house with two bathrooms we price a softener on the incoming main at survey, so the decision is made before the tiles go up.
Four Brent homes, four different bathrooms
The interwar semi
Wembley Park, Barn Hill, Kingsbury and Kenton. A bathroom at the top of the stairs, sometimes with the toilet in a separate room next door that the family would like knocked through. The stack is usually outside, and the question tends to be whether the hot water will run a bigger shower.
The Victorian conversion
Kilburn, Queen’s Park and Kensal Rise. Two or three flats in one house, one stack between them, and a lease that decides what is yours to alter. The toilet has to fall to that stack, so the plan is drawn around it. Anything that touches the outside goes to the freeholder first, and in a conservation area to the council.
The Mapesbury or Brondesbury house
Mapesbury was mostly built between 1895 and 1905, and its houses are big enough for a family bathroom and one or two en suites. That puts the weight on hot water: a cylinder sized to the outlets and pipework that can deliver it. The Mapesbury design guide says most external installations will need planning permission, so we keep new pipes off the visible walls.
The loft bathroom
Brent’s January 2025 guidance says a dormer must stay below the original ridge and sit at least 0.2 m up from the eaves, and a rear dormer can be the full width of the roof. New front dormers are not permitted in Mapesbury, and in Queen’s Park they will not normally be permitted and only one front rooflight is allowed. We plan the bathroom inside those lines.
Bathrooms from our own portfolio
Photographed by us, in rooms we designed and fitted. Each one is written up with its brief in the bathroom gallery.
Article 4 and the outside of a Brent bathroom
Inside, a bathroom is yours to change. The outside is where Brent’s rules start. All of the council’s residential conservation areas carry Article 4 directions over front windows and doors, painting, roof tiles, chimneys and rear outbuildings. So a new obscured window on the front of a Queen’s Park house, or a shower in a garden building behind a Mapesbury villa, is checked before it is designed.
The Queen’s Park design guide also asks for permission to alter or replace a flue that can be seen from the highway, which matters when a bathroom plan moves the boiler. If a consent is needed, the quote says so and allows the time for it.
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.
Three weeks in a Kingsbury semi, in order
A full refit, start to handover. The middle week is never rushed.
Week one: out and under
The old suite removed, the floor lifted and the joists checked, new waste runs laid to the stack with a proper fall, hot and cold and the electrics first fixed, an extract duct taken to outside, then boards down and the wet areas tanked.
Week two: the tiling
Setting out first, because a 1930s wall is rarely true, then walls and floor. This is where a bathroom looks right or does not.
Week three: fit and hand over
Basins, toilet, bath or tray, brassware and screen, the fan tested for its airflow, the seals run, a snag list walked with you and the room cleaned.
Parking in Brent, and Wembley event days. Brent sells no trade permit, so a van parks on pay and display at £2 an hour by RingGo, on a visitor session the resident buys (£1.75 for two hours, £3.50 for four, £5.25 for the day), or in a suspended bay at £67 per bay per day, with a £133 late fee when it is booked with less than 14 days’ notice. Skips are licensed through the skip hire company, which pays Brent a £365.50 registration and £72.80 a fortnight. On a stadium event day restrictions run from 8am to midnight on the main roads to the stadium, and vehicles without a permit can be ticketed and removed, so we check the event calendar before a start date is agreed. Whatever the street needs appears on the quote as its own line.
How a Brent bathroom is priced
We do not put a figure on a bathroom until we have stood in it. In a Kenton semi the cost is mostly tiling and labour. In a Kilburn flat it may also include a macerator, work to a shared stack, or protection for the common hallway. You get a written quote broken into lines, with any bay suspension or skip at the council’s own rate, and the total stays put once we begin.
Specified for hard water and small rooms
Thermostatic valves with cartridges that can be changed without opening the wall, because hard water will reach them eventually. Low profile trays for conversions where there is little depth under the floor. A tanking membrane under every wet area, laid only once the boards are proved solid. A pumped waste in the loft rooms where the stack is too far away for gravity. A fan ducted to fresh air.
Surveyed, designed and fitted by the same people
No handover between strangers. Two years on our own workmanship.
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Why choose Vantage
Rated 4.9 on Google from more than 700 reviews across Google, Checkatrade and Trustatrader. Qualified, accredited engineers, a fixed price before any work begins and a labour guarantee on every job, from an established local company with an office team you can actually reach. No job too small.
Gas Safe registered
Company registration 956889. Every gas engineer carries their own Gas Safe ID card, and you can ask to see it.
Refcom F-Gas certified
REF1024550. Legally required for air conditioning installation and servicing, and we hold it.
CHAS Elite accredited
Veriforce CHAS assessed for health and safety, which is why commercial clients and landlords use us.
City & Guilds and BPEC qualified
Qualified, insured engineers on every job. No subcontracted strangers.
700+ reviews, 4.9 on Google
Across Google, Checkatrade and Trustatrader. Read them before you book.
Labour guarantee on every job
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.
Fixed price before we start
The price is agreed with you before any work begins. No hidden extras on the invoice.
24/7, answered by a person
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.
Vaillant myREWARDS and Ideal Max accredited
Accredited installer status means extended manufacturer warranties on the boilers we fit.
Emergency response within the hour
Our average response to an emergency call is under an hour across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
Trusted & Accredited Professionals
Why choose Vantage
We treat a Wembley semi and a Kilburn conversion as different jobs, because they are. Gas Safe registered under 956889. Our own people for every stage, one contact from survey to handover, an itemised quote that does not move, and a 2 year guarantee on our own workmanship. Company number 13248357, VAT number 392 8946 37. Parking, suspensions and skips are arranged by us and listed in the price.
Where we fit bathrooms in Brent
Wembley and the rest of the borough, including:
WembleyWembley ParkAlpertonSudburyPrestonNorthwick ParkBarn HillKingsburyRoe Green VillageKentonNeasdenDollis HillWillesden GreenMapesburyBrondesburyKilburnQueen’s ParkKensal RiseKensal GreenHarlesden
Beyond Brent
From Wembley and Kingsbury in the north to Kilburn and Kensal Rise in the south, and over the borough line into:
HarrowBarnetCamden
Everything else we cover in the capital is on the North London page.
Frequently asked questions
How long does a bathroom take in a Wembley semi?
Around three weeks for a full strip out and refit, worked as one continuous run so the house is not without a bathroom for longer than it has to be. A cloakroom or a like for like replacement is shorter. A loft bathroom built as part of a conversion follows the builder’s programme, and we agree our days with them.
How much does a new bathroom cost in Brent?
We price from a survey rather than a table, because the same size of room costs differently in a Kenton semi and a Kilburn flat. The quote is split into lines, labour and tiling are most of it, any bay suspension or skip is shown at the council’s rate, and the total is fixed before work begins. Payments are staged, as set out on our prices page.
Can a second bathroom go in the loft of a 1930s semi?
Often, yes. The waste route to the stack and the extraction decide it more than the floor area. In a conservation area there are no permitted development rights for a loft conversion, so the dormer needs an application before the bathroom can be planned inside it.
I have a converted flat in Kilburn. What changes?
The layout follows the shared soil stack, the lease says what you may alter, and the ceiling of the flat below is part of the job. We check the stack and the lease at survey, and where gravity cannot get a toilet to the stack we say so and show you the option of a macerator.
Does Article 4 affect a bathroom in a conservation area?
Only where the work reaches the outside. All of Brent’s residential conservation areas have Article 4 directions over front windows and doors, roof tiles, chimneys and rear outbuildings, and the Mapesbury design guide says most external installations will need planning permission. A new soil pipe, a changed front window or a shower in a garden building is checked before it is drawn.
What guarantee comes with the bathroom?
Two years on our own workmanship from the day we hand over, with the manufacturers’ warranties on the products on top.
Have the room surveyed
Call 01462 506 374 or send us the details. We measure the room, lift a board, trace the stack, check the lease and the conservation area where they apply, and send a price that holds.
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