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.
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Bathroom Renovation in Hackney
Bathroom renovations for Hackney’s Georgian and early Victorian houses, its 1860s villas, its warehouse conversions and the flats that make up most of the borough. Designed, supplied and fitted by one team, a fixed price in writing, and 2 years on our own workmanship. Call 01462 506 374.
BATHROOM RENOVATION IN HACKNEY
Most Hackney bathrooms are in flats, and flats share things
Hackney has roughly 125,000 homes, and a 2025 report commissioned by the council models 77.2% of them as flats. Some are purpose built, from post-war blocks to the new homes rising at Woodberry Down. Others are Victorian houses divided into two, three or four homes. The same report puts private renting at 31.6%.
For a bathroom, that means the soil stack you want to connect to is often shared with the flat below, your floor is someone else’s ceiling, and a freeholder may have a say over anything that changes outside. We check all of that first. Gas Safe registered under 956889. Bathroom installations carry 2 years on our own workmanship.
From 1790s Clapton to last decade’s flats
Hackney’s housing comes in layers, and each layer asks something different of a bathroom.
Georgian Clapton. Clapton Square, Sutton Place and Clapton Terrace date from the late 1700s and early 1800s. In a listed house, internal work that removes historic material needs consent, so the room is planned around what has to stay.
De Beauvoir and Albion Square. The planned streets of the 1830s and the stock brick pairs of the 1840s. Floors of that age can deflect, so we check the joists before anyone chooses stone.
St Mark’s, Graham Road and Mapledene. Big villas laid out in the 1860s and the early to mid nineteenth century streets of the borough’s largest conservation area. Where a house has been divided, the stack and the lease set the layout.
Warehouse and workshop conversions. South Shoreditch, the Regent’s Canal and Hackney Wick. Floors can be concrete or heavy timber with little depth for a waste, so the drainage route decides where the shower goes.
Post-war and regeneration blocks. Woodberry Down, started by the London County Council in 1949 and now being replaced by more than 5,500 homes, and Kings Crescent in Stoke Newington. The building’s rules and its managing agent come first.
Recent homes. About a fifth of Hackney’s homes are under twenty years old. Usually an upgrade in the same footprint.
Rooms we have designed and fitted
Our photographs of our own work, from across our area. They show the finish you can expect. Every room, with the brief behind it, is in the bathroom gallery.
Hard to very hard
Thames Water, reported at roughly 250 to 350 mg/l in E5, E8 and N16
What Hackney water does to a shower
Those figures come from independent sites, not Thames Water, but they put Hackney at the hard end of its bands. It shows first on the screen and inside the valve, so replaceable cartridges are our standard, and a softener is worth discussing where two bathrooms share the supply.
When the bathroom reaches the outside of the building
Inside the room, planning rarely comes into it. These are the Hackney cases where it does.
Article 4 streets and listed houses
In De Beauvoir and St Mark’s, Article 4 directions made in 2008 cover windows, doors, roofs and chimneys, among other things, so a new bathroom window or a roof vent can need permission. Not every property is covered, and the council keeps a database to check.
Loft bathrooms
Hackney’s 2026 guidance asks for rear dormers at least 0.5m below the ridge and no wider than half the roof, and treats front dormers as not normally acceptable. In a conservation area a roof extension on an unaltered roofline is not generally acceptable. We fit the bathroom to the roof you can have, with a pumped or gravity waste to suit.
Basement bathrooms
The same guidance only accepts front lightwells where they are already part of the street, and caps them at half the front garden’s area and half its depth. A basement bathroom will usually also need pumped drainage. Both are known before you commit.
Skips
Only a registered skip company can apply for a Hackney skip licence, for up to four weeks, seven working days ahead inside a parking zone. We line it up with the parking.
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.
Four stages of a Hackney bathroom renovation
Survey
Floor, joists, stack, water pressure, extraction route, the lease and the street outside. Photos and measurements taken so the design is right first time.
Design and fixed price
A layout, a product list and an itemised price with parking and skip as their own lines. Nothing starts until you have agreed it in writing.
Strip out and first fix
Common parts protected, the old room removed, pipes, waste and wiring run to the new positions, the extractor ducted outside, walls boarded and wet areas tanked.
Tiles, fittings, handover
Tiling, then sanitaryware, brassware, screen and sealing. We walk the snag list with you and leave it clean.
Hackney parking, arranged before the van sets off. Most of the borough is split into controlled zones, about 22 of them, and their hours differ: Zone A runs weekdays 8.30am to 6.30pm, North Shoreditch runs Monday to Saturday until midnight. The council has no dedicated trade permit, so we use its own routes. A dispensation for building or repair work covers one space for one day, listed at £25.50 per 5m space on the council’s 2025-26 price list, which we recheck when we apply. A bay suspension is £44 per bay per day plus a £100 admin fee, applied for online at least seven working days ahead so the £161 late fee does not apply. Whichever the job needs is its own line on your quote.
Why we do not publish a Hackney bathroom price
A shower room in a Dalston conversion and a family bathroom in a St Mark’s villa share little beyond the word. The building sets the price: the floor, the waste run, the tiling and the stairs. You get it itemised after the survey, council charges at their own rates, fixed before work begins.
Built for rented homes as well as owned ones
Close to a third of Hackney’s homes are privately rented, and the council’s 2025 report estimates about 6,038 houses in multiple occupation, so many bathrooms here are replaced by landlords between tenancies. That brief is different: a fixed end date, tiles and grout that take heavy use, and valves and shower parts you can still buy in five years, listed on a written specification for the property file.
The same two year workmanship guarantee applies. If the property is licensed, tell us the conditions and we design to them.
Surveyed, fitted and guaranteed by the same people
Two years on our 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
Because a Hackney bathroom is usually a flat bathroom, and the firm that checks the stack, the lease and the street before the design is the one that finishes when it said it would. Gas Safe registered under 956889. One team from the first board up to the last bead of sealant, a 2 year guarantee on our own workmanship, and a quote with the council’s charges written into it. Company number 13248357, VAT number 392 8946 37.
Where we renovate bathrooms in Hackney
Anywhere in the borough, including:
De Beauvoir TownDalstonStoke NewingtonClaptonUpper ClaptonHackney CentralHomertonHackney WickLondon FieldsBroadway MarketVictoria Park VillageWell StreetHoxtonShoreditchStamford HillWoodberry DownAlbion SquareClissold Park
Just over the Hackney border
E5, E8 and N16, the Hackney ends of N1, N4, E2 and E9, and Shoreditch. The same trips take in:
IslingtonHaringeyWaltham ForestTottenhamWalthamstowFinsbury Park
Every London borough we cover is listed on the North London page.
Frequently asked questions
How long does a bathroom renovation take in a Hackney flat?
A full renovation usually runs two to three weeks without a break, and a small shower room can be less. Where a block sets working hours, or the stairs and hallway have to be protected and cleared each day, that goes into the programme we give you with the quote.
Is there a price list for bathrooms in Hackney?
No, and we would be wary of anyone who offers one before seeing the room. The floor, the route to the stack, the tiling and the access set the labour, and the labour is most of the cost. After the survey you get an itemised quote, with the council’s parking charge and the skip as separate lines, fixed before we start. How payments are staged is on our prices page.
Can I put a bathroom in the loft of a Hackney house?
Often, and the roof usually decides it. Hackney’s 2026 guidance wants a rear dormer to sit at least 0.5m below the ridge and cover no more than half the roof, says front dormers are not normally acceptable, and in a conservation area a roof extension on an unaltered roofline is not generally acceptable. We plan the bathroom around the space that is allowed, with the waste run and the extraction worked out first.
Does a listed house in Clapton need consent for a new bathroom?
It can. Hackney says listed building consent is needed for internal work that removes historic material, so taking out an old partition, cutting joists for a waste or lifting an original floor may need it. We identify what is historic at the survey and plan the room so the consent, if one is needed, is simple to ask for.
What does Hackney’s hard water do to a new bathroom?
It leaves scale on glass, taps and shower heads, and it works its way into valve cartridges. Independent sites report Hackney postcodes at roughly 250 to 350 mg/l. We fit valves with replaceable cartridges as standard and talk about a softener where the house has more than one bathroom.
What is guaranteed on a bathroom renovation?
Our own workmanship for two years from the day we hand the room back, and every product we supply carries its manufacturer’s warranty as well.
Have the room surveyed
Call 01462 506 374 or send the details. We check the floor, the stack, the mains and the lease, and send an itemised fixed price you can take your time over.
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