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Up to£1,000off

your new bathroom, designed, supplied and fitted, free design consultation included

Full bathrooms from £8,500Fitted January or February 20272 year guarantee on our work

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.

Bathroom Fitters in Stevenage

Bathroom fitters who actually know Stevenage homes

Stevenage bathrooms are a mixed bag. The post-war estates across Bedwell, Broadwater and Shephall were built with small, functional bathrooms, typically 1.7m × 2.2m, with the bath under the window and the original avocado or pink suite still installed in the ones nobody has touched yet. Chells and Pin Green follow a similar template from the 1960s and 70s. Then you’ve got Old Town with its Victorian terraces and the bathrooms squeezed onto the back of the property above the kitchen extension, and Great Ashby with its modern detached homes and en-suites that need refurbishing rather than full strip-outs.

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Full design, supply and installation under one roof. No tile shops, no separate plumbers, no chasing trades.

Bathroom installed by Vantage with twin copper basins, wood slat wall and freestanding bath.
Finished shower room with marble-effect tiling and a heated towel rail, fitted by Vantage

Most costly bathroom mistakes come from poor planning, a basin too close to the door, a shower tray that fights with the soil pipe, a towel rail in the only spot a tall person can’t dry their back.

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Fully tanked
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Why most Stevenage bathroom leaks start behind the tiles 

A lot of the bathroom failures we get called to inspect in Stevenage properties, particularly the 1950s and 60s estate houses, trace back to one thing: the bathroom was never properly waterproofed behind the tiles. In post-war housing with original timber flooring upstairs, water getting through bathroom walls or around shower trays causes serious damage to the floor structure below.

We tank every wet area using a two-coat liquid membrane before tiling starts. Adds a day to the job. Saves a full ceiling repair five years down the line. Every bathroom comes with a 2-year labour guarantee.

Tiling in progress in a shower enclosure

Our bathroom services in Stevenage

Bathroom Installations

Full installations from first fix to final finish. A typical project runs 7 to 12 working days. Written timeline up front.

Bathroom Refurbishments

Updating an existing bathroom without a full strip-out. Layout stays, the room transforms. Quicker and often cheaper where existing plumbing is sound - ideal for the newer Great Ashby and Symonds Green properties.

En-Suites

Bespoke en-suites in master bedrooms, box rooms and loft conversions. We know which compact suites fit a 1.5m² space without making it feel like an aeroplane toilet.

Wet Rooms

Fully waterproofed wet rooms, properly engineered for the long term. Popular in Stevenage's older estate housing where ripping out the original bathroom and going wet room gives you 30% more usable space.

The properties where the install gets more interesting

Original 1950s estate houses in Bedwell, Broadwater and Shephall

These were built with bathrooms designed for 1950s households, modest sized, with the bath against an external wall. The most common renovation here is losing the bath in favour of a proper walk-in shower, repositioning the basin, and adding vertical storage above the cistern.

1960s and 70s estates in Chells, Pin Green and Symonds Green

Slightly larger bathrooms with the original suite often still installed. Standard refurbishment territory, replace the suite, retile, upgrade to a chrome heated towel rail, swap the extractor for a humidity-sensing fan. Three to five days, transformative result.

Old Town Victorian terraces

Bathrooms squeezed above the kitchen extension, often 1.7m × 2.2m with awkward pipework from previous decades. The common job is a layout reshuffle to fit a walk-in shower and reclaim wasted floor space through smarter storage.

Great Ashby and newer detached homes

Most have en-suites and family bathrooms from 2005 to 2015 that have started to look tired. Refurbishment over strip-out, new suite, new tiles, new lighting, often a complete shower upgrade. Quick jobs, the plumbing is modern and properly sized.

Why Choose Vantage?

With a 4.9 Google rating from more than 460 reviews, fully qualified and accredited engineers, transparent pricing, and a 2-year labour guarantee on every job, Vantage delivers reliable, high-quality workmanship you can trust with fast response times, and genuine local service.

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Areas we cover for bathroom installation around Stevenage

Old Town Bedwell Broadwater Shephall Chells Chells Manor Pin Green Poplars Symonds Green Great Ashby Monks Wood plus Knebworth Walkern Datchworth Aston Little Wymondley Codicote SG1 SG2

We’re with you. Other postcodes, call 01462 506 374.

FAQs

A full strip-out and refit on a typical 4, 6m² family bathroom runs 7 to 12 working days. A refurbishment without changing the layout is closer to 4 to 6 days. Wet rooms can run 10 to 14 days.

A quality refurbishment keeping the layout typically lands £6,500 to £10,000 fitted. A full strip-out and rebuild with a high-spec suite usually sits £10,000 to £18,000. Everything is fixed in writing before we lift a tool.

Almost always, yes. The smallest properly usable walk-in shower we recommend is 900mm × 900mm, and we can fit one in most original Bedwell and Shephall bathrooms if you’re willing to lose the bath. We’ll show the trade-offs first.

Almost never, unless it’s your only bathroom. Dust sheets down, doors closed off, full hoover each evening. If it’s your only bathroom, the toilet downtime is usually one to two days max, we tell you which days in advance.

We supply. Trade pricing beats retail, and when we supply we own any warranty issues. Happy to integrate a feature item you’ve sourced (a freestanding bath, statement tiles), but the bulk we’d rather supply.

Yes. Our base is in Hitchin, less than 15 minutes from Stevenage town centre. Engineers live across SG1, SG2 and the surrounding postcodes. Not a national company with a Stevenage postcode.

Frequently Asked Questions

A full strip-out and refit on a typical 4, 6m² family bathroom runs 7 to 12 working days. A refurbishment without changing the layout is closer to 4 to 6 days. Wet rooms can run 10 to 14 days.

A quality refurbishment keeping the layout typically lands £6,500 to £10,000 fitted. A full strip-out and rebuild with a high-spec suite usually sits £10,000 to £18,000. Everything is fixed in writing before we lift a tool.

Almost always, yes. The smallest properly usable walk-in shower we recommend is 900mm × 900mm, and we can fit one in most original Bedwell and Shephall bathrooms if you’re willing to lose the bath. We’ll show the trade-offs first.

Almost never, unless it’s your only bathroom. Dust sheets down, doors closed off, full hoover each evening. If it’s your only bathroom, the toilet downtime is usually one to two days max, we tell you which days in advance.

We supply. Trade pricing beats retail, and when we supply we own any warranty issues. Happy to integrate a feature item you’ve sourced (a freestanding bath, statement tiles), but the bulk we’d rather supply.

Yes. Our base is in Hitchin, less than 15 minutes from Stevenage town centre. Engineers live across SG1, SG2 and the surrounding postcodes. Not a national company with a Stevenage postcode.

For general plumbing rather than a bathroom project, see our Stevenage plumbing page.

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