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 North London
Bathrooms designed, supplied and fitted by one team across North London, from the Georgian terraces of Islington to the big Victorian houses of Hampstead and the 1930s semis of Barnet and Enfield. Fixed price in writing, 2 year guarantee on our work. Call 01462 506 374.
BATHROOM FITTERS IN NORTH LONDON
One team, so nobody hands you a half finished room
Bathrooms go wrong when the plumber, the tiler and the electrician are three firms with three diaries. We run it as one job with one crew: strip out, first fix, tiling, second fix, the extract fan, the electrics and the final clean, with one person responsible for the lot.
Vantage Plumbing and Heating covers North London from Enfield and Barnet down through Haringey, Islington and Camden, working out of Stevenage. Gas Safe registered under 956889. Our own workmanship on a bathroom installation is guaranteed for 2 years.
Some of our recent bathrooms
Real rooms we designed and fitted, in our own photographs. Click any photo to see it full size, or see every project with its brief and write-up in our bathroom gallery.
Three kinds of North London home, three kinds of job
North London is not one housing stock, and a bathroom quote that ignores that is guessing.
Georgian and early Victorian terraces
Barnsbury, Canonbury and Highbury in Islington, and the squares off Upper Street, are terraces from the 1800s that were split into flats for decades and then put back together. Expect a bathroom carved out of a bigger room, an old cast iron stack on the wrong elevation and joists that were never sized for a stone floor. We check span and deflection at survey and price any strengthening into the quote rather than finding it in week two.
Converted houses and mansion blocks
Camden is 87% flats on the 2021 census, and a lot of Islington and Haringey is the same: big Victorian houses cut into three or four homes, and the mansion blocks of West and South Hampstead. The job is about the shared stack, the fall on the waste and what the lease lets you touch on the outside. We survey those harder and say so before anything is ordered.
Interwar semis and detached houses
Finchley, Totteridge, Mill Hill, Southgate and Winchmore Hill are largely 1920s and 1930s. Structurally decent, with long horizontal pipe runs and, in the bigger houses, a family bathroom and two en suites all wanting hot water at once. That is unvented cylinder territory, and we size it to the number of outlets rather than the number of bedrooms.
Lofts and basements
A loft bathroom in a Victorian terrace lives or dies on the waste run to the stack and on extraction, not on the floor space. A basement bathroom in Camden or Islington comes with the council’s basement policy attached: Islington usually needs planning permission for basement work, and Camden wants a Basement Impact Assessment. Neither is a reason not to do it, both are reasons to plan it.
200 to 300+
mg/l, Thames Water’s hard to very hard bands across north London
Thames Water, and it is hard
Thames Water supplies nearly all of North London, with Affinity Water on the Hertfordshire edge of Barnet. Its own scale calls 200 to 300 mg/l hard and anything above 300 very hard, and its supply here sits in those bands. Scale is what furs up a shower cartridge and clouds the glass. We specify valves with replaceable cartridges, and we talk about a scale reducer or a softener on the main before the tiles go on, not after.
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.
The kit we specify most in North London
No showroom and no stock to shift, so the specification follows the house.
Unvented cylinders in the larger houses of Hampstead, Highgate, Totteridge and Winchmore Hill, where two showers run at once.
Thermostatic bar and concealed valves with replaceable cartridges, because the water here scales them up.
Wet room formers with a full tanking system. The waterproofing is the job. The tiles are the bit you can see.
Slimline trays with an accessible waste for terraces with next to no depth below the tray.
Macerators where gravity will not do, in loft and basement rooms, and we are honest about where that is a compromise.
Extraction ducted out of the building at 15 litres a second or better, the Building Regulations minimum for a bathroom, so there is no black mould by January.
What a full bathroom renovation involves
Two to three weeks on site for a full strip out and refit, booked as one continuous run.
Week one: strip out and first fix
Everything out, then studwork, floor repairs and noggins. Hot, cold and waste rerouted for the new layout, and the electrical first fix for lighting, extraction, a shaver point and underfloor heating if you are having it. Then the room is boarded and prepared.
Week two: tiling and second fix
Tiling is the slow part and it is where corners cut in a week show for fifteen years, so it takes the time it takes.
Week three: finishing
Second fix completion, sealing, snagging and the final clean. A cloakroom or a like for like en suite comes in well under that.
Parking and skips shape the programme in inner North London. Islington runs 24 separate parking zones and charges £320 to suspend a bay for the first day. Camden sells trade permits by the day and licenses skips for two or four weeks at a time. All of it is sorted at quote stage and shown on the quote, so there is no surprise on the invoice.
What a bathroom costs in North London
We will not print one number and pretend it fits every home. A cloakroom under the stairs in Finchley and a wet room in a Canonbury terrace with a rebuilt floor are not the same job. Labour and tiling are the biggest element on nearly every refit, and they scale with the size and complexity of the room.
Every quote is itemised so you can see the cost of each decision, and it is fixed before we start. Where the survey turns up a genuine unknown, such as what is under an existing tray, you get the range up front rather than a phone call in week two.
En suites, wet rooms and cloakrooms
En suites. The constraint is nearly always the fall on the waste run and the ventilation, not the floor space.
Wet rooms. The right answer for level access and for awkward upstairs rooms in older houses, as long as the floor is built up and tanked properly. If the structure will not carry it we will tell you.
Cloakrooms. A toilet under the stairs is one of the better things you can do to a London terrace. Where there is no gravity fall to the drain, a macerator is the way in.
One team, one fixed price, start to finish
Strip out, plumbing, tiling, electrics and the final clean, by one crew, with a 2 year guarantee 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
Gas Safe registered under 956889. One team from strip out to silicone, one point of contact, no subcontractors passing the blame. Pricing itemised and fixed before a single board comes up. A 2 year guarantee on our own workmanship on bathroom installations. Our vans are ULEZ compliant, so there is no daily charge hidden in your price. Company number 13248357, VAT number 392 8946 37.
Where we fit bathrooms in North London
Across the N and NW postcodes and the northern edge of the EN and HA ones. Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Islington and Camden, including:
HampsteadBelsize ParkPrimrose HillHighgateMuswell HillCrouch EndIslingtonBarnsburyCanonburyHighburyFinchleyTotteridgeMill HillHendonGolders GreenSouthgateWinchmore HillPalmers GreenEnfieldBarnet
Borough pages
Each borough has its own page, written for its own housing and its own council rules.
Bathroom fitters in EnfieldBathroom fitters in BarnetBathroom fitters in IslingtonBathroom fitters in Camden
The rest of the area, from Hertfordshire to Cambridgeshire, is on our areas we cover page.
Frequently asked questions
How long does a full bathroom refit take in a North London terrace?
Two to three weeks on a full strip out and refit, booked as one continuous run. A cloakroom or a like for like swap is quicker. If someone promises a fully tiled room in five days, ask which of the tiling or the drying times they are skipping.
How much does a new bathroom cost in North London?
It depends on the room and the decisions, so every quote is itemised and fixed before we start. Labour and tiling are the biggest part of nearly every refit and they scale with the room, not with the price of the suite. The survey and the quote cost nothing. Payment is staged: 50% before we start, 40% near completion and the final 10% when you have signed it off. Full terms are on our prices page.
Can you fit a bathroom in a converted flat with a shared soil stack?
Yes, and it is one of the commonest jobs in Islington and Camden, where most homes are flats. The waste route decides the layout: a new toilet needs a gravity fall to the stack within the permitted run, or a macerator where that is not possible. We work that out at survey, and where the lease needs the freeholder to agree to anything external we say so before you order tiles.
Do I have to tell the council about bathroom work in a conservation area?
Internal work usually does not need permission. Anything on the outside of the building can, for example a new soil and vent pipe on a street elevation, and in an Article 4 area such as Hampstead, Belsize, Primrose Hill, Barnsbury or Canonbury the council has removed the usual permitted development rights. We flag it at quote stage so it never holds up the job.
Will hard water wreck a new shower valve?
It will scale it up faster than it would in a soft water area, which is why we specify thermostatic valves with replaceable cartridges and talk about a scale reducer or softener on the incoming main at survey. Thames Water describes its supply across north London as hard to very hard, and that shows on shower glass and brassware within a year if nothing is done about it.
Do you do the tiling and the electrics as well?
Plumbing, tiling, extraction and making good are all ours, which is why there is one price and one person responsible. Electrical work in a bathroom is a special location under the wiring regulations, so it is carried out by qualified electricians and certificated as part of the job.
What guarantee do I get on a new bathroom?
Two years on our own workmanship for a bathroom installation, plus the manufacturer warranty on the products we fit.
Get your North London bathroom priced properly
Call 01462 506 374 or use the fixed price quote form. We will measure the pressure and flow, check the floor, work out where the waste can go and give you an itemised fixed price.
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