Bathroom Fitters in Penarth

Penarth's Victorian and Edwardian villas present a particular set of bathroom challenges. Rooms are often generously sized by modern standards but awkwardly proportioned, ceilings are high, and the original soil stack is frequently a long way from where a modern layout would want the WC. Many of these houses have also had bathrooms added into former bedrooms or dressing rooms over the years, which means waste runs that were compromises when they were installed and remain so.

Floor construction matters here more than in later housing. Period suspended timber floors with substantial joists can be excellent for achieving fall to a level-access shower, or can rule it out entirely depending on which direction the joists run and what has already been notched out of them by previous work. We survey the floor properly before promising a level-access installation, because it is not a promise that can be made from a photograph.

In conservation areas, external changes such as a new soil vent pipe or an extract terminal on a street elevation warrant checking with the Vale of Glamorgan before they are installed rather than afterwards — Penarth is in the Vale, not Cardiff. Internally there is no such restriction, and there is usually more design freedom in these houses than people expect. Our Stanwell Road address means this is local work for us.