Bathroom Fitting in Arundel
The old bathroom leaves on somebody's shoulder
A cast iron bath, a floor of rubble and a skip's worth of broken tile all have to leave a house whose front door opens onto a steep, narrow, parked-solid lane. That is a labour problem long before it is a tiling one.
On a terrace set into the hill there is frequently no way round the back at all, so the whole strip-out comes down the stairs and along the hall a few bags at a time. Nobody enjoys hearing that put into a price. Allowed for honestly it is a manageable day; ignored, it becomes the reason your bathroom runs a week over.
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Water in this town arrives from uphill
Arundel sits on a chalk hillside, and during a wet spell the runoff has to go somewhere. In houses cut into the slope it frequently goes into the flank wall, which is why an existing damp patch gets blamed on a shower that arrived a fortnight earlier.
Before tiling anything on a wall with ground behind it, we work out where the water is coming from. Sometimes the answer is drainage outside the building rather than a membrane inside it. What we will not do is coat damp masonry and hand you a room that looks finished for three years.
Waterproofing the shower is the other invisible half. Tiles are not the barrier; the tanking behind them is. Which system we use depends on the room — Schlüter is one of them — and whichever goes in is a high-quality one carrying a guarantee. On an old timber floor that detail keeps water out of the ceiling below.
Floors that were never meant to hold a filled bath
Joists in a period house were sized for a bedroom, not for a filled bath, a stone-resin tray, a tiled floor and two adults in one corner. Deflection is why grout cracks and tiles lift, so we would rather size the structure than be called back to it.
Level-access showers ask more again: a former needs depth to sit in, and a floor stepping between rooms gives an awkward threshold. Settled at survey, against the actual room.
Extraction, and what listing reaches
Mechanical extraction has to reach outside rather than vent into a void, and on an older elevation where it terminates is a design decision. On a listed building it is more: new pipework or a vent through the fabric is an alteration needing consent.
Internal work is caught too. Moving a partition, removing a fireplace or altering a panelled opening can affect character, and that consent sits separately from planning permission. Without a listing, the inside of the room is your own affair.
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Second homes, lettings and a booking calendar
A good share of the enquiries here come from second-home owners and people running boutique holiday lets, and that brief differs from a family bathroom. The room takes heavy turnover, so the specification has to survive guests who are not being careful with it. The work has to land between bookings, which makes the programme a commercial figure rather than an inconvenience.
We give you a start date and an end date we can hold, and where a survey says the structure comes first we say so before you commit to those dates. Inside a bigger scope a bathroom runs with renovations in Arundel; bands are in our price guide, dated August 2026 and set out before VAT, with 20% going on top. The trade is under bathroom fitting.
All workmanship guaranteed for 24 months from completion. Manufacturer warranties on all materials and installed products passed to you in full — many run to 10 years or more. Structural work is signed off by Building Control and covered by our £2m public liability insurance. We're working towards an insurance-backed guarantee scheme and will offer it as soon as we're eligible.
One bathroom or a whole house, same crew and the same itemised quotation. Company No. 16870716, building in West Sussex since 2002.