A bungalow is the easiest house in England to make step-free
Most bathroom enquiries here come from bungalows, and that is a gift. Everything is already on one level: no stair to negotiate in twenty years' time, no stairlift conversation, and a walk-in shower becomes a floor problem rather than a whole-house one.
The floor is the part to get right. A great many of these houses sit on a solid ground-floor slab rather than on joists, so a linear drain and its falls cannot simply be dropped between timbers. Either the falls are formed in the build-up above the slab, or the floor comes up slightly and the door threshold is designed rather than fudged. A survey decision, and not correctable once the tiling is on.
We will look at the floor and tell you which your house wants, free of charge. James on 07470 078236, and we reply inside one working day.
The en-suite that arrives with a loft
On the bungalow loft we converted on Whyke Close in Chichester, a large dormer across the back and an en-suite in the roof made the drainage the first question, not the last. A shower room up there is a drainage question long before a tiling one: how far the waste travels, how much depth the new floor gives it to fall in, and whether gravity does the work or a pump has to.
Settled while the floor is being framed, that costs nothing. Settled afterwards, it costs a ceiling. Where the loft is the wider job, see loft conversions in Bognor Regis.
Salt gets into a bathroom through the extractor
Mechanical extraction to outside is required, and on this coast where the duct terminates matters as much as that it exists. A cheap steel grille facing the prevailing weather will stain the wall beneath it within a couple of winters, and the fixings behind it go first.
So grilles, fixings and sealants get specified like the rest of the envelope here — stainless and marine-grade, because anything else is a return visit. More on that in building works and renovations in Bognor Regis.
Flats carved out of the old seafront houses
The large Victorian and Edwardian properties along the front and towards Aldwick were mostly divided into flats long ago, and a bathroom in one is a different job again. The soil stack is shared, the floor is somebody else's ceiling, and a lease, freeholder or management company will usually have something to say about altering either.
None of that stops the job. It means finding out who has to agree what before an order is placed — a fortnight at the front of the programme rather than one lost in the middle.
What actually drives the price
- Whether the WC stays where it is. Keeping it on the existing connection saves more than any other single decision.
- Tray or tanked floor. A tray sits on top of the structure; a level-access floor means cutting into it and forming falls. Not comparable jobs.
- What is under the old bath. Rotten timber and a failed seal turn up at strip-out, not at survey, which is why the allowance is a written line.
- A second bathroom. Without one the programme gets compressed and priced accordingly.
Price bands sit in our price guide, which carries an August 2026 date. Every one of them includes VAT, so the figure you read is the figure that leaves your account. The trade generally is under bathroom fitting.
We have no Bognor bathroom to name yet
We have fitted plenty and we have the photographs. What we do not have is an owner's written permission to attach an address to one, so this page will not claim it. When we do, the street and the cost go up here.
Our workmanship is guaranteed for two years from completion. The manufacturers' warranties on everything we install pass to you in full, and many last ten years or longer. Building Control signs off the structural work, and our £2m public liability insurance covers it. An insurance-backed guarantee scheme is something we are working towards and will offer once we qualify.
WhatsApp a photograph of the room and you get a written price back. Book a free site visit. Company No. 16870716. Rated 5 stars on Yell, and employers' liability alongside £2m public liability.
The villages and towns either side of Bognor have their own pages: Felpham, Aldwick, Pagham, Middleton-on-Sea, Littlehampton and Rustington.