Barrow-in-Furness · Dalton · Walney
Bathroom fitters in Barrow-in-Furness
Bathroom fitters in Barrow-in-Furness spend most of their working life in terraced houses, and terraced houses set the problem. Small rooms, solid walls, original waste runs and a layout drawn up when nobody expected a shower at all.
Alan Towse is based in Ulverston, about ten miles up the road, and fits bathrooms across Barrow, Dalton and Walney.
Barrow bathrooms are a specific problem
The town is mostly late Victorian and Edwardian terraces built quickly for the shipyard, and the bathroom is usually a squeezed room at the back, over a kitchen, with a soil stack on an outside wall.
That means a few things are nearly always true. The floor is not level. The walls are not square. The waste has to go where the waste already goes. And every centimetre you can win back changes how the room feels.
None of that is a reason to accept a compromise. It is a reason to measure properly before anything is ordered.
- Replacing a bath with a walk-in shower to free up floor space
- Full refits in small back bedrooms and box rooms
- Downstairs and under-stair cloakrooms where there were none
- Fully draining wet rooms on suspended timber floors
- Levelling out floors and walls before tiling starts
- Working with existing soil stacks and drainage runs
Taking the bath out
The most common job in a terraced house is swapping an old bath nobody uses for a shower that everybody does.
It frees up real floor space, it makes the room easier to use as you get older, and it usually costs less than people expect because the room is small.
A client in Kirkby-in-Furness had exactly this done and wrote that the replacement of my old bath with a more functional walk-in shower makes life so much easier.
Why bother with a cabinetmaker for a small bathroom
Because small rooms are less forgiving, not more.
In a big bathroom a bad cut can hide in a corner. In a room two and a half metres across, every tile is on show and every line is read against a wall you can touch from the door.
Boxing in pipework, tiled reveals, a level floor and cuts that land where they should. That is joinery work as much as it is plumbing, and it is the difference between a room that looks fitted and one that looks finished.
Questions people ask
Do you travel to Barrow from Ulverston?+
Yes. Barrow-in-Furness is a regular working area, along with Dalton, Walney and the surrounding Furness district.
Can you fit a wet room upstairs in a terrace?+
Often yes, but it depends on the floor. A fully draining wet room on a suspended timber floor needs the floor prepared properly first, and that gets checked before anything is quoted.
Can I get a downstairs toilet in a terraced house?+
Frequently, yes. Under-stair toilet installations are a speciality and they are the usual way to add a downstairs cloakroom where the footprint looks impossible.
My floor slopes. Is that a problem?+
It is normal in these houses and it gets levelled as part of the work. Tiling onto an uneven floor is the single most common reason a finished bathroom looks wrong.
How do I get a price?+
Ring 01229 889947. Alan comes out, looks at the room, and gives you a written quote free of charge with no obligation.
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