Family bathroom in a Henleaze semi
The original 1930s bathroom and separate toilet knocked into one room, with a walk-in shower and a freestanding bath.
Area
Henleaze
Time on site
4 weeks
Cost
£21,800
Finished
2026
What we did
House
1930s semi-detached house
Service
Bathrooms
Site lead
Marek Nowak
Removed the wall between the bathroom and the separate toilet
Replaced two rotten joists under the old bath
Tanked the shower area and the floor
Electric underfloor heating under a terrazzo floor
Handmade wall tiles and brushed brass fittings
Extractor fan ducted through the external wall
Many 1930s semis in Henleaze still have the bathroom and toilet as two small rooms. Taking out the wall between them made space for a walk-in shower beside the bath.
Under the old bath we found two joists that had rotted from a slow leak. We had allowed a day for repairs in the quote and used it. The tiler redid one section of the shower wall where a grout line had drifted, before the clients saw it.
The bathroom took four weeks as quoted. The tiler had to redo one section of the shower wall, which they spotted before we did.
Gareth and Sue, Henleaze
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