• One dedicated project manager for your whole job, not a different face on site every day
• Every trade vetted personally and kept in-house, coordinated to one fixed schedule
• Five-year guarantee on labour and installation, backed in writing, plus two years on products

• Coordination of the full trade sequence - plumbing, electrical first and second fix, plastering, joinery, tiling and fitting - scheduled so each trade arrives once the stage before it is genuinely ready for them, not booked on a guess
• A single point of contact for the whole job, so questions about timing, a delivery, or a change of mind go to one project manager rather than being chased separately with each trade on site
• CAD and 3D design drawings, agreed and signed off before any tile is laid or pipework is cut, so what actually gets built matches what was designed and paid for
• A fixed, itemised quotation covering design, supply and installation before work starts, rather than a running total that grows as the job goes on
• Ordering and delivery scheduling for the suite, tiles, brassware and fittings, timed against the build sequence so materials are on site when the trade that needs them is on site, not stacked in a hallway for a fortnight
• Remedial building work identified during strip-out - typically minor plastering repairs, making good around new pipework runs, or replacing a section of subfloor found to be unsound once the old flooring is lifted
• Gas Safe certification for any gas work and Part P certification for electrical work, issued as that stage of the job is signed off
• Full waste clearance of the old bathroom and packaging from the new one, carried out by a licensed waste carrier
• A snagging walkthrough with you before the job is signed off as finished, not before

• Structural alterations beyond the bathroom itself - knocking through to an adjoining room or altering a load-bearing wall - which need a structural engineer's input and building control sign-off before they can even be quoted
• Asbestos testing and removal: if suspected asbestos-containing material turns up during strip-out in an older Derby property, work in that area stops until it's tested and, if needed, removed by a licensed specialist - priced and arranged as a separate job, not folded into the bathroom quote
• Moving the boiler or altering the property's main heating system, as distinct from connecting new bathroom pipework to the existing supply
• Underfloor heating - not automatically included in every quote, priced as its own line item where it's wanted
• Council planning applications or party wall agreements, where a project genuinely needs one - rare for a straightforward bathroom refit, more relevant where a project ties into a loft conversion or extension

1. Working out the trade sequence, not just the design -- At the home visit, the project manager isn't only measuring for the new layout - they're working out what order the job needs to run in for your specific room. Moving a toilet's soil pipe, relocating a stud wall, or swapping a window for an extractor fan all change which trade needs to go in first, and getting that sequence wrong is what causes a plasterer to finish a day early with nobody booked to follow them.
2. Booking trades against real availability, not a template -- Because plumbing, electrical, gas, joinery and plastering are carried out by the same in-house team job after job, the project manager schedules your trades against their actual current workload rather than guessing whether a subcontractor booked weeks ago will still be free. Tiles, brassware and the suite are ordered against that same schedule, timed to land on site when the trade that fits them is actually there.
3. Checking a stage is finished before the next trade is booked -- Before the tiler is booked in, the project manager checks the plasterwork's actually dry and sound; before second-fix electrics go ahead, first-fix wiring and the boxed-in pipework are checked, not assumed. That single check is what stops a trade turning up to a room that isn't ready for them - the most common reason bathroom jobs run over.
4. Re-sequencing on the spot if the room throws up a surprise -- Old Derby properties don't always match what's under the floor covering - a rotten subfloor or a pipe run that needs rerouting rather than reconnecting comes up more often than people expect once strip-out starts. When it does, the project manager adjusts the trade sequence and tells you what's changed and why, rather than the job stalling while a decision gets made.
5. Signing off certification as each stage completes -- Gas Safe and Part P certification for gas and electrical work is issued as that stage of the job is signed off, not chased up after the event, so there's a paper trail for each stage rather than a single certificate handed over at the very end with no record of when the work was actually inspected.
6. Final walkthrough and handover -- Once the last trade is off site, the project manager walks the finished room with you, picks up anything that needs a second look, and hands over the certification and guarantee paperwork together, so the job's only signed off as finished once you've seen it, not before.

Project management itself isn't priced as a separate line item - it's included as standard with every bathroom design and installation, so the figure you're quoted for the room already covers the coordination that gets it fitted properly, not just the fitting itself. A full bathroom design, supply, installation and project management typically starts from around £5,000, though where an individual job lands depends on the size of the room, the products chosen, and how much building work turns out to be needed once the old bathroom is stripped out - a period Derby property with a subfloor that's rotten under old lino, or pipework that needs rerouting rather than reconnecting, costs more to put right than a straightforward like-for-like refit. Any figure given over the phone before someone has actually seen the room is a guess rather than a quote - the only way to get an accurate, fixed price is a home visit, which is free and comes with no obligation to go ahead.

Ask a general builder running your bathroom as one job among several how they know a plumber will actually be free the week your job needs first fix, and the honest answer is usually a phone call and a bit of hope. That's the gap that causes the plasterer-finishes-a-day-early problem in the first place - a schedule built on subcontractors' availability that nobody managing the job can actually see. Because plumbing, electrical, gas, joinery and plastering here are carried out by the same team on every job rather than booked fresh each time, the person building your schedule is working from real, current workload, not a guess. Taking on one bathroom at a time rather than several in parallel means there's slack built into that schedule to absorb a stage that overruns - a subfloor that turns out rotten, a pipe run that needs rerouting - without pulling a trade off someone else's live job to keep yours moving, which is usually the point where a subcontracted schedule actually breaks down. That's less about any one trade's individual skill and more about whether the sequence they're all working to reflects what's actually happening in your house that week, rather than what a builder hoped would happen when the job was first booked in.

Most project-managed bathroom jobs are in Derby itself, from Cathedral Quarter apartments near Derby Cathedral - where access, parking and working in a shared building often shape the schedule as much as the room does - out to family homes in Allestree, Darley Abbey, Quarndon, Mickleover, Littleover and Breadsall, several of which sit close to Markeaton Park and Darley Park. Further out, the same coordinated approach covers Long Eaton, Ilkeston, Borrowash, Alfreton, Belper, Ripley, Heanor, Swadlincote, Willington, Repton and Burton on Trent, plus jobs across the border into Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and Sheffield. Belper, and the villages further up toward Duffield and Milford, sit inside the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage Corridor that runs from Derby up to Matlock - worth knowing if your property is older, since conservation-sensitive work in that stretch often needs planning around rather than treating as a standard fit. Toward the Peak District - Matlock, Bakewell, Buxton and Ashbourne - jobs run over a longer distance, which is exactly the kind of project where having one person managing deliveries and trade timing against a single schedule matters more, not less.

If your bathroom's the only one in the house, every week it's out of action is a week spent working around somebody else's shower or explaining to guests why the door's covered in dust sheets. A free, no-obligation design consultation gets a fixed quote and a proper schedule in front of you, so you know when work starts, roughly how long it runs, and who's coming on which day, before anyone's lifted a single tile.

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