• Free, no-obligation design consultation at your home, with CAD and 3D drawings before any tile gets laid
• One dedicated project manager and one in-house team, from strip-out to final fix
• 5-year guarantee on labour and installation, 2-year on products, all in writing

• Full strip-out back to the studwork and subfloor - old suite, tiles, flooring and, where it's damp or blown, the plasterboard behind it - all cleared by a licensed waste carrier so there's no skip to arrange
• Replumbing that follows the new layout rather than the old one - re-running waste and supply pipework to NVQ Level 2 standard, correcting any falls on soil pipes that were never quite right, and swapping old lead or undersized copper for modern push-fit where it's found
• Rewiring for new lighting circuits, a shaver point and extractor fan wiring - our electricians are Part P approved, so all of it gets signed off and certified properly
• Gas work where the renovation includes a combi boiler swap or a gas-fed towel rail - anything on the gas side is signed off by an engineer on the Gas Safe register, as required by law
• Tanking built up in layers behind every tiled wet area, not just a bead of sealant around the shower tray, so water can't track back into the stud wall or floor
• Full wall and floor tiling, including cutting around niches, feature strips and fixtures rather than boxing around them
• Plastering and skimming to bring wobbly stud walls and an uneven ceiling back to a flat, paintable surface before a single tile goes up
• Fitting the new suite - bath, shower enclosure, basin, WC, taps and brassware - once the wet trades are finished and everything's had time to dry out properly
• Joinery built to the actual dimensions of the room by our City & Guilds trained joiners - fitted storage, boxing in pipework, bath panels - rather than an off-the-shelf size with gaps filled in
• CAD and 3D design drawings before the strip-out starts, so the layout and tile choices are agreed on screen rather than worked out once the room's already stripped
• Disabled adaptations - level-access showers, wider doorways, grab rails - designed into the renovation from the start where needed, not bolted on afterwards

• Structural work such as moving external walls, removing chimney breasts or altering roof lines - this gets priced and planned separately, often with building control sign-off
• Planning permission or building regulations fees, where the renovation triggers them - rare for a like-for-like refit, more likely if you're extending the room
• Bespoke fitted furniture beyond standard joinery - a freestanding designer vanity unit or a fully bespoke cabinet run is quoted on its own merits
• Underfloor heating installation, unless specified and priced into the original quote
• Costs that only appear once the strip-out is done - old pipework in worse condition than expected, rot in the subfloor, or asbestos-containing materials in a pre-2000 property all get raised and priced before any work continues, never added to the bill afterwards without agreement

1. Home visit and diagnosis -- Someone comes to the house and works out specifically what's failing in the current bathroom, not just what style you'd prefer instead - a cracked shower tray, mould creeping back through old sealant no matter how often it's cleaned, or pipework that was routed badly the first time round. That diagnosis is what shapes the quote, not a generic room measurement.
2. Fixed quote and CAD design -- A written, itemised quote with everything priced up front, plus CAD and 3D drawings so you can see the layout, tile choices and fittings before anything is ordered or a wall gets touched. For older properties, this is also where any likely contingency - for pipework or subfloor condition - gets flagged in advance rather than sprung on you later.
3. Strip-out and the hidden-problem check -- Old suite, tiles and flooring come out, down to the studwork and subfloor, cleared by a licensed waste carrier. This is the point where the real condition of the pipework, joists and stud walls is seen for the first time - undersized waste pipes, rot, or asbestos-containing materials in a pre-2000 property. Anything found here is priced and agreed with you before work carries on, not added to the bill afterwards.
4. First-fix and tanking -- Plumbing, electrics and any gas work go in behind the walls and floor, followed by tanking and waterproofing in wet areas. It's the stage that determines whether the room lasts fifteen years or five, and the one piece of work you'll never see again once the boards and tiles go over it.
5. Tiling, suite and joinery -- Wall and floor tiling, the new suite going in - bath, shower, basin, WC, brassware - and joinery for storage, boxing and bath panels. Lighting, extractor fan and final fittings go in alongside, with silicone seals last, once everything else has settled and movement's worked its way out.
6. Snagging and handover -- A final walkthrough checking silicone lines, extractor operation, door clearance on any new flooring thickness, and every fitting for a snag before it's signed off. You get the guarantee paperwork for labour, installation and products, plus details for anyone who wants to see references from previous jobs first.

Cost depends heavily on what "renovation" means for your bathroom. Industry figures from Checkatrade in 2026 put a budget refresh - keeping the layout, replacing fittings and surface finishes - at around £2,500 to £4,000. A proper mid-range renovation with full retiling, a new suite and replumbing where needed runs roughly £5,000 to £9,000, and a high-end renovation with premium fittings, bespoke joinery or structural changes can run to £14,000 or more. Our own full design, supply and project-managed installation typically starts from around £5,000, depending on room size, the products you choose and whether any building work is needed alongside the bathroom itself. We're upfront that this isn't the cheapest quote you'll get in Derbyshire, and we don't try to be one - a cheap bathroom has a habit of getting expensive later, once poor tanking or a badly plumbed shower valve starts causing problems behind tiles nobody wants to rip out again. Every quote is a fixed, itemised figure rather than a number given over the phone, but the only way to get an accurate one is a site visit - room size, existing pipework condition and access all affect the final price.

A full renovation isn't one trade's job, it's several of them in sequence inside a fortnight - plumber, electrician, sometimes a Gas Safe engineer, plasterer, tiler, joiner - and the usual way this goes wrong isn't bad tiling, it's the gaps between trades. Book each stage separately and someone doesn't turn up the day the last one finishes, so the room sits half-stripped for a week while you chase whoever's supposed to come next. We don't run renovations that way. Every trade that comes into the house is vetted personally and kept in-house, and one project manager handles the sequencing, so the plasterer's booked to start the day the electrician finishes first-fix rather than whenever they've next got a gap. We also only take on one bathroom at a time, which matters more on a renovation than a straight refit, because a full strip-out has more that can go wrong mid-sequence - and a crew that's been pulled off to start someone else's job doesn't reliably come back the next morning. That continuity matters most at the two points you can't see once the job's finished - the tanking behind the tiles and the pipework buried in the stud wall - which is why the 5-year guarantee on labour and installation covers exactly that kind of hidden work, not just the visible fittings on top. If you'd rather hear about how a renovation actually went for someone else's bathroom before booking yours in, we can put you in touch with a previous renovation customer directly.

Derby is home base, and it's where most of our renovation work happens - from Cathedral Quarter apartments needing space-conscious layouts around older pipework, to family houses in Allestree, Darley Abbey and Markeaton near Darley Park and Markeaton Park, where a lot of the work is about updating bathrooms that haven't been touched since the house was built. Mickleover and Littleover see plenty of full retiles and suite replacements in 1980s and 90s housing stock, and Breadsall and Quarndon bring more period-property jobs where working around older stud walls and uneven floors takes a bit more care. We also cover Borrowash and the towns further east and south of the city - Long Eaton and Ilkeston along the Trent Valley - as well as Swadlincote and Burton on Trent to the south. Further north, Belper, Ripley, Heanor and Alfreton sit within the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage corridor, where conservation-sensitive renovation work sometimes means being more careful about what's visible from outside - extractor vents and soil pipe routing in particular. And for Matlock, Bakewell, Ashbourne and Buxton, on the edge of the Peak District, renovations tend to lean toward natural stone, matt finishes and fittings that suit a period property rather than a strictly modern look. We also take on work in Nottingham, Sheffield and their surrounding counties for customers who've found us through word of mouth rather than a postcode search.

We take on one bathroom at a time rather than running several jobs at once, so booking slots for a full renovation get taken up a few weeks out - worth getting in early if you're hoping to have the work done before a particular date. Get in touch for a free, no-obligation design consultation at your home, and you'll walk away with CAD drawings and a fixed, itemised quote rather than a rough figure to think over.

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