Bathroom Fitter Derby

If you're looking for a bathroom fitter in Derby, the choice usually comes down to one thing: do you want a single team who stays with the job from the first sketch to the final line of silicone, or do you want to book a plumber, a tiler, an electrician and a plasterer yourself and hope they all turn up in the same week? Derby Bathroom Fitter is a family-run business that's been fitting bathrooms across Derby and the wider Derbyshire area for over a decade, and the bathroom services covered here run from a straightforward suite swap in a 1930s semi in Mickleover through to a full wet room conversion in a period property near the Cathedral Quarter.

You can read more about how the business is set up, and why it runs on one dedicated project manager rather than a rotating cast of subcontractors, on the about us page. What follows here is the practical detail a homeowner actually needs: what's genuinely included in a bathroom fitting job, what it costs, how the work is sequenced from your first call to handover, and where in Derby and Derbyshire the team is able to get to you.

• A free home design consultation, with CAD and 3D drawings produced before any work is booked in
• Full strip-out and removal of the old suite, tiling, flooring and any dated boxing-in
• Plumbing carried out to NVQ Level 2 and City & Guilds standard, covering new pipework, waste runs and all connections
• Electrical work carried out by Part P approved electricians, covering lighting, shaver points, extractor fans and heated towel rail wiring
• Gas work carried out by Gas Safe registered engineers where the job involves a gas-fired connection or boiler alteration
• Joinery from City & Guilds trained joiners, for boxing in pipework, fitted shelving and bespoke bathroom furniture
• Plastering and skimming to a flat, ready-to-tile finish
• Wall and floor tiling, including proper tanking (waterproofing) behind and beneath shower and wet-room areas
• Fitting of the new suite itself — bath, shower enclosure, toilet, basin, taps and brassware
• Full waste clearance and rubbish removal handled by a licensed waste carrier once the job is finished

• Structural work beyond the bathroom's own footprint, such as knocking through to an adjoining room, is priced separately once it's been seen on site
• Underfloor heating is available but sits as an add-on to the quote rather than being fitted as standard
• Bespoke sanitaryware or specialist brassware outside the usual supplier range can carry a longer lead time and a price adjustment
• Asbestos found during strip-out — not unusual in pre-1980s Derbyshire housing stock — has to be tested and removed by a licensed specialist before work can continue, and this is charged as an extra, not absorbed into the original quote
• Moving a boiler or altering a property's gas supply pipework is treated as a separate, itemised job rather than folded into a standard bathroom fit
• Work unrelated to the bathroom itself — redecorating other rooms, garden or external work — isn't part of this service

1. Initial enquiry -- A call or message to talk through roughly what you're after — full refit, ensuite, wet room conversion — and flag anything that might involve structural or gas work, before a home visit is even booked in.
2. Design visit and CAD drawings -- Someone measures the room in person, checks pipe runs, floor levels and access, and produces CAD and 3D drawings so you can see the finished layout before anything's stripped out or committed to.
3. Fixed quote, then ordering -- An itemised, fixed price follows the design — covering every trade and material, not a verbal estimate that grows once the walls are open. Once you sign off, sanitaryware, tiles and brassware are ordered in against a confirmed start date, and because only one bathroom is taken on at a time, that date holds.
4. Strip-out through to tiling -- The old suite, tiling and flooring come out, first-fix plumbing and electrics go in, walls are plastered and wet areas tanked before a tile is laid, then tiling, the new suite, taps and lighting go in — all run by the same in-house trades rather than a changing crew moving between jobs.
5. Handover and guarantee paperwork -- A walk-through with you covers silicone lines, grout and seals before the site's cleared and waste taken away by a licensed carrier. You're handed the 5-year labour and 2-year product guarantee paperwork at this point, and the same point of contact you've had throughout stays your point of contact afterwards — not a different number to ring if something needs looking at.

Nationally, Checkatrade puts the average new bathroom installation at around £5,500-£8,000, with an average closer to £7,000; a budget refresh can come in from £2,500-£4,000, while a high-end fit with premium fittings and building work can run to £14,000 or more. Full bathroom design, supply, installation and project management with this team typically starts from around £5,000, depending on the size of the room, the products you choose and whether any building or structural work is needed alongside the fit itself.

The team is upfront that this isn't the cheapest bathroom fitting service in Derbyshire, and it doesn't try to be. A low quote that skips proper tanking, uses a poorly plumbed connection, or rushes the plastering tends to get expensive later — once the tiler's gone and the leak or the crack shows up. Every quote here is fixed and itemised before work starts, so you're not left guessing what a "from" price actually covers once the walls are open. That said, no bathroom is priced accurately over the phone or from photos alone — pipe runs, floor levels, wall condition and access all affect the final number, so a full, binding quote always follows a site visit rather than replacing one.

Most homeowners fit a bathroom once every ten or fifteen years, which means you're relying on someone else's word the first time round rather than your own experience of the trade. That's the specific gap this business was built to close: one project manager runs your job from the first measure-up to the final line of silicone, so there's a single person accountable for how the pipework, the tiling and the plastering fit together — not four separate invoices and four different people to chase if something doesn't line up.

Underneath that project manager, the plumbing itself is carried out to NVQ Level 2 and City & Guilds standard, which matters more in a bathroom than in almost any other room: a poorly sealed waste connection or an under-specified stack pipe doesn't show up as a problem on day one, it shows up as a stain on the ceiling below eighteen months later. That's also why the work carries a 5-year guarantee on labour and installation rather than the shorter cover you'd typically get from an individual subcontractor — a bathroom lives or dies on its waterproofing and connections being right the first time, and the guarantee is written to reflect that.

Derby is home ground, and the team covers everything from DE1 apartments in the Cathedral Quarter — where access, lift bookings and period plumbing behind the Cathedral and the Silk Mill (Museum of Making) along the River Derwent all shape how a job's sequenced — through to the larger family homes around Allestree, Darley Abbey and Markeaton, where Markeaton Park and Darley Park sit alongside a mix of Victorian terraces and 1930s semis, each with their own quirks around old lead pipework or narrow original stud walls.

Further into the suburbs, Mickleover, Littleover, Breadsall, Quarndon and Borrowash see a steady flow of ensuite additions and tired-suite replacements in post-war housing stock, where boxing in old cast-iron soil pipes is a common part of the job. Out along the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage corridor towards Belper, Ripley, Heanor and Alfreton, older stone and brick properties sometimes need a more considered approach to damp-proofing and tanking before tiling starts, given the age and construction of the walls. Toward the Peak District — Matlock, Bakewell, Buxton and Ashbourne — bathroom projects tend to lean toward premium fittings and natural materials that suit the setting, alongside the practical realities of older, sometimes listed, buildings.

The team also regularly works in Long Eaton, Ilkeston, Swadlincote, Burton on Trent, Willington and Repton, and across the county boundary into Nottingham, Sheffield and the wider Nottinghamshire area. One point worth knowing regardless of postcode: Derby and the surrounding area sit on fairly hard water, which affects which taps, shower valves and heating elements get recommended for longevity — and in the area's older Victorian and Edwardian terraces, original plumbing runs and uneven floor levels are factored into the quote at the site visit stage rather than assumed away.

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