Portfolio of Previous Bathroom Installations in Derby
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Portfolio of Previous Bathroom Installations in Derby
- 5-year guarantee on labour and installation, 2-year guarantee on products
- One dedicated project manager from the first measure to the final silicone line
- Every trade personally vetted and kept in-house - no rotating subcontractors
The Types of Bathroom Projects This Portfolio Draws From
- Full bathroom strip-outs and renovations in older Derby semis and terraces, including relocating pipework and soil stacks where the layout needs it
- Wet room conversions, including step-free and accessible layouts with level-access trays and support rails
- Ensuite installations in loft conversions and box rooms where space and headroom are tight
- Shower room updates and re-tiling projects that don't need a full strip-out
- Disabled and accessible bathroom adaptations, from grab rails and raised WC pans through to full wet room conversions
- Higher-end bathroom builds using natural stone, freestanding baths and underfloor heating
- Building work carried out ahead of installation, including stud walls, plastering, floor levelling and re-routing electrics
- CAD and 3D design drawings produced before any tile is laid, so the layout is agreed before anyone starts demolition
Not Included / Costed Separately
- Photos of every completed job published openly online - only projects where the customer has agreed to it are shown or discussed, so not everything in the portfolio is on public display
- Named addresses or customer contact details shared without permission
- A fixed price list matched against portfolio examples - every job is quoted individually after a site visit, because two bathrooms that look similar in photos can differ hugely in cost once wall condition, pipe runs and access are factored in
- Supply-only orders with no installation attached
- General plumbing callouts or repairs unconnected to a bathroom project
From First Visit to Finished Room: How These Jobs Were Actually Run
- Home consultation matched to a similar past job -- Someone visits the house, measures the room and talks through what it needs to do, then points to examples from the portfolio that match the type of job involved - a loft ensuite, a wet room conversion, a full strip-out - rather than showing round unrelated show-home photos.
- Survey and problem-spotting -- Before anything's costed, the same visit checks what's actually under the floor and behind the walls - a solid concrete floor in an older Derby semi needs a different waterproofing approach to a suspended timber one, and a loft ensuite lives or dies on whether there's enough headroom for the shower enclosure once the tray's in.
- CAD design and fixed, itemised quote -- The layout gets drawn up before anything's ordered, and the price is broken down item by item rather than given as a round number - if a soil stack needs moving or a stud wall needs building first, that's costed and shown separately.
- Preparation and building work -- Where a room needs it, this covers stud walls, plastering, floor levelling and extending electrics, carried out by the same in-house trades rather than handed off to a subcontractor brought in specially for the job.
- Installation in trade sequence -- Plumbing, tanking, electrics, tiling and fitting happen in the order the job actually needs - a wet room, for example, needs its tanking membrane and falls to the drain checked before a single tile goes down - coordinated throughout by one project manager.
- Completion, snagging and handover -- A final check for silicone lines, seals and finish, followed by the guarantee paperwork for labour, installation and products, plus certification for any gas or electrical work carried out.
What a Bathroom Like the Ones in This Portfolio Tends to Cost
A full bathroom design, supply, installation and project management package typically starts from around £5,000, but that figure moves depending on room size, the products you choose, and whether any building work is needed first - moving a soil stack, taking down a stud wall or dealing with an uneven subfloor all add cost before a single tile goes on the wall. This isn't the cheapest way to get a bathroom fitted in Derbyshire, and that's a deliberate position rather than an oversight: cutting corners on waterproofing, tanking or how a shower tray is plumbed in doesn't show up on the day the tiler leaves - it shows up eighteen months later as a leak into the room below or a soft floor. A genuinely accurate figure for your bathroom can only come from a site visit, because photos and floor plans can't show wall condition, pipe routing or access constraints. The free home consultation exists specifically to get you a real, fixed number rather than a guess given over the phone.
How This Compares to a Typical High-Street Bathroom Fitter
| Derby Bathroom Fitter | Typical high-street or showroom fitter | |
|---|---|---|
| Point of contact | One project manager, start to finish | Separate salesperson, fitter and aftercare contact |
| Trades used | Personally vetted and kept in-house | Often subcontracted and can vary job to job |
| Design stage | CAD and 3D drawings before work starts | Often a rough sketch, or none at all |
| Building work | Handled in-house - plastering, joinery, electrics | Usually referred out to a separate contractor |
| Guarantee | 5 years labour and installation, 2 years products | Varies - often shorter, or product-only |
| Quotation | Fixed price, itemised after a site visit | Estimate that can move once work starts |
| Jobs running at once | One bathroom at a time | Multiple jobs juggled in parallel |
The Same Crew Behind Every Job in This Portfolio
The reason a photo from a few years ago is still a fair guide to what you'd get today is straightforward: the same people built it. Nothing in this portfolio was handed to whichever subcontractor happened to be free that week - the trades who worked on these strip-outs, wet rooms and loft ensuites are vetted personally and kept in-house, so the job you're looking at from a while back and the one being quoted this month were very likely carried out by people who still work on every project now. That continuity matters more in bathroom fitting than in most trades, because it's one of the few jobs in a house where plumbing, tanking, tiling and electrics all have to line up in the right sequence, in a small space, on one visit - not a set of specialists thrown together once and never paired again. It's also why asking to speak to a past customer is worth doing before you commit: the person on the other end of that call had the same crew in their house that would be turning up in yours, not a different pairing pulled together for your job specifically. Every project in this portfolio, whichever year it was built, carries the same guarantee terms and the same in-house standard - which is really the only honest test of whether a portfolio still means anything by the time you're looking at it, rather than showing work a different team produced years before the current one existed.
Where the Projects in This Portfolio Are Based
Most of the work sits in and around Derby itself. In the Cathedral Quarter and DE1 city centre, that tends to mean apartment ensuites where space is at a premium and the design has to work hard - the industrial character around the Silk Mill and River Derwent has fed into a few jobs there, with exposed metal fittings and matte black brassware suiting the setting better than a traditional white suite. Out towards Allestree, Darley Abbey, Mickleover, Littleover and Markeaton - the streets around Markeaton Park and Darley Park - the work leans more toward family bathroom renovations in semis and detached houses, often with a second bathroom or ensuite added rather than an existing one simply replaced. Spondon, Alvaston, Chellaston and the wider commuter belt around Pride Park Stadium bring a steady run of straightforward suite replacements and small ensuites in newer-build homes. Further out along the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage corridor - Belper, Duffield and Milford - jobs tend to be more conservation-sensitive: older stone and brick properties where updating the plumbing and waterproofing has to happen without disturbing original features. Toward the Peak District edge, in Matlock, Bakewell and Ashbourne, the portfolio includes a number of higher-end builds using natural stone and freestanding baths, reflecting the more rural, premium character of those areas. The business also covers Nottingham, Sheffield, Long Eaton, Ilkeston, Ripley, Heanor, Swadlincote, Burton on Trent, Alfreton, Willington, Repton and Buxton, along with the wider Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire area.
Questions People Ask About Seeing Past Bathroom Work in Derby
Can I see photos of previous bathroom installations in Derby?
You can, but not as an open public gallery - most customers understandably don't want photos of the inside of their home published to the internet, so images and examples are shown during your home consultation, matched to the style and scale of your own project rather than a generic scroll of unrelated bathrooms.
Does the company have before-and-after examples of their work?
Yes. Strip-out renovations, wet room conversions and reconfigured layouts all get photographed at the relevant stages, and these get shown at consultation stage, particularly for jobs involving structural changes, moved pipework or converting an existing bathroom into a wet room.
Are genuine customer testimonials or references available for past Derby projects?
Yes - genuine references are available on request, and you're welcome to ask to speak to a past customer whose project was similar in size or style to yours rather than take a written quote at face value.
Can I see examples of wet rooms or accessible bathroom conversions completed nearby?
Wet room and accessible conversions are a regular part of the work, from full level-access wet rooms to smaller adaptations like raised WC pans and support rails, and examples relevant to your own property and mobility needs can be shown during the free consultation.
Do you show examples of small bathroom transformations, not just large renovations?
Yes - a good portion of the portfolio is small ensuites and box-room bathrooms rather than large family bathroom renovations, since that's a common request in Derby's older terraces and loft conversions where space is genuinely limited.
Is there a gallery of completed shower rooms I can look through?
Not as a standalone public gallery for the reasons already mentioned around customer privacy, but shower room and re-tiling projects are well represented in what gets shown at consultation, since they're one of the more common jobs booked without a full strip-out.
How recent are the examples you can show me?
The business takes on one bathroom at a time rather than running several jobs in parallel, so there's a steady, current run of completed work to draw examples from rather than relying on older projects from several years back.
Can you show me projects from properties similar in age to my own, for example a 1930s Derby semi?
Yes, and it's worth asking specifically - older Derby semis and terraces often share the same quirks (solid floors, older stack pipe routing, thinner internal walls), and seeing how a similar property was handled gives you a far better idea of likely cost and disruption than a photo of a brand-new build bathroom would.
Can I see which parts of a project were handled in-house rather than by a subcontractor?
Yes - plumbing, joinery, electrical work, gas work and plastering are all carried out by trades kept in-house and personally vetted rather than subcontracted out job by job, and this can be talked through trade by trade during your consultation if you want to know exactly who'll be working on your specific job.
See Examples That Actually Match Your Bathroom, Not a Stranger's
A photo of someone else's finished bathroom only tells you so much - the more useful conversation is the one where you show someone your actual room and they show you what's been done in a space like it before. Book a free home consultation to see examples matched to your property's age, layout and budget, and get a fixed, itemised quote off the back of it rather than a number guessed over the phone.
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