Glasgow, Glasgow
Bathroom renovation in Glasgow
A Glasgow bathroom is very often the smallest room in a flat with the most services running through it, and half of every renovation here is decided by where the soil stack is. Get that right and a small bathroom can feel generous. Ignore it and you spend the budget on drainage instead of on the finish.
What actually happens, in order
The old suite comes out along with the tiling and usually the floor. Then first fix: pipework and cabling into the walls for the new positions, which is the point at which the layout stops being changeable. Then walls and floor are made good, wet wall or tiling goes on, the suite is installed, and the last day is silicone, sealing and the small stuff nobody thinks about until it is missing.
The reason it is worth spelling out is that most of the disruption sits in the first two days and most of the visible progress sits in the last two. The middle of a bathroom job always looks like nothing is happening.
Tenement floors and the things underneath them
Traditional Glasgow flats have timber floors, and lifting a bathroom floor regularly turns up old lead or iron pipework, previous alterations done badly, or joists that have been notched further than they should have been. We would rather find that on day one with the floor up than have it appear as a leak into the flat below six months later.
Wet wall or tiles
Wet wall panelling is quicker, has no grout to discolour and suits a small room where the walls are not perfectly true. Tiling gives you more choice and a better result in a larger bathroom with sound, flat walls. Neither is the correct answer in general; it depends on the room and the budget, and we will give you a straight recommendation for yours.