Bathrooms Bingham
Bingham is a market town that has roughly tripled in size, and its bathrooms split neatly along that line.
Around the market place and the older streets there is Georgian and Victorian property, some of it listed, with the constraints that brings. Out toward the newer estates there is thirty years of modern housing with regular rooms, standard plumbing and en-suites as standard. The two need genuinely different approaches.
We fit bathrooms across Bingham and the Vale of Belvoir villages from our showroom on Derby Road in Stapleford, sixteen miles west on the A52.
The older property around the market place
Period buildings in the town centre come with real limits on what can be changed, and they are worth establishing before anything is ordered.
External alterations — a new extract vent through a front elevation, a changed window — can need consent, and in a listed building internal alterations can too. Rushcliffe Borough Council handles planning and conservation for the town. We would always suggest confirming the status of a specific property early; it rarely stops a bathroom, but it regularly changes where the extraction goes.
Inside, these are often rooms with high ceilings, deep skirtings and walls that are nowhere near square. Fitted furniture in that situation has to be scribed to the wall rather than pushed against it, and the extra height above a standard vanity is usable storage if it is designed in.
Modern & Traditional
Bathrooms Bingham, Nottingham
Around the market place the property is Georgian and Victorian, with thick walls, deep reveals and rooms that are not square. Out on the estates that have grown Bingham since the seventies the bathrooms are regular, level and straightforward.
They need different approaches. In the older stock, fitted furniture has to be scribed and a run terminated properly against a wall that bows. In the newer housing, a modular fit is genuinely appropriate and the budget goes further as a result.
Tiling is not waterproofing. Behind the tiles, a wet area needs a tanking membrane or a waterproof backer board, and the critical places are the shower tray junction and the first 200mm up every corner.
Plasterboard with tiles stuck to it will fail at those junctions eventually, and it fails invisibly until it does not.
Thirty-two minutes down the A52 to Stapleford, where the ranges are on display and the Aqualisa showers are running.
Traditional Bathrooms Bingham
The newer estates
Regular rectangular rooms, straight walls, modern plumbing, and in most cases a family bathroom plus an en-suite.
These are the rooms where wall-hung furniture and a walk-in shower work best — the floor running underneath the units genuinely makes a modest bathroom feel larger. Wall-hung needs a frame fixed back to something structural, which in a stud wall means opening it up to put noggins in, so it is worth checking that is accounted for in any quote.
En-suites are usually the more interesting problem. They are small, often internal with no window, and ventilation is the thing that decides whether the room is pleasant or permanently damp. An extractor on a run-on timer ducted to an outside wall, not into the loft.
Modern Bathrooms Bingham
Ranges on display
Traditional: Chiltern and Brecon. Chiltern Hunter Green, Brecon Marine Blue and Colbeck Heritage Green all sit well in the older property, where a deeper colour under a white basin reads as deliberate.
Modern: Levanto Graphite and Selter Slate darker, Amaro White Gloss and Selter Lagoon Mist brighter, Pentland Shale in between. Novoli Admiral Blue is the boldest thing we hold and it suits a downstairs cloakroom better than a main bathroom — a small room carries a strong colour that a large one cannot.
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Traditional Bathroom Furniture
Water pressure in the older houses. Some of the older property in and around Bingham is still on a gravity-fed system with the cold tank in the loft. With that, the pressure at the shower head depends on how far it sits below the tank — which is why first-floor showers in two-storey houses often underdeliver regardless of what is on the wall. Sometimes the answer is a pump, sometimes a different type of shower, occasionally a change to the system. All three are much cheaper decided before the tiling than after.
Pentland Shale Traditional Bathroom
Half an hour down the A52
Derby Road, Stapleford, NG9 7AD. About thirty-two minutes from Bingham on the A52, parking on site.
Everything above is on display and the shower is live, so you can stand under it before committing to it. Call 0115 877 7595 or come and look — no appointment needed.
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