Bathrooms Burton Joyce
Burton Joyce grew outward from its railway station, and you can still read that in the housing — Victorian and Edwardian villas clustered near the line, interwar and postwar suburban development spreading out from them, and substantial properties along the river.
We fit bathrooms across the village and the Trent-side settlements nearby from our showroom on Derby Road in Stapleford, eleven miles west.
The villas near the station
Generous rooms by village standards, and the bathroom in these is usually a converted bedroom — which means proper proportions, a window in a sensible place, and considerably more floor area than the terraced bathrooms in the towns.
The period issues still apply. Walls that are not straight, floors that have settled, and a good deal of unused height above a standard vanity. Fitted furniture scribed to the wall closes the joint properly, and building up into the spare height turns a basin unit into real storage.
If a cast-iron or freestanding bath is under consideration, floor structure is worth checking before it is ordered rather than after. Full of water and a person it is a serious point load and older joists frequently want looking at.
Modern & Traditional
Bathrooms Burton Joyce, Nottingham
The Victorian and Edwardian houses near the station generally have the bathroom in a rear addition over the kitchen — one external wall, a small window, and the coldest room in the house because it was built on rather than built in.
A run of fitted furniture down the longer wall with the WC boxed into it uses that shape far better than a conventional three-piece arrangement, which leaves you edging round the bath in a room that narrow.
Much of this stock is solid brick rather than cavity, so a bathroom on an external wall runs cold and shows condensation on the wall opposite the window first.
Insulated backer board behind the tiling costs little during the work and is a serious job to retrofit. In a room like this it is usually worth including.
Twenty-six minutes to Derby Road, Stapleford, where the Aqualisa showers are live on the wall and all sixteen ranges are out.
Traditional Bathrooms Burton Joyce
The suburban housing
Square bathrooms upstairs, part of the original build, regular walls and straightforward plumbing. Where there is a separate WC next door — common in the interwar stock — knocking the two together is usually the best single improvement available, and it is generally a stud wall.
Modern Bathrooms Burton Joyce
Riverside properties
Worth a word because it changes the specification at ground level. Properties close to the Trent can sit in a flood risk area, and for a ground-floor bathroom that means moisture-resistant board rather than standard MDF for anything near the floor, and some thought about how easily the room could be dried out.
Upstairs, none of that applies. It is a ground-floor consideration only.
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Traditional Bathroom Furniture
Ranges on display. Traditional: Chiltern and Brecon , which suit the period villas. Chiltern Hunter Green , Brecon Marine Blue and Brecon Basalt Mist are the ones we show most. Modern: Levanto Graphite and Selter Slate at the darker end, Amaro White Gloss and Selter Lagoon Mist brighter, Pentland Shale between them. We are an Aqualisa dealer and the Midas 220 is on the wall and running.
Pentland Shale Traditional Bathroom
Twenty-six minutes out
Derby Road, Stapleford, NG9 7AD. Parking on site, no appointment needed.
Call 0115 877 7595 or come and look.
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