Bathrooms Nottingham
Nottingham does not have a typical bathroom, which is the first useful thing anyone can tell you about fitting one here.
A flat off Stoney Street, a Victorian terrace in Sneinton, a 1930s semi in Sherwood and a postwar house in Bilborough are four genuinely different jobs with different constraints, different costs and different right answers. Anybody quoting the same solution across all four has not looked at the room.
We fit bathrooms across the city from our showroom on Derby Road in Stapleford, six miles west.
City terraces
The dense Victorian and Edwardian streets — Sneinton, Radford, Forest Fields, parts of Lenton — mostly have the bathroom added over the rear outrigger. Narrow, one external wall, small window.
Fitted furniture down the longer wall with the shower at the far end uses that shape properly. And because so many of these houses are now rented or in multiple occupation, the brief often differs: hard-wearing surfaces, simple layouts, nothing delicate. Worth saying at the first conversation rather than being shown a specification you will not use.
Modern & Traditional
Bathrooms Nottingham
Nottingham has city-centre apartments, Victorian terraces, interwar semis, postwar estates and modern development within a few miles of each other. There is no single typical bathroom here.
Three questions settle most of the design: is the floor timber or concrete, is there an external wall to vent through, and can the drainage move. The answers differ completely between a Mapperley villa and a city-centre flat.
In an apartment the soil stack and communal drainage are usually immovable, and extraction may have to be recirculated or ducted a long way.
That rules some layouts out before any style question arises, and it is much better to know at the start than after a drawing has been produced around a WC that cannot go there.
Derby Road, Stapleford, with parking outside — which is more than most city-centre showrooms manage.
Traditional Bathrooms Nottingham
Suburban semis
Sherwood, Mapperley, Wollaton, Aspley. Interwar and postwar, square bathrooms upstairs, generally well proportioned and part of the original build.
These take a separate bath and shower comfortably, and they are where the majority of full refits come from. Wall-hung furniture works well — the floor continuing underneath makes the room feel larger — and needs a frame fixed back to something structural, which in a stud wall means opening it up for noggins.
Apartments and conversions
The city centre has a lot of converted warehouse and mill space plus purpose-built flats. Two things dominate: what can be altered under the lease, and where the waste can actually go.
In a converted building the soil stack position is fixed and frequently in an awkward place, and moving a WC more than a short distance from it means either a macerator or a change in floor build-up to get the fall. Both are workable. Both need deciding before anything is ordered.
Modern Bathrooms Nottingham
Ranges on display
Traditional: Chiltern and Brecon, and both work particularly well in the period terraces. Chiltern Hunter Green, Brecon Marine Blue and Brecon Basalt Mist are the ones we show most.
Modern: Levanto Graphite, Selter Slate and Bowland Metallic Slate darker; Amaro White Gloss and Selter Lagoon Mist brighter; Pentland Shale between them. Novoli Admiral Blue suits a downstairs cloakroom, where a small room can carry a strong colour.
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Traditional Bathroom Furniture
Water pressure across the city. Older Nottingham housing is frequently still on a gravity-fed system with the cold tank in the loft, and pressure at the shower head depends on how far below that tank it sits. First-floor showers in two-storey houses regularly underdeliver as a result, whatever is on the wall. Newer flats and modern housing are usually on mains pressure or a combi, which changes what shower is appropriate entirely. It is the first thing worth establishing, because it narrows everything that follows.
Pentland Shale Traditional Bathroom
Eighteen minutes out on the A52
Derby Road, Stapleford, NG9 7AD. Out of the city on the A52, roughly eighteen minutes, parking on site.
The shower is live and the furniture is out where you can open it. Call 0115 877 7595 or come and look — no appointment needed.
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