- Postcode districts
- ME7, ME8
- Nearby
- Chatham, Rochester and Strood
- Guide price
- £650–£4,500
- Typical time on site
- 1–5 working days
- Water
- Very hard across most of Kent
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does bathroom plumbing work cost in Gillingham?
Our guide price for bathroom plumbing work in Gillingham is £650–£4,500 including VAT. Labour costs in South East England put local prices at about 12% above the UK guide figure. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Like-for-like
- Isolation valves, new tails
Partial re-route
- Waste re-routed
New layout
- WC moved on the soil stack
Guide prices for Gillingham including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Gillingham
As well as Gillingham itself (ME7 and ME8), we survey in Chatham, Rochester and Strood.
Gillingham has a wide mix of house ages, so the survey is where we spot old lead pipework, weak joists or a tight soil stack. If your Gillingham bathroom layout is changing, the soil stack position is checked first, because it decides where the WC can go. Plumbing surveys in Gillingham include a look at the existing pipework for lead, corrosion or poor support before we quote.
Supplies across most of Kent are very hard. Taps, plug wastes and toilet pans scale up quickly, so chrome copes better than matt black, and a removable aerator is worth having. Hardness varies street by street, so check the figure for your postcode with your water supplier.
What the job includes
- New hot and cold pipework in copper or plastic, properly clipped, and insulated where it runs through cold spaces
- Draining down and isolating supplies, with the rest of the house back on water as soon as possible
- Shower pumps on gravity systems, and macerators or pumped wastes where gravity drainage cannot reach
- The WC connected to the soil stack, or a new branch where the WC is moving
Decisions to make first
Gravity or pumped waste
Gravity drainage is always the first choice. A shower waste pump or macerator solves a run that cannot fall, but adds noise, a power supply and servicing.
Shower supply
Combi boilers and unvented cylinders give mains pressure. A gravity system with a cold tank may need a pump, but a pump must never be connected to the mains.
Rules that apply in England
In England, the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999 apply. New drainage or a new connection to the soil stack can be building regulations work under Part H, and a macerator or pumped WC is acceptable only where there is also a WC on gravity drainage elsewhere in the home.
