- Postcode districts
- NN15, NN16
- Nearby
- Wellingborough, Corby and Rushden
- Guide price
- £600–£3,800
- Typical time on site
- 1–5 working days
- Water
- Hard across most of Northamptonshire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does bathroom plumbing work cost in Kettering?
Guide price in Kettering: £600–£3,800 including VAT, depending on the room and what you choose. We adjust the national guide for East Midlands, where prices are typically about 4% below the UK average. 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 Kettering including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Kettering
We work right across Kettering — NN15 and NN16 — and in neighbouring Wellingborough and Corby.
In Kettering, as anywhere, the age of the house decides a lot: pipe sizes, floor construction and where the soil stack runs. If your Kettering home has a gravity system with a loft tank, we check the head of water before recommending a shower or a pump. For Kettering homes on a combi boiler, we measure the flow rate at the bathroom before you choose a shower valve.
Supplies across most of Northamptonshire are 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
- Isolation valves on every fitting, so taps, cisterns and valves can be serviced without draining the system
- Shower pumps on gravity systems, and macerators or pumped wastes where gravity drainage cannot reach
- A pressure test of new pipework before walls are closed in and floors go down
- Basin, bath and shower wastes sized and laid to a steady fall, with traps that hold their water seal
Decisions to make first
Pipe routes
Drilling through the middle of joists, rather than notching the tops, keeps the floor strong. Routes are planned with the joist direction in mind.
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.
