Fitted bathroom furniture on Merseyside

What does fitted bathroom furniture cost on Merseyside?

Our guide range on Merseyside is £1,400–£5,600 including VAT. Prices on Merseyside run at about 6% below the UK guide, based on North West England labour rates.

Guide prices for Merseyside including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.

Which towns do we cover on Merseyside?

• Liverpool
• Birkenhead
• St Helens
• Southport
• Wallasey
• Bootle
• Bebington
• Huyton
• Kirkby
• Prescot
• Heswall
• Maghull
• Newton-le-Willows
• Golborne
• Formby
• Litherland
• Speke
• Garston
• Halewood
• Moreton
• Haydock
• Hunts Cross
• Allerton

Water across much of Merseyside is soft. In soft water, taps, wastes and toilet pans scale up slowly, so brushed and matt finishes are a safe choice. Hardness varies street by street, so check the figure for your postcode with your water supplier. If your Liverpool bathroom has pipes running along the walls, a fitted run can box them in neatly while adding storage.

What the job includes

• Fillers and end panels scribed to the walls, and the worktop sealed with silicone
• Measuring every wall for length, height and how far it is out of square
• Basin, tap and waste connected, and the WC pan fixed and joined to the soil pipe
• Supply of carcasses, doors, plinths, fillers and end panels in your chosen finish
• A worktop cut to length, with basin and tap cut-outs and sealed edges
• A concealed cistern or cistern frame, with an isolation valve you can reach through the flush plate or a panel

Decisions to make first

Door style

Slab doors are the easiest to wipe down. Shaker doors look traditional but have grooves that collect dust. Handleless push-to-open doors suit a plain, modern room.

Cistern type

A back-to-wall pan can use a cistern that sits inside the WC unit, which is simple to service. A wall-hung WC needs a load-bearing frame built in behind the run.

Lighting in the run

Plinth lights and an illuminated mirror cabinet must be planned at first fix, because the cables run inside the furniture and need RCD protection.

Tall storage

A tall unit at the end of the run takes towels and cleaning products off the floor. Check it clears the door, window and towel rail.

Rules that apply in England

Fitted furniture itself is not controlled by building regulations, but what goes into it is. A new WC must meet the water fittings rules, with a maximum 6-litre flush and backflow protection. Illuminated mirrors, cabinet lights and shaver points must suit the bathroom zones under BS 7671, on circuits with 30 mA RCD protection, and apart from shaver supply units, sockets must be at least 3 m from the edge of zone 1.

In England, wiring a lit mirror or plinth lights means altering a circuit in a room with a bath or shower, which is notifiable under Part P. The Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999 cover the new WC and basin taps.