- Postcode districts
- N1, N5, N7
- Nearby
- Islington, Holloway and Stamford Hill
- Guide price
- £8,100–£16,250
- Typical time on site
- 6–12 working days
- Water
- Very hard across most of Greater London
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a loft bathroom cost in Highbury?
Our guide price for a loft bathroom in Highbury is £8,100–£16,250 including VAT. Prices in London run at about 25% above the national guide, mainly because of labour rates. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Refit
- Tiling, lighting, extractor fan
Signature
- Walk-in shower under the ridge
New loft bathroom
- New drainage route and water supply
Guide prices for Highbury including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Highbury
As well as Highbury itself (N1, N5 and N7), we survey in Islington, Holloway and Stamford Hill.
London homes in Highbury often mean stairs, permits and neighbours below; we plan the logistics as carefully as the bathroom. If your Highbury home has a gravity-drained WC on another floor, a macerator in the loft may open up more layout options. If your Highbury loft shower is weak or the waste drains slowly, the fix is often in the pump or the pipe fall rather than the shower itself.
Most of Greater London has very hard water. If your supply in Highbury is the same, limescale on shower glass and heads is a real issue: easy-clean glass, rub-clean nozzles and a squeegee make a big difference. Hardness varies street by street, so check the figure for your postcode with your water supplier.
What the job includes
- A check of the floor joists where a bath or large shower tray will sit
- Electrics by a qualified electrician, tested and certified, then tiling, testing and handover
- A check of your hot-water system and of the pressure and flow you actually get at loft level
- A drainage route from the loft to the soil stack with enough fall, or a pumped waste or macerator where the rules allow it
Decisions to make first
Where the shower goes
Under the ridge or in a dormer, where the full height is. A walk-in shower with a single panel is usually easier to fit to a roof line than a framed enclosure.
Getting the water pressure
A pumped shower suits a gravity system with a cold tank; an electric shower heats cold mains water at the point of use; a combi or unvented cylinder gives mains pressure throughout.
Rules that apply in England
In England, new drainage and a new connection to the soil stack fall under Part H, a new bathroom needs extract of 15 litres per second intermittent or 8 litres per second continuous under Approved Document F, and new circuits are notifiable under Part P. If the work includes an unvented hot-water cylinder, it must be fitted by a G3-qualified installer.
