- Postcode districts
- AL1, AL2
- Nearby
- Harpenden, Hatfield and Hemel Hempstead
- Guide price
- £6,900–£13,750
- Typical time on site
- 6–12 working days
- Water
- Very hard across most of Hertfordshire
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a loft bathroom cost in St Albans?
For St Albans, our guide range for a loft bathroom is £6,900 to £13,750 including VAT. We adjust the national guide for East of England, where prices are typically about 6% above the UK average. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Refit
- Existing loft shower room
Signature
- Fitted furniture to the eaves
New loft bathroom
- Ventilation and electrics to regulations
Guide prices for St Albans including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in St Albans
As well as St Albans itself (AL1 and AL2), we survey in Harpenden, Hatfield and Hemel Hempstead.
St Albans is a big place with every kind of home, from terraces to flats to new builds, so we never price from a photo alone. If your St Albans 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. For a loft bathroom in a tank-fed St Albans home, we work out how the shower will get its pressure before choosing a single fitting.
Most of Hertfordshire has very hard water. If your supply in St Albans 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
- An extractor fan ducted through the roof or a gable wall, with the duct insulated through cold spaces
- A shower pump on a gravity system, an electric shower, or advice on moving to mains pressure, depending on your system
- Fitted furniture made to the eaves, so the low space behind the slope becomes storage
- A survey of the headroom across the room, with the usable height marked at each fitting position
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.
