What does a loft bathroom cost in Lincolnshire?
Our guide range in Lincolnshire is £6,200–£12,500 including VAT. Prices in Lincolnshire run at about 4% below the UK guide, based on East Midlands labour rates.
Refit
- Tiling, lighting, extractor fan
Signature
- Walk-in shower under the ridge
New loft bathroom
- New drainage route and water supply
Guide prices for Lincolnshire including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Which towns do we cover in Lincolnshire?
Supplies across most of Lincolnshire are hard. If your supply in Lincoln 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. We plan loft bathrooms in Lincoln around the roof line, so the shower sits where you can stand and the eaves become storage.
What the job includes
- A survey of the headroom across the room, with the usable height marked at each fitting position
- An extractor fan ducted through the roof or a gable wall, with the duct insulated through cold spaces
- Fitted furniture made to the eaves, so the low space behind the slope becomes storage
- A shower pump on a gravity system, an electric shower, or advice on moving to mains pressure, depending on your system
- A check of your hot-water system and of the pressure and flow you actually get at loft level
- A check of the floor joists where a bath or large shower tray will sit
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.
Eaves storage
Low cupboards built into the slope behind the WC or basin take clutter out of the room and hide the pipework.
Bath or no bath
A bath under the slope makes good use of low space, but the floor has to carry it when it is full of water and someone is in it.
Gravity or pumped waste
Gravity is silent and maintenance-free. A pumped waste or macerator lets fittings sit away from the stack, provided the house has a WC on gravity drainage elsewhere.
Rules that apply in England
A bathroom inside an existing loft room does not usually need planning permission, but forming one is normally building-regulations work because of the new drainage, extract ventilation and electrics. A macerator or pumped WC is acceptable only where the home also has a WC on gravity drainage. Under the water fittings rules, a shower pump must never be connected directly to the mains supply.
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.