- Postcode districts
- NE11, NE16, NE21
- Nearby
- Blaydon-on-Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead
- Guide price
- £5,800–£11,750
- Typical time on site
- 6–12 working days
- Water
- Soft across most of Tyne and Wear
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a loft bathroom cost in Whickham?
For Whickham, our guide range for a loft bathroom is £5,800 to £11,750 including VAT. Labour costs in North East England put local prices at about 10% below the UK guide figure. 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 Whickham including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Whickham
We work right across Whickham — NE11, NE16 and NE21 — and in neighbouring Blaydon-on-Tyne and Newcastle upon Tyne.
Being a smaller town does not change how we work in Whickham: free survey, written quote, one team. If your Whickham 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. If your Whickham house has a combi boiler, a loft shower can usually run on mains pressure without a pump.
Most of Tyne and Wear is supplied with soft water. If that holds for your street in Whickham, limescale on shower glass and heads builds up slowly and a squeegee after use is usually enough. 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
- Fitted furniture made to the eaves, so the low space behind the slope becomes storage
- 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
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.
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.
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.
