What does a wet room cost in Buckinghamshire?
Our guide range in Buckinghamshire is £6,700–£13,500 including VAT. Prices in Buckinghamshire run at about 12% above the UK guide, based on South East England labour rates.
Compact
- Floor former and linear or centre drain
Signature
- Underfloor heating option
Large or luxury
- Full conversion of a larger room
Guide prices for Buckinghamshire including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Which towns do we cover in Buckinghamshire?
- Milton Keynes
- High Wycombe
- Aylesbury
- Bletchley
- Amersham
- Chesham
- Gerrards Cross
- Chalfont St Peter
- Marlow
- Amersham on the Hill
- Newport Pagnell
Water across much of Buckinghamshire is hard. If your supply in Milton Keynes 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. For a wet room in a Milton Keynes flat, the first step is the lease, because freeholder consent is often needed before any work starts.
What the job includes
- A pre-formed floor former with a linear or centre drain, or a screed laid to fall
- A frameless glass screen fixed to the wall and floor
- A survey of the floor construction, the joist size and direction or the concrete slab, and the route to the soil stack
- Floor strengthening or a ply overlay on timber floors so the surface does not flex
- A thermostatic shower valve, exposed or concealed, with heads to suit your water system
- Strip-out, waste removal, a final flow test to the drain and handover
Decisions to make first
Floor tile
Matt or textured porcelain with good slip resistance. Mosaic gives extra grip on a centre-drain floor because of its many grout lines.
Linear or centre drain
A linear drain along one wall lets the floor fall in a single direction, so large tiles can be laid without awkward cuts. A centre drain needs a four-way fall and suits smaller tiles or mosaic.
Open or screened
A fully open shower with no glass only works in a larger room, with the basin, WC and towels well away from the spray.
Screen size
A screen of 1200 mm or more keeps spray off the rest of the room in most layouts. In a very small wet room, expect the whole floor to get wet.
Rules that apply in England
A wet room inside an existing home does not need planning permission. In a flat, check the lease: freeholder consent is often needed, and both the leak risk and the sound insulation to the flat below matter. Electrics must meet BS 7671, with 30 mA RCD protection, at least IPX4 fittings in zone 1 up to 2.25 m above the shower floor, IPX5 where water jets are used, and no ordinary sockets within 3 m of zone 1.
In England, a new drain connection or changes at the soil stack can be building-regulations work under Part H, and new circuits or changes to the wiring in the room are notifiable under Part P. If the wet room is a newly formed bathroom, Approved Document F requires extract of 15 litres per second intermittent or 8 litres per second continuous.