- Postcode districts
- OL11, OL12, OL15, OL16
- Nearby
- Heywood, Royton and Middleton
- Guide price
- £5,600–£11,250
- Typical time on site
- 5–10 working days
- Water
- Soft across most of Greater Manchester
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a wet room cost in Rochdale?
For Rochdale, our guide range for a wet room is £5,600 to £11,250 including VAT. Labour costs in North West England put local prices at about 6% below the UK guide figure. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Compact
- Floor former and linear or centre drain
Signature
- Underfloor heating option
Large or luxury
- Full conversion of a larger room
Guide prices for Rochdale including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Rochdale
We cover every part of Rochdale, including OL11, OL12, OL15 and 1 more postcode districts, and nearby Heywood (3.2 miles) and Royton (3.9 miles).
Across a large town like Rochdale, homes range from older terraces to newer estates; the survey tells us which pipework and floor we are dealing with. If your Rochdale bathroom is upstairs on timber joists, we check their size and direction before planning the wet room floor. If your Rochdale home has a concrete ground floor, a downstairs wet room may need the screed cut out to set the drain.
Water across much of Greater Manchester is soft. If that holds for your street in Rochdale, 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 survey of the floor construction, the joist size and direction or the concrete slab, and the route to the soil stack
- Full tanking of the floor and the shower walls, with sealed corners, pipe collars and a sealed drain connection
- A pre-formed floor former with a linear or centre drain, or a screed laid to fall
- Slip-resistant porcelain floor tiles and wall tiling
Decisions to make first
Former or screed
A pre-formed board gives a consistent fall and suits timber floors. A sand and cement screed suits concrete slabs and larger shower areas.
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.
Rules that apply in England
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.
