What does a wet room cost in the Highlands and Islands?
Our guide range in the Highlands and Islands is £5,800–£11,500 including VAT. Prices in the Highlands and Islands run at about 4% below the UK guide, based on Scotland labour rates. Travel and delivery to islands and remote areas are priced on your quote.
Compact
- Full tanking, porcelain tiles
Signature
- 4–7 m² room
Large or luxury
- Large-format or stone-effect tiles
Guide prices for Highlands & Islands including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Which towns do we cover in the Highlands and Islands?
Supplies across most of the Highlands and Islands are soft. If that holds for your street in Inverness, 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. If your Inverness bathroom is upstairs on timber joists, we check their size and direction before planning the wet room floor.
What the job includes
- A frameless glass screen fixed to the wall and floor
- Full tanking of the floor and the shower walls, with sealed corners, pipe collars and a sealed drain connection
- Extractor fan and lighting by a qualified electrician, tested and certified, with underfloor heating if you choose it
- Slip-resistant porcelain floor tiles and wall tiling
- A survey of the floor construction, the joist size and direction or the concrete slab, and the route to the soil stack
- A thermostatic shower valve, exposed or concealed, with heads to suit your water system
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.
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.
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 Scotland
A wet room inside an existing home does not need planning permission. In a flat, check your title deeds and any deed of conditions: agreement from the other owners or the factor 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 Scotland, a wet room that alters the drainage, involves structural work to the floor or forms a new bathroom may need a building warrant; a straight refit usually does not. Water fittings must meet the Scottish Water Byelaws 2014.