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A Victorian Bathroom, Brought Back
A tired 1970s suite and weak water pressure, replaced with a roll-top bath, brass fittings and new pipework that suits the age of the house.
The problem
The owners had lived with a cramped 1970s suite and a shower that barely reached a trickle upstairs. Behind the boxing we found a patchwork of old pipework, some of it decades past its best, and a basin waste that had been slowly leaking into the floor void.
What was done
We stripped the room back to the boards and renewed the hot and cold runs in 15mm and 22mm copper, with isolation valves at every outlet. A cast-iron roll-top bath went in on the window wall with a deck-mounted bath and shower mixer in unlacquered brass, alongside a pedestal basin and a close-coupled WC chosen to match the period. A thermostatic shower valve keeps temperatures steady whoever runs the kitchen tap.
The result
A calm, light bathroom that looks as though it has always belonged to the house, with proper pressure at every tap and every joint left accessible for the future.
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