Wet room installation in Barking: level-access floors, formers, full tanking and tiling. Falls set properly, no lip to step over. Free survey.
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A wet room is the most unforgiving bathroom there is. The fall to the drain and the tanking are both decided before anything visible happens, and both are invisible once it is finished, which is exactly why they are the corners people cut.
In Barking the wet room question usually starts with where the room is. On the ground floor of a Becontree house or in a Barking Riverside flat the fall can often be formed in the floor itself; upstairs on timber joists it needs a former set between the joists. Both work, but they are different jobs, and the survey decides which.
A proper former gives a true fall to the drain. Chasing a slope in screed by eye is how you get standing water in a corner.
Floor, walls and every junction, not a strip of tape near the tray. It is the difference between a wet room and a slow leak.
No lip, no step. That is the whole point of it and it is what makes it work for someone who cannot climb into a bath.
On a timber floor the joists and the drain route decide what is possible. We look before we price it.
A solid ground floor is the simplest base for a wet room; an upstairs timber floor needs a recessed former, and strengthening where the joists are thin.
In a newer flat the floor build-up and drainage are checked against the building first, because a wet room has to work with the flats below.
Usually yes, but the floor construction decides how. A timber floor needs the joists checking and often a recessed former to keep the level access. It is the part of the survey that changes the price most.
Not if it is tanked as a complete system and the falls are right. Both happen before a tile goes on, which is why a wet room costs more than dropping in a shower enclosure.
Colder underfoot unless you put underfloor heating in, and in a wet room that is worth doing - it dries the floor between uses as well as taking the chill off.
Often, yes, but in a flat the floor build-up and the drainage route matter even more, and the lease or the building management may need to approve the work. That is worth checking before anything is designed.
Usually around a week to ten days. The tanking has to cure and be tested before tiling, and an upstairs wet room takes longer because the floor is prepared first.