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Bathroom Renovation in Gidea Park

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DJ's Plumbing Services renovates bathrooms across Gidea Park, including the individually designed houses within the Romford Garden Suburb conservation area, built by more than 100 different architects for the 1910-11 housing exhibition. Because no two of these houses were built to the same plan, we survey the existing plumbing properly before agreeing a renovation layout rather than assuming it matches the house next door.

In the larger 1920s and 1930s houses surrounding the conservation area, renovations more often involve straightforward loft tank and gravity system conversions. Where a conservation-area renovation includes external changes, such as a new soil pipe route or a repositioned boiler flue, that's worth checking with Havering Council's conservation team first, even though the internal renovation work itself doesn't generally need separate permission.

What's Different in Gidea Park Homes

  • Conservation-area houses were individually designed for the 1911 exhibition, so pipe routes and airing cupboard positions vary house to house.
  • A new soil pipe route or repositioned flue visible from outside may need checking with Havering Council's conservation team before work starts.
  • Older conservation-area houses can still have original materials behind the walls that need identifying before a renovation is priced accurately.
  • Surrounding 1930s houses more often have loft tanks and gravity systems, giving more scope for a straightforward combi conversion during renovation.
  • Larger 1930s detached houses with multiple bathrooms benefit from sizing the hot water system to the whole property, not just the room being renovated.

How the Job Runs

  1. 1Design consultation to agree layout, fittings and finish before starting
  2. 2Full strip-out of the old suite, tiles and boarding back to brick
  3. 3New first-fix pipework laid out for the agreed layout
  4. 4Plastering or boarding walls and ceiling ready for tiling
  5. 5Tiling walls and floor to the agreed design
  6. 6Second-fix fitting of the new suite, taps and shower
  7. 7Coordinating with a qualified electrician for any notifiable electrical work
  8. 8Sealing and a final check before handover
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Reviews from Gidea Park and nearby

103 verified reviews on Checkatrade, rated 9.96/10

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"This young company can have 5 stars from me.It was no bother for the plumber to get the right size pole frame and even worked Sunday morning to finish it for me They were very polite and friendly and will ask them again to do any jobs for me"

Bathroom RenovationCheckatrade review, RM2
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"Excellent workmanship. Tidied after themselves. Very polite and courteous. Would recommend."

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"Both the guys were polite and professional and cared about what they did. The tap was very old but they knew how to remove it and replaced it with an equivalent model, keeping everything tidy in the process. Once the water was turned back on there was an air lock which stopped the water flowing but they knew how to solve it in good order."

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Bathroom Renovation in Gidea Park: Questions

Clear answers to your most common plumbing concerns.

Our house is in the Romford Garden Suburb conservation area - does that limit what we can do inside during a renovation?
Generally no. Conservation area status mainly controls what's visible from outside, such as windows, roofing and extensions, rather than internal layout or plumbing. A renovation that stays inside the house, including moving the toilet or basin, doesn't usually need separate permission, though anything changing the exterior, like a new flue position, is worth checking with the council first.
Why did the plumber ask so many questions about our house's original layout before quoting on the renovation?
Because Gidea Park's conservation-area houses were each individually designed for the 1911 exhibition, pipe routes, airing cupboard positions and original materials genuinely differ from house to house, even next door. We survey your specific property rather than assuming it matches a neighbour's, so the quote reflects what's actually there rather than a generic estimate.
We're renovating a bathroom in one of the larger 1930s houses near the conservation area - what's different about these?
These houses tend to be more uniform than the exhibition properties, commonly with a loft tank and gravity hot water cylinder that a renovation is a natural point to convert. Larger ones with more than one bathroom often do better with a system boiler and cylinder, or an unvented cylinder, than a single combi trying to serve the whole house.
Found old pipework we didn't expect once the strip-out started in our Gidea Park bathroom - is that unusual here?
Not in the conservation area. Because these houses were individually built rather than to a repeated pattern, it's more likely than in a uniform estate to find an unexpected pipe route or older material once tiling comes off. We'll stop, show you what's been found, and agree how to deal with it before continuing.

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