Bathroom Design
A measured survey and drawn layout options, so you can see the room properly before committing to anything.
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Luxury Bathrooms Exeter · Design & Installation
Designed and installed bathrooms, wet rooms and en-suites for homes across Exeter and East Devon.
We design and build the whole room, not just fit a suite into it. That means a measured survey before anything is quoted, drawings you can actually judge a layout from, and one team on site from the strip-out to the final seal. Most of our work is in Exeter's Victorian and Georgian housing, where what sits behind the tiling matters more than what sits in front of it.
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Services
Where We Do Our Best Work
Eight services, though most projects combine several. If you are not sure which of these describes what you want, that is exactly what the first visit is for.
Luxury Bathroom Installation
One team handling strip-out, plumbing, electrics, tiling and second fix, with a single point of contact throughout.
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Wet Rooms
Level-access showering with the whole floor tanked and graded, not just a tray dropped into a corner.
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Why It Matters Here
Exeter Houses Have Their Own Habits
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Exeter is on soft water. Twelve miles away it is not
Exeter's supply is surface water off Exmoor and the Exe, treated at Pynes and classed by South West Water as soft to moderately soft. So limescale is genuinely not your problem here. Drive to Exmouth or Sidmouth and the supply switches to boreholes through Triassic sandstone, which is measurably harder - which is why the brassware and thermostatic cartridges we specify differ between an Exeter job and an East Devon one.
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Solid walls that will not take a standard fixing
Much of St Leonard's, Newtown and Heavitree is solid brick or cob rather than cavity. Wall-hung pans and vanity units need proper frames carried back to something structural, not resin anchors into soft Victorian brick.
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First-floor bathrooms over 100-year-old joists
A filled freestanding bath is a serious point load. We check the joists on the survey rather than discovering the problem when the floor is already up and the bath is on the drive.
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Conservation areas that reach further than people think
Central Exeter and much of Topsham sit within conservation areas, which affects anything visible outside - a new soil vent, a relocated extractor outlet, a changed window. Worth knowing before the design fixes the layout.
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Long, narrow rooms in terraced housing
The classic Exeter terrace bathroom runs roughly two metres by two and a half, with a window at the far end and no obvious place for anything. Rooms this shape reward being drawn properly before they are bought for, because almost every centimetre is contested.
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Rural properties on private drainage
Out towards Crediton and the Exe valley, septic tanks and treatment plants are common. Adding a second bathroom changes the loading on the system, which needs checking before it becomes someone's expensive surprise.
Why Us
What You Get That You Might Not Elsewhere
- Two or three drawn layouts before you commit, not one option presented as the only possibility.
- A written specification naming every tile, valve and tap, so the quote covers a defined room rather than a rough idea.
- Anything the survey flags as a risk is priced as a possibility upfront, which is why our quotes rarely move.
- The same two faces on site for the whole job. You will not be introducing yourself to a new trade every week.
- Dust sheeting and a hoover at the end of every day, because you are still living in the house.
Our Process
How A Exeter Bathroom Project Runs
Seven stages, in this order, every time. Most of the problems we get called in to fix on other people's work come from skipping straight from strip-out to tiling.
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Design consultation and measured survey
We come to the house, measure the room properly, and ask how you actually use it - who uses it, at what time of day, and what irritates you about it now. Where we can get a look behind panelling or under a bath, we do, because that is where the surprises live.
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Drawn layouts and full specification
You get two or three layouts to look at, not one. Alongside them, a written specification naming every tile, valve, tap and light - so the quote is for a defined room rather than a vague intention.
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Fixed written quote
Itemised, VAT inclusive, with the specification attached. If the survey turned up something that might need attention once the walls are open, it is written down as a possibility with a cost, rather than sprung on you later.
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Strip-out and first fix
Old suite out, back to the substrate. Pipework and cabling re-routed to suit the new layout, with electrics kept to the correct zones for a bathroom. This is the stage where an older property tells you the truth about its plumbing.
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Substrate, tanking and falls
Walls and floors boarded and primed. Wet areas tanked as a complete system rather than a coat of paint near the tray. In a wet room the falls are formed and checked with a level before any tile is cut.
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Tiling and set-out
Set-out is planned from the sightlines you will actually stand and look at, so full tiles land on the focal wall and cuts finish in the corners. Large-format and book-matched stone is dry-laid first to get the veining right.
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Second fix, commissioning and handover
Sanitaryware and brassware fitted, thermostatic valves balanced to the pressure your house genuinely has, extraction tested against the required rate. Then we walk the room with you, hand over the warranties in your name, and leave a care guide for the finishes.
Reassurance
What Our Guarantee Actually Covers
- The workmanship, not just the products
- Manufacturers cover their own goods. What usually fails on a bathroom is the work around them - a tray that was not bedded, a valve set to the wrong pressure, tanking that stopped short of the door. That is the part we stand behind.
- Tanking and falls in wet areas
- Any fully tiled shower area or wet room we build is tanked as a system and the falls are set and checked before tiling. Water finding its way into a floor void is the single most expensive bathroom failure there is.
- Manufacturer warranties passed to you
- Every warranty on your sanitaryware, brassware and shower valves is registered in your name and handed over in writing at the end of the job, along with the specification of what was actually installed.
- Anything we got wrong, we come back for
- If something we installed is not right, we return and put it right. Most of our enquiries come from people who were let down by someone who stopped answering the phone.
Gallery
Design References
A set of reference photographs we use in consultations to work out what you are drawn to. These are design references rather than photographs of our own completed rooms - our project photography is being put together now, and we are happy to arrange for you to speak to a recent client in the meantime.
Feedback
What Clients Say
Rated 5 out of 5
“We had put off doing the main bathroom for years because the house is Georgian and we were nervous about what was behind the panelling. They took the whole wall back, found the old lead feed we suspected was there, and re-ran it properly before any tiling started. The set-out on the marble is what sells the room - the cuts all land in the corners.”
Rated 5 out of 5
“Our en-suite is a small room in a Victorian villa with a horrible drainage run. Three other firms told us a wet room was not possible. This lot spent an hour with a laser level working out the falls, then built it. Two years on there is no movement and no damp anywhere near the joists.”
Rated 5 out of 5
“What I appreciated most was the drawings. We saw three layouts before committing, including one that moved the door - which we would never have thought of and which made the whole room work. Being able to see it properly first was worth every penny of the design fee.”
Rated 5 out of 5
“Freestanding bath on a first floor in a 1930s semi, so the joists needed checking and doubling up in one place. They flagged it on the survey rather than discovering it halfway through, which is presumably why the quote did not move once. Filler position was marked out and agreed before the floor went back down.”
Rated 5 out of 5
“The thing nobody warns you about is the dust. They sheeted the landing and the stairs every single morning and hoovered before they left. Eleven working days, one team, same two faces throughout. My neighbour has now booked them.”
Budget
A Straight Answer On Cost
We would rather tell you the range now than have you sit through a consultation to find out we are the wrong fit. Complete rooms, all trades and materials included:
- £12,000 – £18,000
- Replacement in an existing layout. Quality porcelain, good British brassware, no structural change.
- £18,000 – £26,000
- Layout altered, wet room or walk-in shower formed, natural stone or large-format porcelain.
- £26,000 – £35,000+
- Larger rooms, book-matched stone, bespoke joinery, underfloor heating, specialist lighting.
Guide bands based on recent Exeter projects, VAT included. Your figure comes from the survey and specification, not from this page.
Full cost breakdown
Reading
From The Blog
Written from actual projects, with the regulations checked against the Approved Documents rather than repeated from other websites.
How To Choose A Bathroom Fitter In Exeter
The eight questions that separate a good bathroom fitter from a confident one, what a real quote contains, and the accreditation body that changed its name in 2025.
Do You Need Planning Permission For A New Bathroom?
The five things that make bathroom work notifiable, why the Part P myth is wrong, and what changes if your Exeter or East Devon property is listed.
Questions
Questions People Ask Us First
- What does a luxury bathroom actually cost in Exeter?
- Most of the rooms we complete land between £12,000 and £35,000 including all trades, materials and VAT. The spread is wide because it is driven by the things you cannot see from a brochure: whether the layout moves, what the substrate turns out to be like, and whether the stone is a porcelain look-alike or the real thing. Our bathroom cost page breaks the bands down properly.
- How long will I be without a bathroom?
- A straightforward replacement in a sound room is usually eight to twelve working days. Move the layout, form a wet room, or open up a floor in an older property and it stretches to three or four weeks. We give you a working-day count with the quote, and if we find something once the walls are open we tell you the same day rather than at the end.
- Do I need planning permission or building regulations approval?
- Swapping a bathroom in an existing room usually needs neither. Building control gets involved in five situations: a new electrical circuit or any alteration to circuits inside the special location around the bath or shower, changes to below-ground drainage, structural work to enlarge the room, a new or replacement window, or an unvented hot water cylinder. Worth knowing that the widely repeated claim that every bathroom light and shaver socket is notifiable has not been true in England since the 2013 edition of Approved Document P - the special location only extends 0.6m horizontally from the bath or tray and 2.25m up. Planning permission is a separate question, and only comes up if you are changing the outside of the building, or the property is listed or in a conservation area.
- Do you use your own tradespeople or subcontract?
- The plumbing, tiling and fitting are done by the same people every time. Electrical work is carried out by a registered electrician we have worked with for years, because it has to be certified by someone competent to do so. You are not managing five separate trades and chasing them for dates.
- Can you work with a bathroom designer or architect I have already engaged?
- Yes, and it is often the easiest kind of job because the thinking is already done. Send us the drawings and specification and we will price the build. If we think something in the design will not work on site - a drainage run that cannot achieve fall, or a stone choice that will not survive a family bathroom - we say so before we start, not afterwards.
- What happens if something goes wrong after you have finished?
- You call us and we come back. Manufacturer warranties on the sanitaryware and brassware are registered in your name and handed over in writing, and our own workmanship is guaranteed. The most common reason people call us for the first time is that whoever did the room before stopped answering the phone.
Coverage
Areas We Cover
We work across Exeter and out into East and Mid Devon. If your town is not listed, it is still worth asking - the practical limit is travel time rather than a fixed radius.
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No showroom to walk around and no sales appointment to sit through. We come to the house, measure up, and tell you honestly what the room can and cannot do.