Bathroom Design
A measured survey and drawn layout options, so you can see the room properly before committing to anything.
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Designed and installed bathrooms, wet rooms and en-suites for Exminster homes, run by one team from survey to handover.
Exminster is two different jobs depending on your address. In the newer parts of the village - Sentrys Orchard and the estates off Station Road - you have straightforward modern construction and few constraints. At Devington Park you are inside a listed building, and a bathroom refit there needs Listed Building Consent even though the flat itself is entirely modern inside.
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Local Knowledge
Working On Bathrooms In Exminster
Devington Park is the reason Exminster is on this list. It is the former Devon County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, designed by Charles Fowler and built between 1842 and 1845, which closed as Exminster Hospital in July 1985 and was converted into 118 leasehold apartments and townhouses. That gives the village an unusual concentration of high-value homes inside a listed shell - and leasehold flats mean freeholder consent as well as listed building consent.
The rest of the village is much simpler. Exminster grew around its medieval church, gained a railway settlement after the station opened in 1852, and has expanded considerably since with modern estates. Water here is Exeter's supply - soft to moderately soft surface water - so limescale is not a consideration, unlike ten miles east in Exmouth.
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Services
What We Do In Exminster
Every service below is available across Exminster and the surrounding villages. Most projects combine two or three of them.
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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What Is Different About An Exminster Bathroom
- The building stock
- A medieval church core with scattered seventeenth to nineteenth-century cottages, the listed 1842-45 Devington Park conversion, a Victorian railway settlement, and substantial late twentieth-century and recent new build.
- Soft surface water
- Exminster is supplied with soft to moderately soft surface water, so limescale is not a design constraint here. That widens the range of finishes we can sensibly specify compared with the East Devon coast.
- Ground and services
- The village sits on the Exe floodplain edge, and ground-floor properties closer to the estuary can have damp, poorly ventilated floor voids. In the Devington Park conversions the constraint is different: you are working within a listed structure where original openings and service routes cannot simply be re-cut.
- Heritage constraints
- Exminster village does not appear to fall within a conservation area, though Teignbridge has 35 across the district and it is worth checking your specific address. The more relevant constraint here is listed buildings: the Church of St Martin is Grade I, and Devington Park is a listed former institutional building converted to housing.
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.
Our Process
How An Exminster 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.
The Area
Things To Do In Exminster
We spend a lot of time in Exminster. If you are new to the area, these are worth your time.
RSPB Exminster and Powderham Marshes
Grazing marsh and reedbed beside the Exe estuary, with lapwing and wintering wildfowl.
Learn more about RSPB Exminster and Powderham MarshesThe Turf Hotel
A pub at Turf Lock reachable only on foot, by bike or by ferry, at the seaward end of the Exeter Ship Canal.
Learn more about The Turf HotelExe Estuary Trail
A level, traffic-free cycling and walking route along the canal and estuary, part of National Cycle Route 2.
Learn more about Exe Estuary TrailWhere Exminster Is
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
Bathroom Costs In Exminster
£12,000 – £35,000
At Devington Park, allow for consent and for working within existing service routes - and check your lease, because structural and service alterations usually need freeholder approval. In the modern parts of the village, costs sit at the lower end of our range because the substrate is sound and predictable.
Guide range for a complete room including all trades, materials and VAT. Your figure comes from the survey and written specification.
Full cost breakdownQuestions
Exminster Bathroom Questions
- Do I need permission for bathroom work in Exminster?
- Replacing a bathroom inside an existing room is internal work and does not need planning permission. Your local planning authority is Teignbridge District Council, and that is who to approach if a project affects the outside of the building or the property is listed. Exminster village does not appear to fall within a conservation area, though Teignbridge has 35 across the district and it is worth checking your specific address. The more relevant constraint here is listed buildings: the Church of St Martin is Grade I, and Devington Park is a listed former institutional building converted to housing. Building regulations are a separate matter and can apply to drainage, ventilation and electrical work regardless of planning. Council arrangements are correct at the time of writing - Devon's councils are being reorganised into four unitary authorities, with the new arrangements taking effect in April 2028.
- What are Exminster properties like to work in?
- A medieval church core with scattered seventeenth to nineteenth-century cottages, the listed 1842-45 Devington Park conversion, a Victorian railway settlement, and substantial late twentieth-century and recent new build. The village sits on the Exe floodplain edge, and ground-floor properties closer to the estuary can have damp, poorly ventilated floor voids. In the Devington Park conversions the constraint is different: you are working within a listed structure where original openings and service routes cannot simply be re-cut.
- Is the water in Exminster hard?
- No - and it is worth knowing, because plenty of bathroom advice online assumes otherwise. South West Water classes almost all of its supply area as soft or moderately soft, and Exminster falls within that. Limescale on brassware and shower screens is genuinely not the problem here that it is in East Devon towns like Exmouth and Sidmouth, twelve miles away, which are supplied from Otter Valley boreholes. It means we can specify finishes for Exminster that we would advise against on the coast.
- How much does a bathroom cost in Exminster?
- At Devington Park, allow for consent and for working within existing service routes - and check your lease, because structural and service alterations usually need freeholder approval. In the modern parts of the village, costs sit at the lower end of our range because the substrate is sound and predictable. Across our whole area, complete bathrooms run from around £12,000 to £35,000 including all trades, materials and VAT. Our cost page breaks that down properly. For context, the average sale price in Exminster over the last twelve months was £353,279.
- Do you charge extra to travel to Exminster?
- No. Exminster is within our normal working area and travel is not a separate line on the quote. What does affect the price is the property itself - its age, construction and existing services - not its postcode.
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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