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Bathroom fitters and tilers · Chorlton, Manchester

Bathrooms laid true, tile by tile.

Full refits for Chorlton’s terraces and semis, from strip-out to the last bead of silicone. One team does the plumbing, the tanking, the electrics and the tiling, to a week-by-week schedule and a fixed price.

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  • 4.9 from 212 Google reviews
  • Fixed price, in writing
  • 10-year guarantee
A finished bathroom: green brick-bond tiles behind a round brass mirror, a white basin and a grey vanity, marble-look porcelain on the side wall

The house we know best

The narrow bathroom over the kitchen.

Most of the houses between Beech Road and Wilbraham Road were built around 1900 with the bathroom squeezed into the back addition, over the kitchen: about 2.1 by 1.9 metres, a bath along the long wall, a basin and a WC fighting for the rest, and the hot water tank in a cupboard in the corner. We have refitted more of them than any other room in Manchester.

Take out the tank when the combi goes in, turn the shower to run across the end wall, hang the WC off the wall, and the same room has a walk-in shower, a basin you can stand at and floor you can see.

Bathrooms finished since 2012
640
Working days, a typical refit
15
Trades you have to chase
1
Guarantee on our work
10 yrs
A row of red-brick Victorian terraced houses with their chimneys against a blue sky
Before: a bath along the long wall, a pedestal basin and a WC beside it, and a hot water cupboard in the corner. Bath Tank WC Basin 2.1 m
Before. Bath, tank and a WC you reach sideways.
After: a walk-in shower across the end wall behind a glass panel, a wall-hung WC and a basin on a vanity, and the tank cupboard gone. Walk-in shower WC Vanity Warm floor 2.1 m
After. Shower across the end, floor you can stand on.

What we do

One team, from the floorboards to the silicone.

A bathroom is four trades in a room the size of a lift. We employ all four, so nobody waits for a plumber who is on another job and nobody blames the tiler for the plasterer’s walls.

  • Full bathroom refits

    Stripped to the brick and rebuilt: pipes, wiring, boarding, tanking, tiles, sanitaryware and the last bead of silicone.

    From £7,200

  • Walk-in showers

    The bath out and a low tray or a tiled floor in, behind one fixed panel of glass. The most asked-for job in Chorlton.

    From £5,200

  • Wet rooms

    The whole floor tanked and laid to falls into a linear drain, so the room is the shower. Joists checked and stiffened first.

    From £11,500

  • Small and awkward rooms

    Back bathrooms in terraces, sloping ceilings in loft en-suites, box rooms turned into shower rooms. We draw the layout for free.

    Free layout

  • Tiling only

    Walls and floors in metro, zellige, porcelain or mosaic, for kitchens too, on boarded or tanked walls set to tolerance.

    From £55 per m²

  • Tanking and waterproofing

    A cement board and membrane system, taped at every corner and pipe, with a leak test before a single tile goes on.

    From £380

  • Underfloor heating

    An electric mat under the tiles on its own thermostat, so the floor is warm at seven in the morning and off by eight.

    From £650

  • En-suites and cloakrooms

    A WC and basin under the stairs, or a shower room in the corner of a bedroom, with the soil pipe and the macerator question answered.

    From £3,900

The tile library, Barlow Moor Road

Four tiles we lay every week.

Three hundred samples on the wall in the showroom, and these four are the ones Chorlton keeps choosing. Borrow a box of any of them for the weekend and hold it up in your own light.

  • A shower lined in glossy blue metro tiles laid in brick bond, a chrome valve on the wall

    Metro

    The tile the terraces were built with.

    What it is
    Ceramic, 300 by 100 or 200 by 100, gloss or crackle glaze
    Where it suits
    Victorian and Edwardian houses, brick bond or herringbone

    Laid from £55 per m²

  • Green handmade zellige tiles laid in herringbone, every glaze a slightly different shade

    Zellige

    Handmade clay, and no two alike.

    What it is
    Moroccan, 100 by 100 or 150 by 50, every glaze a shade apart
    Where it suits
    Shower walls and splashbacks, laid tight and sealed twice

    Laid from £95 per m²

  • A walk-in shower in large grey porcelain tiles with a linear drain and a black ceiling

    Large-format porcelain

    Fewer joints, less to clean.

    What it is
    Rectified, 600 by 1200 and up, matt or polished
    Where it suits
    Walk-in showers and wet rooms, on walls boarded flat to 2 mm

    Laid from £75 per m²

  • A floor of small black and white hexagonal mosaic tiles in a scattered pattern

    Hex and mosaic

    The floors under the lino.

    What it is
    Porcelain mosaic on mesh, 25 mm hex, penny round or encaustic-look
    Where it suits
    Floors in period bathrooms, and wet-room floors that need the falls

    Laid from £85 per m²

How a refit runs

Fifteen working days. One team. On your fridge.

Before we start you get this calendar, with every day and every trade on it. It goes on the fridge, and we keep to it: a working toilet every night but two, the street swept every evening, and a text from Jess at the end of each day with a photograph.

  • Strip-out
  • Plumbing
  • Electrics
  • Boarding and plaster
  • Tanking
  • Tiling
  • Finishing

Week one

Out with the old, in with the pipes.

  1. Mon1 Strip-out Strip-out. Bath, tiles and boards out to a skip bag on the street.
  2. Tue2 Strip-out Floor up, joists checked, the old lead and iron pipes taken out.
  3. Wed3 Plumbing First-fix plumbing: new runs, the shower valve set, the waste to the stack.
  4. Thu4 Electrics First-fix electrics: extractor, downlights, the heating mat feed.
  5. Fri5 Boarding and plaster Cement board on the walls, ply overlay on the floor, screwed every 150 mm.

Week two

Waterproof first, then the tiles.

  1. Mon6 Tanking Tanking: membrane, tapes at every corner and pipe, left to cure.
  2. Tue7 Plumbing Tray or former set to falls, heating mat laid and tested twice.
  3. Wed8 Tiling Floor tiling, from the doorway line in.
  4. Thu9 Tiling Wall tiling from a level batten, course by course.
  5. Fri10 Tiling Wall tiling: the niche, the window reveal, the trims and the cuts.

Week three

Grout, fit, finish, hand over.

  1. Mon11 Tiling Grouted, cleaned off and sealed where the tile needs it.
  2. Tue12 Plumbing Second-fix plumbing: WC, basin, valve trim and the glass panel.
  3. Wed13 Electrics Second-fix electrics, thermostat set up, certificate written.
  4. Thu14 Finishing Ceiling and woodwork painted, silicone run, mirror and rails up.
  5. Fri15 Finishing Cleaned, walked through with you, the handover pack and the keys back.

Guide prices

What a bathroom costs in south Manchester, 2026.

Starting points, with VAT in. After the design visit you get one fixed price in writing, itemised down to the trims, and that is the price you pay.

  • All prices include VAT
  • Skip, permit and waste in every quote
  • 10 per cent deposit, protected until we start
  • No extras without your signature first

  1. Design visit and layout drawing

    Free

    We measure, draw two layouts to scale and leave you a tile board. Free, and no obligation.

  2. Full refit, terrace back bathroom

    from £7,200

    Up to 3.5 m², walk-in shower or bath, metro to half height, mid-range sanitaryware.

  3. Full refit, family bathroom

    from £8,600

    3.5 to 5.5 m², most semis in Chorlton, Firswood and Sale.

  4. Bath out, walk-in shower in

    from £5,200

    Low tray, one glass panel, thermostatic valve, shower area tanked and tiled.

  5. Wet room

    from £11,500

    Whole floor tanked to falls, linear drain, floor and walls tiled, joists stiffened.

  6. Cloakroom or downstairs WC

    from £3,900

    WC and basin, tiled splashback and floor, new extractor.

  7. Wall tiling, ceramic or metro

    from £55 per m²

    Labour on prepared walls. Zellige from £95, large-format porcelain from £75.

  8. Floor tiling

    from £45 per m²

    Labour, including levelling compound on a sound floor.

  9. Tanking a shower enclosure

    from £380

    Board, membrane and tapes, leak-tested before tiling.

  10. Electric underfloor heating

    from £650

    Mat, insulation boards and a wi-fi thermostat, fitted and certified.

  11. Re-grout and re-seal a shower

    from £240

    Old grout raked out, new epoxy grout, silicone renewed.

Price my bathroom

Your bathroom in seven questions.

A guide price, the number of days, and how much tile to order. It is the same arithmetic Jess uses for a first quote over the phone.

How big is the room?
Bath, shower or both?
Which tile?
How high do the tiles go?
Anything else?

Recent bathrooms

Eight rooms from the last year, and the roads they are on.

  • A classic white metro bathroom with a pedestal basin, a bath and a hexagonal mosaic floor
    Wilbraham Road, Chorlton White metro to the ceiling, a pedestal basin kept, hex mosaic floor. Full refit14 days
  • A shower wall in terracotta tiles laid in vertical stack, beside grey stone-look porcelain
    Whalley Range Terracotta in vertical stack down the shower wall, grey porcelain round it. Walk-in shower12 days
  • A period bathroom with sage green walls, a tall sash window, a pedestal basin and a round mirror
    Upper Chorlton Road The sash window and the room kept, re-plumbed, a new floor and a warm one. Restoration10 days
  • A walk-in shower in large beige porcelain with a wall-hung WC
    Sale Large-format porcelain, a walk-in shower and a wall-hung WC in a 1930s semi. Full refit15 days
  • A bright shower with a pebble mosaic floor, a tiled bench and brushed brass fittings
    West Didsbury Pebble shower floor laid to falls, a tiled bench and brushed brass. Wet room18 days
  • A navy vanity between two strips of dark blue herringbone tiles, marble-look porcelain behind
    Firswood Dark blue herringbone either side of a navy vanity. Full refit13 days
  • A grey porcelain bathroom with a white vanity on an oak top, a bath and a towel radiator
    Edge Lane, Stretford Grey porcelain, an oak top, the bath kept and boxed in. Refit11 days
  • A walk-in shower in warm brown porcelain beside a vanity with lit mirrors
    Old Trafford A box room made into an en-suite with a walk-in shower. En-suite17 days

Before and after

A Chorlton Green semi, the family bathroom.

Forty-year-old tiles with a motif every third row, a pedestal basin and a bath nobody used. Stripped, tanked and laid in white metro with a walk-in shower behind one panel of glass, in thirteen working days.

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Before: a tired bathroom in old white tiles with a pattern of small motifs, a pedestal basin and a WC After: white metro tiles, a walk-in shower behind a glass panel, a floating basin and a black and white floor

Reviews

What south Manchester says once the dust sheets are up.

4.9 212 Google reviews Also on Checkatrade
  • ★★★★★

    Ours is the narrow bathroom over the kitchen that every house on the road has. They took the bath out, put a walk-in shower across the end and the room feels twice the size. Fifteen days, exactly as the calendar said.

    Hannah, off Beech Road, Chorlton

    Back bathroom refit · May 2026

  • ★★★★★

    They lifted the floor, found two joists that had been notched to nothing, sorted them, and still finished on the Friday. The schedule came on a fridge magnet and they stuck to it.

    Dev and Sarah, Whalley Range

    Wet room · February 2026

  • ★★★★★

    Mum can’t step over a bath any more. Level floor, a seat, a rail where she wanted it, and the tiler took the time to show her the controls twice.

    Margaret, Sale

    Walk-in shower for my mum · November 2025

  • ★★★★★

    I wanted zellige and two other firms tried to talk me out of it. These lads laid it tight, mixed the boxes so the shades sat right, and it is the best thing in the house.

    Joe, Firswood

    Zellige shower wall · August 2025

  • ★★★★★

    Sloping ceiling, a window in the wrong place and a soil pipe on the far wall. They drew three layouts at the kitchen table and the one we chose fits like it was always there.

    Priya, West Didsbury

    Loft en-suite · March 2026

  • ★★★★★

    Booked them to tile a bathroom someone else had plumbed. They found the walls were out by 9 mm and boarded them before starting rather than tiling over it. Straight lines all the way up.

    Craig, Stretford

    Tiling only · June 2026

Guarantees and paperwork

The bits behind the tiles, signed off.

A bucket of hand tools in a wheelbarrow
  • Gas Safe Our plumber is registered, so the boiler can be moved on the same job
  • Part P NICEIC electrician on the team, certificate in your handover pack
  • TrustMark Government-endorsed quality scheme for work in the home
  • 10 years Guarantee on our workmanship, insurance-backed
  • £5m Public liability insurance, certificate on request
  • Protected Deposits held in a protected account until the work starts

Who will be in your bathroom

  • Kieran WalshFounder and tiler. Fourteen years on Manchester walls, and still on them.
  • Amira HaddadPlumber, Gas Safe registered. Valves, wastes, falls and the bit behind the wall.
  • Tom ByrneElectrician, NICEIC. Extractors, lighting, heating mats and the paperwork.
  • Liam MoranBoarding, tanking and plaster. Gets the walls flat before anyone tiles them.
  • Jess WalshOffice and design. Your layouts, your tile board and your schedule.

Questions

Asked at the kitchen table, every week.

Anything else, ring Jess on 0161 496 0382 or call into the showroom.

Our bathroom is the small one over the kitchen. Can we have a walk-in shower?

Almost always. The back bathroom in a Chorlton terrace is usually about 2.1 by 1.9 metres, and a 1400 shower tray across the far end with a wall-hung WC and a slim basin fits with room to spare. What decides it is where the waste can run, so we lift a floorboard at the design visit and tell you there and then.

How long will we be without a bathroom?

A typical refit is fifteen working days, and we keep a working toilet every night except the two in the middle of week one. If you have no other loo in the house we can hire a cabin for the drive or the yard; it is on the quote if you want it.

Where does the skip go on a terraced street?

Most terraces have no drive, so we use a skip bag that is collected the day it is full, or a skip on the road with a permit from Manchester City Council, or Trafford Council for Stretford, Old Trafford and Sale. We apply, we pay, and it is in the price.

Is zellige practical in a shower?

Yes, if it is laid tight and sealed. Zellige is handmade and every tile is a little different, so we mix the boxes before we start, keep the joints to 1 to 2 mm and seal it before and after grouting. It needs resealing every couple of years, which we will do for you.

Do we need permission from the council?

Not for a like-for-like bathroom. New electrics in a bathroom are notifiable under Part P, which our electrician self-certifies, and moving a soil stack or adding a window can bring in Building Regulations. If any of it applies we tell you at the design visit and deal with it.

What if you find asbestos?

Textured ceilings and old floor tiles in houses of this age sometimes contain it. If we suspect it we stop, have a sample tested by an accredited lab, and if it is positive a licensed contractor removes it before we carry on. It is rare, and it is never a surprise on the bill: we tell you the cost before anything happens.

Do you supply the tiles and the suite?

Either way. Most customers choose from our tile library on Barlow Moor Road and we order at trade price. If you have found your own tiles we are happy to lay them, and we will tell you how many boxes to buy so there is enough for the cuts.

Red-brick terraces above a parade of corner shops in south Manchester

Where we work

From Barlow Moor Road, a quarter of an hour in every direction.

  • ChorltonBeech Road, Wilbraham Road, Chorlton Green, Manchester Road 5 min
  • Whalley RangeUpper Chorlton Road, College Road, Withington Road 8 min
  • FirswoodKings Road, Ayres Road, Seymour Grove 8 min
  • StretfordEdge Lane, Barton Road, Kings Road 10 min
  • Old TraffordSeymour Grove, Northumberland Road, Ayres Road 12 min
  • Moss SidePrincess Road, Claremont Road, Great Western Street 12 min
  • HulmeStretford Road, Royce Road, Leaf Street 15 min
  • DidsburyBurton Road, Lapwing Lane, Wilmslow Road 12 min
  • SaleWashway Road, Northenden Road, Brooklands Road 15 min

Levenshulme, Withington or Urmston? Ask. For a full refit we will come.

Directions to the showroom

Free design visit

Tell us about your bathroom.

We come round, measure, lift a floorboard, draw you two layouts and leave a tile board. Free, and you get a fixed price in writing within three working days.

Open Monday to Friday, 8 to 5:30

Opening hours
Monday 8am to 5:30pm
Tuesday 8am to 5:30pm
Wednesday 8am to 5:30pm
Thursday 8am to 7pm · Tile library late
Friday 8am to 5:30pm
Saturday 10am to 2pm · Tile library
Sunday Closed
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