Bathroom Renovations in Kenilworth

Yes, and the two halves of the suburb need quite different work. On the racecourse side we are mostly in heritage cottages and semis with one small bathroom; towards Main Road and Kenilworth Centre it is flats and townhouse complexes. We also work in neighbouring Claremont, Wynberg, and Rondebosch.

Usually yes, but the gains come from replanning rather than replacing. In most Kenilworth cottages the original bathroom is small enough that swapping the fittings changes very little. Going wall-hung throughout, replacing a swing door with a slider, and reworking where the basin and shower sit can make the same square metres genuinely usable. We will tell you at the site visit whether the room can be improved meaningfully or whether the honest answer is to borrow space from next door.

Yes, and a renovation is the right time to do it. In a semi the drainage often runs in or against the shared wall, and older installations have nothing damping them at all. While the wall is open we lag the pipe runs, box them properly, and where the layout allows we move the noisiest sections away from the shared wall entirely.

In the older Kenilworth cottages it is very often rising damp rather than a leak — these houses were built without a damp proof course, so moisture comes up through the wall from the ground. It matters because tiling over it simply hides it for a couple of years. We establish where the moisture is coming from before we tile, and treat that first.

Within limits. Flats and townhouses in Kenilworth are usually stacked, so the bathrooms sit above one another and share a common drainage stack that cannot simply be re-routed. That fixes roughly where the toilet can go. Almost everything else — the shower, the bath, the basin, the storage — can move, and that is normally enough to transform the room.

For work inside your own unit usually not, but anything touching common property — the stack, the external walls, or the waterproofing between units — generally does. We give you a written scope you can put to the trustees or the managing agent, and we work to the complex's approved hours and access rules once it is signed off.

A single bathroom usually takes three to four weeks on site, and five to six if the layout or plumbing moves. In a complex, add a little for restricted working hours and for getting material in and rubble out through shared access.

Get in touch to arrange a free site visit. We assess the room, the drainage, and the walls, discuss layout and finishes, and send you a written quote covering the full scope — in a format you can hand to trustees if the building needs it.