A wet room is only as good as what’s under the tiles.
Tanked wet rooms, walk-in showers, cloakrooms, en-suites, and luxury & bespoke bathrooms across Wolverhampton, Telford, Shrewsbury and the wider Midlands. Free home survey and free quotation.
Wet rooms & walk-in showers
the part nobody photographs
Tiles and grout are not waterproof; the membrane is. A JBM wet room is built in layers: a pre-formed former cut into the floor – between the joists on timber, screed falls on concrete, not tile adhesive and optimism – then a tanking system of primer, membrane and reinforced tape to every corner, junction and pipe penetration, carried up the walls past the wet zone. A linear channel or centre drain with a real fall, flood-tested before a single tile goes down.
Not sure between a full wet room, a walk-in shower or a shower over the bath? We’ll talk you through the trade-offs at survey. And accessible doesn’t need to look clinical: level thresholds, slip-rated tiles, grab rails fixed into reinforced substrate, fold-flat seats and thermostatic anti-scald valves, designed into the room rather than bolted on.
Showers worth having
and the pressure problem
Thermostatic mixers, digital showers you can start from your phone, rainfall heads with a handset, and frameless 8mm or 10mm glass. But a stunning shower on a gravity-fed system will trickle: water pressure and flow catch people out, so we measure both at survey. If the system can’t deliver, we’ll tell you the honest remedies – a pump, an unvented cylinder or a new boiler – before you buy the shower, not after.
En-suites & cloakrooms
Small rooms, hardest to get right
You can hide sloppy work in a big bathroom.
You can’t in a cloakroom.
A shower, WC and basin are workable in around 1.5m x 2m – and we’ve done tighter – with the space usually found in a bedroom corner, a landing cupboard or a box room.
An en-suite done well reliably adds value to a Midlands home; a cramped, badly plumbed one is worse than none.
The waste strategy is the whole job: gravity to the soil stack with a proper fall where possible, a macerator only where it isn’t – they make loft en-suites and under-stairs cloakrooms possible, but need power, the right pan and servicing.
Noise is planned for (no cistern refill at 3am), extraction is non-negotiable, and the small-room tricks earn their keep: wall-hung WCs, concealed cisterns, slimline basins as shallow as 25cm, sliding doors, one full-height tiled wall and a big mirror.
Typically four to eight days on site.
