Bathroom Fitting & Renovation in Horsham

Bathrooms are small rooms with a lot going on in them: plumbing, electrics, waterproofing, ventilation and tiling all inside a few square metres, where every mistake is visible and most of them are expensive to put right later.

What a bathroom renovation involves

• Strip out: suite, tiling and flooring removed, and the room taken back to the substrate so what is underneath can actually be seen
• First fix plumbing: new pipe runs and wastes set out for the layout you want, not the one the previous owner had
• Electrics: lighting, shaver points, extractor fan, and underfloor heating if you are having it
• Waterproofing: tanking to wet areas, and boarding out
• Tiling: walls and floor, set out from the most visible corner
• Second fix: suite, shower, screen, taps, radiator or towel rail
• Sealing and finishing: silicone, grout, decoration and clean

The step people underestimate is the second one. Moving a WC or a soil connection is straightforward if it is planned before anything is boarded, and awkward and costly afterwards. Decide the layout first.

En-suites and wet rooms

En-suites are usually about drainage and ventilation more than space. If the new room has no external wall, the extractor needs ducting properly and the waste may need a pump. Both are solvable; both need designing in.

Wet rooms are a level-access shower area with the whole floor tanked and laid to fall. Done properly they are excellent: easy to clean, no tray, no enclosure to leak. Done badly they are the single most expensive bathroom mistake there is, because failed waterproofing does not announce itself until it is coming through a ceiling. The tanking, the falls and the drain position are the job. Everything else is finish.

Accessible and level-access bathrooms

We adapt bathrooms for people with limited mobility: a level-access shower in place of a bath, grab rails, a wider door, a wet room floor, a seat or a raised toilet. If that is what you need, tell us who the room is for and what they find hard at the moment, and we will look at it with that in mind. For one family in Horsham that meant a self-contained annex with a level-access wet room, wide doorways and joists strengthened for a future ceiling hoist, so a relative could stay independent rather than move into a care home.

It is also worth knowing that Disabled Facilities Grants exist for this work. They are administered locally, through Horsham District Council with West Sussex County Council, and are means-tested but can cover a substantial share of the cost. It is worth checking before you commit to paying for the whole thing privately.

Ventilation and damp

Almost every bathroom problem that gets blamed on damp is actually a ventilation problem. Building regulations set a minimum extract rate for a bathroom, and an extractor that is undersized, badly ducted, or vented into a loft rather than outside will produce mould on the ceiling within a year however good the tiling is.

It is a small part of the cost and one of the few decisions that determines whether the room still looks good in five years, so it is worth getting right rather than getting cheap.

Electrics in a bathroom

Bathroom electrical work sits in defined zones, and what may be installed in each zone is restricted by the wiring regulations. This is one of the areas where the rules are strict for good reason. Work of this kind is notifiable under Part P of the building regulations, and you should be given a certificate for it at the end.

We bring in registered electricians for this, and registered Gas Safe engineers for any gas work, so the work is certified properly. Whoever you hire, ask who does the electrics and whether they are registered. It is a reasonable question.

Timescales and living with it

A full bathroom refit means the room is unusable for the duration, and if it is the only bathroom in the house that needs planning around. We will tell you before we start which days the water is off, and we sheet up and clear down daily. It is the thing customers comment on most.

What it costs

Published guides for 2026 put a standard full bathroom renovation at around £4,500 to £8,000, with the national average at £6,500 to £7,000, and suggest adding 20 to 30% in the South East (Empress Bathrooms, April 2026). Changing the layout, a wet room or a level-access shower costs more than a like-for-like swap. Those are other people’s figures, not our prices.

What you get from us is a free, itemised written quotation after a visit, so you can see what is included, what is not, and where the money goes.

Areas we cover

Bathroom fitting throughout Horsham and West Sussex, including Broadbridge Heath, Southwater, Billingshurst, Storrington, Pulborough, Steyning, Crawley and Chichester.

Get a quote

Send us a few photos and rough measurements, tell us whether you are replacing like for like or changing the layout, and we will come back to you.

Bathrooms are often part of a bigger job. See home extensions and kitchen fitting, or see two bathrooms we have fitted in Sussex, from strip-out to finished room.