Because so many of these bungalows run a practice downstairs and a household upstairs, the bathrooms divide into two kinds with quite different requirements. The family bathrooms upstairs are ordinary domestic work. The one downstairs is used by clients and staff all day, and it should not be specified as though it were domestic.
A bathroom that visitors use
A ground floor bathroom in a working house is used by people who did not choose it and will not be careful with it, several times a day.
That puts it closer to a commercial specification than a domestic one.
So the sensible fittings are the ones with the fewest moving parts: a fixed screen rather than a door, a mechanically fixed mirror, and hardware that cannot be forced the wrong way. It is less elegant than an upstairs bathroom and it lasts several times as long.
Upstairs, where it is an ordinary family bathroom
The bathrooms on the upper floor are used by the household alone and can be specified normally, which usually means a more refined enclosure than downstairs.
So we would not put the same thing on both floors, and we say that rather than quoting one specification for the house.
It is also worth doing them in the right order: the downstairs one first, because it is the one causing complaints, and the family bathrooms when it suits the household.
Noise and access during working hours
Drilling for an upstairs bathroom carries straight down into rooms where somebody is meeting a client.
So the drilling window has to be agreed with the practice as well as the household, and those are not always the same conversation.
We ask directly what happens downstairs and when, and plan the noisy block around it. It takes one question at booking and it prevents the most predictable friction in a building that is doing two jobs at once.
How the job works
- Tell us about the jobSend a few photos, rough sizes and what you need. Use WhatsApp or the form. For a repair, a short video of the door moving helps a lot.
- We call you back in about 2 minutesWe confirm what you need and a time to visit. Where we can, we give you a rough price on the call.
- We come and measureWe measure the opening and check the walls, floor and ceiling around it. Anything made to size is made to these measurements, so they must be right.
- You get a written priceIt lists each item, with GST as its own line. If anything about the job changes, we tell you before we go ahead.
- We fit itYou approve the price and pay the advance. Our own team fits the work, checks that every door and window opens and closes properly, and clears up. Most jobs are done in 3 to 4 days.
