Do I need to re-tile the Burslem bathroom to add a shower over the bath?

The shower wall(s), yes — they need tanking and full-height tiling. The rest of the room only if it's cosmetically time.

Glass screen or shower curtain?

Glass — a hinged 6-8mm screen fixed into the tile field. Curtains dribble water onto the floor on every use and rarely last 12 months in a Burslem bathroom.

Thermostatic mixer or standard?

Thermostatic — anti-scald, stable temperature when someone else runs a tap elsewhere. Standard on every Burslem shower-over-bath install.

How long does it take?

4-6 working days on a standard Burslem install if we're re-tiling one wall and fitting the screen and mixer.

Are you fully insured for work in Burslem?

Yes — we hold full public liability cover and every job in Burslem comes with a written workmanship guarantee.

How long does a full bathroom in Burslem typically take?

A standard family bathroom in Burslem is usually 7 – 12 working days from strip-out to handover, depending on tiling area and structural changes.

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Shower Over Bath Installation in Burslem

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A shower over the bath in a Burslem home is the right answer when you want both, but only if the tiling, screen and thermostatic mixer are all specified for shower duty — not just retro-fitted to a bath setup.

We tank the wall behind the shower zone, fit a proper glass bath screen (not a curtain) hinged into the tile field, and plumb a thermostatic mixer with a diverter rather than a bath-tap-and-riser afterthought.

Plenty of the bathroom fitting we quote across Burslem starts the same way: a house that's outgrown its original bathroom layout.

Shower Over Bath Installation FAQs — Burslem

Do I need to re-tile the Burslem bathroom to add a shower over the bath?: The shower wall(s), yes — they need tanking and full-height tiling. The rest of the room only if it's cosmetically time.
Glass screen or shower curtain?: Glass — a hinged 6-8mm screen fixed into the tile field. Curtains dribble water onto the floor on every use and rarely last 12 months in a Burslem bathroom.
Thermostatic mixer or standard?: Thermostatic — anti-scald, stable temperature when someone else runs a tap elsewhere. Standard on every Burslem shower-over-bath install.
How long does it take?: 4-6 working days on a standard Burslem install if we're re-tiling one wall and fitting the screen and mixer.
Are you fully insured for work in Burslem?: Yes — we hold full public liability cover and every job in Burslem comes with a written workmanship guarantee.
How long does a full bathroom in Burslem typically take?: A standard family bathroom in Burslem is usually 7 – 12 working days from strip-out to handover, depending on tiling area and structural changes.

Our shower-over-bath standard in {town}

What we commit to on every shower over bath installation job in Burslem:

Tanking membrane behind every {town} shower-over-bath wall (standard on every Burslem shower over bath installation install).
Thermostatic mixer with diverter as default, not an upsell (standard on every Burslem shower over bath installation install).
Time-served plumbers and tilers on every job on every install we run in Burslem.
Sectors served include landlords, lettings agents and private homeowners on every install we run in Burslem.
For Burslem clients: compliant with part g and part p regulations on every install.

Other services in Burslem

Our shower over bath installation process in Burslem

This is the order we'll work in once we're on site:

1Snagging walk-through, sealing and full clean down before handover (planned per Burslem room).
2Step 2 in Burslem: first-fix plumbing, electrics and pressure-tested pipework.
3Stage 3 on site at Burslem: second-fix of sanitaryware, brassware and shower screens.
4Itemised fixed-price quotation with product brands listed line by line (planned per Burslem room).

Materials & methods

Aqua-boarded walls in wet zones rated to BBA standard — specced for Burslem jobs.
Mapei rapid-set adhesives and SP coloured grout — specced for Burslem jobs.

About Burslem

Burslem (ST6) falls under Stoke-on-Trent City Council in Staffordshire. Burslem — the Mother Town — is rows of late-Victorian terraces around former bottle kilns, with some converted pottery flats and pockets of post-war semis at Middleport. Main routes through are A500 and A50, which is why our vans pass close to Burslem most days.

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Shower-over-bath mistakes in {town}

Households keeping a bath but adding a proper shower over it in Burslem hit a recurring set of issues with shower over bath installation:

Shower fitted with only a curtain — water on the floor after every use — flagged regularly on Burslem jobs.

Wall behind the bath not tanked — moisture into the substrate within a season — flagged regularly on Burslem jobs.

Bath tap and riser instead of a thermostatic mixer — scald risk when tap opens elsewhere — flagged regularly on Burslem jobs.

Burslem: old cast-iron waste runs that throttle drainage on a new shower.

Concrete sub-floors hiding rotten timber boards near the WC, particularly in Burslem properties of this age.

Fit a proper shower over your Burslem bath

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