Shower Over Bath Installation in Longton
Full bathroom installations, project-managed by one local team.
A shower over the bath in a Longton 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.
If you're weighing up bathroom fitting in Longton, the local detail matters more than the brochure spec.
Longton at a glance
Longton (ST3) falls under Stoke-on-Trent City Council in Staffordshire. Longton is rows of Victorian and Edwardian terraces around the railway station, with large post-war estates at Meir, Blurton and Sandford Hill. Quick to reach off A50 and A5005 — useful when we're surveying several jobs in a morning.
Beyond Longton — where else we work
Aside from Longton we cover the surrounding Staffordshire area on the same week's schedule:
Service radius is approximate and based on our regular weekly routes.
Our shower over bath installation process in Longton
Every Bathroom Fitting job follows the same disciplined order — so nothing gets missed:
- 1Step 1 in Longton: free home survey to measure, photograph and talk through your options.
- 2Itemised fixed-price quotation with product brands listed line by line (planned per Longton room).
- 3Day 3 for a Longton job — tanking and waterproofing before any tile goes on a wet zone.
- 4Stage 4 on site at Longton: first-fix plumbing, electrics and pressure-tested pipework.
- Thermostatic mixer valves and concealed shower bodies — specced for Longton jobs.
- Mapei rapid-set adhesives and SP coloured grout for Longton bathrooms.
Our shower-over-bath standard in {town}
What we commit to on every shower over bath installation job in Longton:
- Tanking membrane behind every {town} shower-over-bath wall (standard on every Longton shower over bath installation install).
- Thermostatic mixer with diverter as default, not an upsell (standard on every Longton shower over bath installation install).
- Hundreds of full bathrooms fitted across Staffordshire — proven across Longton.
- Sectors served include landlords, lettings agents and private homeowners — proven across Longton.
- For Longton clients: compliant with part g and part p regulations on every install.
Shower-over-bath mistakes in {town}
Households keeping a bath but adding a proper shower over it in Longton 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 Longton jobs.
Wall behind the bath not tanked — moisture into the substrate within a season — flagged regularly on Longton jobs.
Bath tap and riser instead of a thermostatic mixer — scald risk when tap opens elsewhere — flagged regularly on Longton jobs.
In Longton we regularly find old cast-iron waste runs that throttle drainage on a new shower.
Concrete sub-floors hiding rotten timber boards near the WC — common on Longton surveys.
Shower Over Bath Installation FAQs — Longton
- Do I need to re-tile the Longton 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 Longton bathroom.
- Thermostatic mixer or standard?
- Thermostatic — anti-scald, stable temperature when someone else runs a tap elsewhere. Standard on every Longton shower-over-bath install.
- How long does it take?
- 4-6 working days on a standard Longton install if we're re-tiling one wall and fitting the screen and mixer.
- How long does a full bathroom in Longton typically take?
- A standard family bathroom in Longton is usually 7 – 12 working days from strip-out to handover, depending on tiling area and structural changes.
- Do you provide a fixed-price quote before starting?
- Always. After a free home visit in Longton we send a fully itemised, fixed-price quotation — no surprises on invoice day.
Fit a proper shower over your Longton bath
Free survey, tanked wall spec, thermostatic mixer, glass screen. Call 01782 901390.
- Written workmanship guarantee on every fit
- Free home survey and fixed-price quote
Shower over bath installs in Longton done properly — tanked walls, glass screen, thermostatic mixer, no curtain in sight.