Do I need to re-tile the Tunstall 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 Tunstall bathroom.

Thermostatic mixer or standard?

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

How long does it take?

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

Are you fully insured for work in Tunstall?

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

How long does a full bathroom in Tunstall typically take?

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

Bathroom Fitting · Tunstall

Shower Over Bath Installation in Tunstall

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A shower over the bath in a Tunstall 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.

Most of our bathroom fitting jobs in Tunstall begin with a slow walk round the house, not a quote on the doorstep.

Shower Over Bath Installation FAQs — Tunstall

Do I need to re-tile the Tunstall 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 Tunstall bathroom.
Thermostatic mixer or standard?: Thermostatic — anti-scald, stable temperature when someone else runs a tap elsewhere. Standard on every Tunstall shower-over-bath install.
How long does it take?: 4-6 working days on a standard Tunstall install if we're re-tiling one wall and fitting the screen and mixer.
Are you fully insured for work in Tunstall?: Yes — we hold full public liability cover and every job in Tunstall comes with a written workmanship guarantee.
How long does a full bathroom in Tunstall typically take?: A standard family bathroom in Tunstall 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 mistakes in {town}

Households keeping a bath but adding a proper shower over it in Tunstall 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 Tunstall jobs.

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

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

Tunstall: layouts that waste a tiny footprint — door swings, basin position, awkward stud walls.

Around Tunstall this shows up as inadequate boiler flow for a thermostatic shower.

Recent bathroom fitting work — Tunstall, Staffordshire — image 2

Bathroom Fitting project in a victorian terraces property — Tunstall — image 3

Local context for Tunstall

Locally, Tunstall is part of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's area within Staffordshire, covering postcodes ST6. Tunstall is densely terraced Victorian stock around the High Street, with later semi-detached estates toward Goldenhill and Chell Heath. Quick to reach off A500 and A527 — useful when we're surveying several jobs in a morning.

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Fit a proper shower over your Tunstall bath

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