Wet room installation in Gerrards Cross
We travel out to Gerrards Cross regularly — the affluent Buckinghamshire commuter village near Beaconsfield and Chalfont St Peter is around 25 to 30 minutes from our Bracknell base, close enough that a wet room project there runs on exactly the same programme and standards as one closer to home. What changes from house to house in Gerrards Cross isn't the journey, it's the floor underneath: a wet room is the one bathroom format where the structural work matters more than the finish, because a drain and fall set out wrong before the tiling stage can't be fixed afterwards with better porcelain. That's true whether the property is a period family home or a newer build, which is why every Gerrards Cross wet room starts with the same unhurried survey rather than a template quote based on the postcode.
What the installation actually involves
A wet room removes the tray and the step by turning the entire floor into the shower, which means the floor build-up, the fall and the waterproofing all have to be right before any tile is chosen. We strip the room back, check joist depth and how far the floor can drop or be built up, then install the drain and first-fix plumbing at the position that gives the cleanest fall — typically 1:60 to 1:80, set out with a laser level. The whole floor and walls to shower height are tanked, not just the enclosure footprint, and that membrane is flood-tested before tiling starts. Large-format tiles are laid to the fall from the drain outward, with lippage checked row by row, and the project finishes with a water test across the entire floor and a full snagging walkthrough before you sign off.
What we coordinate for a Gerrards Cross project
You source the sanitaryware, brassware, tiles and screen; we handle the strip-out, first fix, tiling, plumbing and snagging from survey to handover, from £3,500. Because we're coming in from outside the immediate area, we build the day-rate work — floor build-up, tanking, tiling — into contiguous site days rather than splitting the job across visits, which keeps the programme tight and avoids a half-finished wet floor sitting exposed between fitting days. Protection for the rest of the house is set up before strip-out begins, since wet room floor work involves more cutting and screeding than a standard retile, and any debris removal from joist adjustment is planned in stages so it doesn't sit in a hallway for the duration of the job.
Booking your Gerrards Cross survey
The £125 survey is where joist depth, achievable drain position and access for materials and waste removal all get confirmed for your specific property, before a firm quote is written. If the room sits upstairs we also check the ceiling below to anticipate any disruption there. From survey you'll get a written scope that separates the structural floor cost from the finishing specification, so you know exactly what you're paying for before tiles and brassware are ordered. Book a survey to start a wet room project in Gerrards Cross.
Frequently asked questions
No. Gerrards Cross is around 25 to 30 minutes from our base, and our pricing from £3,500 applies the same way it does closer to home. Travel is built into how we schedule the job, not charged as a separate line.
It depends on the floor build-up required and tile format, confirmed at survey, but the structural stage — joist work, drain installation, tanking and flood test — is usually the longest part of the programme, followed by tiling and a final snagging stage.
Yes — we're fit-only. You source the tiles, brassware, screen and sanitaryware, and we confirm the format and specification against the floor's fall requirement at survey before you commit to an order.
We'll tell you at survey, not partway through the job. Where a floor can't be lowered enough, a slightly raised threshold at the door is usually the alternative, achieving the same level, step-free floor inside the room.