Plymouth & the South West
Bathroom fitters in Plymouth — a proper bathroom, fitted properly
Design, supply and fit for complete bathrooms across Plymouth & the South West — a fixed written quote before we start, and a finish done properly.
The honest numbers
What a Plymouth bathroom really costs — up front
No vague “from” prices and no surprises halfway through. Here’s where real Plymouth bathrooms land, based on regional figures, not guesswork.
Who we are
The Plymouth bathroom fitter homeowners actually want
Getting a bathroom fitted in Plymouth should be straightforward.
We design, supply and fit complete bathrooms with real project management, a fixed written quote, and a finish that looks like the brochure — at honest Plymouth prices.
The care shows up in the details most people never think to ask about: neat sealant lines, tiles laid dead level on an old and less-than-perfect wall, waste pipes run properly so nothing gurgles, and a site swept clean before we leave each evening.
We turn up when we said we would, we finish when we said we would, and we leave a bathroom worth showing off. For most Plymouth homeowners, that reliability is worth far more than shaving a few hundred pounds off a quote you can’t trust. A cheap bathroom fitted badly is the most expensive kind there is.
One point of contact
From the first home visit to the final walkaround, you have one point of contact who knows your job inside out. When you have a question, you know exactly who to ask — and you get a straight answer.
A fixed written quote, not a moving target
Before a single tile comes off the wall, you get a clear, itemised, fixed written quote. We survey the room properly first — floor structure, pipework, what’s behind the plaster — so the number we give you is the number you pay. The only time the price changes is if you change your mind about the spec, and even then we agree it with you in writing before we act on it.
Local, insured and guaranteed
We’re based in Plymouth and we work across the South West. We’re fully insured, every bathroom carries a written workmanship guarantee, and we can show you finished work near you rather than a stock photo. If something ever needs putting right, you know where we are.
Respect for your home while we’re in it
Most of our customers carry on living in the house while we work, so we treat it accordingly. Dust sheets down, stair carpets protected, materials staged so your hallway isn’t buried in boxes for a fortnight, and a proper tidy at the end of every day. It’s your home first and our building site second, and we never forget it.
Everything we fit
Complete bathroom services across Plymouth
We design, supply and fit the lot — whether it’s a full renovation, a level-access wet room, or a tidy en-suite squeezed into a box room. Every service comes with the same promise: a fixed quote, a clear schedule, and a finish worth showing off.
Full Bathroom Installation
Our bread and butter: a complete new bathroom from strip-out to final clean, project-managed end to end on one fixed written quote. We handle the plumbing, electrics, tiling, plastering and fitting so you deal with a single team — not five different trades turning up whenever they fancy it.
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Bathroom Renovation & Remodelling
Ripping out a tired 1970s, 80s or 90s suite and reworking the room into something clean and modern — often with far better use of the space than the original ever had. Ideal for Plymouth’s older housing stock, where the bones are good but the bathroom hasn’t been touched in decades.
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Wet Room Installation
Fully tanked, expertly graded wet rooms — sleek, watertight and built to last. Every one is waterproofed properly beneath the tiles and falls cleanly to the drain, so it works for years rather than months. A smart way to future-proof a family home or open up a tight bathroom.
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Walk-in & Easy-Access Showers
Low-threshold and walk-in showers that feel luxurious and stay safe underfoot. Popular with buyers, kind on the knees, and one of the best-value upgrades you can make — a walk-in shower reliably lifts the feel of a whole bathroom and helps a home sell.
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En-suite & Cloakroom Fitting
Clever use of every inch — en-suites and cloakrooms that punch well above their size. Turning a spare box room into a smart en-suite, or fitting a downstairs WC that actually feels considered, is some of the most rewarding work we do. Small rooms are where good design really shows.
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Mobility & Accessible Bathrooms
Level-access showers, grab rails, comfort-height WCs and walk-in baths — independence with dignity, designed around how you actually live rather than something clinical. We fit accessible bathrooms across Plymouth for people who want to stay in the home they love, and we’ll explain any funding help that’s available.
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Bathroom Tiling & Flooring
Precision tiling and waterproof flooring — the finish that makes or breaks a bathroom. From calm porcelain to bold feature walls and slip-rated floors, laid true and level even on the older, imperfect substrates you find in Plymouth’s period and post-war homes. The detail nobody notices until it’s wrong.
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Bespoke Bathroom Design
A bathroom designed around you — layout, materials and finishes chosen to suit your space, your routine and your budget. We’ll help you make the calls that matter, steer you away from the ones you’d regret, and pull it all together into a room that feels like it was always meant to be there.
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The Proud process: first visit to final clean
Every project runs the same clear way, whether it’s a compact cloakroom or a full family bathroom. No mystery, no drift, no “we’ll sort the price later”. Here’s exactly what happens.
Free home visit
We come to you, measure up, look at the floor structure and waste runs, and talk through what you actually want — the way you use the room, what annoys you about it now, and what you’d love it to be. No obligation, no hard sell, just an honest conversation about what’s possible and what it’s likely to cost.
Design & choose
We help you settle the layout, then choose tiles, suite, brassware, lighting and flooring to suit your space and budget. You get honest guidance on where it’s worth spending and where it isn’t — no pressure to gold-plate, and no talking you into fittings you won’t thank us for in five years.
Fixed written quote
Everything goes onto one clear, itemised, fixed written quote. You know the full cost before we lift a tool, and we book you a start date you can plan your life around. No creeping day rates, no “unforeseen extras” sprung on you mid-job — anything unexpected is discussed and agreed before we act.
We fit it
We work to a set schedule with the same faces on site each day — strip-out, first fix, tanking and tiling, then second fix and the suite. We protect your home and keep you updated as we go.
Snag & test
Before we call it done, we seal every joint, test that everything runs, drains and heats as it should, and snag anything that needs a second look. This is the quiet, unglamorous stage that separates a bathroom that looks good on day one from one that still looks good on day one thousand.
Final clean & guarantee
We clean the room properly, take away the mess, and walk you round everything with care notes — how the shower valve works, how to keep the sealant and grout looking new. Then we hand it over backed by our written workmanship guarantee. That’s the bit we’re proudest of.
Transparent pricing
What does a bathroom cost in Plymouth?
The most common question we get, and the one too many fitters dodge. Here are honest figures, no games — and an explanation of what actually moves the number.
Because Plymouth runs roughly 9% below the national average on fitting costs, a bathroom here sits a little under what you’d pay up-country — and we put the whole job on one fixed written quote so the figure doesn’t creep once we start. A full bathroom in the Plymouth area typically lands between £4,075 and £10,870, with most projects averaging around £6,340. Labour alone usually falls somewhere between £2,324 and £4,865, with the rest going on the suite, tiles, brassware and any structural work the room needs. It’s a wide range because bathrooms are wildly different jobs — a like-for-like refresh and a full re-plan with a wet floor are not the same project.
| Project | Typical Plymouth cost | Typical timescale |
|---|---|---|
| Full bathroom | £4,075–£10,870 (avg ~£6,340) | 7–10 working days |
| Wet room | £5,545–£10,810 (avg ~£7,775) | 4–7 working days |
| Walk-in shower | £2,500–£6,500 | 3–6 working days |
| Tiling & flooring only | £800–£3,500 | 2–5 working days |
What pushes the price up
- Moving the layout — relocating the bath, WC or basin means new waste and supply runs.
- A full wet-room build, with tanking and a graded floor, over a simple suite swap.
- Large-format, natural-stone or intricate tiling versus standard porcelain.
- Structural surprises uncovered at strip-out — perished pipework, damp or a tired subfloor.
- Premium suites, designer brassware and underfloor heating.
What keeps it sensible
- Keeping the suite roughly where it is, so the plumbing doesn’t need re-routing.
- Sound floors and pipework that’s already been updated over the years.
- Well-chosen mid-range fittings rather than top-end designer names.
- A clear brief agreed up front, so there’s no expensive mid-job rethink.
- A single team doing everything — no paying three trades to wait on each other.
No surprises
What every Proud Bathrooms quote includes
A fixed written quote from us is a proper plan for the whole job — not a rough figure with the awkward bits left off to be “sorted later”. Here’s what’s baked in as standard.
The whole job
- Strip-out and safe disposal of the old bathroom
- All plumbing and electrical work by qualified trades
- Plastering, tiling, flooring and decoration to finish
- Supply and fit of your chosen suite, brassware and fittings
The reassurance around it
- A fixed price agreed in writing before we start
- A realistic, day-by-day schedule you can plan around
- Full insurance and a written workmanship guarantee
- Building Regulations compliance handled for you
Because everything sits on a single quote, there’s no gap for costs to slip through — no waiting on a tiler who never books in, no electrician’s bill you didn’t see coming, and no finger-pointing if something needs putting right. That’s the whole point of doing it this way: one number, one clean finish.
Built to last
Quality, materials & guarantees
A bathroom is the hardest-working room in the house and the most punishing environment in it — constant water, steam and temperature swings. That’s why what happens behind the tiles matters as much as the tiles themselves. Cut a corner on the waterproofing and you won’t see it for a year or two; then you’ll see it in a stained ceiling downstairs. We build every bathroom to be watertight first and beautiful second, because the beautiful bit only lasts if the watertight bit is done right.
- Proper waterproofing & tanking — showers and wet areas are tanked before tiling, so water stays where it belongs and never finds its way into the fabric of your home.
- Precision tiling, laid level — substrates prepped correctly, tiles set true even on old and uneven walls, with clean grout lines and neat, tooled sealant that doesn’t peel in six months.
- Quality fixtures, installed correctly — we fit dependable, well-made suites and brassware, and we fit them the way the manufacturer intended, so warranties stand and nothing works loose.
- Fully insured, fully guaranteed — every bathroom carries a written workmanship guarantee, and we’re fully insured, so you’re covered from the first day of work onward.
- Building Regs handled — electrical safety (Part P) and ventilation (Part F) are dealt with as standard, so your bathroom is safe and compliant, not just good-looking.
Local knowledge
Bathrooms designed around Plymouth homes
Plymouth isn’t one kind of house, and a bathroom that works beautifully in a Victorian terrace can be all wrong for a 1980s semi. Knowing the local housing stock is half of doing this job well.
Victorian & Edwardian terraces
Around Stonehouse, Mutley, Greenbank and Peverell you find tall, characterful terraces with high ceilings, solid walls and, often, a bathroom added on the back where a scullery used to be. They can be gloriously spacious or awkwardly narrow. We’re used to the quirks — uneven old walls that need tiles set carefully, original floor levels that don’t agree with each other, and pipework that’s been patched by six different hands over a century.
Post-war & council-built estates
Efford, Whitleigh, Ernesettle, Ham and much of the north of the city are dominated by solid, well-proportioned post-war family homes. The bathrooms are usually small and dated, and a huge number still have a separate WC next door. Combining the two into one proper family bathroom, or reworking the layout to fit a decent shower, is some of our most common — and most satisfying — work.
Newer builds & extensions
Out toward Derriford, Woolwell and the newer developments, we fit a lot of en-suites and second bathrooms into modern homes and extensions. Here the challenge is less about old fabric and more about clever design — making a compact en-suite feel considered, adding a wet room to future-proof a family home, or lifting a builder-standard bathroom into something with real character.
This is why we survey every room before we quote rather than pricing off a phone call. The age of your house, the way it was built, and what previous owners did to it all shape the sensible way forward — and pricing that honestly, up front, is exactly what separates a fixed quote you can trust from a “from” price that balloons.
Bathrooms for real life
Accessible & mobility bathrooms in Plymouth
Some of the most rewarding work we do is helping people stay in the home they love. A level-access shower or a well-designed mobility bathroom can be the difference between managing comfortably and struggling — and none of it has to look clinical. We design accessible and mobility bathrooms around how you actually live, so they feel like a smart, modern bathroom that just happens to be easier and safer to use.
That might mean a level-access wet floor with no tray to step over, discreet grab rails positioned where they’re genuinely useful, a fold-down seat, a comfort-height WC, lever taps and a thermostatic valve capped for safety. We take the time to get it right for the person who’ll use it, we’re patient with questions, and we never talk in jargon. There’s often funding help available towards the cost too, and we’ll walk you through what you might be entitled to.
Where we work
Bathroom fitters across Plymouth & the South West
We’re proudly Plymouth-based and we know the difference between Plympton and Plymstock. From the heart of the city out to Saltash, Ivybridge and Tavistock, tap your area to see local bathroom fitting, costs and recent work.
Recent work
Real Plymouth bathrooms we’re proud of
Finished work from across Plymouth and the South West — full bathrooms, wet rooms, walk-in showers, en-suites, accessible spaces and the details that make them.
Good questions
Fitting a bathroom in Plymouth — your questions answered
How much does it cost to fit a new bathroom in Plymouth?
A full bathroom in the Plymouth area typically costs between £4,075 and £10,870, with most projects averaging around £6,340. Because Plymouth sits roughly 9% below the national average on fitting costs, you’ll usually pay a little less here than up-country. The final figure depends on the size of the room, the spec you choose and the age and condition of your home. We survey properly and give you one fixed written quote, so you know the real number before we start. See our Plymouth bathroom cost guide for the full breakdown.
How long does it take to fit a bathroom?
A full bathroom usually takes 7–10 working days on site, a wet room 4–7 days, and a straightforward walk-in shower or a tiling-only job less. Wet rooms take a little longer because the tanking and graded floor need curing time we won’t rush. Older Plymouth homes can add a day or two if we uncover perished pipework or a tired subfloor at strip-out — but we flag that at survey wherever we can, and you always get a realistic day-by-day plan before we begin.
Do you supply the bathroom, or do I buy everything myself?
Either works. Most customers prefer us to design, supply and fit the whole thing on one quote, which keeps it simple — including making sure the parts actually fit and arrive on time. If you’d rather choose and buy your own suite and tiles, we’re happy to fit a supply-your-own project too. We’ll tell you honestly which approach suits your budget and how to avoid the common pitfalls.
Can I still use a bathroom while the work is going on?
If you only have one bathroom, we plan the job to keep disruption to a minimum and get essential facilities back on as quickly as we sensibly can. Many homes have a second WC or a downstairs cloakroom that stays usable throughout. We’ll talk through the practicalities at the home visit so you know exactly what to expect day by day — there are no nasty surprises about being without a toilet.
Will the price change once you’ve started?
Not unless you change your mind about the spec. Our quote is fixed and written, based on a proper survey of your room before we start. If we ever uncover something genuinely hidden — say, a rotten section of subfloor behind an old bath — we stop, show you, and agree any change with you in writing before we do the work. You’re never presented with a surprise bill at the end.
Do I need planning permission or Building Regulations for a bathroom?
For a like-for-like bathroom refit you almost never need planning permission. The work must still meet Building Regulations — particularly electrical safety (Part P) and ventilation (Part F) — which we handle as standard. Converting a room into a new bathroom or en-suite, or combining a separate bathroom and WC, is usually fine too. We’ll flag anything unusual at the home visit so you’re never caught out.
Are you insured, and is the work guaranteed?
Yes to both. We’re fully insured, and every bathroom we fit carries a written workmanship guarantee. You’ll have one named point of contact from the first visit to the final clean, a fixed written quote agreed before we start.
Which areas of Plymouth do you cover?
We cover Plymouth and the wider South West — including Plympton, Plymstock, Derriford, Woolwell, Crownhill, Mannamead, Peverell, Efford, St Budeaux, and out to Saltash, Ivybridge and Tavistock. If you’re nearby and not sure whether we reach you, just ask. Browse all the areas we cover to find your neighbourhood and see local work.
Ready when you are
Let’s talk about your new bathroom
Book a free, no-obligation home visit. We’ll measure up, talk through your ideas, and send you a clear, fixed written quote — fitted properly, finished tidy, guaranteed. No pressure, no surprises, just a proper bathroom by people from round here.
Call 01752 905132 or email info@proudbathroomfittersplymouth.co.uk