Accessible & mobility bathrooms in Croydon
Level-access showers, walk-in baths and adapted bathrooms that look like bathrooms, not wards.
Croydon runs an active Disabled Facilities Grant programme, and we build to its requirements — the borough's OT service typically specifies level-access showers with fold-down seats for the interwar semis around Shirley and Sanderstead, where long-term owners are ageing in place. Those houses adapt well: solid layouts, room to widen doors, and a downstairs WC that can often take a shower. In the terraces the challenge is the narrow back-addition doorway, which we widen and re-hang outward as part of the job.
The houses we see in Croydon
The Victorian terraces of Broad Green, Thornton Heath and South Norwood carry the classic back-addition bathroom: small, cold, external soil stack, timber floors. Addiscombe and Shirley are Edwardian and 1930s family houses with a proper upstairs bathroom and usually a separate WC worth knocking through. Central Croydon is flats — 1960s blocks with concrete floors and old iron stacks, and the new towers around Boxpark and East Croydon with plastic internal risers, management companies and lease clauses that decide what a bathroom refit is allowed to touch.
What accessible bathrooms involves
An accessible bathroom conversion in south London costs £4,500–£9,500 excluding VAT depending on how much adaptation is needed — from a level-access shower with grab rails at the lower end to a full wetroom with a shower seat, comfort-height WC and widened door at the top. Done well, it looks like a modern bathroom that happens to be easy to use, and Disabled Facilities Grants of up to £30,000 exist for those who qualify.
This is for you if
- Stepping into the bath or over a shower tray has become a risk
- A parent is moving in, or you are future-proofing your own home
- An occupational therapist has recommended a level-access shower
- You are applying for — or have been awarded — a Disabled Facilities Grant
- A wheelchair or walking frame needs turning space the current room lacks
- You want adaptation that does not look clinical
What's included
- Level-access shower or wetroom floor with non-slip flooring that looks good
- Grab rails and shower seats fixed into structure, not plasterboard — positioned for the user
- Comfort-height WC, lever or sensor taps, thermostatic anti-scald showers
- Door widening or re-hanging outward where turning space needs it
- Working to an OT's specification where one exists — we build to their drawing
- DFG-compliant quotes and paperwork for grant-funded work
The standard we work to
Adapted provision guided by Building Regulations Part M and BS 8300 principles; thermostatic anti-scald valves fitted as standard; work compatible with Disabled Facilities Grant requirements.
The full write-up — costs, timings and the questions people ask — is on our accessible & mobility bathrooms page. Prices and standards are the same in every town we cover.
| Guide range | £4,500 – £9,500 |
| Typical duration | 1–3 weeks |
| Compliance | Adapted provision guided by Building Regulations Part M and BS 8300 principles |
Guide ranges for budgeting, excluding VAT. We confirm a fixed price after a free home survey — the price we agree is the price you pay.
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Guide range £4,500 – £9,500 excluding VAT, typically 1–3 weeks. Free survey, fixed written quote.