Wetroom installation in Croydon

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 wetrooms involves

A wetroom in south London costs £7,000–£12,000 excluding VAT and takes two to three weeks. The price gap versus a normal bathroom is the structural work: the floor is opened up to form falls to a drain, and the entire room is tanked — and on the suspended timber floors most south London houses have, that structural stage is what decides whether a wetroom leaks.

This is for you if

• You want a walk-in, screen-free shower with no tray and no step
• The household needs level access now or will in the coming years
• A small or awkward room where a tray and enclosure waste the space
• You have seen wetroom horror stories and want it done properly once
• A loft or basement room where a conventional enclosure will not fit
• You want the whole-room tiled look

What's included

• Floor structure opened and rebuilt with formed falls to a linear drain
• Full-room tanking membrane — floor and walls, not just the shower corner
• Flood test before tiling: we prove it holds water before covering it up
• Large-format tiling with movement joints where the substrate needs them
• Concealed shower valve, fixed head and glass where the design wants it
• Underfloor heating option while the floor is already open

The standard we work to

Tanked to BS 8000-0 waterproofing practice with a manufacturer-backed membrane system; drainage falls and ventilation to Building Regulations.

The full write-up — costs, timings and the questions people ask — is on our wetroom installation page. Prices and standards are the same in every town we cover.