Wet Room Installation in Chatteris
Chatteris sits on some of the hardest water in the county, so limescale is the single most common thing behind the jobs we get called to. Wet rooms have gone from a luxury feature to one of the most requested bathroom upgrades. The appeal is obvious — a clean, open shower space with no tray or curtain, easy to clean, and a look that makes even a small bathroom feel twice the size. They're also the most practical solution for anyone with mobility concerns, removing the step-over that makes a traditional shower or bath difficult.
Ringed by the Sixteen Foot and Forty Foot drains, the town sits low on the peat with a high water table that shapes how everything below ground behaves. The properties across Chatteris suit wet rooms in different ways. The older homes in Slade End and the town centre often have ground-floor bathrooms with solid floors — ideal for cutting a gradient and installing a linear drain. The newer builds on Furrowfields work well for en-suite wet rooms, where the compact space benefits from the open design. Wet rooms also work well in loft conversions, extensions, and garage conversions where the bathroom is being built from scratch.
The old core around the market square is full of Victorian fen cottages, and their original pipework often needs careful work rather than a rip-out. The difference between a wet room that works and one that causes problems comes down to the tanking. A full liquid membrane system waterproofs the entire floor and walls to at least 1.2 metres. Every corner joint, pipe penetration, and floor-to-wall junction gets sealed with reinforcing tape and additional membrane coats. Done properly, with no corners cut, a tanked wet room is as watertight as a swimming pool.
