Wet Room Installation in Stevenage
Stevenage was Britain's first New Town, and its six planned neighbourhoods mean much of the housing shares the same 1950s and 60s build and services. 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.
The town runs on hard Hertfordshire chalk water, so limescale in cylinders, valves and heat exchangers is behind a large share of the work here. The properties across Stevenage suit wet rooms in different ways. The older homes in Shephall 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 Great Ashby 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.
Because whole neighbourhoods went up together, they share the same first-fit plumbing, and it's all reaching replacement age at once. 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.
