Thoughtful · Bathrooms · Fowey and south Cornwall

Bathrooms rebuilt properly, from the joists up.

A good bathroom depends on what's underneath it. We strip the room back, put right the floor and the pipework, and finish in natural stone or microcement, with wet underfloor heating if you want it.

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Finished bathroom in a period townhouse: walk-in shower with glass screen and brass rain head, stone floor, sash window — Bathroom, period townhouse, Bath · built by Thoughtful

Bathrooms

What goes into one

The parts you see, and the parts under the floor that decide how long it lasts.

Where we work

Fowey
Polruan
Bodinnick
Lanteglos
Golant
Lostwithiel
Tywardreath
Par
St Austell
Mevagissey

How a job runs, from first message to handover

The floor put right firstRotten joists and boards replaced, the rest strengthened and levelled before anything is tiled.
Drainage that worksWastes re-routed with proper falls. Where the old layout relied on a macerator, we run a new gravity waste to the soil pipe if the building allows it.
Walk-in showersGlass screens and concealed valves, with the pipework hidden in new stud walls.
Underfloor heating under stoneWet underfloor heating beneath natural stone, laid on a decoupling membrane.
MicrocementWalls, showers and sunken baths finished in one continuous surface.
Certified electricsElectrical work is done by a registered electrician, and you get the certificate.

Bathroom renovationPeriod townhouse, Bath2025

An old bathroom taken back to the joists and rebuilt as a walk-in shower room.

The room had a bath across one wall, a tired suite, a toilet that relied on a macerator and a floor nobody had looked under for decades. The brief was a walk-in shower, warmth underfoot and walls without a grid of tile joints.

We stripped it out and opened the floor first, because a stone floor is only as good as what it sits on. Rotten joists and boards were replaced and the rest strengthened and levelled. The macerator went: we ran an entirely new waste pipe beneath the floor to meet the soil pipe outside, so the toilet now drains properly by gravity. A new subfloor went down, and a new stud wall carries the shower valve and pipework out of sight.

Wet underfloor heating, run from the central heating, went down beneath natural stone tiles on a decoupling membrane, which lets an old timber floor move without cracking the stone.

The walls are microcement rather than tile, with a shelf recessed along the length of the shower. Brass fittings, a single glass screen and a basin on a timber vanity finish it.