Here at TeamMax Ltd – luxurious bathrooms and luxury wetrooms are the bread and butter of what we do as a Complete Property Refurbishment company. We’ve fitted so many wetroom installation that there’s nothing we can’t do. We’ve seen it all, done it all and quite frankly, we have become one of the best outfits on the London wetroom renovation market that you can find.
If you live in London you are more than likely to be making the most of every square centimetre inside your property. You need to find intuitive yet unique solutions to the lack of space not only to increase the value of your property but also to provide the luxury, flow, and energy to your home that you deserve.
Wetroom Advantages
The biggest advantage to having a wetroom is how it opens out the space in your bathroom, providing not only the illusion of space, but in reality, it utilises every single square millimetre by removing the straight lines and the curves needed to house a clunky shower tray and a built-in bathtub… Instead, we can strip it back to the perimeter wall inside the room and you have the same function, possibly even with the space for a very special feature wall with a standalone bathtub…
This removal of all the corners and lines also makes functional sense within the fact that a luxury wetroom is much easier to clean, making it a hygienic alternative for families, busy working people, and for the elderly alike. It can be made to benefit any and every category of user, for people lacking time, mobility or even the years to consider scrubbing a traditional bathroom.
This open, clean and luxurious space is also highly aspirational – wetrooms exude luxury to homeowners and guests alike with industry experts predicting an extra wetroom in your property can add in excess of 3% to the value of your entire property which – translated into actual figures can equate to a highly profitable endeavour. For example, the current average house price paid in London is £633,994 (Zoopla, Nov 2019) so if we added a luxury wetroom to this property at a 3% increase in the value of the property, it would instantly add £19,020 to the price of the property (on average). And a wetroom doesn’t need to be a big space, everything depends on the availability of the plumbing. We’ve even fitted a luxury wetroom in a cupboard under the stairs. Really!
Things To Consider With Wetrooms
Wetroom Design
The exciting aspect of wetrooms is that the design possibilities are endless! The advantage that we have at TeamMax is that we are not working exclusively with any designer or suppliers, that’s an advantage we enjoy because of the quality of our work. We are however approved installers of CCL wetrooms and they design a product that offers a versatile, competitively priced wet–floor system that can be created to suit any shape of a wetroom. We also work in close conjunction with a highly sought-after London Bathroom designing team who will create 3D and even virtual reality representations of your dream bathroom so you can see what you’re buying before you put your card down. Then they proceed to produce your handmade products or buy the components at highly competitive rates for that luxurious, bespoke wetroom addition.
Upstairs or Downstairs Wetroom?
Wetrooms can be installed anywhere in your home. Really. Anyone who tells you differently probably just can’t fit it into their schedule… We know it can be done, be it concrete or wooden floor joists, it all depends on the floor former and build-up specification that you are going to use. Then you need to ensure the correct waterproofing or “tanking” is used – and you can have one in your brand new loft conversion or in your brand new downstairs extension.
Luxury At An Affordable Rate
It’s no secret that having a shower area, luxury wetroom, or walk-in shower simply speaks class but it needn’t be reserved for royalty. If you are looking for something above basic – you can consider a wetroom or walk-in shower, and be aware, that the uplift in property value will better offset the cost than a traditional shower cubicle.
Functionality
With our vast experience, we could guarantee that this new shower area remains watertight, 100%, 1000% and this is the sort of guarantee you need to look for when considering your brand new wetroom installation team because anything less must be discarded. It is possible and it’s not difficult, it’s simply a different process and if you don’t know it, you don’t know it. Simple.
Heating
Tiled rooms like bathrooms and subsequently wetrooms can be the coldest room in the house and the best way to heat them is through underfloor heating. It’s quick to heat up, you can moderate the temperature to the perfect room temperature for you and it saves space by removing the need for wall radiators, which take more power to heat up your room anyway.
You’ll probably want to include a heated towel rail and we’d suggest considering a dual fuel towel rail so you can appreciate a warm towel during the warmer months when the central heating isn’t in use. Obviously, you’ll need to where to put it in a wetroom, smaller wetrooms will provide a challenge but there is a solution for everything.
Mirror demisters are an important thing to think about, which can be added to your current mirror cabinet but can also be built in with some really useful, high-tech features with variable lighting and such; definitely worth looking into if you want to get it right!
Shower Screens
Shower screens can come in all different sizes specific to your particular needs. You can include one in a luxury wetroom design in order to avoid any issues with splashing around the room if it is a large room that you’re redesigning, it will also save you having to waterproof the entire room. If it is a smaller room – consider skipping this option to keep it open and feeling spacious.
Summary
In conclusion, you can see there are many different options open to you when you consider your brand new London wetroom in your city residence. Not only will you increase the value of your property if you are creating an additional luxury wetroom, but you are also creating a functional, luxury, and cost-effective addition to your home, and those three qualities are what we love here at TeamMax, which is why we are so passionate about London wetrooms and want to break the stigma surrounding them! Every London home – be it a large townhouse in Mayfair or an apartment in Zone 9 will benefit from one of these rooms and the chances are, you can probably afford it.