Whether you are a dab-hand at DIY or you don’t know your wrench from your pliers, it is a good idea to hire a professional plumber when refitting your bathroom. Here are just a few reasons why.
- Moving appliances
If you are not just looking to redecorate your washroom, but want to move some of the appliances, it is essential you get an expert to do this. You might need to move drain, water, or waste pipes, and if you do it wrong, this could lead to disastrous consequences.
Swapping your sink and toilet around might sound simple, but it can actually be complicated if the appropriate lines are not in the right place. This means plumbers may have to lift floorboards or look in walls. If you do not know what you are doing or how to connect the right pipes, you could end up causing a lot of damage to your property.
As Home and Gardens stated: “Bathroom installation can be tricky, involving spatial awareness and technical skill, so it pays to have an interior designer, a specialist bathroom designer or, at the very least, an experienced builder or plumber with an eye for design.”
- Unearth lots more problems
It’s always the way that you find lots more problems you didn’t know about when renovating your home. Once the pipes have been exposed, it might be that they are in poor condition, or the network is such that they cannot be easily moved.
However, this is all unlikely to be known until a professional begins the work and looks at it. An expert will be able to advise you what you can still do with your bathroom renovation, whereas you might feel at a loss if you are doing it alone.
- Install a wet room
It has become very popular over the last few years to create a wet room instead of having a separate shower cubicle. However, these involve a lot more work, and if not done correctly, could cause a lot of water damage to the rest of the house.
Should you fancy having a wet room fitted, it is definitely a good idea to get a professional to handle this project. The added expense will be worth it if it means saving thousands of pounds you might have to spend on repairs in the future.
- Repairs guaranteed
If you fit your entire bathroom and find some problems with the plumbing after a few weeks of using it, you will have to either fix it yourself or hire someone to make the repairs for you.
However, after getting a plumber to fit out your entire bathroom, you are most likely to be offered a guarantee for a period of time. Therefore, if you do find any faults with the work, they will return to repair the problem free of charge.
This guarantee can reassure lots of homeowners that they will not be left with a leaking bathroom or a washroom they are unhappy with after investing lots of money into it.
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