Best Bathroom brands

sl_jones

Hi all,

I've just moved into a new 3 bed house that needs a brand new bathroom and I wondered in anyone had any recommendation of brands to use?

All the builders I have got said they will provide the labour and can give me trade discounts on places. In my old bathroom, I used Soak.com however found them to have a slightly cheap feel to them.

I also need a hand designing it as I have a wall to knock down between the WC and bath and can visualise it.

Thanks in advance

maisie_cat

I've installed 3 bathrooms and 2 cloakrooms in the last 13 years, I originally used B&Q and Wickes and have to say that Wickes fared better. It's not necessarily the suites but the taps and fittings &how easy they are to fix if they drip/break. all the B&Q taps and showers valves have been replaced they all dripped and you can't remove the cartridge to replace it so it requires a new fitting. The toilet innards have also been replaced because they broke. I have recently used victoria plum to replace the B&Q shower and enclosure and the quality appears better. My kitchen taps on the other hand are Franke and the cartridges have been replaced once in 12 years, really easy to do. I think when I do another bathroom I will go for quality taps/showers that I can maintain. In terms of visualisation, there is nothing to stop you going to a showroom and getting them to knock up a 3d cad drawing

ceredigion

Villeroy-boch

EssexExile

ceredigion wrote: »

Villeroy-boch

£700 for a bog is hardly MSE though!

Davesnave

Middle of the road quality without being silly:


Ideal Standard, Mira, Grohe, Roca, Bette, Kaldewei, and loads more, but now I've named a few, someone will come along and say they had problems with x, y, or z.

Your builders may not be able to get better discounts from their suppliers without you accepting 'no name' brands for some products. My building supplies company told me to get my own Mira shower from the internet, Screwfix etc because they wouldn't be able to beat their price. OTOH, they did a good deal on a Kaldewei bath and Ideal Standard toilet.

pollypenny

Avoid Bathstore. We have a vanity unit which is going soggy. The doors were replaced in the first year with no problem, now they're flaking again.

The tap had X-shaped turns. They were a nightmare to clean and sort of bubbled. Can't wait to change it.

cajef

Had Twyford when we did a bathroom refit in our previous property in this property we have had Roca never had any problems with either, we used Bristan taps and fittings and a Mira shower.

vansboy

I've had a combination of soak
betterbathrooms
which are both the same company it seems, although in last couple weeks, betterbathrooms went out of business and taken over by another firm.


Other than needing shower tray replacing three times, before geting one which wasn't cracked, all other items were ok quality and by using their frequent discount codes, I made substantial savings.


They had the same items, on each site, but with different product names, at totally different prices.


The surprise I had, was some of the items were in packaging of Wren, the infamous on here, kitchen company.


I bought Ikea vanity units, MUCH better than Better Bathrooms.



Prwviously, I mixed Homebase, B&Q and Bathstore, with ok results, but this time it all looks superior.


VB

ss53

Another vote for Roca. Just had a refit and very happy with it.

ed110220

I used a mixture of brands for my bathroom. Mostly they have been good, I've been happy with the Mira shower, Bristan taps, Splashpanel wall cladding etc.

The only thing I haven't been happy with are the Roper Rhodes cabinet doors which have swollen up and started to delaminate from the chipboard.

DIYDave1

Hudson Reed, Mira, Rhoper Rodes, Roca, Howdens make some nice furniture too.


There are tons of good manufacturers but dont be put off by some of the cheaper bits. I recently done my bathroom to a high standard without breaking the bank and after 18 months everything (touch wood) is still working and looking as it did from day 1. I paid £19 for a lovely chrome waterfall basin tap expeciting it to go to cr*p after a year but there is not even limescale marks on it! Bargain!