Bathrooms, Wet Rooms, Tiling & Plumbing in Brighton
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Brighton sits 35 miles east of our Rustington base, the largest town we cover and a market where property types vary as sharply as the postcodes themselves. The BN1 centre and the Conservation Areas around the Lanes, North Laine, and the Royal Pavilion estate are dominated by Regency squares and Victorian terraces with the planning sensitivity those streets demand. Kemptown and Whitehawk in BN2 mix grand period townhouses with post-war estate housing. Hove in BN3 holds some of the most architecturally cohesive Regency frontages in the country, Adelaide Crescent, Brunswick Square, and Palmeira Square, alongside the modern apartment blocks lining Kingsway and the Hove Lawns seafront.
Adsett Bathrooms and Plumbing has been working across Brighton and Hove for over a decade, and the team that quotes a Brighton job builds it. We offer complete bathroom design, wet room installations, Brighton plumbing services, and expert tiling services across BN1, BN2, and BN3.
Full bathroom design and installation
Wet room specialists with proper waterproofing
Expert tiling and finishing work
All plumbing and electrical work handled
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Our Services in Brighton
Wet Rooms in Brighton
Brighton homes split sharply between Regency and Victorian period properties: particularly around Kemptown, Hove and the Seven Dials, and modern apartments and terraces further inland. Period homes often have weak first-floor joists running across short spans, and adding a wet room means knowing where the load can safely sit. We do a structural assessment before quoting on any pre-1900 property and bring in a structural engineer where there's any doubt.
Apartment blocks in Brighton have their own considerations: noise transmission to the flat below, restrictions on the upstand around the door, and managed-block rules on what fittings can be used. We work with block management agents to clear plans before starting, and we use acoustic underlay under tiled floors to keep impact noise within building-regs limits. Linear drains are connected into the existing soil stack with the right air-admittance valve rather than venting through the roof.
See more of our wet room work across West SussexTiling in Brighton
Tiling in Brighton ranges from precise Victorian-style geometric floors in period homes to large-format porcelain in modern Hove apartments. Geometric encaustic floors need a perfectly flat sub-base because every cut is visible, so we lay self-levelling compound and dry-lay the full pattern before any adhesive goes down. The cuts at the edge of the room are planned to balance left and right rather than running out flush on one side.
On contemporary Brighton work we tile straight to plywood or backer board with rapid-set adhesive, with a decoupling membrane between the substrate and the tile bed where the floor has any history of movement. Large-format wall tiles are fixed with vertical battens to keep alignment dead straight, then the battens come out and the joints get filled and sponged off before the grout starts to cure.
Browse our tiling portfolioPlumbing in Brighton
Brighton plumbing work covers an enormous range: original Victorian lead supplies, post-war copper, 1980s gravity-fed systems with hot-water cylinders in the airing cupboard, and modern combi installs in newer flats. We replace what's beyond useful life rather than just patching, and we route new pipework so it can be isolated section-by-section for future maintenance.
Communal heating in Brighton blocks is common and brings its own quirks: shared boiler plant, individual heat-interface units in each flat, and varying pressure between units depending on which floor you're on. We work with the block's HIU before installing showers or unvented cylinders so the new spec sits within the system's design envelope. Gas Safe registration covers all combi and system boiler work.
Learn more about our plumbing servicesLocal Knowledge, Working in Brighton
The geography of a Brighton bathroom job matters in ways that do not apply most other places we cover. Parking permits for materials drops in the central BN1 and BN3 zones need to be arranged in advance with Brighton and Hove City Council, and on the narrowest streets behind the Lanes the council's parking suspension process is the only way to land a van for a full day. Period property work in the Regency Conservation Areas (West Hill, North Laine, the Pavilion estate, Brunswick Town in Hove) carries listed-building or conservation-area consent considerations on visible bathroom alterations, particularly where soil stack routing changes or where a window is being relocated.
The original copper and lead pipework in pre-1900 Brighton stock often follows runs that no longer fit modern bathroom layouts, and we factor in a full re-route as part of the quote rather than discovering the issue on site. The 1930s mansion blocks behind Hove seafront (Furze Hill, Eaton Gardens, Wilbury Crescent area) and the post-war estates in Patcham, Hollingbury, and Hangleton come with their own block-management rules around noise, soil stack routing, and what fittings the freeholder will accept. We work with the block managing agent ahead of any wet room or pipework job and have the documentation pack (insurance, warranty, scope) most agents now require.
Brighton Marina apartments fall under separate marina-wide rules administered by the marina operator, and we have completed a number of bathroom and en-suite installations there working within that framework. Saltdean, Rottingdean, and Roedean to the east of the city sit on chalk and require their own consideration on drainage and water-table issues for any ground-floor wet room work.
Our Bathroom Installation Process in Brighton
Every Brighton bathroom installation we deliver runs through the same four-stage process. The reason it works for Brighton specifically is that the council, conservation, and block-management steps are factored in from the start instead of being discovered on site.
1. Initial site survey
An in-person visit to the property. We take measurements, photograph the existing layout, and talk through what you want from the renovation. For Brighton properties this is where we flag any conservation, listed-building, soil stack, or block-management considerations that will affect the design and the programme.
2. Detailed quote and design
A written quote with itemised costs, a design with all fittings specified, and a build programme. If the property is in a Brighton Conservation Area or sits in a managed block in Hove we flag the relevant consent or notification process here, before any deposit is taken.
3. Programme and prep
Parking suspension applications submitted to Brighton and Hove City Council where required. Materials ordered and timed to land in the suspension window. Block management notice issued for HMO and managed-block properties. Start date confirmed.
4. Build and finish
Named project lead on site every working day. Daily clean-down. Mid-project walk-through with you so you can see the progress before any tiling or finishing goes in. Final snagging, sign-off, certificates, and a written aftercare brief on cleaning and maintenance specific to the fittings installed.
Why Choose Adsett Bathrooms in Brighton
We are a Rustington-based business that has been delivering bathroom installations across Brighton and Hove for over a decade. Brighton is not a side market for us. It is one of our core service towns, and the volume of completed work across BN1, BN2, and BN3 gives us a working knowledge of the streets, the council processes, the housing stock, and the block management landscape that a generic countywide contractor will not have.
Every bathroom installation includes the design consultation, the detailed quote, the project programme, and the named lead installer who will be on site every day. We do not subcontract our Brighton work. Gas Safe registration on combi and system boiler work, NICEIC-compliant electrical work, and the full five-year workmanship guarantee on completed installations are all standard. Free initial site survey across BN1, BN2, and BN3.
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