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Wetroom conversion is the single most asked-about bathroom job in Sutton, and it is also the least forgiving: a level-access shower only works if the floor build-up, the tanking and the drainage fall are engineered together. On the suspended timber floors of SM1 and SM2's Edwardian semis that means a former and a properly supported deck, not a tray dropped between joists; on solid floors it means cutting in the fall. We tank the whole floor, not just the shower corner, because that is the difference between a wetroom and a slow leak.

Family bathrooms get the same rigour — full strip-out, first fix checked and renewed, then tiling and sanitaryware fitted to last.

Sutton's housing was built with materials worth keeping — pine boards under the carpet, panelled doors under the hardboard, geometric tile paths under whatever the seventies added. Restoration is often the smarter half of a refurbishment here: floors repaired and refinished, staircases rebuilt where treads have gone, original front doors overhauled with proper draught sealing instead of being swapped for plastic.

The semis climbing toward Belmont in SM2 have side returns and rear gardens that reward a proper kitchen project — a knock-through or infill first, then a kitchen designed for the widened room rather than squeezed into the old one. Closer to the station the terraces suit a straighter refit: same-day itemised quote, a written programme, and the kitchen back in service on the date the programme says.