suggestions for a beautiful bathroom

Suggestions for a beautiful bathroom

1. Plan your bathroom(see above)

2. Find an plumber/bathroom installer/tiler who you have seen thier work. Stylish bathrooms put in by a shoddy plumber look average and your bathroom should look superb and will do if you combine good ideas great equipment and quality craftsmen.

3. Communicate with your installer, let him have a copy of the plans and a copy of your order and discuss with him where you want everything. for example if you are tall make sure he puts the shower head high enough(i know this from painfull expirence).

4. Most quality bathroom furniture and some shower doors takes about a month come in. So allow plenty of time when you order before the installation start date(see salesman for details). Last minute orders while possiable are not recommended.

5. Decide what for you is important in your bathroom. So if you really want a powerfull shower allocate agreater part of your budget for the shower.

6. Make 100% sure you are happy with what you are ordering as many items are unreturnable and the rest you will be charged a restocking fee for.

7. If you are thinking of selling your house in the next couple of years it is advisable to keep a bath in your property even if you do not use it,. as this will make your property easy to sell. Also try to keep the styling neutral but classy. Bright pink tiles may float your boat but are likley to make any potential buyer think that they will have spend money on the bathroom as a priority, therefore making it less likley that you will get your properties asking price. If however you are going to live there forever do what you like, if you don`t like baths but love showers have a big shower and throw the bath out!

8. Try to get your bathroom delivered on the day your installer starts. So that he can talk to our driver who is also a plumber and go through and check the goods and ask any relevent questions.

More suggestions coming soon!

A little planning can make bathing in your new bathroom wonderfully pleasurable. Your ideas on style and our know-how will make the room.
We plan more than 90% of our bathrooms. We know how to maximise the space. We will design your bathroom on paper - frankly, we have seen so many CAD designs (although looking great) are wrong and don't work as well as the simpler hand drawn sketch.

How can you help in the design process?

To plan your bathroom our designers need to know:

• What style and ideas and needs you have for your bathroom.
• Where the toilet is situated.
• Where the window is situated.
• Where your door is and which way it opens.
• The posistion of any sloping ceilings.
• Your budget for the bathroom.
• How you heat your hot water e.g a combi boiler.
• How soon will you want the bathroom, as this will inflence what goods can be ordered in time.
• Most importantly what your ideas are on what the bathroom should look like
  Once our designers have this information, it will enable them to combine the practical aspects of your room and merge them with your design ideas and any styles you may have seen in our showroom.

A site visit - where one of our designers will come to your house, usually in the evening, to measure your bathroom and discuss the design of your bathroom - is available for a fee of £50 (refundable once you place an order).

General Bathroom F A Q

Below are some of the more frequently asked general bathroom questions.


What is a Back-To-Wall toilet?
Back-To-Wall (BTW) describes a toilet that is fixed rigidly to the surface of a supportive wall. The cistern is attached directly to the wall allowing for the waste pipes to be hidden.

What is a Closed-Couple toilet?
Most of the toilets you see are Closed-Couple, this means that the cistern is attached directly to the toilet pan.

What is a Corner Fitted toilet?
This a great space saver toilet. As the name suggests, this toilet fits into the corner of the bathroom or cloakroom.

What is a Wall Hung toilet?
A Wall-Hung toilet is attached to wall, this allows the toilet to be elevated off the floor. These toilets can be attached to load bearing walls but can also be installed and supported by a steel framework, which means that they can be fixed to any wall within the bathroom.

What is a countertop wash basin?
There are many countertop sinks around at the moment. These sinks sit on top of your vanity unit with the plumbing housed inside. They come in varying materials, glass, marble and porcelain. Very stylish but if you are considering a countertop sink, its worth bearing in mind the extra space it requires.

What is a Semi-Recessed wash basin?
A Semi-Recessed wash basin is integrated into a vanity unit, but unlike the Countertop, it will over hang the unit. The plumbing will be housed inside the vanity unit. Using bathroom furniture together with Semi-Recessed wash basins provides ample storage for all those bottles, jars towels and soaps that tend to accumulate in the bathroom.

What does W.C. mean?
W.C. stands for water closet, but is more widely known as a toilet.

What is a 4-Piece Bathroom Suite?
Your 4 - Piece Bathroom suite comprises of the 4 individual pottery fixtures; the toilet pan and cistern, the wash basin and pedestal. A 5 Piece Bathroom Suite has the addition of a bidet.

What is the difference between a Cloakroom Suite and a standard bathroom suite?
A Cloakroom Suite is smaller than an the standard bathroom suite, it comprises of a basin and toilet usually more compact in size.

What is an En-Suite Bathroom?
An En-Suite Bathroom is a bathroom that is usually attached to a bedroom.

What is a Concealed Cistern?
You would probably find a Concealed Cistern in a Back-to-Wall or Wall Mounted toilet. The cistern and water chamber is hidden from view usually within the bathroom furniture or in the wall cavity.

What is the difference between a top-flushing and a side-flushing toilet?
A top-flushing toilet is usually operated by a push-button flush. This pushable fitting usually comes with Dual Flush as standard. This provides the user with 2 flushing strengths and allowing the user to be more economical with the water. A side-flushing toilet operates with a single handle on the side of the cistern.

What is the difference between a Full and Semi Pedestal?
A Pedestal is the support underneath your wash basin. A Full-Pedestal runs vertically from the wash basin to the bathroom floor. A Semi-Pedestal is wall mounted and is designed to conceal the pipe works.

What is a Walk-In Shower Cubicle?
A Walk-in Shower Cubicle refers to an shower enclosure that doesnt have doors or any form of framework.

What does "adjustment" mean in terms of my shower cubicle?
Rarely are walls in houses perfectly square, particularly in older houses. The Adjustment allows your fitter to adjust the shower enclosure to fit comfortably into the space.

What is an Adjustable Shower Tray?
Sometimes floors in houses can be uneven, in addition if you have a concrete floor you may require room under your shower tray for you plumbing. Therefore an Adjustable Shower Tray is supplied with changeable feet so the user can adjust the height and make sure the tray is level.

What is a reversible shower door/ panel?
This item can be used if rotated or turned upside down.

What is a Bi-Fold Shower Door?
The shower door consists of two panel that concertina together when the door is opened. Whilst one end stays in a fixed position, the other runs along tracks allowing for access.

What is a Corner-Entry Shower Cubicle?
The doors on a Corner-Entry Shower Cubicle open from the corner point of the shower. The cubicle is usually square in shape with 2 sliding doors.

What is a Hinged Shower Door?
A Hinged Shower Door swings open rather than having sliding doors on rails.

What is the difference between a Pentagon Shower Cubicle and a Quadrant Shower Cubicle?
Imagine if you will a square shower cubicle with one corner sliced off. A Pentagon shower has five sides, two of which fit into a corner area. The remaining three consist of two panels and a door. This is a great space saver. A Quadrant Shower Cubicle is quarter circular in shape and designed to fit in to a corner space, with a curved glass screen and sliding doors. An Offset Quadrant Shower Cubicle is a rectangular shower with an angled corner at one end.

What is the difference between a Square and Rectangular Shower Cubicle?
A Rectangular shower cubicle will usually comprise of a shower door and 1 side panel if enclosed by two solid walls; alternatively an end panel. The Square Shower Cubicle is an enclosure that fits a square area in the bathroom, generally comprising a door and a minimum of 1 side panel.

What is a Bath Screen?
A bath screen sit in the edge of the bath, and is usually required with shower/bath to prevent the spillage of water. Most bath screens are made of toughened safety glass. They are sometimes made in curved glass, plain and even patterned.

What is a Side Panel?
A Side Panel or End panel is a screen that attaches to a shower door at 90 to create a shower enclosure wherever a side wall isn't present.

What is an In-Line Shower Panel?
If you are installing a Rectangular Shower Enclosure you may wish to use an In-Line Shower Panel attached to a shower door in to increase the size of the cubicle.

What is a Slider Door?
A Slider Door operates by running along a guide track in order to allow access and is generally used in corner entry rectangular and quadrant cubicles.

What is an Inset Shower Tray?
Inset Shower Trays and Floor Standing Tray is a low tray suitable for a wet room. The thin tray will sit directly to the floor and therefore needs to be installed where access to plumbing is available.

Is the glass safe for use in a shower?
Most shower screens, panels and cubicles are made from Safety Glass as standard. Safety Glass is tougher and thicker than standard glass, increasing both stability and user safety.

What is a Bath Shower Mixer?
A Bath Shower Mixer works equally well as a bath mixer and a shower, with water distributed through either the tap or shower outlets.

What is a Bridge?
A Bridge is the horizontal connection between the hot and cold water taps.

An itroduction to Lefroy Brooks from the man himself

The Complete Classic Bathroom

Traditionally Lefroy Brooks has for many years been known as the worlds most famous manufacturer of classic bathroom brassware – taps (faucets), accessories and showers.
However, about 10 years ago something changed. I realised people do not choose baths (tubs) they choose bathrooms.
They require a complete co-ordinated bathroom with accessories, baths, tiles, lighting, chinaware, showers and taps.
A total look where colour finishes and styles match perfectly. Indeed a whole ethos is in harmony – a complete classic bathroom.

This was a tall order. It set me down a path of slowly piecing together all the very best elements of the classic bathroom worldwide from London and Edinburgh to New York, from Paris and Bordeaux to the Italian Lakes.

I was essentially interested in that splendid period of the Empire when huge liners ploughed their path around the world. The period from the turn of the century to 1914, when the Great War began in Europe. A time when the elaborate curves of the Victorian Era gave way to the more honest, direct lines of the Edwardian ‘Modern Classics’.

I wish I had been just writing a book or indeed assembling a website. A couple of photographs in the relevant chapter would suffice, but the task was truly enormous – once the research had been accomplished and the original pieces located, I embarked on sketches, technical drawings, models and finally moulds and production.
Most pieces required adaption to present day requirements whilst maintaining the vocabulary of the past.
Factories had to be built, old methods of production re-created, quality maintained, enthusiasts enlisted.

Finally, may I say it has been a labour of love. It is a true joy to work with such beautiful products. We at Lefroy Brooks know how extremely lucky we are.
Whether you are specifying a 200 room hotel, a chateau in France, A Soho Loft or a Fishing Bothy by the River Dee – I hope some of that joy rubs off our products and into your life.

Kindest regards

Christo A Lefroy Brooks

Bathroom Trading Barnet Blog Day 1

Hi

Our names are Simon and Milt and we will be writing a Blog on our Lefroy Brooks Online website. We will try and write concise and informative and occasionaly funny blogs about Lefroy Brooks and the bathroom industry as a whole.

We have had our shop for over 8 years and have had over 14,000 orders placed through us with about 10,000 customers. After all that time i have four basic pieces of advice for customers who about to order a bathroom.

• Plan Plan and Plan again! or even better get a bathroom designer/salesman to plan your bathroom to marry what you desire and what is practical.
• Buy quality goods, cheap chinese imports save money initally but you won`t get any back up if they go wrong and they will and they won`t last long either. if in any doubt a good basic guide is if it`s light the quality is usually rubbish.
• Buy from a shop you have recommend to or one that has a good reputation. Many shops have a `sell it and forget it` attitude.
• Get a good bathroom fitter/plumber who has been recommended to you and you have seen his work. Make sure he knows what is required of him as per the design and the works he will carry out. Fantastic goods fitted by a moran who doesn`t care will look awfull. A general rule is that good bathroom installers are not available at short notice and tend to have to be booked in advance.

Remember the four key points: PLAN, QUALITY, SERVICE, CRAFTSMANSHIP

Hope this helps and we will be putting more blogs on soon.

Si

New Blog

New Blog coming soon!!!!!!