A place to avoid
If you are considering using this outfit to do any work in your house: Don’t.
Here is a company that has a shiny façade and smooth talking front people, but behind that lurk endless problems.
Promises of using only carefully vetted and carefully selected tradespeople experienced enough for the job at hand turned out to be a fiction. Promises of carefully managing the project to fit new bathrooms were never properly realised. Saying they would have the foreman of the team chosen for the work come out and do an inspection pre starting date to check the plans were sound and there were no unexpected issues never happened (with serious consequences). Assurances they would carry out the work to a reasonable fixed timescale with minimal disruption was a myth.
The result: work that was due to start in May last year is still not complete in March this year. The ‘very best subcontractors’ they promised turned out to be a bunch of uncoordinated, random, tradespeople, definitely not up to the job at hand – with a couple of exceptions. Demanding the full 100% costs had to be paid before work could start, using our house as a storage depot rather their warehouse were just the start.
Work packages were done in the wrong order, so work had to be undone and then redone – sometimes several times. Work was often substandard so had to be redone. We were left without plumbing for whole days at a time. Toilets were ‘connected’ with leaks. Hot and cold pipes were mixed up. Doors were left not closing. The main subcontractor was from Sunderland who it turns out has had compulsory strike-offs – so much for the reassurance that we would have carefully vetted and managed contractors. He repeatedly turned up late, failed to turn up at all for days on end, took unannounced holidays in the middle of the job, often simply did not reply to phone calls and texts, and gave flimsy or no reasons for any of this. His was not a bathroom and plumbing business, a lot of the time it was just calling in this and that contractor without any coherent plan about where, when and how work was to be done.
Attempts to have the Bathroom Studios alleged project managers sort out this mess produced little improvement. Their usual response was ‘we’ll fix that right away, you’ll hear back tomorrow at the latest’. Only for days, weeks, or no reply at all despite repeated prompting. They were happy to let things string along, content in the knowledge they had all their money from the start (should have smelled a rat when they insisted on that!) and didn’t need to do anything further.
If we catalogued all the negatives about the Bathroom Studios and their sub and sub-subcontractors this review would stretch to pages long. Don’t have yourself end up with such a list: Avoid this outfit at all costs.







