Mixers and showers
Concealed bodies set to the finished tile line, not to the blockwork. Too deep or too proud is how trims fail a month later.
Bathroom plumbing before the tile hides the mistakes
A pretty bathroom with a backwards hot and cold, a shower that starves when the basin opens, and a trap you cannot reach is a plumbing job that was rushed under the tiler.
We do the plumbing scope of a bathroom refit: points for the mixer, shower, toilet and washer if it shares the room, wastes with a fall, and shutoffs you can actually turn later. Waterproofing and tile are other trades. We coordinate the day our pipes must be tested before their work covers them.
In apartments the stack position is fixed. We will not move a toilet across the room and hope a long horizontal waste stays quiet. If the design asks for that, we say what it will sound like.
Floor wastes
A trap that can be lifted after the marble is down. We argue for an access, because a glued waste becomes a broken floor.
Pressure balance
If the bathroom is far from the pump, we say so before the rain shower head is purchased. A large head on a weak branch is a dribble.
How the visit runs
- 1
Mark points on the shell
Heights for the people who will use the room, not a generic drawing.
- 2
Pipe and test
Pressure on the water, a water test on the waste, before tile.
- 3
Return for trims
Mixers, shower rail, toilet and accessories once the wall is finished.
- 4
Hand over the valves
Show you which shutoff feeds this room.
Same trade, different emirate
The method is shared. Water pressure, building age and the utility company are not. Open the emirate you live in for the local version of this service.
Dubai
Towers on DEWA water, villa communities, and older Deira roofs.
Abu Dhabi
Island towers, mainland villas, and Al Ain on the same ADDC network.
Sharjah
SEWA water, roof tanks, and a city of older flats plus new communities.
Ajman
Compact city, Etihad Water and Electricity, mid-rise blocks and new Jurf.
Ras Al Khaimah
A spread-out emirate: Julphar towers, Al Hamra villas, and hot inland plots.
Fujairah
East-coast humidity, villas, Dibba’s distance, and Etihad WE.
Umm Al Quwain
A small emirate: coastal houses, Falaj Al Mualla inland, Etihad WE.
Questions we hear on site
Do you tile as well?
No. We plumb and we leave the wall ready for the waterproofer and tiler. Mixing those invoices hides who has to come back.
Can you move the shower to the other wall?
Often yes for the water. The waste depends on the slab and the stack. We check the waste before agreeing the move.
The developer bathroom is leaking at the corner.
That may be waterproofing, not the pipe. We test the pipe. If it holds, you need the waterproofing looked at, and we will say that.
Can you fit a washlet or a smart toilet?
Yes if there is a socket where the manufacturer wants it and the flange is sound. The socket is an electrician’s item.
How long is the water off?
For a single bathroom first fix, usually part of a day for the connection, then the room stays unfinished until tile. We schedule the noisy day.
Bathroom plumbing
A pretty bathroom with a backwards hot and cold, a shower that starves when the basin opens, and a trap you cannot reach is a plumbing job that was rushed under the tiler.