Bathrooms

from Home Designer and Architect - July 2022

Home Decor

At JIS we believe in providing an aesthetically pleasing addition to your bathroom which is both practical as well as versatile. All of our stainless steel towel rails are available in both a highly polished and satin finish. We offer a wide range of sizes from 300mm wide to 1200mm wide. 600mm high to 1800mm high we believe if you have the space, we have the rail to suit.

We supply both traditional ball joint rails, ladder rails with a tubular and square profile, as well as a range of more design lead rails. We supply in three formats across the board; central heating plumbed in, electric only and dual fuel. With the rising and continuing popularity of Black fixtures within the bathroom we have extended the Black Edition Range which now carries 13 of our most popular rails.

To further complement your rail, we have an exclusive range of accessories including our profile valves in black, satin and polished. Designed to complement the rails these valves will not protrude into the room and sit neatly within the rail visually enhancing the product. The valves are brass and coated with a good solid weight. We also supply our cylindrical element in both polished and satin finish this element is unique to ourselves designed by our inhouse design team and perfectly complements all of the rails within in the range made of tubular steel.

And finally, for the purpose of this editorial we offer our element cover to complement both tubular and square profile rails in black, satin and polished stainless steel. This really does visually enhance the appearance of electric only rails as you do not see the element.

We carry a wide range of accessories and valves to complement all our rails.

As always, we specialize in stainless steel, all of our rails are manufactured from 100% stainless steel. Stainless steel is manufactured from over 90% recycled material and 100% recyclable in itself.

We are an ethical company; we supply an ethically manufactured product that is sustainable in itself as well as its manufacture.

We support large charity initiatives.

We are also one of the few suppliers who invested in holding stock prior to the pandemic and the resultant supply shortages, which means we are still able to supply from stock with very short lead times.

Please do visit

www.sussexrange.co.uk

for further details or call us on

01825 722988

THE NEW ROARINGLY FABULOUS 1920 SHOWER FROM THOMAS CRAPPER

Thomas Crapper introduces the 1920 shower to its portfolio of beautiful bathroom products and furniture. The latest addition combines grand styling with modern technology such as the high-quality thermostatic valve. The 1920 shower is designed to be a focal point and bathroom designers can add mosaic tiles to the wall or floor - or even a statement piece of furniture to make the bathroom the room visitors speak about! Available in Chrome, Nickel and Polished Brass, the 1920 shower from Thomas Crapper retails at £3,174. For further information on Thomas Crapper, please visit www.thomas-crapper.com

bathrooms OFFSITE SOLUTIONS DELIVERS FINAL BATHROOM PODS FOR £3.2M CONTRACT FOR BERKELEY HOMES

Offsite Solutions, the UK’s leading bathroom pod specialist, has delivered the final pods for a £3.2m contract to manufacture luxury bathrooms for its second Berkeley Homes residential scheme.

Designed by Foster and Partners with Broadway Malyan, 250 City Road in London is a landmark development set in 1.9 acres of landscaped green spaces and courtyards.

Offsite Solutions has manufactured a total of 221 bath and shower pods in two different bathroom designs for Siena House. The delivery of the pods to site was completed in just seven weeks to meet Berkeley Homes’ scheduling for installation. This involved careful logistical planning with 44 separate batches of pods required on site and up to 10 deliveries in a single week.

The project was for the third phase of the City Road development, which will provide one, two, and three-bedroom apartments for private sale, and homes for shared ownership managed by Peabody Trust.

The interior design for the bathrooms and ensuite shower rooms for the private sale apartments is opulent and elegant. Fittings are finished in striking brushed gold – wall-mounted taps to the hand basin and bath, heated towel rail, and overhead and hand-held showers. This contrasts with white sanitaryware, a white steel bath, large format grey stone porcelain tiles with colour-matched grout, and a grey stone vanity top.

You can view a video of the bathroom pods here. •22•

High end bespoke vanity cabinets with fluted doors in dark blue and contrasting gold trims are designed to match the fitted furniture in the bedrooms.

Aurimas Vaitkus, Site Manager at Berkeley Homes, said, “Bathrooms are one of the most challenging elements to build on a major residential scheme with so many different trades and subcontractors to procure, co-ordinate, and benchmark which takes a lot of management time. Accurate tolerances and high-quality finishes are also vitally important to achieving the required standard – and these are easier to attain in a manufacturing environment.”

“Specifying bathroom pods simplifies the process of internal fitout and reduces the duration of second fix. There is a huge saving in management time by removing the need to co-ordinate different trades on site. Offsite manufacturing is just a more efficient way of working and we estimate it was at least 20 per cent faster on this project than in-situ construction.”

“Offsite Solutions has performed well at every stage. Their team was responsive with excellent communications and their logistics were outstanding, delivering this project ahead of programme, despite unavoidable changes to the delivery schedule caused by bad weather.”

“The quality of their pods is very good – and having worked with Berkeley Homes previously, they understand the high standards we work to. They showed exceptional knowledge of compliance, specifying pipework and fittings which meet both NHBC standards and facilitate connection on site. Having pods manufactured in the UK also makes it easier to visit the factory and resolve any design issues at an early stage.”

James Stephens, Managing Director of Offsite Solutions, said, “We are

bathrooms OFFSITE SOLUTIONS DELIVERS FINAL BATHROOM PODS FOR £3.2M CONTRACT FOR BERKELEY HOMES

delighted to have delivered our second bathroom pod contract for Berkeley Homes. These are the most luxurious and highest specification pods we have manufactured to date, taking offsite manufacturing to a completely new level.”

“There was extensive early collaboration on the design of the pods between Berkeley Homes, Broadway Malyan, Offsite Solutions, and the manufacturer of the bespoke cabinetry. This worked exceptionally well from our perspective.”

“Our production processes were also sufficiently flexible to accommodate the manufacture of a second range of bathroom pods for this mixed tenure project, to meet the requirements of the shared ownership homes which were specified by Peabody Trust. This gave Berkeley Homes all the speed, quality, and procurement benefits of offsite construction from a single manufacturer.” The luxury pods have a frameless glass shower enclosure, floor standing dual flush toilet, three-door mirrored cabinets, underfloor heating, and integrated LED lighting – creating a luxurious ambience for contemporary living. A specially designed, 1.2m high niche feature is recessed into the wall in the shower and above the bath. This was fully tiled and fitted with glass shelves. An effective and innovative underfloor heating solution was used for City Road, with a sub-floor with grooves to hold the pipework and an aluminium diffuser plate for even heat distribution. This was all integral to the pod and fully fitted in the factory. The bathroom pods for the shared ownership homes were fully tiled in limestone-coloured large format tiles to reduce maintenance and the need for repainting. Each bathroom was pre-installed with a bath and overhead shower on a sliding wall-mounted rail, a semi-recessed hand basin, free standing back-to-wall toilet, a tiled vanity top, heated towel rail, and underfloor heating. A large mirror above the hand basin was inset into the tiles for a flush, high quality finish. The contract at City Road follows Offsite Solutions’ successful delivery of an £8m project for Berkeley Homes for the offsite manufacture of more than 900 high specification bathroom pods for a 68-storey tower at South Quay Plaza in London Docklands. Offsite Solutions offers the UK’s largest range of pods to suit many different building types and applications. Options include steel-framed bathroom pods with porcelain-tiled finishes for high-end apartments, PRS, student residences and hotels; robust and low maintenance GRP composite shower pods for student accommodation, build-to-rent, care homes, social housing, and healthcare; hybrid pods for specialist projects, and award-winning demountable GRP pods for ease of installation in refurbishment schemes.

Offsite Solutions has also developed steel-framed utility pods for apartments or studios for build-to-rent or build-to-sell developments.

For further information, visit www.offsitesolutions.com, call 01278 780807 or email info@offsitesolutions.com.

LANDSCAPE - the UK’s premier landscaping exhibition, looks to showcase the industry more than ever before by bringing more exhibitors, more visitors and even more features to Hall 3 at the NEC - National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham on the 28th and 29th September 2022.

Welcoming hundreds of exhibitors with a vast collection of industryleading products, services and innovations for the design, build and management of exterior and interior landscaping projects, LANDSCAPE 2022 is the trade event you will not want to miss, and the best part is - it’s all FREE! The LANDSCAPE Show is the chance of the year to network with professionals at the top of their game at the largest event the industry has ever seen! LANDSCAPE is proud to say that 86% of visitors are very likely to recommend and use an exhibitor for a future project, and the exhibitor list continues to go from strength to strength, year on year. The extensive exhibitor list ensures that when they say that there is “something for everyone”, they really do mean it!

This year alongside the highly anticipated CPD accredited seminar programme, LANDSCAPE will be introducing some brand-new features including a Graduate Showcase by London College of Garden Design, and an additional program of ‘How to’ Seminars for anyone in the industry to learn, be inspired and expand their skills. Back again at the central bar area, LANDSCAPE will be hosting the incredibly popular PechaKucha 20x20 and Meet the Designer programme. LANDSCAPE’s Women in the Industry Day was so well received in 2021 that it’s back with an additional Networking Morning running in conjunction with #Yes She Can. Also back this year is the highly anticipated design competition, which will be focused on Wildlife Friendly designs and supported by the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust. Both the exhibition and all seminar sessions are free to attend. For more information or to register to attend the show, simply visit the registration page online. Expect the biggest names in landscaping to feature in the 2022 line-up and be sure to keep an eye on LANDSCAPE’s social media channels for the latest updates and be the first to hear about even more reasons why LANDSCAPE 2022 is the show you do not want to miss.