Cabinetry & carcasses
18mm moisture-resistant carcasses with sealed edges, never standard MDF. Soft-close doors and drawers rated to 25kg per drawer for storing detergents, tools and pet food without sag.
Utility Rooms · Newcastle · North East · Surrey · Brighton
Utility Room Design & Installation
Newcastle & The North East
From £4,500 · Fixed Price.
Fully-fitted utility rooms with proper plumbing, ventilation and storage, designed to take the laundry, boots, coats and dog bowls out of your kitchen. Cabinetry, worktops, sink, appliance housings, tiling and electrics delivered by one in-house team.
Design-led since 2007 NICEIC · Gas Safe · £5m insured From £4,500 · supplied & fitted 1-year workmanship guarantee
18
Years' experience
£4.5k
Utility rooms from
1 yr
Workmanship guarantee
£5m
Public liability
NICEIC
Approved electrics
Service overview
The full picture, before you commit a penny.
What it is
A purpose-built utility room: bespoke cabinetry, worktops, integrated washer/dryer housings, deep Belfast or under-mount sink, tall broom storage, coat and boot area, tiled splashbacks, dedicated extraction and NICEIC-certified electrics.
Who it's for
Families in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, North Tyneside, Northumberland, Teesside, Surrey, Brighton and Hove who want the noise, mess and moisture of laundry out of the main kitchen, and homeowners converting a garage side-return or box room into functional storage.
When you need it
During a kitchen refit is the ideal moment (shared plumber, electrician and tiler save cost). Also whenever the washing machine has migrated into the kitchen, boots and coats are cluttering the hall, or drying laundry is fogging up the windows.
Why use a specialist
Utility rooms are small but service-heavy: hot and cold feeds, waste, isolation valves, condenser or vented dryer routes, dedicated circuits for wet appliances and mechanical extraction. Get one detail wrong and you have a damp cupboard that smells, not a room that works.
The cost of getting it wrong
What happens when this job is rushed, cheapened, or ignored.
A utility room built without proper ventilation, waste falls or appliance sequencing becomes the room no one wants to enter, damp, cramped, and full of half-finished laundry. Fixing it later means ripping out cabinetry that was fitted less than two years ago.
Risks & escalating costs
- Vented dryers ducted into a loft or void cause condensation, mould and rotten timbers within one winter.
- Waste pipes run with insufficient fall backflow into the washer standpipe, an intermittent, hard-to-diagnose flood.
- Under-specified circuits trip every time the tumble dryer and iron run together.
- Cheap MDF carcasses in a wet-room environment swell at the plinth line within 12 months.
- No mechanical extraction turns a small utility into a permanent damp cupboard.
Common mistakes we fix
- Choosing appliances before layout, an integrated washer needs different clearance to a freestanding one.
- Skipping a standpipe and running the washer hose into a plug-in trap under the sink.
- Fitting laminate flooring instead of a sealed, water-resistant floor covering.
- One shared socket for washer, dryer and iron, instead of dedicated 13A circuits.
- Boxing in stopcocks and isolation valves so no one can shut off water in a leak.
Our process
A repeatable, five-stage system, refined over 18 years.
- 01
Free Home Survey
We measure the space, trace existing plumbing, waste and power runs, and talk through how the laundry, boots and pets flow through the house day to day.
- 02
3D CAD Design
Full 3D visuals showing cabinetry, sink position, appliance housings, tall storage, worktop material and lighting, before you commit.
- 03
Fixed-Price Quote
One quote covering cabinetry, worktops, plumbing, electrics, tiling, extraction, flooring and making good. Valid for three months.
- 04
Installation
Typical utility room installs run 4–7 working days on site. We sequence plumbing, electrics, tiling and cabinetry so trades don't sit on top of each other.
- 05
Sign-Off & Guarantee
Full walk-through, leak test, extraction test, snag list closed. One-year workmanship guarantee; appliances carry their own manufacturer cover.
Why it's worth doing properly
Concrete outcomes, not generic promises.
Reclaims Your Kitchen
Move washing, drying, ironing and pet feeding out of the kitchen, and the kitchen instantly feels bigger and calmer without any structural work.
Built For Wet Use
Moisture-resistant carcasses, sealed edges, silicone perimeter seals and a floor covering rated for standing water, specified for a room that gets wet and stays wet.
Compliant Wet-Room Electrics
Dedicated circuits for each wet appliance, RCD-protected and certified by our NICEIC-approved electrician. No shared sockets that trip when three things run at once.
Extraction That Actually Works
Fans sized to room volume and ducted to an external wall, not into a loft or void. Removes moisture at source instead of pushing it into the fabric of the house.
One Fixed Price
Cabinetry, plumbing, electrics, tiling and flooring in a single figure. If we find something behind a wall we didn't expect, we tell you before we spend your money on it.
On Site 4–7 Days
Because works are sequenced by one project manager, a utility room is a fast, contained job, not a rolling disruption across your whole house.
The detail
Everything that goes into a Bridgeway utility rooms.
Utility rooms look simple and are anything but. Below is a summary of the choices, materials and technical detail we walk you through during design.
Sinks & taps
Deep Belfast, ceramic under-mounts and stainless single bowls with a high-arc mixer, sized for filling buckets, rinsing muddy boots and washing dog beds, not just teacups.
Appliance sequencing
Washer stacked or side-by-side with condenser dryer, integrated behind matching doors or freestanding under worktop. We check hose reach, waste fall and 13A socket positions before cabinetry is ordered.
Worktops & splashbacks
Laminate, solid surface, quartz or timber worktops paired with tiled or upstand splashbacks. Silicone perimeter seals to prevent water tracking behind cabinetry.
Ventilation & humidity
Mechanical extraction sized to room volume (litres per second), humidistat-controlled where possible, ducted in insulated flex to an external wall. Non-negotiable for any room that hosts a tumble dryer.
Boot & coat storage
Tall bench units with lift-up seat storage, hanging rails, boot racks and dog-lead hooks, designed into the cabinetry, not bought later from a catalogue.
What our clients say
Verified reviews from homeowners across the North East, Surrey & Brighton.
Frequently asked
Straight answers. No small print.
Still have a question? Call us on 07584 133 930 or book a free home survey, we'll answer everything in person.
Utility rooms start at £4,500 supplied and installed. Most family utility rooms land between £5,500 and £9,000 depending on cabinetry finish, worktop material and appliance spec. Every quote is fixed after your free home survey.
Next step
Get a fixed price on your utility rooms, in one home visit.
One survey. One designer. One fixed-price quote, no showroom pressure, no hidden extras. Most quotes returned within 5 working days of your survey.
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