High Street houses, the Bryn Coch estates and the newer edges
Mold's High Street and the streets off it sit in a conservation area designated in 1975, with Georgian and Victorian market-town buildings, some of them listed. Bathrooms in those houses are often on a half-landing or at the back, with solid walls, sloping floors and waste runs that were improvised a century ago; the renovation starts by levelling and boarding and usually ends with the toilet somewhere more sensible. The family estates around Ysgol Bryn Coch (Victoria Road, Bryn Coch Lane, Upper Bryn Coch) and at Maes Bodlonfa, Glanrafon and Bromfield are established semis and detached houses with timber floors, where ensuites, wet rooms and bath-to-shower conversions are the usual asks. Newer houses on the Denbigh Road side and larger detached homes on the outskirts round it off; the town's housing count has grown steadily, from about 4,100 homes in 2000 to just under 4,500 by 2014.
Water in Mold: measured, not assumed
Most of Mold's CH7 postcodes are on Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, for which no hardness figure is published that we can quote, while a small Hafren Dyfrdwy zone on the Treuddyn side is soft at 37 milligrams per litre. Rather than state a number we cannot stand behind, we test pressure and flow at the survey, which is what decides whether a rainfall head will perform and whether a pump is needed, and we look at your existing kettle and shower glass for a quick read on scale.
Flintshire's building control is in the town
Flintshire County Council's building control service, run in-house, asks for full plans or a building notice at least two working days before notifiable work begins. For most bathrooms nothing is notifiable except the electrics, which our registered electrician self-certifies; new drainage or structural work gets a notice and we handle it. In the High Street conservation area we keep external grilles off the front and run extractor ducting to the rear or up through the roof.
Choosing a bathroom in Mold
Mold itself has a Howdens trade depot at The Mall, which supplies kitchens and bathrooms to the trade, and the nearest independent showroom is Oceans Kitchens and Bathrooms on Chester Road in Buckley, two miles away. The Plumbline at Broughton serves the town for plumbing and bathroom supplies. Wrexham's showrooms and Chester's Sealand Road are each about half an hour. We can source through the trade depot and merchant, shortlist for you with samples at home, or fit what you have chosen elsewhere.
Bathroom work across Mold
- Full renovations in High Street period houses, floors levelled and walls boarded
- Ensuites and wet rooms in the Bryn Coch, Maes Bodlonfa and Glanrafon houses
- Bath replaced by a walk-in shower, three to five days
- Downstairs toilets built under stairs and in utility rooms
- Level-access showers for older residents staying in their homes
- Tiling, wall panels, towel rails, fans and lighting (electrician certified)
- Leaks, cisterns, resealing and regrouting
- Covering Sychdyn, Mynydd Isa, Northop, Northop Hall, Leeswood, Gwernaffield and Gwernymynydd
Example scenario: a Georgian house off the High Street
A three-storey town house with the bathroom on the half-landing: 2.2 by 1.8 metres, a floor that drops 25 millimetres across its length, a cast-iron waste and a window onto the street. We level the floor, board and tank the walls, fit a 1200 walk-in shower on the internal wall, move the toilet beside it onto a new waste at a proper fall, a wall-hung vanity under the window, porcelain on the floor, and a fan ducted to the rear so nothing shows on the High Street elevation. Seven working days.
A leak that will not wait in Mold
WhatsApp or ring at any hour: Mold is about 27 minutes over the A541, inside our 24/7 emergency area, from the High Street to Bryn Coch and out to Sychdyn and Northop. A leak in the road or before the outside stop tap is for Dwr Cymru Welsh Water; once the water is inside the house, we stop it and repair it.