TikiTaki Bathrooms: Our Official Supply Partner

TikiTaki Bathrooms is now the official supplier and partner of AV Modern Bathrooms. It is a practical arrangement rather than a badge on a website: the products we specify, order and fit come through a supplier we know well, from stock we can check before we commit a customer to a date.

For most homeowners the supply side of a renovation stays invisible until something goes wrong. A basin turns up chipped. A panel is discontinued halfway through a job. Two finishes that looked identical on screen sit side by side on the wall and are clearly a shade apart. Working closely with one supplier takes a lot of that risk out, and that is the reason this partnership exists.

Why the Supply Side Decides How a Renovation Goes

Fitting a bathroom is a sequence, and every step leans on the one before it. Waste positions have to be set before the floor goes down. Wall depths have to be known before a vanity is hung. Shower valve positions get buried behind panels or tiles at first fix, and moving one afterwards means opening the wall again.

All of that depends on knowing exactly which products are coming and when. A vanity unit 40mm wider than the one the layout was drawn around stops being a small problem once the pipework is in the wall. A shower tray sitting on a three-week lead time can hold up a job that was otherwise ready to close out.

When the supplier and the fitting team work from the same product list, those clashes get caught at the planning stage instead of on site. It also means that when something does arrive damaged, the replacement conversation is short. That is worth more to a customer than any headline discount, because the real cost of a stalled bathroom is measured in days without a working shower.

What TikiTaki Bathrooms Supplies

TikiTaki Bathrooms is a Wrexham-based showroom supplying bathroom products across North Wales, Cheshire, Merseyside and the surrounding North West. The range covers most of what a full renovation needs: wall and ceiling panels, flooring, vanity units and basins, baths, toilets, shower screens, showers and taps, heating, mirrors, and the sealants and adhesives that finish a job properly.

That breadth matters more than it sounds. Sourcing a bathroom from six different places is how finishes end up not quite matching and how delivery dates drift apart from each other. Pulling the bulk of a room from one supplier keeps the finishes consistent and the deliveries aligned. You can browse the full range at TikiTaki Bathrooms.

Wall and ceiling panels

Panels have become the default choice for a lot of the bathrooms we fit, particularly where a customer wants a quick turnaround or a surface that wipes clean. There is no grout to discolour, and a panelled shower area can be watertight in a fraction of the time a full tile job takes.

The trade-off is that panels are less forgiving of an uneven wall. A tiler can absorb a few millimetres of movement across a run of tiles by adjusting the bed. A single 1000mm panel shows every hollow behind it. Where walls are noticeably out, we batten and board first rather than fixing straight onto old plaster.

TikiTaki stocks PVC panels in plain and tile-effect finishes, along with matching ceiling panels. The tile-effect ranges are worth seeing in person, because the gap between one that reads convincingly as tile and one that reads as printed plastic is obvious under bathroom lighting and very hard to judge from a product photograph.

Flooring that suits a bathroom

Bathroom floors take more punishment than people expect. There is standing water at the shower door, hot pipework underneath, and a temperature swing every time somebody runs a bath. Laminate that performs perfectly in a hallway can lift at the joints inside a year once it is in a bathroom.

Rigid core flooring copes with those conditions considerably better. It is dimensionally stable, water-resistant through the body of the plank rather than only across the top layer, and it can be laid over underfloor heating as long as the temperature is brought up gradually rather than all at once.

We tend to settle flooring at the same time as the wall finish rather than afterwards. Floor and wall tones that were each chosen sensibly on their own can still fight each other where they meet at the skirting line, and that is a far cheaper problem to solve on a sample board than after both are down.

Vanity units, basins and storage

Storage is the thing homeowners most often wish they had pushed harder on. A vanity does two jobs at once: it hides the bottle trap and isolation valves, and it gives you somewhere to put the things that otherwise end up ranged around the edge of the bath.

Wall-hung units make a small bathroom feel bigger because the floor runs underneath them, and they make cleaning quicker. They do need fixing into something genuinely solid, which makes them a first fix decision rather than a second fix one. Floor-standing units are more forgiving on an uneven or older floor and give you more internal volume for the same footprint.

Drawer runners are the detail worth spending on. Soft-close runners in a bathroom get opened several times a day, every day, in a damp room. Cheap ones start to sag and catch long before the unit itself looks tired, and replacing them later is fiddly work.

Showers, screens and taps

Shower choice follows the water system you already have, not the unit that looks best in a brochure. A thermostatic mixer running off a combi boiler generally gives a stronger and more consistent flow than an electric unit, but it needs adequate incoming pressure to deliver it. Around 1.5 bar is the usual working minimum before a mixer starts to feel disappointing.

Electric showers still earn their place in second bathrooms and en-suites, where two showers running at once would otherwise cause a noticeable pressure drop, and in homes where the boiler is undersized for the demand placed on it.

Screens are where a lot of otherwise good bathrooms quietly go wrong. An 8mm glass panel feels solid and stays where you put it. A thin panel on a light frame flexes and rattles, and it is the sort of thing a household notices every single day. Whatever you choose, taps and showers connected to the mains need to comply with the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations, and picking approved products is the simplest way to stay on the right side of that. The WRAS approvals directory is the place to check a specific fitting.

Heating and towel rails

A heated towel rail is often the only heat source in a modern bathroom, which means it has to dry towels and warm the room at the same time. Rails get chosen on looks and available wall width, and a rail that fits the space beautifully can still be badly under-specified for it.

Room size, external walls, window area and insulation all feed into the heat output the room actually needs. A small internal en-suite and a large bathroom with a wide window on a north-facing wall are not remotely the same problem, even when the wall you are hanging the rail on happens to be the same width.

It is worth deciding early whether the rail needs an electric element for summer use. Firing up the central heating in August purely to dry towels is a familiar annoyance, and a dual-fuel rail solves it. The electrical side has to be planned in at first fix though, with the connection made outside the shower zones by a qualified electrician.

Visiting the Wrexham showroom

Screens flatter some finishes and quietly ruin others. Matt black brassware looks crisp in a product shot and can read as flat grey in a north-facing room. A warm oak vanity that seemed like a safe choice online can turn distinctly orange next to a cool grey floor.

The TikiTaki showroom is at Unit 1 Wrexham Industrial Estate, Bridge Road South, Wrexham, LL13 9SQ, and it is laid out so you can compare finishes, sizes and product options side by side. If you are choosing panels, flooring and furniture that all have to live together in one room, an hour in a showroom saves a great deal of second-guessing later.

Take photographs of your existing bathroom with you, along with rough measurements and a note of which way the room faces. Those three things make a showroom visit far more productive than turning up with a general sense of the look you are after.

Speak to AV Modern Bathrooms

If you are planning a bathroom and would rather have the products and the fitting handled together, we can take it from first measurements through to the finished room. You can see completed projects in our gallery, read more about our bathroom renovation service, or check the areas we cover across Merseyside, Cheshire and Greater Manchester.

To talk through a project, contact AV Modern Bathrooms and we will arrange a time to go through what you have in mind.