• The Different Types of Sliding Doors for Wardrobes and How to Choose Yours

    Sliding wardrobe doors used for hallway wardrobe

    Whether you’ve recently bought a new house or you’re renovating, you’ll need to know everything about types of sliding doors for wardrobes. Sliding doors have been taking the market by storm for a while now because of all the good reasons. They save space, make for easy movements, and more. On the contrary, we all… (read more)

  • Wall hung vs Floor standing toilets + What is a shower toilet?

    Often people are sceptical of wall hung toilets. The main worry people have is ‘how safe are wall hung toilets’ ‘will wall hung toilets ever fall off the wall’. Wall hung toilets are very safe as they are fixed to a frame that is secured in the wall, with this frame they can support around… (read more)

  • Choosing a shower? Here’s 3 we have on display in our Faversham showroom

    Aqualla Luca Bar Valve Kit The Luca Bar Valve Kit is a brass bodied exposed bar valve that comes complete with fast fix brackets. The triple mode shower head allows for a change in flow rate and pressure ideal if there is more than one person in the house using the same shower, the adjustable… (read more)

  • Our 5 most popular quartz worktop edge profiles

    If you’re choosing quartz or granite worktops you get a choice of edge profiles that can be applied. This post gives our top 5 most popular options Bevel edge – sometimes called Chamfer edge Most popular This edge detail is a small 45 degree polish along the corner of the worktop. You’ll be running your… (read more)

  • Electric showers and why we don’t recommend them

    Photo of an electric shower

    At Roots we rarely recommend electric showers. For most of our customers, most of the time, non electric showers will perform better. This post will go into the detail of why we don’t recommend them. Even if you’re not looking for a complete bathroom from Roots we hope you’ll find this useful. Definitions: Electric showers… (read more)

  • Design details: Accessible and hidden storage

    We put a lot of effort into our kitchen designs. That’s easy to say but today I’m going to show examples in a room we recently designed, supplied and installed. Let’s skip the parts of making sure there’s a dishwasher, fridge, hob, place to prepare food – they’re obvious. I want to focus on the… (read more)