Kitchen & bathroom fitters · South East London
The fitter your neighbours ask back.
I'm Andrew Shepherd-Prince. I have fitted kitchens and bathrooms under the name MeNext since 1988, mostly bathrooms, and almost all of it has come from someone passing my name on.
- 1988Trading as MeNext ever since
- BathroomsMost of the work: refits, shower rooms, wet rooms
- Nine tradesFrom the pipework to the last coat
- Word of mouthHow almost every job has arrived
The order of the work
The order is the craft.
A bathroom or a kitchen is half a dozen trades in one room, and they only work in one order. Get it wrong and each trade undoes the last. Here are eight stages from my own jobs over the past year: eight different rooms, the same order every time.
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01
Look first
Nothing gets priced off a photograph. I come and see what is really there, because what a room can become depends on what is behind it.

01 — Behind the kitchen unitsOct 2025 -
02
Strip out
Tiles, suite and floor out, back to what is sound, and the boards up wherever the pipes run underneath.

02 — Bathroom floor, up to the joistsNov 2025 -
03
First fix
Waste and supply run, falls set, everything tested under pressure before it is covered.

03 — New copper and brass valvesNov 2025 -
04
Plaster
Walls made flat and ready. Good plastering is the work nobody notices.

04 — A chimney breast, skimmed and dryingDec 2025 -
05
Set out and tile
Where the first tile goes decides whether you finish on a full tile or a sliver by the shower. That is decided on the first morning.

05 — Wall tiles set with levelling clipsNov 2025 -
06
Floors
The subfloor decides whether any of it lasts. Then the boards, or the herringbone, go down.

06 — Herringbone, half laidApr 2026 -
07
Joinery
Alcoves, boxing in, doors hung. Made to the opening that is actually there, because no wall in an old house is square.

07 — An alcove unit, built in placeJan 2026 -
08
Fit and hand over
Suite, screen and rails. Then I show you where the isolating valves are.

08 — The finished bathroomOct 2025
Rooms, fitted
When the dust sheets come up.
Phone photographs, taken on the day. Nothing here is a catalogue picture, and the kitchen is shown as it was: units in, splashback still to go.



The part you never see
Inside a good suit there is a canvas nobody sees. In a bathroom, it is this.
The copper, the valves and the falls go in before the first tile. They decide whether the room is still sound in twenty years.
Nobody has ever recommended me for the pipework. They recommend me for the bathroom. The pipework is the reason the bathroom is still fine.Andrew, on plumbing

What I do
Every trade a room needs, except two.
Gas is a Gas Safe registered engineer's work, and an electrician connects and certifies anything electrical. I do nearly all of the rest myself.
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Bathrooms
Full refits, shower rooms, wet rooms and cloakrooms. Most of my work, and has been for years.
- 02
Kitchens
Fitting, refits and the joinery around them. Six trades in one room, in an order that cannot change.
- 03
Plumbing & heating
Cylinders, first fix, waste and mains. The pipework and the wall that goes back over it.
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Tiling
Walls and floors, set out so the cuts land where nobody looks.
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Plastering
Walls and ceilings floated and skimmed. The work nobody notices.
- 06
Damp & mould
Find the water, fix the water, then make good.
- 07
Decorating
Rooms, woodwork, and kitchen doors sprayed off their hinges.
- 08
Flooring
Herringbone, engineered wood, and the subfloor that decides whether it lasts.
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Joinery
Alcove units, boxing in, doors hung. Made to the opening that is actually there.
For letting agents and landlords
A flat turned round for a tenancy date.
I work for letting agents and landlords as well as homeowners. When a new tenancy has a date on it, you want someone who turns up, tells you where it is up to, and gives you the proof.
- Photographs of every stageI photograph as I go: strip out, first fix, finish. Ask and they are yours for the file.
- A written, itemised priceSo the landlord can see what each part costs, and take something out.
- Certificates from the people entitled to issue themGas signed off by a Gas Safe engineer, electrics by an electrician.
- One person to callThe man who priced it is the man running it.
Since 1988
It started with a caretaker who noticed who was actually doing the work.
In 1988 I was decorating an embassy in London for a construction company. They made me redundant six months short of the clause that would have paid me properly. The embassy's caretaker had noticed who was really doing the work, and when the embassy let that company go, they handed the rest of the job to me direct.
How I work
Four things you can hold me to.
- i.
I come and look first
No job gets priced off a photograph. I come out, look properly, and tell you what it actually needs.
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You get a written price
Itemised, so you can see what each part costs and take something out if you want to.
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You deal with me, start to finish
The man who quotes it runs the job and hands it over. Gas and electrics go to registered trades, who sign for their own work.
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Ask me for references
I would rather you spoke to someone whose bathroom I have fitted than read something I wrote about myself.
Get me out to look at it
Ring, or send a photograph and a rough idea of what you want doing.
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