Gainsborough Bathrooms joins the Supplier Partnership Programme

Two companies within the Gainsborough Healthcare Group – Gainsborough Specialist Bathrooms and Access walk-in-baths – are working with ArtiCAD.

Gainsborough Specialist Bathrooms have been designing and manufacturing specialist baths for thirty years, which are supplied primarily to care homes and hospitals. A wide range of baths are manufactured to ensure they meet specific needs with features such as easy access, powered seats, bathing platforms, rising and falling bath water levels. More recently, Gainsborough Specialist Bathrooms has expanded its offerings to encompass the entire range of ‘bathing solutions’ including shower rooms and wet rooms.

It was this latter move which encouraged Malcolm Farmiloe, Owner and Founder of Gainsborough Specialist Bathrooms and his fellow directors, to consider working with a CAD company for the first time in the company’s long history.

“In addition, we are able to clearly illustrate the subtleties of different colour schemes, coloured grab rails and other features – all of which can be used to make the room more attuned and sympathetic for people with specific needs, such as dementia.”

ArtiCAD-Pro will be rolled out to all the sales and technical managers. In addition, Gainsborough Specialist Bathrooms is looking at the possibility of using the ArtiCAD software to provide integrated pricing with the designs, rather than using a separate system. This would save time and also avoid unnecessary duplication, and the potential for errors.

The second company within the group, Access walk-in-baths, sells the company’s products to showrooms and other outlets, who then provide them to their own customer base. Typically these will be people seeking to make their bathrooms more accessible and enable them to remain in their own homes.