About Us

A few words about our company

The Waterworks Studio Ltd and TileWorks Studio Ltd is owned by Nigel Fryer and Bradley Nicholls. Between them they have worked as plumbers in Barrow in Furness for 50+ years between them and they decided to expand their business to include a small showroom on Walney Island in 2003.

As the business continued to thrive the Waterworks Studio Ltd moved to the Ashburner Way in 2007 and then moved to their current, larger premises on Phoenix Court in 2023. Still managing to maintain the personal approach to customer service which distinguishes it from many of its competitors.

Nigel and Brad are supported by a growing team of loyal staff:

Brad is a fellow director who has worked with Nigel since leaving school. As well as being a very experienced plumber he increasingly spends time in the showroom, visits customers, creates beautiful design proposals, line manages the installation team and generally keeps everything and everyone well organised and up-to-date; Chloe works full time in the showroom during the week along with Annemarie who is employed part time to cover weekends and holidays, along with Emma; George, Ben, Jordan and Luke lead the plumbing and installation teams; Jakob, Toby and Sammy are serving their apprenticeships with the company which includes attending Kendal College one day each week. Ian is a plumbers mate.