Dean Taylor Bathrooms
What is your business?
Izzy and Dean from Dean Taylor Bathrooms make dreams come true!!
They supply and install quality bathrooms and wetrooms, from a general upgrade, to a full bespoke service.
For those who are struggling with mobility, they also take away the fear of climbing into the bath by installing accessible wetrooms or shower rooms.
When they met 11 years ago, Dean was working as a self-employed General Builder, and installing many bathrooms and wetrooms alongside other property work. Izzy had a successful 18-year career as a Television Producer and Director, working in factual programming.
In 2011 Izzy produced ‘Big Body Squad’ for Channel Five and featured a lovely lady who was having a wetroom installed as she had poor mobility. After filming her take her first shower in years – all very tastefully done of course! (The clip is still up on YouTube) and seeing the difference it made to her life it made her want to be able to help those for whom showering has become a bit of a nightmare too.
Izzy joined Dean in the business which meant they could specialise in Bathrooms and Wetrooms, offering a truly unique service. TV was a great career for Izzy which took her all over the world, but with constant travel she’d known the day would come when it was time to do something different.
They both knew they wanted to work together to grow the business and create a solid family firm they could be proud of.
What were your challenges that led you to TI Accountancy?
Being fairly new to the South Lakes and having limited contacts has made things a little harder for Izzy and Dean than if they’d had a pool of people they could call on when they got really busy.
Building a team and network was absolutely crucial and is still ongoing. They also went from both being sole traders, to suddenly being a business, so that also was quite the learning curve, and is also still ongoing!
Izzy feels auto-enrolment pensions have been unfair for businesses with 5 employees or less. She thinks that they should be exempt, or enrolled automatically with the hard work done for them.
Watching pension webinars at 11 pm because you’ve been dealing with the business all day and it’s the first chance you’ve got to get your head around AE isn’t helpful for anyone, but when you are a very small business, you don’t have departments you just have to do everything – and that means learning about everything first.
Not everything can be outsourced, not immediately anyway.
How did TI Accountancy help?
TI Accountancy have been great.
They have helped in a very practical way but they also send out some really helpful emails to keep their clients updated on changes coming/things to look out for – all sorts!
Would you recommend TI Accountancy to other businesses?
As a very small business, you have to do everything, and there is so much to learn! At first, Izzy did payroll as she was keen to learn about how it works, but says it is a huge responsibility and handing over to TI Accountancy was a big help and relief to her.
