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How much did you REALLY spend on a new bathroom?

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mooncuplanding · 13/05/2019 21:08

I need a new bathroom. It's pretty grim.

In my head it costs £ 1000 for the suite, £1500 fitting and take away of old one, tiles fitted for £1000 and a floor for maybe £ 500.

Is that far off ? It's just a bog standard bathroom in a semi so I'm not looking for anything fancy.

Can you do a bathroom for £ 4k? Or is it much much more.

Everything seems to cost a fortune these days

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nrpmum · 13/05/2019 21:10

How big is your bathroom? Have you factored in labour? Mine is a reasonable size bathroom, just done a few weeks ago. Cost 7k.

Xmasfairy86 · 13/05/2019 21:12

Priced a bathroom from bath store yesterday, £3800, down to £3100 with their ‘discounts’. When asked about fitting, £5000 on top 😱😱🙈 for a mid terrace. Nothing massive or fancy.

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mooncuplanding · 13/05/2019 21:14

£7k is not what I wanted to hear Grin

I daren't get proper quotes atm because it will depress me if I can't afford it.

The bathroom is maybe 3m x 3m - room for a shower OR a bath but not both.

Any stories of £4k ish bathrooms?

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mooncuplanding · 13/05/2019 21:16

Holy fuck @xmasfairy86

Whyyyyyy is it so expensive?

I did my bathroom 12 years ago and I'm sure it was about £2k

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Flower777 · 13/05/2019 21:16

Mine was just over 5K. Nothing super fancy but lovely.

ArchieHarrison · 13/05/2019 21:17

We have a tiny windowless bathroom - in fact a shower room of about 2.5 x 1.5m. We have had several quotes to replace it, which (as all in figures) came to £8k, £12k and £15k. I still have a knackered broken bathroom.

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mooncuplanding · 13/05/2019 21:19

@archieharrison

I fear I may retain a knackered broken bathroom too

Those prices are obscene

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EmmaC78 · 13/05/2019 21:19

I have done a bathroom for £3500 but i sourced my own bath etc and did a lot of shopping around.

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mooncuplanding · 13/05/2019 21:20

I'm not even that poor but I just don't see how people access this sort of cash......is it all on credit?

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mooncuplanding · 13/05/2019 21:21

Tell me more @EmmaC78

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Redglitter · 13/05/2019 21:21

I got quotes to remove my bath & installation shower. £3500 - nearly collapsed

tizwozliz · 13/05/2019 21:22

We DIY'd our bathroom so tiles and fittings were 2k. The research I did at the time suggested paying for a fitter would have been about the same again so 4k all in. We do live in a cheap part of the country though so labour costs are relatively cheap and our bathroom is small - 1.8 x 2.4m

ArchieHarrison · 13/05/2019 21:22

Mooncuo, if £15k has got me a CP Hart room of great joy and flattering lighting, and amazing quality, is have done it. But it was full of compromise choices and the Labour was for THREE week work, the oisstakers. Maybe they work a four hour day? But I work from home quite often so three week of tile cutting noise would drive me mad too.

trilbydoll · 13/05/2019 21:22

We spent £2.5k at B&Q on interest free credit then maybe the same again for fitting, flooring etc. Bathrooms vary wildly tho, you can spend ££££ just on taps if you choose!

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mooncuplanding · 13/05/2019 21:23

I got quotes to remove my bath & installation shower. £3500 - nearly collapsed

I feel close to collapse reading that

WTF is going on with it all?!?

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userxx · 13/05/2019 21:24

I've just had mine done, suite cost £1100, tiles about £250, fitting was £1300 and he did the tiling too. It crazy how much things cost 😞. My bloke was doing as an extra which is why it was cheaper. Friend just had her's done and the fitting alone was £2500 😱

lightningstrikes · 13/05/2019 21:24

I saved a bomb by not purchasing from a bath store. Toilet off eBay (new!), sinks from IKEA, shower base and door off a plumbing website, etc. Tiles I bought off eBay as well. Don't spend big on the suite, but decent taps are worth it. Mine was about 5k, but has freestanding bath, shower, double sinks, fancy extractor fan and they put in a separate area for the washer and dryer.

twoheaped · 13/05/2019 21:27

We're just having ours done £8.5k for what the plumber describes as a high spec bathroom.
I was shocked but 2 other quotes I had came in at a similar figure.

MrsMozartMkII · 13/05/2019 21:27

£5k, including a big shower and a free standing cat iron bath and snazzy towel rail.

We had it done a bit piecemeal, using a plumber and a handyman to do the shower frame and boxing in.

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mooncuplanding · 13/05/2019 21:28

Ok, so it is possible for under £5k - possibly not £4k. Ikea is a good shout!

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Redwinestillfine · 13/05/2019 21:28

I tiled my own and replaced manky carpet and look seat cost a few hundred quid all in ( no new bath etc though), tiling isn't as hard as you think if you want to save a bit of cash...

TipseyTorvey · 13/05/2019 21:28

6k. Nothing fancy and that didn't include a new bath although we did have the old one resprayed. That included ceiling with spotlights, plastering, tiling, new shower, toilet, floor, radiator etc. I think initially I was surprised at the cost because the room is tiny but really all the things that need doing are the same whether the bathroom is huge or small.

BlueRaincoat1 · 13/05/2019 21:29

We are getting quotes for a new bathroom - it's 7ft x 8ft approx with a separate toilet beside the bathroom. We want a full refurb including floors, plastering, tiling, a new window, old suite fully removed, installation of new shower cubicle, bath, sink, toilet etc, and a new window. We've been quoted £5.5k for labour only. An extra £500 for the window. More again for stuff we want doing with the boiler. Buying the new suite/tiles/floor etc is likely to be another £1500 at least I reckon. I'd hoped to do everything for 7.5k but this looks v v unlikely now :-(

DropZoneOne · 13/05/2019 21:30

Mine was nearly £10k, but i did spend a lot on the suite and tiles, it needed plastering top to bottom and additional electrics. Fitting was £4k through Wickes, so i know that could have been cheaper but i was paying to not have to worry about it.

In our flat, 15 years ago, we did improvements for around £2k. Left the old bath in because it was steel, but replaced everything else - my dad did the plumbing, we got someone in to do the tiling and i did the painting and vinyl flooring.

EmmaC78 · 13/05/2019 21:31

At most I spent roughly £1500 on bath, toilet, sink, taps and tiles. Then £2000 for labour including plastering. I did the painting myself. There was no major changes to layout so was just replacing old for new. I do up a lot of houses so know good tradesmen.