How much did you REALLY spend on a new bathroom?

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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

Definitely possible for under £5k. Our bath alone was about £1k, so a more normal one would be more reasonable. When we were looking around we saw some good suite deals in plumbers merchants.

The local tile shop gave us numbers for tilers.

I know someone who had a quote to replace everything in a small bathroom (not touched for at least 30 years but used daily, so literally everything) and it was £7.5k

Mine is currently being ripped out this week, it’s a tiny windowless room about the size of most people’s en-suites but has bath with shower, sink, toilet, vanity unit all being priced at £2.5k and that’s with new flooring (Lino), tiling and ceiling being plastered too. I know my suite was on offer but unless anything major goes wrong I’m thinking I’ve got a good dealing reading some of these quotes.

Yes i should have said plumbers merchants are great for bargains. I just go and choose things then the plumber collects them when he is ready to do the job.

4.5k- our bathroom is really small though. It was a full rip out and re do, new suite, new tiles etc and 4 years ago.

We had our bathroom done about 8 years ago. At the time I thought it was expensive but looking at prices now think we had a bargain. We had a separate bathroom and toilet. Wanted to combine so that we could incorporate a shower as well as a bath.
Had wall knocked down. One door area blocked off and plastered. Old tiles removed. Retiled walls and floor. Bath shower sink toilet heated towel rail light up mirror and fitted cupboards. Also laminated ceiling with spot lights. All fittings and all labour including tiler plasterer electrician and plumber ...wait for it ...£7500. At the time it was a real stretch ...still love it and now think it was bargain of the year

And the shocking thing is I’ve never seen a bathroom that didn’t look crap so people might as well save their money😅

Ours was £9k five years ago but was quite high spec (lots of fancy cabinets, all new tiling, shower panels instead of tiles, that kind of thing). A different tradesman quoted £6.5k but couldn't do one of the main things I wanted.

£12k all in but my bathroom is massive so tiles cost a ridiculous amount

Just in the middle of doing ours. Think it’ll come to around 6.5K and that’s with some trade discount. We are having under floor heating, fully tiled and fitted furniture though. Having shower over bath, not a separate shower. Also moved things around and we have concrete floors so it’s a pretty big job.

I'm flabbergasted at these prices! Just had a quick look at Victoria Plumbing and you can get a full suite for less than £400 .

Our 3mx3m bathroom cost 10k for a full high-spec refit. And that was by far the cheapest quote for labour plus shopping around for fixtures and fittings! Bathrooms are shockingly expensive

Mine was 12k but it did include a big custom shower to fit an awkward space!

These prices are crazy! We're in the process of moving house and will need a new bathroom. Hoping it won't be too much more than our current one which we did about 13 years ago. Suite cost £300, tiles weren't too much. Luckily, DH fitted it all himself, did the plumbing and tiling and knocked down a wall! Was probably around £500. Of course, we're lucky we could do it ourselves though.

We are having one done at about £3200. This includes replastering etc. We got quotes between £2800-£8000 ! It’s a tiny bathroom and I kept using the words ‘basic’, ‘white’ , ‘minimal tiling’ and ‘limited budget’. I wish I were handier and could I do it myself.

The cost of tradesmen is ridiculous now. Costs have gone up but some if them are completely taking the piss. I had a bathroom redone about 7 years ago. The whole thing was stripped back and a wall removed. Whole room tiled. New bath, shower, sink, toilet. All pipes recessed. The cost of the work was £1700 which took one man two weeks and incl all parts such as pipes etc. Whole hinge cost about £3000.

Had a quote for our current bathroom last year - again a complete refit but no walls coming down, and the CF wanted £8000 just for labour. And it was apparently going to take him three weeks! Not due what he was planning on doing in that time.

The trouble is he obviously gets work so some people are stupid enough to pay these inflated prices. If people refused to pay ridiculous prices, the costs would come down for everyone else.

Anyway we are planning on redoing the bathroom getting each trade in separately and doing some ourselves to keep the costs down. I am simply not prepared to be ripped off and won't contribute to this snowballing of overinflated prices. It's only going to get worse with Brexit sadly I expect as our "pool" or tradespeople diminishes further.

We did ours for under 2k. Shopped around for fittings, did the tiling myself (not that difficult) fitting was done by 2 different people but cam in under 1000. We have a lino floor which again I fitted myself just takes time and patience.

£10-12k.
Have done a few bathrooms, labour usually expensive.

Just over £5k, but we sourced the furniture, suite and tiles. Builder did materials and labour. It’s the classic small semi detached bathroom, but I looooove it. It was terrible before - person selling the house panelled behind shower in softwood, then painted in Matt emulsion kind of terrible. I splurged on tiles because I love tiles. It was a strip back, board and skim kind of job.

I tell you what, I would happily pay that money to have someone else do all the prep and tidying! That’s the worst part of diy. One week and done.

We had the money through inheritance and we factored it in to our budget when purchasing the house.

I’m flabbergasted at these prices. I’ve been thinking of having ours done but I think I’ll leave it .

My husband is a plumber , I do all his quotes, these are no unreasonable prices, we are not rich at all. The plumber makes very kitties once you fa for everything in . Promise !!!!

Such bad spelling sorry I'm tired. He doesnt make kitties bit makes Little is what I meant !

£5K, two years ago. Took two weeks for a small bathroom (shower, no bath). We could have done it for less if we'd shopped around more, but we had very limited time and just used the supplier the builder recommended.

In my last house, I got an almost new secondhand bath, matching toilet (new) and non matching but looked like it did basin secondhand for £100. I fitted it myself, plastered and tiled the room - all without You Tube videos (it was a while ago)