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

7k for ours, but we went with the shop's fitters (I really couldn't be arsed co-ordinating trades) and spent a wee bit more on tiles, just cos they were nice. I think we could have got it for 5k easily if we'd cut a few corners.

£ 1000 for the suite, £1500 fitting and take away of old one, tiles fitted for £1000 and a floor for maybe £ 500
I paid £1000 just to have the tiles put on the walls. The cost of buying the tiles was on top of that. It took a week to tile. Then there was the cost of plastering the rest of the room including the ceiling, and the cost of buying IP rated lights and getting them fitted. I also paid for plumbing to be boxed in, a heated towel rail, and a fitted bathroom cabinet with a worktop. Unfortunately £7k isn’t totally out of the ball park.

£7k I'm afraid but I reckon I could have done it £1k cheaper (went a bit crazy with expensive tiles!) but I wanted what I wanted and I won't need to do it again!!

I think the tiling can be expensive. We’ve just gone for the absolute minimum. I just want a working shower tbh.

Source everything from your local plumber’s merchants, I looked at CP Hart & their customer service was dreadful & even their sale price was higher than my local shop could get things. Our local shop offers really good prices on everything and they help keep the high street alive.

We spent about 4k on our fairly large bathroom including a huge carronite bath, expensive grohe shower, large vanity unit with granite top and some very nice tiles. We did it all ourselves though so no need for labour. The room used to be a bedroom so adding plumbing was a bit tricky but we managed it with guidance from a plumber friend. We did get a quote to get the whole thing done - it was 17k and we thought fuck that!

We've just done our smallish family bathroom.for under £1,500. DH did all the work (he's handy, but had never done a bathroom so he kept the layout the same).

Vanity Unit and sink
Toilet (concealed cistern) and unit £360 total
(Victoria Plum)
Mixer taps included

Bath £200 Ebay
Taps £25 b&q

'Designer' Radiator & valves £185
(Best Heating)

Lino flooring £40
(Local store, off cut)

Quadrant Shower enclosure & tray £240
(Victorian Plumbing)

Mixer Shower with diverter £75
(B&Q)

Splashback, Cut Plastics £230

Paint £20

I already had a light and cabinet. Just need a blind.

We've always done ours ourselves too, I do thee plumbing and tiling, DH does the rest. Tiling isn't tricky so long as you're careful, and we've always had difficult shaped rooms to do too.
Tiling our bathroom in our current house, including doing the stone floor tiles took me a week, our bathroom is 10 ft x 12 ft with an extra alcove section bit where the shower is. Its the largest amount of tiling I've done yet actually.

Sorry about typos, am v tired!

6k
I think the majority of the expense was labour and tiles.
I don’t see how you’d get it done for 4k.
Nothing in my bathroom is remotely fancy, with the possible exception of the tiles, which most people would consider pretty standard I think. Nothing is the cheapest version either. It’s midrange basic I suppose.

Just finished mine:
Suite - Soak £950 inc taps, towel rad and led mirror
Electric shower £200
Tiles (just over bath) £100
Flooring £100
Fitter for floor and wall tiles £350.
Total £1700
Bathroom fitting was included in other building work so unsure of that but probably as much again.
So if you shop around under £4000 should be doable, but depends if you are having any significant alterations, plastering etc.

We have done ours all in for approx £1500

However, DH is a plumber and we used his trade discount, we did the work ourselves, tiles came from the local tile store end of line and Karndean flooring came from Facebook selling site.

Agree with the PP who said shop around.

We looked at IKEA and DH was very impressed, it just wasn't as cheap as the merchants with his discount.

I also noticed that it's the suites that cost the money, as you feel you have to have the bath that matches the basin etc. For us, the shower curtain covers the bath so it's a compromise we could easily make!

We also bought an obscenely priced fancy mirror with lights and phone toothbrush charging sockets etc. I think it's what you might refer to as a statement piece and completely detracts from our big standard bath

Tsk bog standard bath

I’m shocked at these prices, we’re getting timing, grouting, new bath, toilet and sink for £2,000. And they’re taking all the rubbish. Might not be politically correct but we often use a handful of trusted Eastern European’s for work around the house as their prices are ridiculously reasonable and the quality of the work is extremely high

@perdigal are you sure you're charging enough? My plumber has had 3 holidays abroad this year so far

That should say tiling 🙄

Second eastern europeans - they did my tiling for half the price the plumber wanted, and did a grand job.

I had to replace a broken suite 4 years ago when I moved in and had next to no budget to do it, as wasn’t expecting it to be completely unusable. I got a new suite for £250 off eBay, friend of a friend did me mates rates of £250 to swap over, tiles were £50 in the reduced section and I tiled myself (thank god for YouTube!!), vinyl flooring was £25 which I fitted myself and paint was probably another £25. So £600 overall, but I’m aware that’s a fairly extreme option! If I had the money spare, I’d have it redone as the tiling is actually pretty shit if you look closely, however, the suite is perfectly functional and doesn’t really stand out massively from a more expensive one, and, most importantly, it doesn’t have a hole in the bottom of the bath, a leaky, cracked sink, and the toilet actually flushed without having to use a plunger!

We had our bathroom done a fortnight ago

All labour plus shower pump and skip :£2260
Suite plus heated towel rail : £860
Tiles: £400
Everything else : £150

We're in North East Wales so that might make the labour part cheaper

My bathroom is being done next month . I'm paying £11,300. This includes knocked through from the separate toilet and re routing the waste , underfloor heading , stand alone bath and a decent shower , tiles and labour and bathroom cabinets.

We are just buying a new house that needs a new bathroom, have been quoted 3k... but thats by my brother who luckily is a plumber! Very glad as we also need a new kitchen and have been surprised by how much that will cost!!

Ours was about 3700 about 4 years ago. I chose my suite and shower -Ideal Standard & Mira, and our plumber ordered and fit the, (that price included fitting) and removing the old one, floor and wall tiles and putting up plasterboard and new floor boards as the old ones were rotten.

On top I paid for the plasterer (couple of hundred?) and I chose glass which was £1200 on top fitted by a specialist company.

Small town in West Yorkshire.

Ours is about 3yo now and cost less than 3k.

We used a local plumber and not the bathroom shop fitters which is way, way cheaper. We did some work ourselves and we looked around recycling yards and got a second hand bath for £10.
We also obviously did not get the fanciest fittings available! We mainly got the cheapest option, except the floor tiles and taps where we spent a bit more.

Sorry I meant 2700 not 3700! Plus plasterer and glass. I forgot Karndean for the floor but it’s a small bathroom and that was only 200 on top.

Ok we went to places like the bath store and independent companies to get ideas and prices. We took away the catalogues. We heard what they charged to fit and decided it was ridiculous.

We looked up the separate elements of the bathroom online and found places like Victoria Plumb did the same brand for cheaper. Saved about £700 on that part. Did not buy cheap items.

Then we bought the tiles and floor ourselves in the sales. So we bought everything ourselves that needed to be fitted.

Got a local builder to price it up for fitting. We have a normal size bathroom big enough for a bath, sink unit, loo, cupboard. Cost about £3200 all in. Would have cost at least 5k from an actual bathroom place. The whole room needed to be gutted and re-plastered too as we moved an inbuilt cupboard.