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 a small bathroom. No bath, just a shower, but everything was replaced, retiled, towel radiator installed etc.

If you have kids, think on about the mumsnet obsession with Russell group universities. Start a bathroom fitting company and send them to plastering school.

Just done a small ish one

2k parts.
2k fitting,

@AJPTaylor

I keep telling my children. One Spark and one all purpose Chippy/Decorator. To heck with your dreams of engineering and Antarctic exploration. Chippy and Spark - we will be minted.

Few years ago it come to £20K

But needed new floor boards, ceiling, plastered electrics and a massive tank and pump then the suite and tiling 80% of the room and wallpapering (took 7 weeks )

Ours came in at around 4.5k. Fixtures and fittings including fitting, tiling and VAT. Decent sized room, with separate bath and shower.

Plumbers are skilled and in demand, they don't do it for minimum wage.

Our bathroom is tiny and we're having it done to make house more sellable so don't necessarily want to spend a lot. We have had a lot of quotes, most was 8000k for just work, the least, which we will probably go with, was 3000k for work plus 2000k for units.

How do those people on house renovation programmes do up a whole house for a £25k budget?

Ours was about 4.5k. Wickes, and they fitted it, including replastering, tiling and floor.

We replaced our bathroom last summer and spent 3k all in. Our bathroom is quite small though, but this included all ripping out and fitting, floor, mirror etc. We bought some items ourselves from plumbing websites, Amazon etc and found a gorgeous designer vanity sink and unit ex display for half price. We didn't tile though as that's expensive! We installed pvc panels that look exactly like tiles and floor was a strong, waterproof laminate tile effect. It can be done on a budget if you shop around. We used a local plumber found on Facebook.

Ours was £5500. This included new tiles, they built a false wall for the shower to stand in with shelves, new bath, sink and toilet, new shower unit and all rubbish removal. It’s good high quality and our bathroom is particularly large with high ceilings. This was from an independent store near us but to do that with a chain store would have been extortionate

Our last bathroom two years ago was £7500 expect to pay as much for tilling as you do for your tiles unfortunately.

@gerispringer trade discounts, knowing the right people (fit it cheaper because of constant work etc).

And they mostly use the cheapest materials and corner cut.

We are in Yorkshire, just had our en-suite done. Came in at just over 5k with parts and labour.

Where in the country are you based?

Just had the shower replaced, materials £1500, labour £550.Two days work.

The local supplier recommended by the plumber was outrageously expensive, so we ordered online from Victoria Plum for about 1/3 of the cost.

Gerispringer - it is fairly easily done. I renovate a lot of houses and would normally budget about £15000 for a flat and £20000 - £30000 on a house depending on whether things like windows need done. No cutting corners at all. It has taken a long time to build up a good network of trademen and suppliers though.

We are just redoing ours and its smaller than yours - around £7k of which fitting and plumbing is half that - all in same place as before but heated radiator maybe slightly different and having a shower over bath not there before. Could have got a cheaper suite and no radiator etc and maybe cut £1.5k-£2k off but definitely get quotes before buying.

I did my own tiling. Bath suit off eBay bathroom shop. Reckon I spent about £1k overall. Tiling is basically sticking rectangles onto a wall. It's so easy - my wall was wonky but it's really not hard to make it all work. I'm slower than a professional but I'm good! Honestly give it a try. I learned by watching videos on YouTube and saved loads.

2x2 metres, 2.5 metres high, midrange sink, shower and WC but odd sized bath from Carron: £5500 fully fitted. Sorry.

About £2,500 for the en suite and £2000 for the main bathroom.

last bathroom was tiny & cost was £12K although professionally tiled & top spec digital shower fitted.

Have moved since & really miss that bathroom, need a bathroom at the new house & expecting a good £10K all in

Plus DH is an electrician so those costs aren't factored in

Well my bathroom refit isn't costing that much. tiling will be £500 tiles in the sale from Homebase, flooring£500 fitting £1100, shower enclosure £850 including base and trap but there are lots cheaper and then just new sink and bath which I haven't got yet. The loo is the one thing we are keeping and we will paint ourselves. Find a good independent fitter. Mines a biggish bathroom too and we are having expensive Amtico like flooring.

I'm interested to read this thread because I'm in the beginning stages of planning a new bathroom, BlueRaincoat1, did I read that right, £500 for creating a new window? I'm thinking about putting a window in but thought it might be much more than that, so yay!

I think the main difference in price is if you go to a bathroom specialist and they do everything and project manage it. Compared to sourcing the various tradespeople yourself and overseeing it. Taked some organising, but will save you money.

Also quotes can vary wildly - last year I was quoted £5500 by one plumber and £2700 by another for replacing my boiler.