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

It’s definitely doable. We got our suite from bathroom village (Burlington toilet, oak seat, bath, bath screen and sink and taps/shower extension) but seriously knocked them down. If you go for a local business, you can barter. We paid £500 for all of this.

Then we paid £2200 for labour and materials. This included tiling all above the bath to the ceiling but not the whole room, as well as all carpentry (he fitted the tongue and groove panelling for the bath, loft hatch, boxing in sink pipes, skirting boards and door frame), as well as the electricians fee for putting in a new socket, moving the extractor fan and putting in a new light.

This also included the building of a wall to make two rooms as our bathroom originally was too big.

We live in EXETER, Devon, so not a cheap place for labour. So it’s doable! Just find someone you trust and ask them how you can cut the cost down. We did this by ripping out the old suite ourself and taking it to the tip which was just a days (of fun) work for my husband! :)

Totally depends on who and what you know! My DH has his finger in 'every pie' as they say, has friends in every trade so would cost us around £1500 for a nice suite and £700 to fit it + £200-300 on tiling... without mates rate probably around £5000 😵

god if you can just pop in a window for £500 I can make my windowless cupboard 100x nicer right away. Presumably you don't need planning permission if you're in the middle of nowhere and overlooking nothing but fields and trees?

We got a new suite from a reputable seller on eBay for under 400. Bits and bobs like pipework and PVC from screwfix. Tiles from wickes. Bog standard white, nothing fancy and we'll be looking at doing the whole thing for less than 700. If you know anyone that's done one before or can do the labour yourself, you'd save no end.

Bathrooms can vary massively in price. However the cost of fitting a new one is less variable.
A full refurb will take around 2 weeks to complete for a professional, usually with the help of an apprentice plus some materials.
Expect to pay around £2.5-£3k for the work.
How much you want to pay for the fittings and tiles is up to you but bear in mind you get what you pay for and it doesn't make sense to skimp on the quality of the products because they will not last and you will be having to pay some one to come out and replace any faulty parts.

Expect to pay around £4-£5k for reasonable well made fittings including tiles.
Hope that helps

I'm afraid it's £500 to replace an existing window and frame - not to introduce one where previously there was none at all...

We paid about £5k for ours - kept costs down by 1. Using an independent fitter 2. Buying everything through him at the plumbers merchants and 3. Getting shower panels instead of tiling the walls (we tiled the floor but that is a small area so meant only a half day's labour cost for the tiler not 2 days),

My parents recently had a new bathroom. It hadn't been changed since 1970, and with labour cost 2.5k. They always do everything on the cheap though.

Ours was around £4-ish. But there was nothing to rip out - it was a large room with toilet, sink and heated radiator which we kept and we added a shower. Used panels instead of tiles which kept the cost down. No bath.

Mine was £5k all in for a 2.5 x 2.5m bathroom. We shopped around for the suite and whilst it's not the cheapest it's nowhere near the most expensive. We also had to move the soil pipe which cost about £500 alone.

£6000 in 2016
Included getting rid of old bathroom, fitting new loo/basin/bath w shower/towel rail, tiling, decorating
Stuff from homebase and used their fitters who were mcuh better than expected

£5.3k pretty much half and half on materials and labour.

To be honest, as an ex plumber, this issue came up lots when talking to potential customers.

The bottom line is that far too much 'kit' these days is not fit for purpose. What do I mean by that? Take a toilet. All toilets now use much less water - and rightly so. However, with less water pushing 'stuff' away it is vital that the pottery is designed so that its exit is easy. That means smooth pipes and bends so 'stuff' doesn't get caught! Many modern toilets do not have those smooth bends etc because their focus is on looking wonderful not performing faultlessly. You guys as consumers pay a good price and rightly expect it to work faultlessly but ...

All that said, you do not have to pay daft money for a properly designed product. However, you probably will have to compromise to some extent on its look. Hope that makes sense.

Bathroom design is, genuinely, a science. We all watch these TV programmes which make over a space for 5p and think we can do the same at our own house. You can't unless you DIY and take full responsibility.

An average bathroom (depending on where you live) will range from 5-8k. That will include middle of the road products and assumes you already have a decent flow of hot water, only need tiling to showers etc and has a bit of making good re plastering.

A middle of the road bathroom WELL INSTALLED, will last an awful long time. Even the best stuff, when its thrown in cheaply, will last no time whatsoever. Moreover manufacturers will take NO responsibility for poor installation - obviously.

Please feel free to message me if I can help ;-)

Mine was under around 4K. Labour was £750/week for 3 weeks, suite and all sundries like tiles etc £1200 (soak.com) and sundries from the fitter like hardboard, pipes, grout etc about £600. This included moving the toilet and SVP, screwing hardboard to the timber floor to lay tiles. Bathroom is approx 3x3m.

@YorkshireDave Thanks for that, I got a really good deal so feel well happy now.

Christ, I was hoping to do 1 bathroom, 2 en-suites and a downstairs loo for £4K total. I have a bath, sink and toilet to reuse. Got a very expensive shower screen for £100 and have flooring for en-suites I got for £20. Loads more buts to get but no way will it be £10k I’m sure. And I have quality labour lined up as part of the whole building work we’re doing. So I guess some cost will be absorbed there.

We had a basic bathroom installed in a property we rent out.
Small bathroom, sink, loo, bath with shower attachement & screen, fully tiled. Nothing fancy - £5k.

We bought the bathroom, tiles, flooring all from b&q for £1300 for bath, separate shower, sink, tiles for wall and laminate (the toilet didn’t get changed as in different room) and it cost us £1600 to fit by a local handyman which included removing and old fireplace and some plastering so it can be done and ours isn’t anything fancy but it looks lovely and does the job

£8k for smallish bathroom but looks absolutely amazing and well fitted. Walk in shower and made to measure units.

Went to local family owned bathroom specialist who project managed. No hassle.

I saved up. It was worth it.

I paid £2k at the plumbers place for majority of the stuff (bought own bath and vanity).
£1k maybe for tiles
£2500 for the fitting fee (I think I was ripped of there).

He took 6 weeks. Six weeks without a shower at home. Still wanted extra money.

Just shocked at the prices people are paying for labour and bathrooms. Think about how much taxable income is needed before handing over £8k on a bathroom and invest that on DIY course, online learning. It aint rocket science and only have to meet some of the cowboy builders to realise you would do a much better job half the time.

I paid £6k three years ago but that was a roll top bath, mira shower, panels, wall and floor tiles, radiator, loo, basin and spotlights.

As much as I loved that roll top bath it was a waste of money ...

You'll have to pay a plasterer £500 just to get out of bed, and another £500 to get him to do a days work.