Cost of new bathroom - any ideas?

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Any idea how much it'd cost for a new bathroom - doesn't have to be anything too plush, toilet, sink, bath, possible new shower off boiler and tiling, all in same location? Also, they'll be new flooring.

Don't think we can really afford it, but we've been trying to turn an eye to a very chipped bath for a long time and just realised this afternoon the toilet is leaking underneath (can't see where as it's enclosed). Either way toilet needs replacing, but wondering if we can afford to do more.

We did ours around 2 years ago and it cost around 6K, but we had a shower over bath, not separate. It was off the though boiler, not electric. We do have some fitted cupboards too. Nothing posh, everything was very standard/average.

Actually it was before covid so more than 2 years ago.

My mum has just been quoted £7.5k for a new shower room including tiles and flooring.

Thanks for your replies. It's scary how the cost of materials have gone up - our last bathroom took four days labour and our current one will certainly be less work.

Anyone had theirs done for less than £6k?

We've recently had quotes for our small bathroom, replacing the bath, toilet and sink and redoing tiling and floor. They were around £9k.

Mine was £5.3k for labour and about £2.2k for the fittings.

That was a smallish bathroom everything relaxed where it was but was fully tiled sobers completely ripping out and re plastering.

16 years ago we brought a bathroom suit for £200 from screw fix and fitted it ourselves. I think tiling and flooring was about another £100. Looked pretty good once done and saves us a fortune as we were young and skint at the time.

If you want to eek a few more years out of it there are people who repair plastic baths, sometimes called magic repair or plastic repair.
But leaking toilet get a plumber out ASAP before you cause more damage.

We did ours for £6k all in about 9 months ago: £5k labour £1k fittings, I shopped around HARD for fittings and did the painting myself. Everything in the same place. London. I chose and ordered the bits, plumber did the work.

Previous one that involved moving loo and bath and sink and getting rid of a stud wall, moving door, adding spotlights, etc, was £8k but that was a few years ago and Not London. Company did the design and ordered all the stuff, I just chose the tiles.

We used a local company as I was let down 48 hours before work was due to begin by a large national chain 😡

We totally redesigned the room and took the bath out, moved the toilet and basin etc
Moved the electrics, had a larger radiator put in, even had a new door...
It was fully tiled before but I went partial tile this time - the plastering cost alone is ££££

Cost: £10k

16 years ago I got a large single story extensional the back of my home and loft conversion for 35k!

Should say slightly larger than average sized bathroom but not massive

You’d save some money in both labour and materials by using wall panels instead of tiles, although they don’t look as good in my opinion. But your only real answer is to get some quotes. Then see if you can save any money by sourcing the suite yourself (doubtful but worth a try)

I did mine last year, it was £2000 for the bath / shower / taps / toilet / sink and shower screen from Wickes, £600 for the tiles and £1900 for the tiling and fitting. So £4500 in total x

£7.5k three or fours years ago local builder. Quoted over £10k by a shop

We’re doing our tiny bathroom and it’ll come in at around 8k. Tiles, reinforced bath, shower over, wall hung loo and vanity, new lights and extractor and flooring. Mid range fittings, LVT floor and false wall for frame and shelf. Independent fitter. Did a bathroom for £4.5k 10 years ago, similar fittings.

You can pretty much double the costs from pre covid tbh

We had ours done earlier this year. Small bathroom, £6k for all fitting and bathroom, plus we bought the tiles and flooring separately. Absolutely everything is more expensive at the moment. Especially skilled trades people.

We had all types of quotes up to 15k which I was not paying especially since we weren't planning on living there long. In the end we found a small company on facebook doing packages including flooring for 2.5k and they did an amazing job. That was pre covid though.

I would shop around OP and don't discount small companies.

About half the cost is labour. We are getting nice taps, Geberit frame and plate, and rimless loo with soft close. Soft close vanity. Bath built in and tiled rather than panelled. Tanking around window-we have to have shower near the window. We looked at shower panels but prefer the look of tiles. We did think about a Japanese loo but they are ££££. Flooring is £55 psm but we figured were only going to do this once.

Its the stuff like extractor fans, spotlights, (which need an electrician) decent non slip flooring...it adds up

The cheapest thing was the window blind from blinds2go! (£30)

Ours is getting done in 4w, it's 6k for everything ripped out, new bath with shower over, wall panels, loo and sink, flooring, cupboards, heated towel rail, ceiling painted.

Only thing they are not doing is repainting woodwork around door or replacing door, and we have to take the waste.

Oh and skip hire is really ££££ now too!

We paid 6k for a full new suite with no layout changes, fully tiled floors and ceiling, wall hung vanity unit, lighting and radiator.

Labour is the main cost. If you can find a self employed plumber who charges a daily rate and can advise you on economical fittings it should be reasonable, I think mine was £1200 for the actual fittings and floor tiles plus half walls tiled - but dad fitted it (retired plumber) he was charging £180 a day when he retired in 2019. (Not se)

I had one put in last year, bath, electric shower above bath, toilet, sink, plastic shower panels on all walls instead of tiles, a plastic ceiling with spotlights to cover the old artex and new floor and new door and door frame. Came to £5000.

Its a small room and more of a wet room, I much prefer the plastic panelling I have one wall that is concrete effect and the other three are white with silver 'strings' down it. Not tiling also made it cheap as it was far quicker to fit.