to think £5000 is too much for small bathroom

[seoladair]

Please give me your wisdom. Is £5k too much for an 8x 6 bathroom? (New bath, loo, basin, fan and half tiled, the rest painted)
We were going to buy units from homebase but the builder said he could get units more cheaply for us. Are we being naive? We're in Londob btw.

We bought our bathroom suite from EBay (it's beautiful!), tiles 3 walls, and still had change from £1000.

Wow, that is a lot! I would absolutely as a priority find a good local plumber first who will get good prices for the good bathroom suite taps etc from plumbers merchants and they always know good tilers and carpenters, you can get that price down!!

just buy the units online and get a plumber in to fit. how much is 2 days work in london???

Sounds a lot to me but I'm in Staffordshire.
We're currently having building work done which includes bricking up door, knocking new one through, 2 ceilings being replaced, new bathroom including rerouting plumbing and electrics, boarding/plastering walls, tiling floor and midway up walls, building airing cupboard, spotlights, 2 new radiators, wiring for 4 wall lights in lounge, fitting gas fire and surround, knocking out brick fireplace in bedroom and new coving, doors and architrave in all 3 rooms. Cost £4200.
Makes me realise what a good quote we had now.

Depends on quality of the fittings I think. My mum has just had a Victoria Plumb shower, basin, toilet fitted with new tiles and floor and it came to £3,500 in total - mostly for the work not the fittings.

We are in London and I've just done three top end bathrooms with marble, etc.. and they came to about £10k each.

My sister had a builder/ decorator who she used - she lives in a nice part of London, bought nice things, could clearly afford paying above what I considered would be a reasonable price. I was buying my fist place, public sector, bit skint. Her builder said give him a call when I was ready to have any work done/ I just laughed and said no way could I afford his prices and he said, he'd see me right me right and do me good price. I then realised sometimes, the price you get quoted is what people think you can afford and you have to bargain and negotiate. BARGAIN AND NEGOTIATE!!!

Given cost of living/labour in London, it sounds about right. How much of it could you do yourselves? That is one way to potentially cuts costs (unless you make a complete mess of it and they have to rip it all out again).

I tried negotiating but he wasn't going to budge so I caved in. We need to get the work done now while we are away so it seemed the easiest thing to do. It seems from your messages that it's an ok price for London anyway.
We'll just live on beans on toast for the next 6 months. ..

It probably sounds right. But I agree that when you want work to be done it always seems expensive. Of course it depends on the price of the units and other bits and pieces.