Bathroom comes with the house??!!

[greencygnets]

So DH and I have just bought a new house (not brand new but new to us :)) and it cost us a lot of money (far more than a care to admit! :))
We moved in yesterday, the house is perfect except for one thing...

They've taken the bloody bathroom with them!!!!

One of the two main bathrooms upstairs is literally empty, like I don't mean just the furniture which you obviously take with you. But they've taken the bath, sink and shower!!!!

The room is tiled but theres random pipes sticking out of walls where these things should be!! The only thing left is the toilet. I honestly don't know what to do... We were going to redo the bathroom anyway at some point but never told this to anybody and weren't planning to do so until at least November/December time but now we don't have a choice!!

The kids come home from the holiday with my in-laws on Tuesday and we've got no bathroom for them!!!!

AIBU to think that the bathroom comes with the house, or is it totally reasonable to take the bathroom with you to your new house??!!

OP some desperate people here awaiting the next instalment!

How much does a bathroom cost do you think? Just asking because we are about to renovate ours

several thousand, usually.

I've seen an old one stripped out and a new one put in, in a day and a half by a plumber and lad (excluding plastering, tiling and decorating, but including laying new floor panels). Old bathroom floors are often water damaged, and often chipboard, which is rubbish.

The basin and WC are much quicker than a bath or shower, which need extra sealing.

If done properly, with decent quality sanitary ware, bath, taps and tiles, at least £8k.

Cost depends on whether you move things around or keep to exact same positions. I'm guessing Op will get just the cost of fitting replacement kit in the same place.

Where are you OP? We're dying to know what happened!

@dingdongdenny moving pipes (especially the soil pipe) can get very expensive!

Give us an update OP, we'd really like to know what happened to the thieves

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@jaxhog “soil” pipe always makes me chuckle. What a very British way of describing the shit shifter!

Ours cost nothing like £8k. That's Bath Store prices, that well known rip off artist.

I’ve used bathstore stuff in a previous bathroom. Plumbers had problems, products fell apart after a very short time and it cost more than the money I’d saved to put it right. Bathrooms should be fitted properly and be good quality fitments to avoid problems later on.

That is BANANAS!
You'll never get another suite to math the tiles sizing etc so you'll need the whole thing redoing! And besides which it'll be unlikely they can refit the existing removed suite in place - what fools!

Did you get it sorted?

@greencygnets please come baaack

@DingDongDenny ours cost £3k. Was a pretty simple job in a small ish bathroom. Everything in the same place but replaced with new. Including tiles, radiator, toilet, bath etc and labour.

I haven't read the while post given the length of it. But we are going through the house buying process at the minute and are hammering all this down (inc bathroom and kitchen). While it may not seem "fair" if you don't get this hammered down in writing with your solicitor then it is on you.

Any news OP?

£8k? Where?

Mine is fired earth with a large copper free standing bath and rainfall showers and didnt cost that. Marble tiles floor and walls

Wow you can come shopping with me Downtown. I’ve just spent £9k and that doesn’t include the labour to fit it

It's cheaper to pay a laborer to strip and fit the bathroom with a plumber doing the first and second fix

Ours is a big bathroom - cost £3K

Bath rain shower new taps toilet sink worktop (kept cupboard but had new doors) flooring plastering and tiles new Bluetooth mirror and light fittings - all in fitted

I painted the walls and ceilings as I only wanted half tiles

Shop round - look at plumbing suppliers rather than shops

All white stuff matches - so each item was different suppliers. I found a cheap bath meant the toilet was expensive - cheap sink meant the bath was expensive - so shop round

We needed a particular type of sink which took some finding in eBay from Germany

I'm sure the OP can find a cheap bathroom suite. But she should get one of the same quality as the one that was knicked.

PS. My bathroom cost more than 8k too. Cupboards and pumps can really push the cost up!

Not all white stuff matches though. And when it doesn’t it’s really jarring.

Some of the big ticket stuff was the bits you don’t see, like waterproofing under the tiles and the floor in case of floods.

When you spend over £8k on a bathroom, it isn't a reflection of what bathrooms cost. It's a reflection of what you've got to spend.

I agree

I found the tiles I wanted on line £16 sq mt cheaper than local

The bath was £200 local for the same in was £600
Flooring was half price and cheaper fitting
Bath taps are wall mounted with a spray shower for hair and dog washing plus the girls use it to shave their legs

If you do your research you can find the things you want at a fraction of the cost.