To think £7k is steep for a new bathroom?

[Zara85]

I may very well be the unreasonable one here, but I've had 2 quotes now for between £6000 - £6300 for a new bathroom. This involves all new stuff and tiling but excludes tiles, so we were told to add an extra £800 ish on top too taking it to £7000
It also excludes electrics as my husband can do the lights etc.
The bathroom is not huge- 6"x8" and we don't want anything spectacular.
We have £4500 in the bank and really thought / hoped this would be enough. We told them our budget too and that we can't go over in hopes that they would work to our budget. We now basically have to save another 3k which will take forever as we have 2 under 2 in full time childcare!

Does anyone have any tips on how to save cost on this? We looked at the wall panels instead of tiles but just couldn't warm to them. Help!

I did a combination of what Tinkerspy and don’tcallmecharlotte did.

I also used betterbathrooms (their customer service is FANTASTIC.

Am amazed to see such high prices for “standard” bathrooms I know the high stuff costs £££ but I thought £1.5k (my costs) was an okay prove but not amazing.

Another tip which may have already been mentioned but bigger tiles - labour is way cheaper.
Also source them yourselves - Mine were £4 pm from an end of line tiling shop in north London

But the supplies yourself from soak.com, or similar and get quotes from a local builder to remove the old bathroom and fit the new one. They will tell you what area of tiles you need and then you can purchase them yourself also.

I did this when I replaced my 5x7’ bathroom and it cost about £3800.

I've just had my bathroom done...new overbath shower +screen, new toilet, (moved a foot, like yours) existing sink and bath used. New tiling, (approx. £50 per sq metre) new flooring, new windowsill, making good after removing foul vanity unit, new skirtings etc. An electrician needed to sign of the shower, everything else was done by the same two (lovely) blokes.

I did the painting.

Cost around £2,500 all in. Yours does sound expensive.

Just had our 9"X6" bathroom done and it was £6500.

Our en-suite was £5.5k. It's about right

We ditched tiles and had wall panels. Didn't need to take old tiles off so saved a fortune on labour too

If I can transfor my kitchen to from what is was to what it is now pictures included for just over 1000 anything is possible xx