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Cost of a new bathroom suite

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Thatwinteryfeeling · 26/10/2019 20:33

First time buyer moving to our new house in a few weeks. We are in Bradford, how much on average will it cost to fit a full bathroom suite? Also how long will it take? I will be doing the tiling and the floor just want someone to fit the bath sink and toilet

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LionelRitchieStoleMyNotebook · 26/10/2019 21:12

Are things staying in the same place? Are you going to prep and remove what's there before the plumber arrives?

LionelRitchieStoleMyNotebook · 26/10/2019 21:13

Oh also how old is the house, is the pipework standard? Are you having an electric or mains shower? What's your water pressure like? (If you have to start adding electrical work or shower pumps to the job it'll take longer and cost more)

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Thatwinteryfeeling · 26/10/2019 21:14

Everything will stay in the same place.. its a very small space. And no we will not be doing any prepping as I don't want to cause any damage, if I had the know how I would

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HaudYerWheeshtYaWeeBellend · 26/10/2019 21:15

Spends on the pipe work and the suite you want, if you want a shower etc...

You couldn’t be looking at any budget really, but I’d say no less than £1500 and anything up to £10.000

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Thatwinteryfeeling · 26/10/2019 21:16

It's a 1930s house with standard pipes I think, it would be an electric shower and I don't know what the water pressure is like

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Thatwinteryfeeling · 26/10/2019 21:17

Up to 10.000 to fit a new suite.. yikes

I better do a course Grin

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MintyMabel · 26/10/2019 21:17

Assuming everything is straightforward, you're probably look at two days to take the old one out and put the new one in. Assuming you are looking at a basic suite you'd get that for around 350 - 500 quid.

The cost of labour depends on your area, but where I am we'd pay around 350 per day for labour.

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Thatwinteryfeeling · 26/10/2019 21:21

@mintymabel that sounds more like it, the suite we have seen is about 450.. very basic, just want a clean space as the bathroom that's in is very old and grubby

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KristinaM · 26/10/2019 21:29

Do you have gas central heating With a combi boiler ? If so I’d fit a mains shower and get rid of the electric. They are slow and expensive to run.

Does the house have an existing bathroom ? If so, then I’d leave it until you have moved in and checked everything out.

Changing the fittings might mean retiling eg over sink and around bath / shower.

Is it a shower over the bath and do you what to keep that or install a cubicle?

If you are doing up the bathroom you might want to improve the lighting, it’s usually crap.

You can do a lot of the stripping out yourself to save money.

gonewiththerain · 26/10/2019 21:29

A decent suite from a builders merchant with separate shower is about £750. That includes taps, legs for bath, plugs, wastes all those little bits that b&q etc don’t include
I did haggle to get the price down

If you’re not moving pipe work I would say fitting would be about the same
Mine cost about 1500 ish to fit as all new pipe runs because I moved the bathroom from one room to another

Mine took two men Less than a week to fit

If the pipes are old you can get connectors to fit them to the new pipes. So imperial pipes can be fitted to modern plastic push fit.

Sushiroller · 26/10/2019 21:34

I did a basic suite (betterbathrooms and they had fab after care customer service)
And it was about £2.5k with labour but. I prepped walls and painted it etc myself and sold the scrap metal from the old bathroom.

A word of advice... chose tiles with care...
small tiles take longer so can cost a lot more to fit. Also elaborate patterns are trickier so also take longer. I went for an easy to fit, simple design as I had a Victorian place with weird angles. It was tiled and grouted in under a full day (ie only 1 days pay for a tradesman)....

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Thatwinteryfeeling · 26/10/2019 21:39

We don't have central heating just gas heaters, that's the first job when we move in. Then the bathroom, thank you for the heads up about a mains shower. The bathroom will definately need retiling but this is my challenge and won't want anyone else to do it.

What can I do to prep to reduce cost? Don't want to cause any major damage haha

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BinkySodPlop · 26/10/2019 21:45

I had my bathroom done relatively recently and went for shower boards rather than tiles. They look sleek, are easy to clean and I love them. Several types, which have different fitting instructions, but generally easier and quicker than tile. And the left over is splashback around the sink.

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Thatwinteryfeeling · 26/10/2019 21:53

Thank you I will consider those

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Elbowedout · 26/10/2019 21:59

We are in the process of changing our bathroom suite but we are doing the work ourselves. I've been looking at a lot of bathrooms as a result, and cost varies absolutely enormously. You can get baths that cost more than we are planning to spend for the entire project! Depends very much on exactly what you want of course, you can get basic suites for around £300 but beware of extras. A lot of suites dont include the taps or the waste pipes. Our bath taps and plumbing bits are costing another £150 so do check carefully what you are buying. I felt quite encouraged when I saw the prices online and then got a bit of a shock when all the extras started adding up. For your shower, as well as water pressure you need to know what will be ok for your electrics. Showers seem to come mainly in 7.5, 8.5 and 9.5kW. In an older house you might not be able to fit a 9.5kW shower.
I think our spend on just the hardware so far (shower, shower enclosure, bath, toilet, wash basin and bidet)is about £2.5k and I wouldn't say we have gone for high end stuff. The shower enclosure has been the single most expensive thing but as we had a flood as a result of a leak from our old one I didn't want to risk going too cheap there - could be a false economy! I haven't picked tiles and flooring yet so still unsure what the overall cost is going to be. We also need some plastering doing which is the only bit of DIY that my DH won't tackle, so that will bump the price up considerably unfortunately.
Sorry, I know that hasn't answered your question about fitting costs but I just wanted to share my recent experiences.

addictedtotheflats · 26/10/2019 22:06

I live in West Yorkshire, 1930’s house, bathroom 7x5. To fully tile walls and floor including boarding walls and plastering ceiling, fit new suite, sink in different place, install new shower above bath (not electric) extractor fan and spotlights was £3200 ish (that included a decent suite) and i hired a skip for waste.

Elbowedout · 26/10/2019 22:09

Oh, and we decided against having a mains shower. Our current shower only has a cold water feed so there would be a substantial amount of plumbing work needed, plus with a combi boiler with no immersion heater we only have hot water when the boiler is on and quite often want showers at other times. We have oil central heating and the cost of oil is sky high at the moment so I dont want to be putting the boiler on everytime anyone wants a shower. So for us, an electric shower works out better.

MintyMabel · 26/10/2019 23:35

What can I do to prep to reduce cost?

Take out the old one. If you can isolate the water supply it's quite easy to do. If you need to remove the taps to take it out, just make sure you put them back on after so you don't flood the place.

One thing to check though, an older house might have different sizes of pipework. It can look the right size but be a few mm out because of the difference between metric and imperial.

80sMum · 26/10/2019 23:49

The taps and the shower valve etc will probably cost a lot more than your suite, OP! I vaguely recall when we had our bathroom done up about 10 years ago, the taps and shower were much more expensive than I had anticipated.

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Thatwinteryfeeling · 27/10/2019 13:28

Thanks so much everyone I'll get a few quotes and see what they come up with.. much appreciated

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