Cost of new bathroom.

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We have just had a quote back. Local plumber. Like for like replacement of family bathroom with shower over, en suite with a shower cubicle and downstairs cloakroom.
Including the tiling, the quotes were bathroom £12k, en-suite 8k and cloaks at £4K. Is it just me or is that a lot?
Would love to know how much anyone else has paid. We are in the south midlands ish.
Thanks

Family bathroom and en-suite completely ripped out, everything new, including sanitaryware, fitted furniture, floors, tiling, decorating, and electrics was £11,000. Took three weeks, and five years later still thrilled with it.
Just had same man in to do the cloakroom, and it was just under £3000. Money well spent.

We've just had a quite for our bathroom which is the size of a postage stamp ( we live in a small cottage) - £6k. We'really going to look at just having a facelift rather than a full rip-out - aiming to come in around £1500.

Oh, and we had underfloor heating in the bathroom and en-suite as well.

It really does depend on what you're having. £15k for ours sounds like a lot but that's moving all the plumbing around and including under floor heating, a bespoke shower enclosure, a japanese washing toilet, lighting (ceiling, alcove and wall lights), backlit mirrors, double vanity units with quartz worktops, adding a bath and using high end fittings and tiles.

Around here (East mids) labour day rate is a couple of hundred quid per person.

Is there any pp in the north west of England, who can recommend a plumber or builder for a bathroom refit please?

2m x 3m completely new bathroom:

Bath & shower plus loo plus sink/vanity unit, fancy (looking) radiator, pipes, taps etc came to £1000.

Tiles came to £1000 (all walls fully tiled floor to ceiling - looks lush )

Labour was about £1800. One guy did it all and his work was absolutely outstanding.

Flooring was £500 inc. laying - done by someone else.

Inside M25 four years ago.

I’d be fumin’ to spend more than £10k on a single bathroom unless it was literally palatial :)

I had a big en-suite done last year, more like normal bathroom sized wand quite a complicated job with moving things around including bath, shower, WC and sink for £7k. This included some v expensive tiles and taps. So depending on what suite your are having sounds high end. Also midlands.

Ours was £8k, small family bathroom by London, mid range things including taking old out and disposing of rubbish, new plumbing for shower (none before).

Experience of doing a number of bathrooms has been that the labour element (lots of man hours involved in a small space) has always worked out at the same cost as the fittings. (E.g. 3k + 3k)

Advise choosing and paying a bit more for actual quality fittings that you like, rather than the cheapest budget offerings - you have to live with them for a long time.

That’s crazy! We had a large bathroom redone (London, just in zone 3) and it was less than £5k all in with tiling. However we didn’t change the layout or anything. I guess it all depends on the tiles/your fittings x

Completely new bathroom including plastering and painting ceiling, installing recessed spots, towel rail ( can’t imagine the luxury of this) a dual shower with rain head , swanky odd shaped but gorgeous bath, built in basin and cupboard. Door reversed and architrave altered. All in £4,500.
Admittedly the room is too small to literally swing a cat in!

I’ve just had my bathroom done - bath out and shower cubicle in, new sink, toilet, radiator, flooring and cladding all around. Came to just under £2k. One guy on his own charged me £700 labour (took 5 days in total) and I sourced all the bits I needed myself and ordered them in. I’m really pleased with the finish.

We are in the process of doing ours. I would estimate we have spent about £5 -6k on a new bathroom suite, tiles and flooring. No labour costs though as we are doing everything ourselves. DH seems to have some kind of genetic condition which prevents him from being capable of paying tradespeople . That's why we are still "in the process" and have been since about October. It will be nice when it is done though, which I am assured will be before Christmas.

Brickswithstones depends where in the North West, but Trev Tuck did ours.

Grace226 depends what you mean by palatial but ours is 3mx4m and required a suspended (plasterboard) ceiling with 8 spots, 2 speakers and a smart speaker, 6 plug sockets and a drop down loft hatch with ladder. 3 walls building out using a frame and plasterboard. All new pipe work - 2 moved radiators (towel rails), 3 out of 4 fixtures moving. A raised platform for the free standing bath, wiring and electrics for the TV and bathroom cabinet. Plus the bathroom suite, tiles, flooring and waste units. It took 4 weeks from ripping out (which we did ourselves). We could have done it cheaper, we could have spent £30k if we'd had it.

In the north west. We've just had a quote for £6k for our tiny en-suite - but this does involve moving a wall.

I think 3k in total but it was replastered, I moved a stud wall, all the plumbing was redone as the old bathroom was in another room.
The actual plumbing and suite were £2k . Another £1k for joiner, plasterer, tiling, flooring, new door.
£20k should do kitchen, bathroom, new heating, and full redecoration on the whole house!

It really does just depend on what you choose. Whilst our en suite is costing £15k, we did the DC's en suites a few years back (2016) and they cost £2k each and we did the main bathroom in 2014 for £4k all in.

£15k makes my eyes water but we've lived in the house for almost eleven years now and its needed doing for all that time. It will be beautiful and whilst the fitter is expensive, I've seen his work in friends' houses and its excellent (plus it includes the electrician and electricians are expensive)

We’ve just spent £18k on a new family bathroom and downstairs toilet with sink/cabinet unit. Initial quote was£11k, but we chose high-end fixtures & fittings and had underfloor heating put in as well. Best money we’ve spent in a long time, we love it! We’re in the Southeast.

South Coast. Had en-suite put in as part of an extension, so no plumbing there before . Was £1200. It’s basic and no flooring in as yet which will add a little bit.

I've just booked a builder to do mine in late April. Small bathroom in 2 bed house but standard sized fittings. Without the bathroom suite it's £3,400 but he needs to replace two walls and the floor, put up acrylic panels, install the new suite, replace the light etc etc and he's taking all the waste away. I'm in the S.E. I was a bit but I'd already been warned by other MN'ers to double my fantasy budget and they were right

I’ve paid £5.2k for a new bathroom. However we did have the old lead water pipe and waste pipe replaced outside. As we converted a toilet and shower room everything was in a different position so that we had all new pipework inside the bathroom. We did the tiling and flooring ourselves to save £.

We paid £26,000 for our bathroom we're not especially well off, we added it onto the mortgage.

We did knock through into a second room and have all kinds of techy bits though, and underfloor heating.

Tiling quotes vary a lot depending on how tricky the tiles are (mosaics are lots of work, big flat tiles are easier and faster so cheaper) and also they quote high if they don’t really fancy the job.

£8k for a family bathroom and £4k for a cloak room isn’t crazy but maybe a bit high. He might be adding on for the cost of him sourcing the tiles and suite, which you can do online easily yourself