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

@MAFIL ha I’m the same. I can’t pay a tradesperson! Have to do it myself. Doesn’t matter how big the job. It takes a lot of time.

Ouch. I paid £2k for the unit, tiles, paint etc. (Dad fitted it, he's a plumber) so then it should be 5 -8 days (depending on size and complexity) x £150 per day based on his rates, might explain why his former customers are moaning about him retiring!

£150 s low and 5-8 days indicates a fairly straight forward job. Mine is taking around 3 weeks

Mine took about 3 weeks too @HasaDigaEebowai. Apart from the basin that got 'Damaged in transit', but they hadn't bothered to check it until they were ready to fit it. Had to wait an extra two weeks for that.

I am East Mids, I recently had three quotes in. We want the shower over bath separating, proper not electric shower putting in and the sink and radiator needs moving.

Quotes were

£5.4k including suite, plastering, labour etc everything but tiles

£6k plus cost of suite

£7k plus cost of suite and tiles

Obviously have gone with the first guy 🤣 he has fantastic feedback/ reviews/ recommendation as well though so wasn't a hard choice

bathstore quoted is 12k to supply and fit. we bought the stuff ourselves (nicer stuff too!) and hired our own fitter and paid 7-8k

The actual fittings - bath, sinks, toilet - can all be picked up relatively cheaply depending on what sort of range you're looking at. It's the labour costs of plumbers and fitters plus tiling and flooring that stack the cost up. I don't think we could do it for under 5k hence why my bathroom still looks like the one from Saw

Its possible to save a fair bit on fixtures by internet searching. My bath was £1700 on one site and typically around £1500 but I found it for £620 after extensive googling and using offers and sales.

We are doing the bedroom at the same time and I've saved over £1000 by finding the carpet supplied by carpetright and united carpets on a different website (checked the samples and it's absolutely identical).

Work out your electrical zoning (easily googleable) and you can save on light fittings too. If they're in zone 3 they can be normal light fittings (not IP44) which are generally cheaper (and far more choice).

I love interior design though and am happy to spend hours hunting down the perfect thing.

I shouldn't complain really @Hadtoask
When I look at the crazy amounts of money people spend having things done, we must have saved hundreds of thousands of pounds over the years. The only job we have ever paid anyone to do was to lay our kitchen floor and its the worst floor in the house. Yes, its been inconvenient having the family bathroom out of commission gor so long, but we have an ensuite and a downstairs toilet so its not the end of the world. The tiling has been the bit that's taken time. The plumbing has been fairly straightforward so far apart from the wash basin being a different height to the old one which has needed the pipes moving. I'm hoping it will be done by the end of the month.
Then we need to start on the kitchen.

This is like asking how long is a piece of string.
Technically if you do it yourself you could buy a new suite and tiles etc for under £1000.
You could also spend £20k+ re-doing the same room.

Your best option is to get more quotes with a price breakdown, or order all the parts yourself and just pay a tiler and a plumber to fit it.

Thanks all for your replies. I can’t believe how varied it can be.
We will definitely get a couple more quotes and also look at buying the fixtures and just paying for fitting.
Thanks again

Choose your own fittings. I bought high end only but end of line and clearance or shop closing, also from ebay, all at very low prices. I buy tiles when I see them cheap and then just pay a good plumber daily rate. I've known 3 excellent plumber who also tiled so I've been lucky.

I've done 5 bathrooms in 16 years.

Some of these prices are worrying me.

We really need to get our bathroom done, bits have been falling apart and it has zero storage. It's quite a sizeable bathroom though with very high ceilings. All tiled currently!

Would love to have a go at doing it ourselves but as it's our only bathroom and only toilet I don't think we can.

We are keeping the bath as that's fine, just want to change the taps and plug fitting.

The walls will prob need replastering once the old tiles come off.

Going to try and keep prices down with the fixtures but we do have an idea in mind of how we want it to look.... thank you Pinterest and Instagram!!

Actually going through ours again I think it was £6.6k - £3.9k on that was to the plumber and the items which were mid-range I bought online. The other plumber I got a quote from was £1.4k more. The £3.9k was two guys to fit it (took 2 guys 6 days of work plus plumbing things in, shower was a new addition), taking out and disposal of old bathroom and fitting of new which included heated towel rail, vanity unit, toilet, shower for over bath, bath and shower screen, cupboard, flooring, repainting, adding panels in, replastering and it included £350 of their materials. By London, they did an excellent job. Not sure if it saved money buying things myself but could get exactly what I wanted.

on should be of that

It can be worth asking builders / plumbers advice before you start - some things made a difference to pricing.

We paid a builder £900 plus the tiler £500 both included additional extras like edging grouting, plasterboard etc

The rest was under £600

All flooring tiles electrics need plumbing radiator new bath toilets sink taps etc

My new bathroom is hopefully going to look similar to this but with brushed brass fittings and larger format tiles.

Fully tiled small bathroom.was £3.5k last summer

Twenty Four Thousand Pounds OP!!
WOW!!
There is no way I would pay that, not even if I won the lotto.
Fuck them, greedy bastards!!

A white suite will match any other white suite.

Check out baths in different places V showers etc

These companies tend to package things differently so you ‘save’ on the sink but ‘lose’ on the bath or extras.

Worth buying separate pieces. Look at plumbing suppliers rather than than shops. Check tile discount stores. Ours were reduced from £50SM to less than £10.
Under floor heating mats are only £80
Moving pipes isn’t that expensive - it’s a bit of plastic screw in piping.

I think the 24k was the choice of that pp and not necessarily the fitters or plumber. Crazy silly money to spend but each to their own.

I had a 2m x 2m bathroom that was a wet room, so it had a sloping floor. To save costs I took the tiles off two walls myself, as well as pulling up the flooring off and removing the toilet (this bit was far easier than I'd thought!)
I also sourced my own bath, replacement shower, toilet, basin, taps and tiles.
My bathroom fitters levelled the floor, plastered one wall, tiled two other walls and the floor, and fitted the toilet, sink, new electric shower and the bath, as well as adding new plumbing for bath as the room didn't previously have a bath.

Took them 3 days and cost £1,500. Which included tile adhesive, grout, beading and whatever it was they used to level the floor before tiling it. This was 3 years ago in Cheshire.