AIBU RE cost to install new bathroom?

[sorrysaywhatnow]

I'm more than willing to be shouted down about the cost of hiring a trade and how you get what you pay for, but please hear me out and let me know if you think the cost is excessive, or if I'm just massively out of touch re what things actually cost (it's been a long time since I had anything done at all really).

Fairly large bathroom suite, consisting of shower cubicle, bath, toilet, sink and towel radiator. I have been quoted to rip out and replace all existing bathroom, make good the walls & decorate, retile the walls and floor, remove rubbish (ie skip) and replace the lighting with spotlights.

I am to supply all the tiles and bathroom suite myself, so this quote is for the cost of fitting/tiling/electrics/removal/skip.
The original cost was £8950, now discounted when I was horrified to £6850. So all in the bathroom is looking like it's going to cost in the region £10k. AIBU?

Ours took 2 weeks (and it was a solid 5 days a week, 8 hours a day), always at least 1 but sometimes 2 guys working (the guy doing it organised the electrician, plasterer, tiler and so on. Think we paid about £5k, plus the cost of the suite, tiles etc. Didn’t include decorating, that was an additional £700ish afterwards. We are an hour outside London.

Agree £750 seems insanely cheap. The guy must be working for about £100 per day which certainly isn’t the going rate round here 🤷‍♀️

It will depend on size (area of tiling), quality of fittings and geographical location, amongst other things.

One idea may be to analyse the quote to see the prices for purchases and fittings and the number of work-days and day rate. This will enable you to understand where, if any, excess cost is. Remember the suppliers need to make a profit but if the day rate is excessive for the area or the number of days is out of kilter then you can see if you get value. If you go with the cheapest quote then you may get what you pay for. Make sure you visualise so don't need to (expensively) add on tile rails, afterwards.

Good luck.

We just had our old bathroom ripped out, plasterboard, plasterer, new suite fitted, wet wall, floor, tiles, bath added and plumbing redone, rotten joists replaced and some electrics replaced.

We got a plumber, joiner, plasterer, tiler and electrician separately rather than go to a bathroom company and it cost all in £3500 for labour. We bought the suite, flooring, wetwall and tiles ourselves which cost £2000. It can be done cheaper.

We were talking about getting a new bathroom with my builder BIL.

He said "If you're having it all tiled, you're looking at £10k".

So £6,850 sounds like a good deal to me. We're not bothering, just redecorating.

They are taking the piss if that price doesn't include the materials which you have to supply yourself 🤷‍♀️

You'd be better of getting all the Prep work done yourself - hacking off the tiles, taking up the floors, even filling and sanding the walls isn't hard if you are going to tile over them anyway

That seems a huge amount to me. We recently had a new kitchen put in and the total labour cost was 3800, that included ripping out the old kitchen, skip hire and he put a new floor down as well so that price included the flooring. Oh and he paid the tiler out of that too.

Labour for a bathroom (Inc tiler, electrician, plasterer) is anything north of a out £3000, depending on lots of things. Get another quote and see if it compares.

I paid less than £3k last year for almost exactly what you're describing. I paid about £3k for the bath, shower etc and the whole thing came in around £6k. No harm in getting another quote to see if it matches up.

@Mumisnotmyonlyname

Some of those prices seem ridiculous to me. Even an expensive plumber at £200 a day is unlikely to take more than 2-3 weeks. So £3k labour maximum, and more likely £2.5k, plus cost of the materials (which varies).

Plumbers round my way are £350 a day. Builder BIL's plumber is £300 a day - that's what he charges my BIL.

We have a plumber I've used for years, he still charges me only £200 a day because I recommended him a lot when he was just starting out. And he never needs to bring someone else for anything that requires 2 pairs of hands, because one of us will act as his assistant!

When you find a good plumber, they're really worth hanging on to imo. Tea, bacon sandwiches and cake always go down well with any tradie imo.

Sorry, should have said - I'm in the SE, but close enough to Brighton to get charged Brighton prices!

I've just been quoted £13.5k for my en suite. I'm going to have to live with the old tatty stuff a lot longer. Can't afford that.

I think we paid 7k for our new bathroom, including skip, tiled floor and walls, new windows, skink, toilet, shower cubicle and all faucets. We are north west.

Crikey, bit anxious now as I’m getting my bathroom done and haven’t had the full quote yet, and I’d budgeted nothing like this! (Tiles coming off right now...)

Ours was £3000- this was for one and a half tiled walls, everything ripped out and removed and replaced. New flooring, new towel rail , new suite . I was pleasantly surprised although google said average is 3-5 grand

Just to add it took five days to do ours

Had my en suite and bathroom done at the start of this year and it ended up around £7k each - that's with everything included. I didn't go high end on anything so was a bit gutted it was so much but the quotes I got were similar in price . Not big rooms. Took 2 weeks to do each room but that was mainly waiting for deliveries of parts as the merchants let us down. I would be more organised next time and get everything delivered into my garage before the work actually started.

Mines a small bathroom, take out bath, replace with shower cubicle as keeping old shower itself, keeping old toilet and sink and towel rail/rad. Complete tiling of four walls, so old tiles off, made good etc, move towel rail/ rad, replace back all suite and new shower cubicle and replace flooring, 6k.

We've had a quote here (east london) this week for 4800 to replace suite and tiles in a 2 x 3 approx room. We've said they need to improve on that as it's like for like, I imagine they'll come back about 3500 but they're already on site doing other work and have a skip etc outside.

Our is just shy of 4x4. Ripped off old tiles and took out old suite and skipped it.
Tiling walls, new flooring, moved toilet, dropped ceiling with spotlights (amazing!), new walk in shower, units, ex display free standing bath (£350 as it had a teeny scuff!) new units. Mirror that you turn on by hovering your hand to the side of it (good for nighttime toilet trips)
It’s was £4000 materials and £2200 for fitting and removal etc.

I’m in Yorkshire.

Also new radiator and that was all done in five days.

I’d had quotes up to £10,000 though. All from good, recommended companies so all these prices sound pretty average.

We got a better deal by using a local business and getting the ex display bath. He also looked through his warehouse at over stock items and we got deals on some of those.
We were told the modular, gloss type units that we went for are the most cost effective option, as they’re made in bulk.
Some units are more bespoke or made to order so make sure to double check on that!

Could you not ask for a breakdown of costs OP?

By the way, in response to a pp, £200 per day for a professional self employed tradesman is not ''expensive''.

With reference to the £750 job, we are also in the North and a local company fit us a downstairs cloakroom, needed plumbing and electrics, toilet, sink, extractor fan, lights, cupboard and flooring for less than a grand.

My DH pays his laborer £180 per day to carry bricks and cement to the bricklayers and sweep up on site.

A skilled builder/electrician/plumber IS worth £200 a day.

Sorry - but so many people think they're going to get wonderful work done of their houses for not much more than the cost of the materials My DH gave up doing private work because of this attitude. The waste of his time in the evenings doing quotes and working out cost breakdowns for people who were horrified and would then try to make him knock the prices down. I think they thought he was some sort of cheerful chappie who would come and do it all for min wage.

rant over.

Sorry but a lot of you are being ripped off!! My dh would never charge that high!