New bathroom £9000?

[Nicho59]

Just had a quote for a new bathroom installation. The £9k is inclusive of suite incl separate shower flooring and redecoration. About £4k of that is fitting costs and it will take 2 weeks. Any thoughts fols?

Didn't move anything plumbing wise either

We have just had ours done. It was more or less 10K. The labour was just over 5k. The rest was the fixtures and the tiles. We are in the SE.

Depends on what kind of place you're buying your tiles and shower etc from

Pretty much spot on. Paid only marginally more a year ago.

If it makes you feel better, OP, I went to look round a vair,vair, swanky bathroom showroom for ideas, before buying mine.
I asked the v snotty chap what sort of prices he charged, and he said “Our most recent one was £65,000”!!!
Mind you, that included gold taps, a wood burning stove, a glass floor, and an underfloor flowing river feature, complete with ferns and concealed lighting…
Needless to say, I went to a more affordable company.

It depends on the spec. My carefully shopped, new bathroom is going to cost around £6000 of which £3500 is fitting over 2 weeks.

Does sound about the going rate tbh.

We had 4 bathroom quotes last year, my bathroom is only tiny but the quotes for a new suite, tiles, floor, labour etc were between £8-10k.

In the end we ended up doing a lot of it ourselves to save money. We removed the existing suite. Got a plumber in to fit new suite but I bought it from Victoria plum myself and then me, hubby and husbands mate did the painting, tiling, floor etc and saved a lot of money.
There's lots of helpful YouTube videos and with a bit of patience it can be done. Think it ended up costing us about £3k with some professional help but a lot of DIY!

DH did ours himself (fitting, plumbing, tiling) so no labour costs and it was over 4k about 3 or 4 years ago for just materials (its a tiny bathroom and wasn't top spec of everything) so if 4k of your cost is fitting costs it doesn't seem extortionate to me.

I've just paid 17k for both bathroom and kitchen from wickes. Bathroom was 6.7k included in this is dry fit, bathroom alone I have another 1.6k of specialist work plus the floor tiles to buy, so yep, my very small bathroom all in will be over 9k. The fact I have another few thousand to pay is galling, was told at the time cost of labour and installation has rocketed.

Our medium sized bathroom cost about £6k, no plumbing moved but installation of a fancy steam bath unit, removing tiles, replastering, tiling floor, new units. Plus part of it was done by a handyman friend which kept the costs lower.

I think we'll end up paying that for our bathroom and downstairs loo combined but there's no separate shower and it's not a particularly big bathroom (standard bath will only fit in a particular spot). I think we've picked some relatively expensive fittings but we're not planning on moving!

Just paid £10k to have our bathroom done
We did totally alter it though
Also needed remedial work to floor joists

Really depends on size of bathroom, fittings/tikes chosen and whether you’re moving any plumbing, etc.
I’ve just had 3 bathrooms ripped out and replaced plus a downstairs loo. It’s cost in the region of £50k but we moved walls and redid all the plumbing, etc. It’s taken about 4 months.

I have just had two quotes. Gutting a small bathroom including removing floor to ceiling tiles, making good then installing new fitting decorating and half tiling. Building a smal stud wall
Two quotes within £50 of each other at just over £5k. 10-13 days work.

Plus then bath etc I'm looking at probably £8k all in even keeping price down on fittings.

How many quotes have you got? Are they all about the same?

Should have said bathroom furniture fairly move spec but tiles fairly cheap
Needed a fair bit of electrics sorting too

fairly high spec

Just paid similar for our en suite refurb. 2 weeks, 2 people, complete refit and full retile. We are SE. Had a quote for £14k which we turned down.

Yes ours was 2 weeks too

Don't go to a fancy bathroom company, get a local independent fitter to do it, and you will immediately save money. I got quotes for my kitchen (2m square) of £10K and £11.5K excluding appliances. I eventually paid about £7.5K including appliances (which I chose myself, so I got exactly what I wanted). Same chap refreshed my bathroom (I didn't get a new suite, just new tiles, shower screen and shower, repainted and new flooring) for less than £3K. If it's a good local tradesman, they will actually talk you through everything so there are no surprises.

Depends on size and spec. Ours was a 4 piece suite, complex installation, medium size room and mid quality fittings/ tiles. Cost £14k. Cheaper quotes failed to take in to account the complexity of the fitting. I'm glad we paid more, we're very happy with it. Fitting was about half the cost.

If you want to keep costs down I suggest:

Buy all materials yourself or the trades will mark up on products - Toilet, basin, cupboards, shower enclosure, bath, tiles, grout, water proofing paint, towel rail, mirror etc etc.

Then ask the plumber what his day rate is - if he's expensive, ask another plumber what his day rate is.

A tiler may be cheaper than a plumber - get a quote for the tiling separately from a tiler, he'll probably get it done in one day.

Get day rates not a quote for the full job.

We renovate property, to make money to survive we either have to do it ourself or wait for a quote. Just recently we are having a wall removed, our first quote was 18k, our second quote was 6k our 3rd was 5k we have found someone to do it for 2k - there was no difference in qualifications or experience in these builders, they just like to try it on.

And it took 4 weeks, which was 1 week more than estimated but there were mitigating factors (the labourer robbed the plumber (cash and tools) one day and the plumbers daughter ended up in hospital).

I'd snap their hand off, we had a quote of £14k to redo out en-suite using the sanitary wear we already had. Was only new shower enclosure and retiling. We still haven't had it done!

Sound right. Horrendous cost, and the suite will be plastics based at that!

We had one (badly) fitted about 4 years ago (toilet, basin, bath, shower, tiled, replastered, extractor, lighting) cost £7k. Didn’t last well. DH & I replaced vanity, bath panels, cistern ourselves.