New bathroom spend?

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We are having a new main family bathroom re-fitted in September. We’ve chosen everything and are going for a wet room type shower, free-standing bath, recessed storage, and good quality fittings etc. We also need to get airing cupboard removed to extend a bit which means re-locating hot water tank to loft space. We are having it all professionally fitted and it is going to cost around £23,000. Does this sound over the top or a reasonable amount to spend on main bathroom?
Our house is worth about £550,000 and we are planning on staying put for a while.

I guess it depends on the size of the bathroom and the quality of the fittings. But to me that sounds very expensive. I'd expect a kitchen to cost that much if it was high-end because of all the appliances. I would get quotes from 3 companies and go with the one you're comfortable with.im no expert though.

Thanks chewbacca

I’d say that’s probably about right for a good quality bathroom and good fitters. Mine was £11 for a complete re fit. New pipes and electrics throughout and move around and resiting of pipes - all done by one company and one guy. He was fab and would definitely recommend the one company if you are short on time

That sounds very expensive to me. I'd shop around and buy the fittings and everything yourself, that way you're only paying for labour and can get a better idea of whether it's reasonable. My bathroom is being done at the moment and is costing around £6000. It was basically a mouldy wreck before so a lot of work and man hours have gone into it.

I know it’s sounds really expensive and I am a bit 😱 about it but It’s pretty top end and we definitely don’t want to get involved with it ourselves. We haven’t replaced our bathroom for 20 years so well overdue. Justify justify ...

I agree with Thumbcat. Our bathroom has just been redone at a cost of just over £6k including new suite, shower, new wall tiles (inc removal of old) granite floor tiles (which I love). The old one I believe hadn't been done in over 20 years (we've just moved in) and included resiting of sink and replacement of floor (previous rotten in places). All done by one guy and one company. Really pleased with the results

Really pleased (can you tell?)

That’s absolutely extortionate, we had entire large family bathroom ripped back to brick, structural repairs made, layout reconfigured and walk in shower added, all four walls tiled floor to ceiling in villeroy & boch large format tiles, huge freestanding Clearwater bath, etc etc... for £11,000... House worth slightly more, and wouldn’t have been comfortable spending any more than we did.

Just spent £12k, totally happy with it. House worth more.

Spend about £11k on a family bathroom and shower room recently. That included turning shower room into wet room and resiting toilet etc, so moving waste pipes and siting on an internal wall and that was with fairly high end sanitary ware

We live in London and paid less than that to have two large family bathrooms and a downstairs cloakroom redone. That included some pretty pricey things like a proper claw foot bath and Matke shower screens etc.

Can't remember the total for ours but think it was around £18k.

That sounds a crazy amount. I'd definitely get some more quotes and shop round for the bathroom suite and fittings.