What comes first?!

[CalmFawn]

We have a very ancient bathroom. We’ve had a quote for over £20,000 to renovate so we cannot afford that! So we want to do it in stages to make it more affordable.

we’re struggling with what comes first. We want the whole room tiled…so do we do the bathroom fixtures first or the tiles??! Getting conflicting advice online. (We will be getting a plumber and a tiler to do the work in case someone thought we’d give it a go 😂)

thanks!!

Depends.

Do you only have one bathroom?

Yes we do but we’re happy to move to my parents for a couple of weeks

I would say, take out the whole suite, then do the tiling while the room is empty

then put the new suite in

then everything else around that.

empty room completely - tile - then plumb in new suite

Do the plumbing BEFORE the tiling unless you want exposed pipes which means you need to decide the layout and what bathroom suite you want.

Our plumbers did the whole lot, but I do remember the bath being a tight fit for the space, so they put it in first and tiled around it. They also fitted the toilet pan so that we could at least use the loo and flush it with buckets of water. They fitted the cistern part after tiling the wall.

Where are you? We just got a high end bathroom (everything staying as it was) for £11k all in.

I would shop around

Have you ever tiled around a WC a handbasin a bath a shower - horrible hard dusty and messy seeing cuts all over the place. Plus risk of damaging your new suit - tiler stood in bath, tile drops in sink etc - ask a tiler and a plumber I’ll put money on their answer.

You strip the whole bathroom, back to walls, then the plumbing as you may or most likely will have to take the floor up. If you can leave the toilet in the see position that saves thousands, it’s a pain to move the sewage pipes.

When taking up the floor consider radiators vs underfloor heating.

then you skim walls, plaster, lay flooring, fix lights and ceiling lights etc and tile, assuming the sheer, bath etc are all in place.

yiu can find a bathroom suite online for £800 so depending on your finish and style £800 being low end you can go as high as you like but don’t go for black taps and fittings. They flake off and always look grubby.

oh and enjoy!

Take all current stuff out, 1st fit of waste and supply pipes and heating pipes, 1st fit electrics, plaster if needed, tile and grout, paint any plaster which needs doing, 2nd fit electrics, fit sink, loo, bath and shower, sealant.
All of it can be done DIY except connecting the electrics to the fuse board. Plastering is pretty tricky though so I would get someone in for that. Also if you are tiling yourself then I would pick smallish terracotta tiles as they are much easier to cut and more forgiving if your walls are a bit wonky.
Tiling is relatively easy.

@Geneticsbunnygreat advice on the tiles I love a good tiling project.

You should be able to get a quote a lot cheaper than that! The whole bathroom needs to be done in one go, save up don't do it in bits

Our bathroom refurb was finished about 3 weeks ago. Old bathroom and all fixtures were ripped out. Then the new pipework and valves went into the walls and under the floorboards. First fix electrics. Then walls were prepped for plastering A special type of plasterboard for bathrooms was applied , then plaster. Walls were painted then the bath, rad, towel rail etc went in. Tiles, shower tray, screen and we're pretty much done. Just under £20k all in