I know this question is idiotic, but......

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Would 3k be a reasonable budget for a new bathroom including floor and wall tiling, new bath, showwer over bath, sink, toilet. Not too fancy, room is not large.....

Are dolphin any good btw?

I doubt we'll move anything- space is so restrictive. Am thinking maybe ds and I will go away and leave dh to live in squalor...

Don't let Dolphin through your front door - they'll be with you for hours and won't leave easily. And they'll suggest a bathroom that costs the same as a small African country's national debt...

We just did our large bathroom all in for 5 grand. That was for new bath, separate huge glassed in shower enclosure, toilet, sink, fitted furniture, tiles, lighting, blinds, taps, shower and labour.

I bought all the suite and tiles from Wickes, then had a local reputable plumber/fitter to do the work.

Forgot to say - pics on my profile, and ours took 8 working days from start to finish (but 2 of those were long days and it should have taken 10). Luckily we had another shower room with loo to use!

I'm just in the process of getting a VERY SMALL bathroom re-done.
Total cost is 1,700 and for that they have ripped out the old bathroom (shower cubicle, toilet and sink) have stripped off old tiles and (very naff) wallpaper/dodgy polystyrene ceiling. They have refitted a lovely new shower cubicle, toilet and sink and have tiled in cubicle and around bottom half of remaining walls and re-done ceiling. Not tiled floor.

It is being fitted in around other jobs and one day they came in and ripped everything out (doing kitchen too) and then replaced fittings and started tiling the second day. They reckon one more full days work and it will be finished.

I'd definitely want to move out whilst work done unless you do have another bathroom you can use

I think you could just about do it on that - tiles from B and Q are very good and cheap. We used Bathstore in the sale for everything else and they were fine. If you find a local plumber they will point you in the direction of the local plumbers merchants and you should get a good deal from them otherwise.

Looking at your name I think you must be local to me - I can recommend a good local plumber who took care of everything for us - he ripped mine out and fitted the new one. he gets the electrician etc in to do the bits they need to do. Will pass on his number if you want. We've used him for the last 10 years! The work should be done in a week as long as everything goes to plan.!

yet to finalise sums on our bathrooom -

bath - £400
TOILET & SINK - £50 ebay (we had ordered B& Q with bath but couldn't fit a close-coupled loo in the existing space)
Taps, accesories etc - £100 (they were half price in B&Q)
radiator including valves £150
tiles - £280
grout & adhesive - £100
Boards for built in cupbpoard...yet to be decided, but about £100
loo seat - £24

£1300 then - Dh was free....(to those that can afford him..)

ooh hang on forgot aqua panel - £210 most bathrooms wouldn't need this though - it was just because the plaster work was shagged in our bathroom.

bathroom cabinet £66
plumbing fittings...£50 (though DH mucked up one set)

so....£1836 total - level of DIY difficulty - moderate to hard if you are doing everything including re-fitting the toilet pan.
we already had a tile saw and general tool kit.

we did our bedroom at the same time for £80!

agree about moving out unless you have other bathroom =- we have been at my Mums for most of the last month and moved back in yesterday (my due date )

MOS - you obviously have a good plumber/builder to do a lil bathroom for that little! goods alone cost more than that for ours without labour. i doubt we'd have got quite the same job done though...

very pleased with all the white tiles and shiny chrome after three years with an avocado and beige bathroom!

England Allen it really is a TINY bathroom, well shower room really as no room for bath (unless we left out toilet and sink!) Just about room to swing a very small kitten

He is a local guy and has managed to fit it in around other jobs which suited all of us.

Total for re-fit of bathroom and kitchen (which is equally tiny. Just a small sink with cupboard under, built in hob, space for ffridge and 3 wall units, tiling etc was 3,900. Think I've done quite well reading some of these prices.
Advocado!

We got rid of our avacado suite last month! [proud]

we got suite from bathstore in the sale

taps were expensive but we wanted a certain sort. (£400 ish)

tiles - topps tiles with tesco vouchers - bargain!

local plumber did it all for £2k including re plastering walls (had tiles floor to ceiling all over every wall on and we didn't want) and textured ceiling.