How much is a new kitchen or bathroom - roughly?

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We're moving house and some of the in budget houses are a good size etc but would need new bathrooms and kitchens.

Having never got anywhere near doing that in our current house I'm totally clueless!

Can you give me a rough idea of price?

Bathroom
We could keep the loo and sink but would new to replace the bath, tiles and floor.

Ensuite
Remove bidet (does anyone ever use one), re tile and replace flooring.

Kitchen/ Diner
Probably total refit including new oven and hob.

TIA! :)

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Depends on the size, style & where you buy. can't really give a figure without measurements etc.

You can plan a kitchen on the B&Q website. That will give you a pretty precise estimate.

It really depends on size, quality of fittings etc. The kitchen will be a minimum of £3000 I reckon, unless you can fit it yourself. The bathroom will be cheaper, you can get a basic bath for £100 or so, but it depends on how much plumbing etc needs doing. Usually it's the labour that is the most expensive consideration for this type of job.

Our kitchen itself (without appliances or flooring) cost £6k.

All in though, including appliances, flooring, tiling etc, we spent £10k.

Word of warning though - when we budgeted for ours, I looked at the cheapest for everything - so freestanding 90cm range started at £800, fridge freezer starts at £300, flooring £10sm2. But then when we actually started choosing, I completely blew the budget out of the water.

Are you someone who sticks to a budget or goes for what you want? I think this is a major thing to think about. It will be the difference between a £5k kitchen and a £15k kitchen.

And there are sooooo many decisions with a kitchen. Pull out larder - the unit part itself cost £300. Handles - cheap one can be £200 cheaper than most expensive.

cheap one ones

i might have spent too much on ours, but didn't go for £200 for one handle! i meant for all of the handles

We've just had ours done (or rather just got to finish it off!). The kitchen is approx 5m x 2.5m

We had our kitchen units from Ikea, these cost £3k and included a slimline dishwasher, integrated microwave and extractor fan. I've got two larder cabinets (one with all the pull out fittings), 2x 40cm drawers, 2 corner units with pull out fittings, one double sink, 5 x 40cm wall cabinets, fan cabinet and microwave cabinet. There's plenty of storage for us with that lot. They are the lidingo units, so mid range in Ikea.

It also includes the doors and fittings for integrated dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer. I bought a free standing oven. The appliances were on the lower budget end and cost about £1k.

Laminate worktops were £260 as the ikea ones were too narrow to cope with my wonky house.

Fitting has cost us £1500 and has included all plumbing, gas and electrics. We had to move the cooker to the other side and remove a radiator, but if you are keeping everything in a similar place it will be less complicated.

Just waiting for splashback tiles delivery today, these cost £160 from tons of tiles. I'm guessing the tiler will charge in the region of £250ish.

We had the ceiling plastered, this cost £100.

We're having flooring laid on friday. I'm guessing that the flooring cost £150 ish (as we bought for the whole house, so not 100% sure how much we are using in kitchen) and the guy is charging £100 to fit it.

So totting it all up.

£3000 units
£1000 appliances (oven, tumble dryer, washing machine - had fridge already)
£260 worktops
£1500 fitting
£160 tiles
£250 tiler???
£100 ceiling
£250 floor and fitting

= £6520 and we are tight as a gnats a*rse usually!

Word of warning.... if you arelooking at properties that need new kitxhensand bathrooms, is that all that needs doing?

Often if a kitchen.is old old it can be an indication that othwe things in the house have not been attended to - eg re wiring. .bv this will not likely be an issue if house ia reasonably modern but just thought i would mention.

you coold try wicked for kitchens, or Benchmarx.

• I would estimate £10k all in for a kitchen (not fancy but not basic)
• Your bathroom could be quite cheap if you don't have much plumbing to do - £1-2k depending on quality?
• Bidet - an architect friend suggesting installing either double sinks or a bidet in our bathroom to give it a bit of pizazz. I was a bit sceptical but it has been the best bit of kit in our bathroom - lochia, soaking nappies, soiled sheets, dirty feet,.... if it is not in the way, why pay to remove it? and the associated plumbing? Anyway cost maybe up to £1k?

Listen to narmada about the "hidden" costs of wiring and plumbing and roofing that will appear but you will not yet have considered......

Good luck

HI - so many variables!!! I can help you with kitchen maybe...

We have a small 3 bed lates 1930s semi with a small galley kitchen and separate dining. Our kitchen (galley) is around 6 feet on each side.We removed kitchen hob and units which was in the dining room to keep all of the kitchen in the small galley kitchen. Our kitchen is at the lower end of their mid tier and b and q in a high gloss white shaker style doors. We kept the previous owners stainless steel double oven and hob.

We havent got integrated fridge freezer / washer. we thought our existing white appliances wouldn't stand out in a small galley kitchen with glossy white units. We have slim rod handles . white brick style metro tiles still to go up. We had to:

-rewire and re plumb the kitchen so sink and washer could be placed in different locations, £££££s!!!

• Add a door to the end of the galley and keep the opening to the dining room wide so a new solid oak door and frame was needed
• move boiler out of galley and under stairs/ purchase a new efficient boiler
• hire skip
• new sink and mixer
• Ikea solid beech work tops
• new free standing stainless steel microwave, kettle and toaster
• level the galley floor
• replaster galley and dining room
• buy organic paints for wood, walls and varnish
• buy laminate wood planks for floor
• buy new cabinet carcasses and buy new doors about £2000
• tiling
• timber for new window sills

OH and his father have done most of this work!!! We got professionals in to do gas installation with new boiler, re- wiring, plumbing, plastering and for tiling. The dining room isnt painted or carpeted yet and this needs to be added as a further costs.

So far, we are in the region of £8,000.

B and Q told us that to install our £2000, it would have been in the region of £4000!!!!!!

Hope this helps you.

Due in september - sounds great!!!

If you need no building work and you are just replacing an existing kitchen in a similar way it need not be too expensive providing you choose a cheap range. In our last house we managed to get the kitchen done for about 5K which included everything (appliances, fitting, tiles etc).

If you need other work done it can escalate, eg plastering, reflooring, knocking walls down, moving pipes etc.