Help on bathrooms costings please

[SarahBeenysBumblingApprentice]

I know that there's another thread about bathrooms going but I had some different questions about costings and was hoping that you could help.

We have a quote from a husband of a colleague for stripping our bathroom, removing the electric shower, fitting mixer shower, supplying and fitting a pump, fitting the bath and screen, moving and fitting a loo, fitting a basin, moving a radiator and fitting a heated towel rail and boarding over the ceiling and fitting new down lifters. And the tiling, nearly forgot that! This comes to £1860 not including vat. Firstly, does this sound reasonable? I thought it was but a friend thinks otherwise; the guy in question has done work for is before which we were happy with. We aren't in London.

Secondly, how much should we be looking to spend on basic ceramic items, bath, taps etc. I wanted to get decent quality but not extravagant taps and shower and wanted to get cheap but not poor quality white stuff. We'll be selling this house on in about 4 years.

I have the ideal standard brochure in front of me and it's giving me a heart attack- £2k for the stuff we need. Surely it's got to get better than that?

TIA

look up the 'bathrooms to love' catalogue. Just fitted ours out from there (actually with cheaper toilet and sink, around £70 each with all the fittings) and it is fine. For what you want you can pay about £400 for the ceramics.

the labour cost does sound reasonable - it is a LOT of work and there are regs to meet.

That labour cost sounds incredibly reasonable to me, but I am in London. We paid about £1400 for all of our fittings, which were similar to yours. We used Armitage Shanks and Eastman and it includes a carronite bath.

We're having ours fitted next week, similar amount to you, including new soil stack and floor fitting for 1900 so very similar. We are having to pay 150 for an electrical test on top of that.

We got all our stuff apart from shower from better bathrooms for 750:-
combined toilet and basin (include cupboards and concealed toilet)
Bath
shower screen
radiator
mixer and basin taps
bath and basin waste

the quality seems really really good and high spec

shower is a Mira Agile ERD which was 250

Tiles were 300

and flooring 100

oh and my taps are beautiful. Called Rivera £50 for basin £100 for mixer.

ohhh and ours doesn't include stripping but does include VAT.

Thank you everyone, that's all really helpful! I'll have a look at all those places.

We just fitted a new bathroom. Our fittings were from Victoria Plumb-very reasonable and good quality. Tiles from Homebase, rain shower and towel radiator from Ebay and flooring from local supplier.The swanky brochures gave me a shock too, but shopping around saved a fortune. I love my new bathroom!