How much for new bathroom?

[Brambles34]

Had 2 quotes, both roughly the same (about £5k) which includes....

Ripping out old suit
Skimming the ceiling (lovely artex!!)
Replacing extraction fan and putting in lights
Shower tray and door (+ shower)
Bath, mixer taps etc
Sink toilet, heated towel rail, all walls fully tiled, plaster board for where the old tiles ripped etc etc basically the full works.

We've chosen basic-middle of the range fixtures and fitting etc

How much should we be looking at? I think the quotes are about right but my husband thinks they are way off so anyone had similar done recently?

And is it the norm to phone and attempt to negotiate the quote?

I don't know if this will help but here's my bathroom budget, we're spending about £5000. It's a very small room though.

• Sink, bath, taps, all assorted wastes, traps etc, radiator: £2k (fancyish, bought on ebay and in sales for much cheaper than retail, I don't know what people normally spend on this stuff but we def could've gone cheaper)
• Labour £1550 but they're only removing old suite, replacing shoddy old pipework and installing new suite + radiator, no decorative stuff.
• Purchase of tiles and boarding, assorted sundries: £1k ish. DH is doing the boarding, tanking and tiling.
• Extractor fan, lighting and installation went on the electrics budget, but lets say maybe £500?
• Ceiling and couple of walls skim, again this is going in the bag with a couple of other plastering bits so not sure. A few hundred probably.

£5k looks about right to me for what you're doing? But I'm no expert.

Thankyou grum

If £5k includes the actual bathroom then it sounds pretty good! I'm just about to get quotes so I'm watching with interest, but I need to get the same list of things done. The only difference is our ceiling is wooden (sheesh) so that will have to come off, and we don't have an extractor fan, so need to fit one from scratch.

Unless the price includes all the fixtures and fittings and tiles etc then that is way too high.

If, on the other hand, it is the total price including everything then it's not too bad.

Does the price include removal of all waste too? And the cost of the plaster, adhesive and grout etc.? That's what you should be checking.

The ceiling skimming and tiling are quite labour intensive so pricey.

Assuming it includes the sanitaryware etc, I'd say that sounds ok.

At our last house (Wilts) we had two smallish shower rooms fitted at the end of 2013/start of 2014 and labour costs were around 4.5k iirc. We sourced our own sanitarywarre/taps/showers etc from friends in the business and DH did all the tiling and prep work including plastering. We cleared our own site as we were doing a major project that included around twenty large skips.....

Ours cost £4.5K all in with higher end fixtures fittings and including labour. We sourced everything ourselves and tiled the whole bathroom. We have a shaper over the bath not seperate.

The bathroom fitter/remover charged £700
Tiler £530
Plasterer £220 (4 walls and skimmed ceiling)
Electrician £220

Shower over bath not shaper!

I got quoted £17k for each of our bathrooms . No thank you. Have downgraded all my fancy schmancy ideas to plain sanitary ware, topps tiles, no storage, plain radiator, smaller shower and the quote went to £6k. Spending the money on building a bigger house instead!

We had a new bathroom fitted last year, labour was 2K (this included all pipes, fittings, paint, grout etc). Basically we picked and brought all the bits we wanted and they fitted it and supplied whatever was needed to complete the job.

The whole place was gutted with new skimmed ceiling, fully tiled wall and floor, new pipe work and lights.

Our quotes included absolutely everything apart from tiles (although does include the cost of tiling the entire room) so waste removal, fixtures and fitting etc etc are all included

Mine cost £4.5k all in for slightly less work.

I think that sounds of.

Ours was much cheaper but we did it on the cheaper side.

£816 for p shaped bath, thermostatic shower, glass screen with towel rail attached, sink with fitted unit, toilet with back to wall unit, another fitted unit to match the rest, all wastes etc from Victoria Plum (was on sale)

£943 for the plumber to rip out bathroom, rebuild cupboard, take all tiles off, plasterboard the walls, put in new bathroom.

We got the tiles from Topps Tiles and used our Clubcard vouchers to boost them them paid another £80 towards it. DH did the tiling and we decorated it ourselves. £50 on paint and trims etc for around windows and on the shelf.

It was cheaper for us because we didn't get it plastered, have no extractor fan, tiled and decorated ourselves. Which I'm glad about because our plumber was incompetent, fucked up the rebuilding of the cupboard, plumbed the hot and cold the wrong way around for the bath and shower and has fitted the waste pipe for the toilet level instead of sloping behind all the built in units so about once a week the toilet is getting completely blocked.

Irrelevant anyway but your price sounds good for all that. Oh our plumber didn't take anything away either. DH made many many trips himself to the tip. Only realised when we got kitchen fitters in to quote how unusual this was. And he was reluctant to take the kitchen away when we spoke to him about it. Suggested we hired a skip! Needless to say after his bodging in the bathroom we didn't get him back to fit the kitchen.

I think that sounds good not of. Stupid bloody tablet!

Having ours done for about £4K next month, similar spec to yours I think

That sounds about right to be honest. DH is a kitchen/bathroom fitter and that would be the total cost of what he'd charge. Plumbing fittings are expensive. Tile adhesive is expensive. A good portion what the fitter earns goes on materials. Bathrooms are more expensive for materials than fitting kitchens and I'd be suspicious of a fitter who could do it for a lot less as they might be using substandard materials.
If you are wanting more information why not ask him for a breakdown of costs. DH does this for a lot of clients as it makes it easier to see where there money goes.

Purs was about 6k as had to have a few additional bits (new ceiling, some wall issues etc). My advice would be to choose and buy the suite, taps etc and tiles yourself and ask for labour costs detailing everything that it includes. We paid over the odds for the 'convenience' of our builders buying on their trade account etc. Some was cheaper online.

We paid in that region last year to change a small family bathroom into our ensuite. That included everything. Sink, toilet, taps,shower + enclosure tiling floor & walls. New rad and small bit of "proper" building work.

We are paying £8,000 for ours but it is including all marble tiling and walk in shower area. The bath is extra long due to DH being 6'4''! Also includes underfloor heating so I think we have sourced quite well considering.

This is the last room to be completed so if there is any budget left fat chance the way things are moving we can add higher end vanity drawers for storage.

We had a shower room fully redone about 5 years ago, and paid £4k. We had a bathroom done 3 years ago, and that cost about £5k.

I think the quotes you've had sound right.