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New bathroom price ?

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Littlesecret28 · 02/10/2015 16:39

I live in the Bromley area and i was wondering how much a new small bathroom would be?

For some know reason the guy before us decided that he would take out the bath and put in a walk in shower instead. I have put up with having no bath for a year now so we basically want to put the bath back.

But because the shower is so big i think we would have to re-tile the whole room, from floor to ceiling.

I am unsure of how much the labour will cost, i am estimating that the tiles, bath, toilet and sink will be around 1-1.5K

I would much appropriate some advice please

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ThatIsNachoCheese · 04/10/2015 15:33

Bumping for you as I would also like to know!

pinechesterdrawers · 04/10/2015 22:24

i think you might struggle to get full bathroom excluding labour for 1.5k. sorry not sure of labour costs so not being very helpful!

Millymollymama · 04/10/2015 23:42

With fitting, plumbing, and retiling, and flooring, and bath, loo and sink, taps and waste - Allow £6,000 for everything if you have high standards and the house is worth it. If you do DIY, obviously cheaper. Taking out fittings costs too. A shower over the bath will cost more but definitely worth it. Add a shower screen for the bath as well. You might get stuff in a sale and get it for £1500 but I think you will be very lucky!

OutToGetYou · 05/10/2015 00:22

Quote for our en suite was c£6k.

Wendied · 05/10/2015 15:32

We've just spent about 14k for two new bathrooms. That is all new sanitary ware, towel rails, shower screens plus full tiling. That is in central London though.

TranquilityofSolitude · 05/10/2015 15:36

I have a quote to replace a fairly large bathroom with bath, toilet, washbasin, separate shower and storage. The cost of the materials is £2000 and the labour cost is almost exactly the same. It includes dismantling and taking away the old bathroom, tiling, and fitting the new stuff.

groovejet · 05/10/2015 18:53

Our bathroom done recently cost 5k that was for a total refit with a shower bath, tiles wall to ceiling, mirror, plastering, new extractor fan, towel rail etc.

We are in Staffordshire and our bathroom is pretty small.

We kept the suite fairly basic and went for good taps and shower, tiles I hunted around for the best price and our local shop price matched, that saved us a £100.

kansasmum · 05/10/2015 21:43

We just had our family bathroom done. Kept the toilet and sink as nothing wrong with them. Bought a new free standing bath in Victoria Plumb sale for £250 and new taps for bath and sink which were also in sale. Tiles and tiling bits like trim, grout etc were £800 including floor tiles. Radiator/towel rail also in sale for £90. New shower riser and shower head was about £70.
Labour £1700. All in all it cost us about £3500. It's a good size bathroom and we'd had the walk in shower enclosure replaced 2 years ago due to a leak.
I live in Devon and the guy that did it is a friend of my son in law so bit of a discount but not huge.

321rd · 05/10/2015 22:11

We changed a small family bathroom into a large ensuite. So, took out the 1980s green suite incl bath and replaced it with just a shower basin and loo. Moved door from one side of the room to the other too. All in-fittings, labour, tiling, plumbing it was£5k

Wiifitmama · 05/10/2015 22:16

I live in central London and just redid our small bathroom. We did not need any replumbing but changed the bath, sink and canner unit, toilet, floor tiles, some accent tiles around the bath, the cabinet on the wall and all taps including shower ones. We did not retire the walls. All in, parts and labour was around £2000.

VulcanWoman · 05/10/2015 22:41

These prices are extortionate, I will have to look back at what mine cost 3yrs ago so will get back but the suite was under £200.

VulcanWoman · 06/10/2015 17:06

£1,700.

VulcanWoman · 06/10/2015 17:09

That's good for London, I'm in the midlands, used a local Tradesman, cut out the middle man.

Luciferbox · 06/10/2015 17:16

I've just bought a new suite for £600 from city plumbing. An old colleague is removing the old suite/ tiles and fitting the new suite and reskimming the walls for £450 and we are fitting the tiles and lino floor ourselves, no idea how much that will cost at the moment. We're in S Wales.

Littlesecret28 · 07/10/2015 09:00

Thanks for all your advice guys, i based my amount on the bathstore website, as i assumed they would a little bit higher then if i got it through a local tradesman. I shall possible do the tiling myself, however i think we we take the old tiles off the plastering will fall off but maybe my dad will be able to do it for me.

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Iusedtobecarmen · 07/10/2015 09:15

I think I can help with this one! We have literally just had our small bathroom done!
I just wanted basic suite and tiling etc.
Our batjroom is really small.
Cost just under 3k which I must admit was double what I thought it would be.
It was 1700 for labour. That was for taking old suite out, fitting bath, toilet basin and overhead shower. Tiling tiny floor and half walls.
I was about to say those who had said 5or 6grand must have posh bathrooms but I can see how the money goes. Ours is about as basic as you can get.
It kills me to pay builders. Wish had dh who could do it.

Iusedtobecarmen · 07/10/2015 09:17

Oh and our suite was cheap from Victoria plumb.

SellFridges · 07/10/2015 09:25

We just paid £2.5k labour for completely gutting, plastering, tiling and fitting our new bathroom. They also did a few extras like build a cupboard around the boiler and fit a step. It's a large room - 4m X 3m. We used Wickes and the work is guaranteed for a number of years. The bathroom (bath, shower cubicle, sink and toilet) were about £3k but that was our choice.

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