New boiler and bathroom

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We need both doing. Having embarked on a new kitchen/knock through project last year, where I ended up managing it all (separate trades people for EVERY little aspect), plus ordering a DIY kitchen, I have zero appetite for doing it all like that again. So...where I do start looking for a complete service (at least for the bathroom)?

That said... it would presumably be the more expensive way to do things? Mind you I thought this would be the case with the kitchen, and it turns out I have expensive taste, and I suspect once I start looking at bathrooms I will end up going all control freakish again .

Any tips/specific recommendations would be much appreciated!

I did it the other way round to you threw money at an "all in" bathroom with Bathstore as a warm-up for project managing a huge kitchen re-furb (started this morning!).

I'm really happy with the Bathstore products to be honest, and whilst the fitters maybe weren't the greatest, Bathstore themselves have been great and if ever we have an issue they've had the fitters back in for us, like when a bit of grout came out between some tiles. They guarantee for 5 years I think it is so they'll be at our disposal any issues we have that whole time

It certainly wasn't the cheapest way to do it but it was soooo easy, and still came in within budget.

I've seen Ripples Bathrooms advertise quite a bit for the whole fitting service. Or if you do decide to plan it yourself again I can highly recommend a firm called Park St Bathrooms who stock all main ranges at the best prices and are very efficient with delivery. I did one small bathroom with a compact suite from Bathstore and the other ones were Duravit and Hansgrohe. The Duravit stuff I found to be of far better quality though it was more expensive, in fairness to Bathstore.

Get a local bathroom special company round. They exist! Ask around for recommendations -- a local Facebook group can be useful for this if you don't know anyone.

These are great, thank you.

We've used Wickes. Definitely cost more than getting our own installers and the finish isn't to standard, but their guarantee means they are sending someone out to check the finish and will cover all remedial costs. It was another of their installers who came out to sort an emergency leak when the original one went AWOL who told me not to worry and gave me advice on what to do to get them to put it alright! So they do have good installers, we just got a bodgy one.