How on earth can I get a new bathroom for less than £6k?

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Everything needs doing. New boiler (apparently), all tiles ripping off (which will knacker walls and so new dot n dab), new ceiling, all sanitaryware, tiles etc.

Doing it on an absolute budget, with paint on most walls, just a shower (no bath), cheapish tiles, nothing extravagant, cheapest I can do is £6k. Am I being tight or is this about right?

Here's the gorgeous room in all its glory!

We are paying £6k for tiles removed (bathroom wasn't fully tiled), tiling done (fully tiled), removal and disposal of rubbish, shower and toilet and sink installed and ceiling painted. No new boiler needed. Can you do any of it yourself? I think removal of tiles and suite and disposal may have saved about £600. We went for tiles that were around £20 per sqm and although it was a small bathroom it did cost quite a bit. Maybe have some walls painted as that will be cheaper than tiled.

Ugh me too OP! No advice but my bathroom is grim. When we moved in we managed to scrape all the mouldy artex off the ceiling and have cleaned and painted the tiles but it still just looks awful! Just polished a turd really!

I'm lucky the boiler is ok but the whole bloody thing needs re-tiling need new floor, new bath, sink, toilet...it's so expensive though from what I've looked into 😔 not to mention the room is bloody FREEZING!!

Sorry to rant and hijack your thread! Just in the same boat.

Seems abit high but maybe 2k or so will be the boiler. I would try and break the job down and get individual trades in rather than one person to project manage it. Where abouts in the country are you ?

Presumably its the boiler though? We've done three bathrooms in the past couple of years in a high end house and none have cost £6k. You can do a bathroom for £4k unless you're moving things around dramatically.

I'm in Cheshire. Yes, about £1700 is boiler. I started trying to get tiles off and they are welded on I reckon. Whole chunks of the wall were coming away! It's freezing aswell!

Sorry- not £6k- £4k!

No moving around - layout stays the same. Perhaps it's just me being tight then! I guess without the boiler, the true cost is £4K, which still makes my hair curl!

I had a tiler and plumber do my bathroom, I went and bought the suite (reinforced bath, shower, glass shower panel, all in one unit with toilet, sink and cupboards, radiator, light fitting) from a local place recommended by my plumber. That was about £1700 but could have been cheaper, then I paid the plumber about £800, floor to ceiling tiling cost me about £500 and then a couple of hundred for the tiles themselves I think. My poor plumber had to replaster some of the walls and smash the old cast iron bath (it was not ornate) to pieces as it had been built into the walls back in 1950 lol. So total was about £3200 and all I did was paint the ceiling.
Definitely use local trades if you can, a good plumber will recommend a tiler and supplier. Ours let us use his trade discount as we told them who was fitting it for us.
The boiler is your main problem really, not sure how you can get around that.

I'm presuming that half that budget is on the boiler.
Are you able to do any of the prep work yourselves?
Is there a radiator in the room? where?
Are you choosing a shower only because you don't like baths or that you perceive a shower to be cheaper to install?
We need a bit more info on the limitations to search for bargains!

Our main bathroom was £4k. Sanitaryware all from the bathstore (and so over priced but in the sale so not quite as bad).

Then we did two further bathrooms last year. One is a full sized bathroom which looks about the same size as yours. All fittings from victoria plumb apart from vanity unit which was ikea hemnes. wainscotting and tiles all done by bathroom fitters. New karndean flooring, original art (from ebay), new towels, towel rack, radiators, bathmat, mirror, wall lights etc etc £2k. Other is an ensuite so no bath, just a shower cubicle, toilet, new towel rail, new radiator, vanity unit and sink. Karndean flooring again. £1600.

I'd be using a plumber who I know and trust and all of his associated trades. Thing is, the avocado monstrosity might look awful but it all functions perfectly well, so it doesn't really need doing. I won't be selling for a couple of years, so don't HAVE to get it done. I just keep thinking I should but then cribbing at the cost!

Where is the boiler? I'm wondering how/where the pipes run from shower/bath to basin etc.

Radiator is under the window.

Sounds about right for a very cheap bathroom.

There's a modesty wall to come out too.

Boiler is in airing cupboard in bathroom.

That sounds really high. Whereabouts are you?

I'm in the Midlands and I paid £1,600 for a Worcester Bosch boiler and £2,000 for a new bathroom including new bath, basin, toilet, shower, full tiling including slate floor tiles, spotlights, heated towel rail.

I never have baths and want a nice big walk in shower.

Ah! When you say walk in shower do you mean large rectangular enclosure or actual walk in? A walk in shower/wet room requires tanked floor, dropped drains, and a myriad of costly bits plus extra man hours. Is that what has taken the money?

I'm going to stop asking questions and suggest that you do as much as possible yourself: remove tiles and modesty wall, arrange reskimming where necessary, Time is money.
I'd also take the opportunity to change the layout: radiator turns into towel rail (nice one) on side of boiler cupboard
Loo using same soil pipe but turns onto wall with window. Basin under window. Use a unit like the turin from Victorian bathrooms (most suppliers do similar) to give streamlined look without having the boxing in you have tiled at the moment.
Back wall won't need to be tiled except behind shower at all. Tiling over basin only.

No, not a wet room - just a normal shower tray but a nice big rectangular one.

I was going to do as much prep work as possible and only tile behind shower and sink. Thanks for suggestion on lay out - will go and read n absorb it properly.

I'm in Cheshire but would be using known tradesmen who are on the cheaper side, not a flashy outfit.

Wow. We did everything ourselves in our last house, bought everything in the sales. Cost 1.5k all in and looked great. That included plastering, removing and resiting a door, tiling etc.

We need to completely replace our current bathroom and have budgeted 2k.

I guess it's the labour that's expensive.

I've recently tiled a kitchen but I don't fancy doing a bathroom and plumbing and plastering etc is beyond the average untrained layperson, including me, so I have to pay for that labour.

You can have a really nice bathroom for that kind of money. It doesn't have to be, or look, cheap. There are bargains out there. I bought tiles direct from the manufacturer and saved a fortune v. Topps, for example. The bath we wanted (had to be particular design for the available space) I discovered was exactly the same as one badged Cooke & Lewis in B&Q and they had a 20% off sale. The plumber supplied the shower tray and enclosure via his trade account.