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

[Upperwallop]

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!

How many bathrooms are there in the house? If you're planning to sell in a couple of years, you really need a bath or you'll put off a lot of potential buyers.

When I priced everything up, it was all via the plumbers trade account. Can't remember exactly how much but it was about £1200. I went for cheapest everything but the glass shower screen was dear. So with the boiler, there's £3k already.

I did mine with tile paint, new shower screen, new fixtures and fittings. It looks great, probably not what you're after but a good option if you just want to pay for the boiler at the moment?

Get the existing suite taken out carefully - some people pay good money for them. Yes, even the avocado ones! Sell it on eBay as cash on collection and save the hassle of disposing of it or paying your plumber to get rid of it as trade waste.

I've seen that wow but the bath is knackered really, so could only really sell the sink and who buys 2nd hand loos??!!

If I'm going to do it, I'm not doing half measures. I'd rather put the money spent on painting tiles etc towards doing a proper job.

Have a look on eBay - people do buy them. Plus that sink and loo could go in a cloakroom or shower room without a bath.

Have just looked on ebay. They might get £30-£40, so barely worth bothering.

Depends how much you need the money. I sold a few items when we had work done on our house and altogether the proceeds paid for splashback tiles and the tiler! That wasn't actually the aim, but it was a way of recycling things and we didn't have to go to the tip once.

I did mine cheaper by buying the boiler myself so it was a bit cheaper and getting my Dad to do all the tiling for me!

We spent about that OP. We didn't want to tile or plaster ourselves so a lot is the labour.

We are looking to do very similar and are looking at the buy/install packages from Wickes, b and q etc. They are all coming in around £6k, with about over half of that labour. Tiling alone is about £1500 for removal of 25m2 of tiles and retiling! We're going to get more quotes if we can get any bathroom installers to return our calls, but not relishing project managing separate plumbers , tilers etc ourselves.

I'm in the middle of doing mine at the moment and including:

Tiles (fully tiled walls and floor)
Tile/other mess removal
Tiler
Plasterer
All sanitary ware
Toilet
Sink
Shower over bath including screen
Heated towel rail
All taps/shower fittings
New ceiling/windowsills
Extractor fan and light fittings

It's costing us about £2.5k obviously helped by FIL being an ex-plumber so he's plumbing it all in for us.

Highly recommend www.soak.com if you need a cheap but good quality suite!

Just had a proper quote for boiler. £2k + vat.

Had a wander round a huge tile shop. Didn't see anything at all I liked. Not a sausage. It was all shiney or grey or shiney and grey.

Have spoken to a diy-er neighbour about doing some of the prep work myself. Seems so-able 😁

I got our bathroom done a couple of years ago with a quadrant shower to replace the bath. It’s very nice 👍🏻

I bought the shower, toilet, sink and light up medicine cabinet from soak.com, I think it came in at just under £900.
Then we got tiles in Homebase for £400.
Local builder fitted it all, supplied building materials and removed the old bathroom for £2100.

So £3400 total. I got 2 quotes from all in one design / fit companies and they both wanted almost double that.

Upperwallop, please can I ask about your huge shower tray and door? I would love to upgrade to a bigger shower so interested in having a nosy at what you have chosen.

Only tile the wet areas. check gumtree and freecycle. I got radiators i saw in shop from eBay for half price.
Speak to any development sites near you. if you catch them at the right time of doing their bathrooms or finishing the site completely they often throw out looooads . People wait outside my works skips to see what they can get ..

Defo doable. Just finished ours. Was under 4k (didn't need a boiler). We didn't really scrimp but bought fairly widely (imho). Grohe shower and taps. Villeroy boch sanitary ware. Basin and vanity came from emition-24. Wall hung Toilet from another of the german stores. Tiles from walls and floors) We did plumbing (most was pretty much in same place). Spent about 1.7k on trades for plastering a wall, tiling floor and walls and knocking down a small non supporting wall. (Sw London prices probably)

Whereabouts in Cheshire are you exactly. £2k plus vat for a boiler is on the high side. Is it a straight boiler swap, no new rads or extra pipework involved?

I'm not in a posh part of Cheshire where prices are inflated! It's also a friends son too and I know he's honest and wouldn't dream of ripping me off. I think it's a straight swap but I'm not that clued up on boilers so I wouldn't swear to it!! I currently have a tank in the loft and an old boiler and would be swapping to a new combi. Will be having a new radiator but thisnt isn't included in the boiler quote.

Frog fairy - not bought anything yet, so got nothing to show you!

Have you looked at shower wall panels instead of tiles? Much cheaper and easier installed.

Are they much cheaper though?

I've tiled a kitchen before, so maybe I could have a go at tiling it myself!!

I'm not convinced on shower panels tbh. I think they have the potential to look a bit aunt twaky.

I don’t know what aunt twaky means but I don’t really like them either. But they are cheap.

Aunt twaky to me means tacky!