Thinking about a new bathroom - no clue where to start.

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It's only a small room. The bath takes up one side, there's a basin next to it and the loo. Not much room in between.
I need a new suite and would probably want the room fully tiled.

I'm not well off. I guess I'm B&Q budget, nothing more fancy.
Do they come round and measure up to do quotes? Would I need to chose the suite and tiles before they come to do a quote?

How much is this likely to cost? £1000? £5000? £10000?

I literally am clueless, any advice very welcome!

I've been looking on Victoria plumb, they have some good complete bathroom sets, as the taps can be the same price as the bath sometimes!

You can also pay monthly which might help you out. I'm lucky my brother in law is a plumber so will do the work, but it's always handy to speak to the person who will be fitting it firstly, as they're the ones with experience - he told me to stay away from tecaz! X

Thanks Twinkle. You're lucky having your BIL in the business!

Anyone else that can offer advice?

Our bathroom is similar size to yours. The cheapest I found for the whole lot incl tiling was £3000. The tiling could be anything from £150 to £1000 depending on your choice but to be honest in a small bathroom you are limited. Do not use patterned tiles unless just to jazz up a bit/as a border. I found Crown Tiles helpful and they send free samples. (They go in after they have put the new suite in)
A typical tiler will charge c £200 a day to give you an idea.
Could you get a shower over the bath? Well worth doing We cannot as we have a sloping ceiling. The plumber will usually be able to get your suite from a plumbers merchant and make sure you get photos of it a couple of weeks before they fit it. A local trademan will be cheaper than a big retailer like Wick Bathstore etc but you usually have to wait longer before they can come and do it. Hope this helps

I’d stay away from Bathstore, their stuff is really low quality even though it’s cheap. We brought a sink/toilet and the plastic on the sink started to yellow fairly quickly even though the room had no natural light.

I think tradespeople are generally happy to install what you’ve brought as long as it’s good quality. Cheap stuff tends to need more work to fit properly. Our plumber recommended Roca for sanitaryware, I found it quite cheap on Plumbnation but there’s often a long lead time and obviously you need space to store it whilst waiting for the plumber!

I reckon £5k for a bathroom upgrade would be about right if you do research on tiles/bath products but that would depend where you’re located! I expect London prices would be a lot more!!

Yep, London prices for me! So, sorry to be needy but where do I start? Do I find the suite I like and find a plumber to install it? Who does the tiling? Presumably this is a different skill set to a plumber? Can a plumber get the suite for me trade? This is totally out of my comfort zone!

We have a small bathroom, sounds similar to yours. Instead of tiles we had shower panels, which also used as splashback for sink. Our plumber did this as well as putting in new suite. Labour costs are lower with the panels as doesn't take so long as tiling

We've just had ours done. Used a local guy who has a small showroom on an industrial estate. Had to wait a few months. He did the design, ordering and fitting. Cost £4500 but we had two walls knocked down and moved around.

Some builders can do plumbing and tiling. Look on local websites for recommendations. We measured our bathroom ourselves and went to one of the tile shops which calculated how many tiles we needed.
B&Q loo seems to be of good quality, better than the bathroom stuff that we brought from Homebase.
I think it's cheaper to get stuff installed by a builder rather than asking for B&Q to do it.

Sounds similar to our bathroom. B+Q's quote and design service was fucking appalling - guy had no interest in being there at all (apparently he's got form for this) and the price was ridiculous - was like £9 plus we'd have to source tiles and flooring.

We paid £5k (but not London prices) for a little local company to do it all - from design, to rip out (and our old bathroom was fully and horrendously tiled), dispose of it all (access in our street is so limited we can't have a skip so they had to take it all in their van to their premises to put in their skip there, supply and fit the new one, re-tile and everything... liked their service since they basically did the plan then took us round their showroom spelling it out like "do you want an angular toilet or a round one, square taps or round taps, which tiles and flooring" and made it idiot proof basically (I can't get overly excited about what is essentially a pot to piss in).

We had quotes for part tiling in terms of splashback and shower area that actually were on a par with fully tiling because the work that would be required to get the plasterwork to a paintable standard pretty much balanced out being able to do a basic plaster coat and tile anyway.

Think we got lucky with the company we used though - well worth asking around and getting local recommendations as you might find a small firm that does the whole whack instead of hitting that total overload panic point thinking about different trades and the like. (We're getting the bedroom offshoot of the same company out to do our fitted bedroom in the next couple of months too)

Start making a list of what you want would be where I'd start - I was adamant I wanted no exposed pipework (dust traps from hell), wanted the shower cubicle going into an L shaped bath setup instead and I wanted one of those worktop/cabinet arrangements where the toilet and sink were all integrated into a run of cabinets to hide all the mess... gave me a decent basis to start from knowing that. Oh and I was utterly adamant and had as my one complete non negotiable that I wanted a towel radiator! (Better than my kitchen one which was I wanted a wine rack... didn't get that!)

It sounds like such a pita to organise! Thanks for your replies.

Sorry, hit reply rather than return.
So, it's best for me to measure and design my bathroom myself and find a tradesperson to fit it, is that right?

So, perhaps what I need to do first is to measure up and visit some showrooms to find out what I want then get someone to fit it.
I can do this.

Dont forget to get building regulations/control involved if ita new bathroom.
I am trying to get information on how to get one retrospectively

We are in the process of planning a bathroom at the moment. We seem to live in an area with a shortage of plumbers (south of London) and have been quoted between £3900 & £8400 just for the rip out and install of a slightly bigger bathroom (including separate shower). Complete quote, to include sanitary ware etc have ranged from £7900 (Wickes) to £12000 (local company).

For a small downstairs cloakroom being converted into a shower room, we have been quoted £3600-£4800 for the fitting etc, with sanitaryware on top.

I think it is probably a bit cheaper in other areas, but maybe not in London.

A little tip I got a couple of bargains by going to Bathroom shops and haggling to buy ex demo items

Got a duravit sink and vanity that was selling at £1300 for £470 delivered!

Wow, I went to Bathstore today and they've quoted £2,500 for a suite and £7,500 for fitting! My bathroom is tiny!

Wasn't going to use them anyway but I wanted to start somewhere and they are local. Got a number for a tradesperson to try. I was hoping around £5,000, am just outside of London.