bathroom renovation - how much to budget?

[BagLady75]

We need to put an offer in quickly on a property and are doing some last-minute number crunching. Could anyone help me out with some ballpark numbers on how much it would cost to renovate a bathroom? It's a small-ish bathroom, toilet and sink could probably stay as is, we would want to replace the tub with a walk-in shower and redo the tiling. Any estimates or even guess-timates welcome. The house is in North London. (And if you can recommend someone to do the work I will worship you forever.)

Tiles - budget 400-600 for decent ones or 200 for basic
Walk in shower - shower trays £300, shower £250 ish
Shower Screen - ours was £800 but you can get them for £300

Plumbing around £800.

About £2100 - 2500 I reckon.

The £2100-£2500 budget's probably about right unless you get a really cheap suite from B&Q or something but I wouldn't! DH works for a plumbing merchants and says that B&Q etc are cheap but not very good quality.

Re the recomendation for a plumber, if i were you i'd ask at the place where you buy it. As long as it's a plumbing merchants. Not sure B&Q etc do recommendations!

If not dh knows loads of plumbers in Kent so i'd think they travel, London's not that far

I think you'd be lucky to do it under £5k (with you doing nothing). You may need replastering before they tile - moving plumbing around really bumps up the cost. I'm in London too and really struggled to keep the costs down when we did our tiny bathroom.

I agree with Foxinsocks, we just had our small bathroom redone in London (we live in SW6) and it was about 5k. We moved plumbing, had new wiring & lights, painting (ceiling/window/door), a decent suite, new radiator.... extras like this bump the cost up, but if you're going to redo a bathroom it's worth doing well I reckon.

Our bathroom cost 5,000 about 12 months ago.

I am having some small alterations done to my bathroom.. still using existing suite and it is costing loads:

Builder -- knock down small wall and resite door - 2K put in new plumbing and install new electrics and radiator. Do all tiling.

Tiles Wall length of bath and one side to ceiling... £250 quid

Floor tiles -- £250 quid (went a bit mad here though so could be cheaper)

Shower doors £250 (base already in)

Radiator £300

redecorate + plus tile glue -- £200

I forgot something vital and v expensive - TAPS! You need to budget at least £300 for them.

Ooh I found my plumber in Topps Tiles - he was picking out tiles - but they do keep cards on their desks and they know which ones are very busy (ie the good ones).

Thanks ladies - I had assumed about £5k to do the job properly (life's too short for bad plumbing ...), so it's helpful to have that confirmation.