How easy is it to fit bathroom floor?

[PinkDaydreams]

Afternoon all!
I have a small sized bathroom that needs new flooring. I’m thinking of that stuff that’s on a roll, is it Lino? Just wondering how easy it is to fit please for a beginner?
Been quoted over £100 fitting but that seems expensive for what it is. The thing that I’m worried about doing muself is the toilet and sink. Do I remove these to fit the floor? Or do I cut round them, I’m worried cutting round them that water (splash from the bath) will get under the floor and rot/cause mould.
I’ve seen tiles as well, but again worried about water getting in between them.
Thanks all for your advice

Vinyl tiles I mean sorry. I’m not brave enough to cut proper ceramic tiles!!

You mean sheet vinyl. Fitters usually have a minimum charge and although a bathroom may be a small space, it can be awkward and there are several things they'll need to cut round. £100 sounds a bit pricey but not totally unreasonable.

I was hoping to read ‘it’s easier than you think’. Maybe I should just spend the £100 and get someone in to do it

I've laid vinyl before. It would be best to remove the toilet and sink stand, but you can cut round them if that's not possible.
There's an excellent Youtube video here:- that explains how to do it.
It's much easier to lay vinyl tiles - I've got tiles at the moment and not had a problem with water getting between them.

You can also put sealant around join between base of units and floor to stop water seeping in.

Sealant round the unit base sounds like a good idea! Funnily enough I’ve just watched that video. She didn’t show what she did with the back of the toilet though? That would have a big cut wouldn’t it? How would I combat that not leaking water in?

I think it is just cut so it joins behind toilet and then sealant put over join.

I’m going to sound extremely stupid now but I need to ask. What would happen if I removed the toilet? There’s to big bolts on the base. Can I just unscrew them or will water go everywhere?!

Responding to your original question, I paid our local independent carpet shop £35 per room for Lino fitting in two bathrooms.

Also, there’s currently vinyl flooring down at the minute, can I put sheet vinyl or tiles straight onto this or am I best to remove it?

@Boxlikeahare it’s an independent that I’ve asked for the price. Considering we’ve carpeted the entire house with them I thought we’d get it priced a bit better.

They probably dont want to do it.

I paid £30 per room for carpet fitting. A friends husband that was a carpet fitter.

I have just had LVT supplied & fitted.

£300 for the flooring.

£300 for fitting & screeding including all other materials he used.

He was here from 08.00 - 20.00 and screeded, cut & fitted LVT to a kitchen, hallway & toilet.

was that fitting including water resistant board underneath or just the laying of the vinyl sheet?

I fitted out vinyl sheet in our bathroom as thought it would be less expensive than paying the local shop about £40 to do it. By the time I'd bought a stanley knife with hook blade, the sealant and the double sided tape, and spent hours doing it, I thought the £40 on a qualified fitter would've been well spent!

I achieved an okay finish and it's still down now 4 years later, but a qualified fitter could've done a better job and we'll be replacing the vinyl sheet flooring when I've finished re-decorating in there...

I'd try a couple of different shops, make sure you know what they're quoting for (boarding underneath or not), and see what the prices come back as.

That wasn’t with boarding no. Sounds like they were trying it on then!!
I’ll do what you’ve said @Missnearlyvintage I’ll go have a nosey in a few other independents and get floor from them and see how much fitting costs are.
Do you think it’ll work out cheaper to buy flooring and fitting from a carpet shop. Or buy floor separately and find a carpet fitter?

@Pinkdaydreams - sorry only just saw you'd added another post on your thread.

If you haven't already you could get some quotes for both ways, but I can't imagine it being that different and all the information gathering takes you more time to do. I like going into a shop and buying flooring and fitting together anytime I've not done it myself, (have only done it myself once for that bathroom, and got remnant pieces for porches etc) as then if there is a manufacturing issue or fault with the flooring it isn't your responsibility to get it put right... There are online stores with good reviews though...