Cost of new bathroom?

[Nyon]

We’re FTB and looking at a house way under budget that needs a good chunk of decorating and updating. The bathroom however is the worst room - would need ripping out and redoing totally. We're In Surrey - how expensive is this likely to be? Could we manage it on a budget of £4k?

We just did an en-suite (shower, toilet, fitted vanity sink unit, heated towel rail) for £5.5k including labour, tiling and sanitary wear. We could have spent a little less on the tiles and sanitary wear but would only have saved us £500-800 I think. Our original budget was £4K but we struggled to get it to this.
Depends a little on where in Surrey you are I guess?

Depends on whether you're keeping the same layout or need plumbing and electrics moving/redoing. My strip and start over bathroom was £8k but they redid the layout and I had loads of tiles and some fancy fittings, and they took care of everything (badly, it took 8 weeks, but I didn't do a thing).

If you're willing to strip out the old bathroom & take the detritus to the tip, it can save costs, as can buying the stuff yourself and just getting someone in to fit. You should be able to get the fixtures (bath, loo, sink, mirrored cabinet, basin tap, bath mixer, shower, lights) and decor (paint, flooring, tiles) for £1,500 or less if you really shop around and buy cleverly, waiting for sales and not using just one shop – the key thing to spend money on is the fitting, & things that might break. I.e. spend your budget on a decent shower, save on the tiles.

IKEA does nice posh-looking vanity units with big sinks, and other bathroom bits (I probably wouldn't buy a shower from them though); shower curtains and rods are cheaper (and nicer, IMO) than screens, etc.

Hmmm. The idea was to completely gut the bathroom as it’s hideous now (think 70s!). We’re just outside north Surrey. It’s sounds like a complete start again job is likely to be over our current budget.

Depends how much you're prepared to do yourselves. We do everything ourselves the old-fashioned way of DIY, including tiling so 4K sounds a great budget to work with. I'd suggest live with it till you've saved enough that's what we'd do - we replaced our loo when it broke and did the rest later, we bought tiles in a sale etc

Our en suite is being done at the end of March and were paying just over £8000 which includes skip hire all fitted units with new sanitary wear, old floor tilling being removed and new tiling replaced and the same with the shower tiling, also a bespoke shower tray and glass panel as we want one thats larger than what we’ve got and fits in exactly with the space we’ve got.

We did a small family bathroom with Wickes about 4/5 years ago, and it came in at around £4k. We're in Surrey, and we found that the big companies actually came in cheaper than independents.

We replaced like for like in terms of layout - loo, sink, bath with shower over all in the same locations. All stripped out, replastered walls and ceilings (but kept original light fitting), part tiled, rad replaced for heated towel rail, sheet vinyl floor. Standard Wickes white suite. I think the suite/tiles etc came to around £1.5k and the labour to £2.5K ish. Obviously would have been much more for fully tiled bathroom, tiled floor etc.

So possibly it could just about be done, but its a very low end budget for a full bathroom refit. That said, we're very happy with our bathroom, and its still looking good now.