How much for bathroom refit labour costs

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Just wondering if this quote is reasonable. I’ve been quoted 4k in labour costs for the following:

Rip out old bathroom and put in new in roughly same place (sink, bath, shower, includes all plumbing).
Take up up tile flooring and lay down new click fit vinyl
Remove tiles from walls (cover about half the bathroom) and retile
Skim ceiling
Doesn’t include skip hire or any electrical work or decorating.
Bathroom is about 6 square meteres.

I’d be grateful for any comparison costs.

When I read your title before reading any of the post the figure i had in mind was 4k

Seems reasonable.

My bathroom cost £5,000 but we had a stud wall knocked down and moved, some re-plumbing, and new electrics.

Photos when you've finished, please

Just had mine done, was about 6k but ours is around 12sqm. All walls and floor tiled, including outside hallway.

Thanks all. Just to clarify - the quote doesn’t include the new bathroom suite, flooring or new tiles itself.

Does that quote sound ok then?

Mine did include all materials

High for labour costs. In fact extortionate!

That's a lot. I paid approx 3K total for almost exactly the same last year. South East (managed plastering and flooring separately but total labour about that) . I did receive quotes up to 4.5 K just for labour though. Have you shopped around with different fitters? I found that the plumbers who do a bit of bathroom fitting were a lot cheaper than specialist bathroom fitters who tended to be more focused on design/tended to be a lot more expensive (and missed a lot of basic plumbing challenges IME!) You may then have to manage all the different trades people yourself, but it's not that hard & it is usually cheaper (any plumber will be able to recommend contacts)

Actually mine also included frame creation for a Japanese tub and putting in a walk in shower (previously shower in bath). So yours is def. a lot.

I must admit, it was more than I was expecting for the labour costs.

I’m in Leeds by the way.

Oh my price was outer London price... maybe 2.5 to 3k for leeds

Sounds high to me. My friend has just been quoted 4.5K including the bathroom suite. Mines being done at mates rates at the moment.

If no major plumbing involved you're looking at a day to strip, a day to tile, a day to fit. So three max four days work at say £200 a day. Even doubling that is £1600.

Robbery

We are just having a bathroom and en suite re fitted. Fitter charges £180 a day labour and said it’ll be about 15 days. So £2880 total. With all the fittings etc it’s costing £6,000 all in, which includes re-plumbing and moving pipes and putting in spot lighting, tiling etc.

We feel this is extremely cheap and expected to pay more around £10K total!

Our fitter also ordered our suite etc via his trade account online and showed us the exact costs so nothing is hidden or inflated.

@buckingfrolics ... take it you have never had a bathroom fitted... 3 to 4 days hahahahahahaha... April fools was yesterday
I reckon the average bathroom refit takes about 2 weeks
What about the fitters helper, tools, van, insurance, pension contributions, sick pay, holiday pay....

Oh shit. I thought the £4K included the suite.

In that case, nope, that's a ridiculous quote. The guy who fitted my bathroom charged just over £2K but, as I said, this did also involve him moving a wall.

I'm in North Yorkshire.

Get more quotes.

That’s high. We’re getting our shower room done next week and our labour cost is £4K. It includes the obvious like stripping out old, fitting of the new suite and tiling etc but also includes moving the stud wall, skimming ceilings both sides, the wall on the bedroom side too.
They’ve also got to take up a portion of the floor and re route pipe work .
I’d suggest that you get another quote

DirtyDennis - would you mind pm’ing me the details of your bathroom guy? Without giving the exact details of where I am it’s possible he may be close enough!

I’ll certsily look into getting some more quotes. I was intending on going for a cheap and cheerful bathroom rather than the rolls Royce version do was hoping for costs to be £3-4K in total for suite and disposal/fitting.

Sounds high to me we paid our fitter ,£200 a day took him 4 days. He didn't do electrical bits or skimming the ceiling.

Around here its around £150 to £200 per day so that sounds very high to me, would have expected more like £2k.

We had so bathrooms done a couple of years ago. Each took two weeks and cost around £3.5-4K for labour. I had a few quotes and the guys that seemed decent/were recommended were all around that price. We are in the NW. We bought all the fixtures and fittings separately. It also included plastering and painting.

We had a similar bathroom fitted last year, but with tiled floor. We paid just under £4k, but had quotes between £3700 (very inexperienced start-up) and £7800 (fairly large, local renovation company).

We had initially hoped to get the whole bathroom done for £5k, so it was a bit of a shock, but we are in the SE, so that may explain the cost. We also live in an old house, and that tends to add a contingency amount, as there always seem to be issues, such as waste pipes not being where they expected them to be etc.

Just paid 3k for supply & fit new bath and shower (including an electrician), new lighting and extractor, tiling a wall, new radiator and new flooring. That's in the Midlands. Probably three days work but the chap spread it over four because of workflow.

axalee gulp. I'm about to. I honestly thought it'd be a few days work. I've just had my kitchen redone in 3 weeks surely a bathroom is way way less time consuming? If you're keeping the layout so no pipe rerouting.