Moving downstairs bathroom upstairs

[Teaandabiscuitplease]

House I am buying has a massive bathroom downstairs and 2 double bedrooms upstairs with a box room (1.8x2m) but no bathrooms on that floor.

I want to move the bathroom to the box room and use the downstairs space to make the kitchen bigger.

DP isn't keen as he thinks the big bathroom is nice, didn't want to "lose" a bedroom and thinks it'll cost a lot to move the pipes etc upstairs. We don't NEED 3 bedrooms, and I'd like to eventually convert the attic anyway.

Has anyone done this? How much did it cost? We will be getting quotes in but I feel like I'm facing an uphill battle with this one!

The cost will greatly depend on where you live. We were quoted for the same brief, move downstairs bathroom upstairs and open up the kitchen and the quotes were between £145k - £175k. That’s in the south east. We were told the builders were willing to negotiate but we decided not to.

Also should mention that our bathroom would have involved a small extension so that will have cost quite a bit.

the quotes were between £145k - £175k

I'm sorry, WHAT?

Well weve just knocked 2 walls through and had 2 steels put in, window and door way blocked up and a stuf wall built and it cost us £1000 including materials.. in the south west (Bristol)

My DH is a plumber and gas engineer he said hed charge about 2-3k labour, mostly depends on where your current soil pipe is and if it needs moving, is the bedroom above your current bathroom? If it is then 2-3k labour including piping materials and fittings plus obviously whatever bathroom suite and tiles etc youd want as a rough guide

I think you have missed some dots there Ir get new quotes!!!

We spent 40k doing this, which included cost of new bathroom and kitchen all new flooring radiators and boiler. We watched every penny though it could easily have been much higher

It should be £5-10k to move bathroom upstairs. Easier if it’s above existing kitchen. As for extending your kitchen you could spend £25-unlimited depending on what you are doing.

So unfortunately the box bedroom is at the front of the house, and the bathroom is at the back with the kitchen...

I’d say it will be hugely expensive given the likely plumbing issues.

Have you committed to buying this house, not having a bathroom upstairs would be a major drawback.

It sounds like it’s not the house for you really.

I agree with the previous poster - this is going to be mega expensive and hugely problematic, particularly with regard to waste pipes and re routing those.

If the box room is at the front, are you happy to have a soil pipe going up the front of the house?

We have committed to buying it, it's one of the few houses in the area in our budget. Looking at other houses in the area there are some which have moved the bathroom to the upstairs and so I assumed it was do-able.

I admit I am hugely naive when it comes to building works. I thought as I want to extend the attic and have a master ensuite on that floor the pipes would be easier?

Are you having the loft conversion done at the same time? Most builders prefer bigger jobs so it might be a bit easier and cheaper to do all at once.

We're moving ours upstairs (dividing a bedroom into two rooms). We've been quoted around £3.5k to remove a chimney breast, build a stud wall, add a door and run the soil and water pipes to the room

• but our waste pipe runs alongside the house (semi detached) by the wall we will add a soil stack to, so we aren't diverting waste far - it would be more if we needed to dig trenches and lay more piping.

Obviously the suite, tiles, lighting, extractor etc are extra for the bathroom itself, plus fitting costs if you aren't doing it yourself.

We converted a box room st the front of the house to a bathroom and put in a loft conversion, stairs already in place, and put 1 room back to 2 for 35k. The bathroom bit with the pipes having to go from front to back really wasnt that bad.

I think you'll be better off doing the loft conversion and putting a bathroom in there

Do it. We moved our bathroom into the box room so no pipes etc and it cost us about £7000 for the work plus furniture which we bought online. South East.

Obviously extending the kitchen is a different cost altogether. If the space is that big perhaps you can reconfigure the downstairs to incorporate a small 'spare room'?