How much to move a bathroom upstairs?

[NewYearNewPlumbing]

I want to put an offer in on a house, but would need to move the bathroom upstairs, and can't offer until I have a rough idea of cost. (ball park - like £5k, £10k or £25k - I literally have no idea!).

The new bathroom would be in the third bed / box room directly above the current downstairs bathroom. The combination boiler is on the landing, the other side of a wall from the proposed new bathroom. I would want a shower, WC and wash basin.

S London.

Any idea?

Thank you!

Not what you asked - but I'm s London and bought a house with the idea of moving the bathroom upstairs.

We kept it downstairs and I can't see why anyone has it any different! Washing machine and tumble drier are in there, you can shower at whatever time without waking people up, less likely to flop the house etc.

So don't feel like you have to move it if you can try living with it for a bit.

I will have to live with it for a short time, anyway.

I go for a wee twice in the night, that's part of the issue, and I just don't fancy running through the house in my towel. We'll see, though.

@AintOverUntilTheCatLadySings

Not what you asked - but I'm s London and bought a house with the idea of moving the bathroom upstairs.

We kept it downstairs and I can't see why anyone has it any different! Washing machine and tumble drier are in there, you can shower at whatever time without waking people up, less likely to flop the house etc.

So don't feel like you have to move it if you can try living with it for a bit.

It’s going to the loo in the night, having to walk through the downstairs in your dressing gown if you’ve guests if you want a shower, or them having to do it. It’s young kids being able to go to the loo at night, elderly people, overall most folks find it inconvenient and prefer a bathroom near their bedrooms.

I have a downstairs bathroom which I compromised on because I loved the house.

I actually love it. Means if you have visitors they stay downstairs.

Depends where it is in the house I think.

Instead of turning the old bathroom into an office (which I guess would be teeny) it might work to turn it into a utility/cloakroom. A garden office could be added for WFH space.

@Toomanycats99

I have a downstairs bathroom which I compromised on because I loved the house.

I actually love it. Means if you have visitors they stay downstairs.

Depends where it is in the house I think.

That’s not really logical is it, because most folks have over night guests. And if you’ve a downstairs loo then day guests don’t need to go upstairs anyway?

The stairs come down onto an open plan dining area off the kitchen, and the existing bathroom is directly in front of you as you come down the stairs.

I go to the loo in the night and have a shower a lot more often than I have visitors, and I really don't mind at all if visitors have to go upstairs to the toilet. I think that is better than them disappearing onto a d/s bathroom in full view of the dining area.

I am splitting up and downsizing from our family home, I won't have a lot of ££ to play with. And buying a small house in a modest area, I don't want to spend tons of money on it at the moment.

[quote Bells3032]@Smallgoon you also need to consider all the plumbing and redecorating, tiling etc[/quote]
Yes but I did everything the OP is wanting to do, and my plumbing needed to be moved around. I still paid 12k all in. My tiles were high-end

The work to move it is the work to move it and check a trade says average costs are between seven and eight grand.

You can then buy everything else cheaply, Lino on the floor, metro tiles ans only round the shower and above the sink, everything else just painted. A small shower tray and screen and head etc, and a low cost sink, loo and vanity units. I think you could get it in for ten but make sure you get at least three quotes.

@Bluntness100

I don't really have overnight visitors! My house isn't big enough and friends are local.

My mum who does stay sleeps downstairs anyway as she cannot manage the steep Victorian stairs.

Are you sure you can remove a downstairs toilet in terms of building regulations? I thought you couldn't move one without replacing it with another elsewhere on the ground floor. @pigletjohn may be able to shed some light on it.

Eeek, that is something to explore, MrsJamin. Thank you.

Hard to find out for definite, it seems to depend on whether it was the ‘original’ toilet or not.

I really would allow 15,000 to include making good your downstairs bathroom.
A good local builder will know all the building regs, mine knew the local planning officer.
Id make sure you buy good quality taps, shower and flush all the working parts and economise on everything else.

@NewYearNewPlumbing I think its something to do with Building Regulations stating that you should not make it harder for disabled people to use your home, so to move a loo upstairs makes it harder. If you didn't have one there to begin with there isn't a regulation to say that one must be installed. You just risk Building Regs not being signed off, so I'd double check this. Is there room for a small loo downstairs, under the stairs or in a utility room or anything, if you do have to keep one?

MrsJamin - I very much doubt it. Aaaargh!

It is a cottage built probably late Victorian, and would not originally have had a plumbed in toilet at all, I think.

I put in a bathroom upstairs and it cost me 8k, directly above bathroom downstairs. Cold tank in the loft above. I put in double sinks, loo and a bath. Kept the bathroom downstairs, so cheaper. Pipework wise they just ran the hot pipe up the wall in the corner and boxed it in. Through the wall with the soil pipe. Cold pipe down from the loft.

You might try and ring the council to see if you can check about the building regs? Or could you post the Floorplan and perhaps some clever person will see where you could put it?