Is 8 years a good lifespan for a bathroom?

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We have two bathrooms in our house that were completely renovated from scratch 8 years ago when we moved in. They are now both leaking through the walls, the sink cabinets are falling apart and the toilets have developed faults. Basically we need to rip it all out and start again.
Is this an average lifespan for a bathroom? It feels too soon! We used Victoria plumb products throughout.
Is this an average lifespan for faults to develop or have we been unlucky

Ours are coming up to 25 years, (apart from parts that wear out like washers / taps).

ours is doing great after 9 years - still looks pretty pristine and functionally sound. We've replace one part of the bath seal, and the seal on the shower screen, but I think that's par for the course. The products were very much not high spec, but the plumber (who also sorted the electric, tiling etc) was what I like to think of as reassuringly expensive.

(don't ask about the 3 year old kitchen though ).

Op who fitted it? The fitting is clearly been faulty.

As for things falling apart, yes you can buy cheap crap products, units, toilets etc, and they won’t last. You can buy a toilet for eighty quid. You can buy one for four hundred. Guess which one lasts?

So as said, I think this is a mix of poor fitting and the pipes all not being properly upgraded last time and cheap fittings, causing it to fall apart so quickly and leak.

I think you know bathrooms don’t last eight years, any look at a dated house with an avocado suit will tell you this. Even after thirty forty years most continue to work, they just look dated and tired.

My bathroom is 90 years old and still fine. Although the Wc was replaced about 40 ish years ago.

Eight years doesn't sound good. It depends a bit on who's using it. We have a shower room for our two teenage DDs which they are busy wrecking, which we anticipated so did it out quite cheaply in the first place expecting that it would need to be redone when they've grown up.

I would expect it to date cosmetically before it started to fall apart.

Should last 15 - 20 years

Surely just replace the things which aren't working? Your tiles/wall coverings are ok? I have 8 bathrooms (6 are in a B&B!!), they vary from 8-11 years and we have done small jobs on them over the years but never ripped them out.....and if they had been put in better in the first place we probably would have done no jobs by this point!

I spent £10k + on my bathroom. I most definitely expect it to last longer than 8 years!

@PigletJohn I have noted your comment before about pop up wastes - when you say they start to leak do you mean the seal goes,so the water slowly drains out when you are having a bath or whatever or do you mean the pipes they are attached to leak (if you see what I mean)?

Eyes pop up wastes in bathroom

But it didn’t happen at 8 years did it?

These things would have been occurring and developing much earlier?

Either way - poor brands
Some of my bathroom brands have lifetime guarantees

I followed @PigletJohn to the letter when I did both my bathrooms

Aqualisa showers all the way

Our bathroom was in when we moved in 17 years ago. The bath panel could do with being replaced, but other than that it is fine.

I recently had my bathroom replaced. The major part of the work was replacing all the pipe work. The floor was taken up and new pipes put in to replace the old. Hence why I expect it to last longer than eight years

If we had just replaced the units onto existing pipe work then it would be all about how old is the existing pipe work and seals.

Then followed up by what quality of fittings were used.

We got ours done 12 years ago - still grand the day we left the house. Used a local plumbing merchant and said we wanted decent stuff - not top end - but decent quality. Good taps, decent mirror, good quality shower screen.

@IM0GEN

My bathroom is 90 years old and still fine. Although the Wc was replaced about 40 ish years ago.

I’d love a photo of this!!

[quote pinkearedcow]@PigletJohn I have noted your comment before about pop up wastes - when you say they start to leak do you mean the seal goes,so the water slowly drains out when you are having a bath or whatever or do you mean the pipes they are attached to leak (if you see what I mean)?

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they usually have a rod that goes into a hole in the back of the waste. the rod moves every time you open or close the plug.

when the hole is worn enough, it leaks.

I like the Clacker waste.

Thanks @PigletJohn - something to keep an eye on!

My bathroom is now 9 years old and looks the same as the day it was installed. No problems. Basic suite, basic price.

I would want and expect more than 20+ years to go by before deciding to update and would do that out of choice not because of any faults with equipment or plumbing.

We have a victorian roll top bath that is ancient and freestanding, the loo is also victorian, they look fine

Mine's the same age as your's OP, and is still in good nick - the tiles could do with a regrout and there's a bit of a chip in the bath. I used really cheap fittings as well.

Victoria Plumb is terrible quality. Definitely part of the problem. I'd want 15 yrs from a bathroom min.

Hell no.... my grandparents' bathroom had been done in the 80's. Grout has worm out in places and there's a new tap on the sink but nothing serious.

The thing is, the op hasn’t said when they renovated eight years ago if all the pipe work was completely ripped out replaced or if they just took the sanitary wear out and fitted new stuff. So no idea how old rhe pipework is. It could be ancient or poor fittings.

In addition you get different levels of quality from Victoria plumb. Just buying from there is irrelevant, an example being these two loos. One mid range one low range

victoriaplum.com/product/grohe-euro-ceramic-close-coupled-toilet-with-soft-close-seat

victoriaplum.com/product/orchard-modern-close-coupled-toilet-and-seat

The first one will last a lot longer than the second.

What a lovely bathroom IM0GEN