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

I'm not surprised. I'm in a new build ( now. Icing in to year 5)!and after a couple of years most things start going, shower parts, cabinets, not the sink, but taps and wastes attacked by the hard water we have here. A sink leak here and there. Toilets are, fine but we had to change the toilet seats already. I think it depends on your water and how much you use them. Tastes change and replacing every 10 years seems reasonable to me with quite a regular lot of maintenance in between.

@IM0GEN that is gorgeous, so much character!

@IM0GEN

I am green, GREEN, with envy!!

Thank you for the beautiful pics

Whilst I have you... any recommendations for vintage or good home decor sites?

I’m after a vintage or vintage looking filing cabinet! Spent about thirty hours looking so far!

Thank you for your kind words. The colour scheme is quite a statement 😎 - the encaustic floor tiles ( yellow, black and terracotta ) are original to the house ( 1870s ) but the wall tiles ( yellow and black ceramic glazed ) are 1930s. They don’t quite match of course.

I added the walllpaper 20 years ago - previous owners had painted the walls magnolia. As the colour scheme was so OTT I decided I might as well go with it 😬

The bath is original but the sink is ( guess ) 1940s or 50s.

We were very lucky that most of the original features in the house had not been ripped out / glossed white. Mostly because the previous owners had done NOTHING in 30 years.

@Hagotcha80 - sorry I don’t know of any good sites - I buy things like that from local vintage sellers ( not online ) or Gumtree.

I will ask Mn to delete the photos later as they are rather identifying if you happen to know us.

As others have said, maybe some cupboard doors with hinge problems as they are opened daily. wear and tear. A leak, no way should that be happening if it was correctly installed. You need to see to it as the mortar etc will get damaged.

Ours was installed 17 years ago and is still perfect, function wise. White ceramic and chrome, so fairly timeless. So, we would change it for style not because it has dodgy or failed pipework.

My parent's house still had the original bathroom in when we sold it a few years ago. The house was built in 1961. Everything still worked - although I suspect the ballcock had been replaced in the cistern and washers on taps (but they were the original taps!)

Our ensuite needs redoing now after 20 years but still functions fine.
Main bathroom was replaced 2 years ago (it was 26 years old). We only replaced it to get rid of coloured suite and redesigned a badly designed space.

So you should expect to get a lot longer than 8 years out of a bathroom.