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Downstairs loo renovation - costs?

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ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 27/11/2021 20:29

Has anyone had a downstairs loo done up recently? We are looking to have ours redone and wondering about ball park figures. We are south east but not London.

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Dougieowner · 27/11/2021 20:57

Define "done up".

New toilet & sink, tiled walls & floor, new plastering & pipework etc etc or a quick paint-job and a new piece of lino on the floor?

Aquamarine1029 · 27/11/2021 20:59

Do it yourself and save a fortune.

AnotherThingToDo · 27/11/2021 21:01

Following!

purplesequins · 27/11/2021 21:13

we are doing it ourselves.
we have budgeted 2k for materials (toilet, sink, floor tiles, paint, wall coverings, extractor fan, lights).
what seems to cost a lot is the little things that add up, like plaster, tile glue, grout, pipes for electrical wires...

MynameisWa · 27/11/2021 21:18

We just did ours; wallpaper, accessories (toilet roll and towel holder etc), sink and pedestal, gold taps, light fitting, paint.

Didn’t need to plaster, I made the blind myself and the toilet was already installed.

Costs:

£160 sink and taps
£60 wallpaper, paste and paint
£100 accessories (generous estimation)
£30 light

MynameisWa · 27/11/2021 21:20

I’d find it hard to spend any more than £800 if I was doing it without paying a tradesperson.

sweatpantsofdefeat · 27/11/2021 21:23

We paid about 2 grand for new tiled floor, walls, loo, sink and fittings. There was some quite complicated boxing in that had to be done and a lot of tlling. We did the painting ourselves.

ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 27/11/2021 22:38

Thanks for the indications. The plumbing seems a bit too complicated for us to do ourselves so we are definitely going to get someone to do it - I'm not confident to give it a go. Obviously can do polyfilla and Painting etc but the new units and radiator and tiling etc needs to be someone who's not cackhanded.

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redandwhite1 · 28/11/2021 09:16

Ours was 2k - that was from an AWFUL under stairs cupboard to a full downstairs toilet

Starseeking · 28/11/2021 10:25

I had one installed in my last house, in the old under stairs cupboard. It cost between £1,000-£1,500 for the materials and labour. I fitted all the finishing items (mirror, toilet roll holder, towel rail) myself.

TizerorFizz · 28/11/2021 15:46

We have just paid around £5000 for ours. It’s fantastic! It had to be stripped out because of a water issue in the bathroom above and the tiles were all damaged so taking these down was expensive. However we used higher end fittings and it’s wonderful.

DeepfriedPizza · 28/11/2021 15:54

We just got ours done this week. We got a company in to do it. Click flooring, new tiles on walls. New toilet and sink, false ceiling with spotlights put in. Paid 3.5k worth every penny.

ChequerBoard · 28/11/2021 17:42

We did ours a few months ago. Spent about £2k on high end fittings (wall hung WC and hand basin, fitted cupboards, flat panel are with towel bar etc) and about £1200 on fitting including full tiling all walls and re-routing all the sink pipe work to channel into the walls so there is zero boxing in.

Looks a million dollars now!

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