Bathroom quotes

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Were looking to change our horrific 70s bathroom to something much newer.

We need an internal wall taking out between the toilet and bathroom which is excluded from the bathroom quote, we need our own builder to do that.
We also need to change the windows which is separate.

To have a sink, shower and toilet installed, 2 walls floor to ceiling tiles and the rest decorated with ceiling spotlights we've been quoted £14.5k
The bathroom is 3x2

If it helps in terms of budget our home is likely worth around £325k
This seems a lot but I'm not sure if I'm just totally out of touch?

Have you had other quotes?

Were struggling to get anyone out to quote.
This was the first person, and even then it's taken 6 weeks to get a price hence asking here for opinions

Does that quote include the sink, shower toilet, tiles and labour? Even so, seems a lot. We've recently had our bathroom and down stairs loo totally re done for a bit less than your quote if that helps. I'd get another quote if I were you

We had similar. Similar prices home. Bathroom with no toilet. It’s just not affordable right now, my last bathroom (5 years ago) was about £3k fitted (handyman rather than pro fitter).

It seems very expensive, but of course it depends on the price of your fixtures and fittings as well as labour .

If you have chosen a £2.5 k vanity unit , an expensive luxury shower cubicle and £60/m tiles then that will add up.

Is it from a fancy bathroom company or your local plumber ?

Sounds high. Can your builder find someone to quote for the plumbing?

Our quotes (literally taken months to get them in) range from £11-18k.

Builders are in high demand they can ask what they want, often they adjust the quotation according to the cars in the driveway, so hide the Mercedes and the Porsche.
Whatever the cost don’t hire a cowboy you really will regret that.

Same here! We’ve been trying to get it replaced for a year but quotes are too high.
I was shocked at our Wickes quote. Tiny room, swapping bath for a shower. Replacing toilet and sink. Tiling and vinyl floor.

Nothing fancy or unusual. 😭

Are you moving the plumbing around? Tiling? Does this quote include everything (tiles, sanitary ware, floor)?
I did mine late last year. Smaller, but I moved the toilet and sink, used fancy tiles from Spain (costing £1400). It was about £11k. My other bathroom I didn't move anything around but replaced it all, there was replastering and the floor needed levelling. That was about £6k all in - my tiles were £1k cheaper. SW London.
I think £14k is a lot of not moving any plumbing, but I've also heard of people paying more, especially if you do things like use expensive tiles like I did for one of mine! You really need another quote - try a shop like B&Q as a comparison.

We are looking at about £16k for our bathroom, including fittings. Ours is older, probably not touched since the 50’s but even so, it’s an eye opener.

We are also having a move around so pipes need moving and shower in place of bath etc.

We’re paying 8k plus vat. That is for bath, shower over head, loo, sink, vanity (which I know is £800) the suite itself is just bog standard. Subway style tiles around the bath/shower itself. It’s a bit more work than usual as the room wasn’t a bathroom before so includes new drainage/soil stack to join up with old drainage and I’ve asked for stud work around the bath so I can have those shelves that are sort of built into the wall and a shelf at the back of the bath so it is built into the room- not sure that makes sense but I just wanted extra ledges wherever possible because it’s a very small bathroom!

things you don’t mention OP so I don’t know if they are included

Have any fixtures to be moved?
extractor fan
flooring
decoration of two walls and ceiling
heating / heated towel rail
shaver sockets
bathroom storage units
mirrors ( heated or with lighting )

So it's a local bathroom place, quote is as a lump sum and not broken down so no idea on the individual elements.
The sink is being moved but the shower is in the same place as the current bath and the toilet is in the same place
It does include electric towel rail, spotlights, mirror.
no flooring, no sockets

It feels like this is possibly about right and simply because prices are so high but I will try somewhere like B&Q, we've just had a wren kitchen fitted and I swore I'd never touch a national chain again after the botch job and crap they did.

I guess my main concern was Google suggesting a bathroom adds 5% to the house price, but on a house of our value, by the time windows, walls and floor were done we'd be spending more than what we'd be adding
So next steps, shop around, and if that really is the price we save a little longer

Is that you ordering and them fitting? Ime it's cheaper to order yourself.

We have just replaced our shower room. The fitting cost was £3k - including stripping to plaster/retanking the walls around the shower plus tiling and skip. Fittings were just under £2k.

We did the floor and painting separately.

That seems a lot.

we had similar size bathroom done about 3 years ago. Full gutting, walls rebuilt, underfloor heating, scread and plaster. Tiled floor to ceiling, rain shower, bespoke walk in shower screen and shower built under tiles, wall hung toilet and sink. New window. New electrics and lights. Heated towel rail. All Villeroy boch, or Laufen pro. Was around £7000 total.

We got ours done 2 years ago, was quoted £10k. £14k probably about right. Cost of materials more expensive now.

Definitely get more than one quote!

I've just had 3 quotes, all between 9 and 11k which included:

Replacing bath with walk in shower
Relocating loo and sink
New ceiling spotlights (no lights at the mo) and new extractor fan
Half tiling walls, feature shower wall and tiling floor
All walls plastered and made good
Fake wall built to have close coupled loo and shower shelves
New vanity, loo and shower tray, fittings and screen
Brass fittings throughout (not sure if there's a cost difference)
£600 towel rail (in brass)
Skip and fitting

Quote I've gone with was 9.2k, which doesn't include floor or feature wall tiles (another 1k on top but sourcing them myself as didn't like their options) or mirror cabinet as hunting for one myself, but they will fit it

It's from a local bathroom store who will supply and fit, in the NW.

They did give me an itemised quote, right down to tubes of adhesive

Mine was quoted at 4K that included
Bath
Shower
Toilet
Vanity sink
Towel radiator
Tiling
Extractor fan
New outside piping

I chose the flooring myself at a later date and they just put a piece of boarding down. Quote did end up going slightly over due to water damage to the floor boards under the bath and slight pressure on it caused it to crumble into pieces so I needed some new floor boards fitting as well.

We paid £6k last year for a slighty bigger bathroom than yours to have wall taken down, door blocked up, all walls and ceiling plasterboarded, all sanitaryware moved into different places, full height tiling, tiled floor, lighting, extractor, towel rail. We paid £2.5k on top for sanitaryware and tiles, so yours seems expensive even with the increases.

Mine’s just been finished and it’s cost 9k. Small, so wanted wall hung loo and vanity so false wall built, reinforced bath with shower over. Branded fittings, Roper Rhodes, Ideal Standard, Tissino, Mira shower which is the best shower I’ve ever had. We got an independent fitter then we used his discount from a bathroom supplier and local independent tile shop. The bathroom supplier had great displays. We just chose everything ourselves and they kept it there until he was ready. Labour and materials including skip, spotlights and fan, 4k and fittings and tiles 5k. We are very happy. Are you in London?

Seems high unless zone 1 or 2 london.
Where are you op

I did the same with mine OP, a knock through. With posh fittings mine was 12k all in.