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How much does it cost to redo a bathroom?

27 replies

LiberteEgaliteBeyonce · 29/09/2022 14:31

Hello,
I am about to buy a property that has a really uninspiring small bathroom that I want to redo entirely. I am looking at a loo, sink, a heated tower rail, cubicle and doors and a power shower. We'd have to retile the room as well albeit not the whole room.
I was wondering how much such an understanding is likely to cost me.
I know it's a bit of a how long is a piece of string question but a ball park would be good.
Thank you!

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BonesOfWhatYouBelieve · 29/09/2022 14:40

We're in the SE and had a few quotes a couple of months ago to redo our small bathroom. They were all in the £9k region.

RhinestoneCowgirl · 29/09/2022 14:45

We've just spent £10k on our small bathroom, bit that does include a new water electric heater/tank which cost about £2.5k (no gas at the property)

LiberteEgaliteBeyonce · 29/09/2022 14:54

Thank you for your input. It's significantly more than I expected! I am in the midlands.

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LiberteEgaliteBeyonce · 29/09/2022 14:55

BonesOfWhatYouBelieve · 29/09/2022 14:40

We're in the SE and had a few quotes a couple of months ago to redo our small bathroom. They were all in the £9k region.

Was with a bath?

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whirlyhead · 29/09/2022 14:56

I would reckon at least £10k as well. Tiling along is quite pricey.

EyeSpyPlumPie · 29/09/2022 14:56

We did ours last year and it was about £7500. North East region.

LoveBugBride · 29/09/2022 14:58

My brother recently had his done, it was 7k (northwest) but done to a really high standard so I reckon it could be done much cheaper if they had chosen more basic elements.

JudgeRindersMinder · 29/09/2022 14:59

We spent about £4k on the “bits”
a the quotes were coming in at about £3k for fitting. I’m in Scotland

LiberteEgaliteBeyonce · 29/09/2022 14:59

RhinestoneCowgirl · 29/09/2022 14:45

We've just spent £10k on our small bathroom, bit that does include a new water electric heater/tank which cost about £2.5k (no gas at the property)

Oh yes the tank... good point. I have just made a simulation on the B&Q website and put all the bits in the basket including a power shower and not choosing the cheapest bits and the cost was about 1.5k (did not account for the grouting, silicon and bit like that).
It feels like a big jump to 9/10k, I must say.

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AverageJoan · 29/09/2022 14:59

We had our main bathroom and en-suite ripped out, replastered, tiled and full new suites including freestanding bath, shower, toilets, radiators earlier this year for about £12k all in. We're based in Yorkshire. But having said that I think less the materials it wouldn't have cost that much less to just have one done because most of it goes on labour and waste removal etc.

notdaddycool · 29/09/2022 15:00

We spent £4k in london about 3 years back, will probably spend nearer £10k getting it redone, massive waste of money not doing it properly. Imagine if we'd spend £14k from the off...

LiberteEgaliteBeyonce · 29/09/2022 15:00

AverageJoan · 29/09/2022 14:59

We had our main bathroom and en-suite ripped out, replastered, tiled and full new suites including freestanding bath, shower, toilets, radiators earlier this year for about £12k all in. We're based in Yorkshire. But having said that I think less the materials it wouldn't have cost that much less to just have one done because most of it goes on labour and waste removal etc.

Fair comment about the removal of the old stuff, forgot about that too!

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Whatsthestoryboringglory · 29/09/2022 15:01

We are looking to do ours, small bathroom, keep toilet and sink but replace bath, shower and retile half room and floor. Do everything ourselves except tiling. We’ve costed that at 3k ish. South East.

LiberteEgaliteBeyonce · 29/09/2022 15:01

How long does it take approximately?

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McAvennie · 29/09/2022 15:03

We've recently had the bathroom and downstairs WC redone which came to £12k, West Mids.

Rutland2022 · 29/09/2022 15:04

It could be £3k upwards, depends if you are moving things and the quality of finish and how much you do yourself.
We are hoping to do ours for £6-7k but nothing needs moving and we have a cheapish plumber onboard who will do cash jobs on the side.
I re-did my BTL bathroom which is very small for under £4k but it was a lower spec than I’d have myself.

angeltattoo · 29/09/2022 15:05

I paid £4,500 two years ago in the Midlands

emsyj37 · 29/09/2022 15:05

We did ours earlier this year - rip out bathroom and en suite, knock them together and refit with bath, separate shower cubicle etc cost £5k labour and materials (grout, adhesive, all that) plus £800 on tiles, £8k on the suite and taps. We chose expensive fittings but this is our 'forever' house. It took over 3 weeks but was a lot of work - I don't feel that we were ripped off.

Caspianberg · 29/09/2022 15:06

The labour will account for the most.

www.mybuilder.com/pricing-guides/bathroom-fitting-cost

ie on the link about they guess a 3x3 average bathroom will cost about £3800 for removal, fitting, tiling, etc.

obviosly more if things need moving around, and new tanks.

so based on even your look on b and q, that’s £2000 for new ‘stuff’ plus £4000 for fitting approx, without extras like levelling, grouting, plastering, pipe work. £6-8k

LiberteEgaliteBeyonce · 29/09/2022 15:07

Rutland2022 · 29/09/2022 15:04

It could be £3k upwards, depends if you are moving things and the quality of finish and how much you do yourself.
We are hoping to do ours for £6-7k but nothing needs moving and we have a cheapish plumber onboard who will do cash jobs on the side.
I re-did my BTL bathroom which is very small for under £4k but it was a lower spec than I’d have myself.

I cannot do anything myself unfortunately so will have to pay full whack.

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LiberteEgaliteBeyonce · 29/09/2022 15:08

Thank you all for your input, it's really helpful.

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RhinestoneCowgirl · 29/09/2022 15:11

Ours was done within a working week. The majority of the cost will be labour, and that's not something that's getting cheaper at the moment!

Ours did include a bath, and maybe around £2k was on the 'bits'.

SiobhanSharpe · 29/09/2022 15:20

I'm in Cambridge and recently had our ensuite and family bathrooms totally redone.
Both are quite small and it cost over 24k for the two.
Most of this was fitting charges, eg 14k for plumber which included removing old bathrooms, and c. 10k for the equipment -- two vanity units plus basins, two power showers plus walk-in enclosures, two WCs, (one v.fancy) plus complete wall and floor tiling, lighting, extractors and heated towel rails.

We bought the tiles ourselves separately.
Smaller accessories like grab rails, wall mounted soap dishes, shower gel holders, mirrors and cabinets - two of each - came to another grand or so.
The main problem was finding a decent plumber to do the work, they are booked up for months around here,

Fundamentallyfuckeed · 29/09/2022 15:30

I’m midlands and we’re having ours done for about 5k. No moving of anything but total replacement of everything in there

Moonlaserbearwolf · 29/09/2022 15:35

I paid £7k in total for ours - removal of old equipment, making a wall straight (old house!), new fittings (same as you want) plumber, karndean floor installation, tile fitter and painter.
The fittings came to about £2k (cheap, but fine for my purposes in the Bathstore sale). Tiles were cheapish metro tiles around the bath and shower, but lots of wall was painted so I didn't spend a fortune on tiles.

It was a hassle dealing with separate people for plumbing, electrics and tiling, but just about worth it for the savings. Another company had quoted me £15k to do everything.

Prices have sadly increased since I did this work in 2018, but I'm in SE so may be slightly cheaper where you are. I would say £7k is bare minimum for what you are wanting to do.