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Bathroom redo - where to spend, where to save?

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Kucingsparkles · 03/01/2023 09:28

Our main bathroom was a bit crap when we moved in many years ago and has got worse with time (I could make a list but would take too long). Then just before Christmas, ironically while we were discussing whether we could afford replace it in the next couple of years, I glanced up at the kitchen ceiling and noticed a stain - yep, the bathroom was leaking. Everybody in the house is now using our tiny en suite.

I have contacted a couple of bathroom installers who will (hopefully) come around and quote. I am expecting they will want to know roughly what we want done: given that this is an unplanned bathroom redo, what can we save money on, and what should we pay more for?

For example, we would expect that it's worth getting a good brand of shower and a decent bathtub that doesn't move when you get in. And we'd save instead by getting standard white 15x15 tiles or whole wall panels. Is this right?

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RidingMyBike · 01/03/2023 14:35

We're getting Amtico for the bathroom (tile effect rather than wood as we're having that elsewhere in the house)

DogInATent · 01/03/2023 16:04

Could the loo go behind the door mounted on other wall to the one you suggested for sink?
Moving the loo would mean moving/extending the waste connection to the soil pipe. Better to leave the loo where it is, or make only minor adjustments to its position.

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Kucingsparkles · 01/03/2023 16:14

Reallybadidea · 01/03/2023 11:29

Not sure of the dimensions of your bathroom but wondered whether this might work? If the sink is behind the door it would bash it when you open the door and this way the suite is grouped together so your floorspace isn't broken up, which I think helps a bathroom seem spacious.

This would be our ideal arrangement that DH and I were fantasising about! But there are several flies in the ointment.

There's a structural column in the corner (red) that I didn't put on my rough sketch, if we put the bath that way around it would have to be built out a long way. Also, the blue window is very low - fine for the bath to go under it, but too low for the sink.

We were told that shifting the loo to the opposite wall would require a much longer soil pipe with several bends, which apparently is not a brilliant idea (plus a lot of boxing in).

Bathroom redo - where to spend, where to save?
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TheNoodlesIncident · 01/03/2023 18:28

Pocket door? Or rehang the door so it opens the other way? Sliding bifold door on the bath for the shower?

Reallybadidea · 01/03/2023 20:50

Kucingsparkles · 01/03/2023 16:14

This would be our ideal arrangement that DH and I were fantasising about! But there are several flies in the ointment.

There's a structural column in the corner (red) that I didn't put on my rough sketch, if we put the bath that way around it would have to be built out a long way. Also, the blue window is very low - fine for the bath to go under it, but too low for the sink.

We were told that shifting the loo to the opposite wall would require a much longer soil pipe with several bends, which apparently is not a brilliant idea (plus a lot of boxing in).

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Bugger!

Geneticsbunny · 01/03/2023 21:08

Could you build out the wall and put loads of awesome storage in it and make it a really amazing feature?

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