Bathroom: have you just replaced the suite?

[Dillidilly]

Renovating a 1920 house, but most of the renovating money was used to live on during the pandemic year 🙄 so having to abandon our original plans and work to a much stricter budget.

Our en suite is in its own room off our room, and about the size of a family bathroom. The waist-height tiles are not to my taste, but do have a bit of an art deco look I guess, which fits in with period of the house. And they are in good condition.

I've been wondering about just replacing the suite, which is extremely knackered, plus new flooring. And working with the tiles. Beadboard bath panels in a deep green perhaps, etc.

Has anyone done similar and been happy with the results? We were quoted £10K for the free-standing bath bathroom of my dreams, which is completely out of the question now.

Have you thought about tiling it yourself? We've just spent 1.7k on material and are chipping away with the retiling.

We are happy to go with professionals, from more than one company, who have actually seen the house 🙂

Anyway, many thanks to those who have posted about bathrooms 😉
I think you are all right, and trying to work around existing tiles would prove to be a disappointing and not really cost effective mistake. I think I'm drawn towards the mdf beadboard panelling, and doing all the messy prep work ourselves to help keep costs down, plus no free standing bath 😢

Oooh, now I'd be happy to tackle the actual tiling, but don't feel confident on prepping the wall first!
If you removed old tiling, how did you get a good even surface for your new tiles?
(I have only ever tiled the bottom of a boarded up fire place opening...and came to the conclusion that it was not quite as pip squeak as the cheery Aussie block on the YouTube tutorial made out lol!!)

I've got a similar thread running about tiles, is that 1.7k just for tiles please? Is it a large sq m? And high low or mid price tiles?

Thank you 😊

@TiredandLate that is 25m2 of marble style tiles on the wall and around 8m for the floor (we have 2m left over from the other en-suite). We chipped the tiles off, patched the one significant hole with a piece of plaster board then sanded the lot. Small imperfections can be levelled with the tile cement. We went with large tiles so things like the small holes don't matter

I had a new bathroom last year, tiles from top to bottom, new suite, ceiling plastered, it was £1800 for the suite from Wickes, £600 for the tiles and £1900 for the bathroom fitter / tiler. So you can do it cheaper! My bath isn't free standing though 😔

I feel your bath pain 😢

Yes, that's much more the price range!

Hi @Dillidilly you can 100% get a free standing bath in that budget especially if you're prepared to compromise and save money in other areas, take a look at these, Victorian Plumbing are a company I've used a number of times before...

www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/baths/free-standing-baths/traditional-freestanding-baths?ap=1

Don't give up on your bathing dreams!

I have just been looking at their more vintage stylee suites, some are very affordable!

Thank you!