Cost to change an ensuite

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We have just bought and I would like to change our ensuite to add a bath. I’m not sure whether there would be room to have a bath and separate shower, which I would overall prefer, but I’m also pretty sure that it would add substantially to the cost. I’m going to get quotes but anyone recently done a bathroom and/or have ideas on how much it might cost to either add a bath below the shower or rejig the whole layout?

If you post a layout with measurements then people can suggest other lay outs.

Cost depends on where you are in the country but I would ballpark about £10,000. £5000ish for labour and then whatever you spend on parts on top.

Thanks. Not in the house right now to take precise measurements but this is the floorplan (unhelpfully not measured but gives you an idea of scale! The shower stretches the length of the wall it’s along at the moment.

Someone with more of a clue than me will comment better, but I'd think by changing the door to open outwards, or having a pocket door, would really help get your optimal layout.

Not useful without the measurements unfortunately. You need to work out which of the walls would be able to fit a bath on and work backwards from that.

Hard to tell without measurements, but I suspect that in order to fit a bath it might have to be one of those that narrows at one end, it doesn't look like there's enough room for a bath in there.

Actually if you can have a funny shaped vanity unit along the angled wall maybe you could put a bath along the wall the sink is on now. You'd have to see how it works with the door, maybe if you have it opening into the room.

There is definitely room for a bath where the shower currently is. It’s one of those big showers that you could stand three people in. That plan really isn’t helpful I know.

Sorry, didn’t realise how unclear I was being. I was more just looking to gauge from people who know more than I do how much something straightforward-ish like adding a bath (and potentially keeping the shower overhead and having to retile at no doubt enormous cost) might cost and then idly and unhelpfully wondering whether a separate shower would be possible.

So much will depend on exactly what you ask them to do though, it could go from quite a small job (remove the partition, stick a bath and tile surround with matching tiles) to extremely complicated (rearrange the setup, move the plumbing, take out all the tiles and retile).

One could be two days work, the other more than a week. Labour is the biggest cost so what you decide will make a huge difference.

Well I’m going the other way and replacing the bath with a shower over it in my ensuite to a walk in shower, as I have other bathrooms with baths in, and including re-tiling the wall and floor it’s costing £8,500. That’s with standard bath store stuff, and a local firm fitting. No plumbing needs moving far, there’s a small amount of electrical work and the toilet is not moving. The room is around 2m by 3m. Hth.