How much is a new bathroom?

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First time buyers, and just moved in.

Most of the house is fairly modern, with little need to change anything urgently.

However the family bathroom needs updating.

Currently it has a three-piece bathroom suite with a shower over the bath, but it's fairly cramped - there's no space to extend the room, so we're considering removing the bath and replacing with a decent sized shower.

There is another bath in the property (in the en suite which is modern, and almost twice the size of the family bathroom). I'm not concerned about reducing the sale value of the house, just making it more useable for us as a family.

We'd like to entirely remodel, including:
Scrim the ceiling - currently artex.
Remove and replace wall tiles.
Remove and replace carpet (yes, carpet)
Remove bath, replace with shower.
Remove and replace basin and loo.
Remove and re-use ladder style heated towel rail.

We'd probably need someone to advise us on how to make the best use of space, rather than just going to Victoria Plum, buying the things, and employing various trades to do it.

We'd like nice, but not necessarily top of the range fixtures and fittings, and it'd look something like this...

What are we looking at, ballpark, price wise?

Depends where you are as to labour rates.

I'm Cambs area and just starting on the process for both my bathroom & ensuite. I had a couple of people round earlier in the week who both advised to go to a bathroom place, look and products and get them to draw up some plans.
Both recommended Huws Gray (was Ridgeons) https://www.huwsgray.co.uk/.
I popped in on Tue afternoon with my room dimensions & had a chat about what I want, and they emailed me some layouts first thing this morning.

I had a quote through this morning for the bathroom which is a straight replacement of shower, basin & loo. Some boxing in and tiling (but not tiles). This was £5,300 inc VAT to include fittings, but fairly basic fit.

Someone else said the labour for the main bathroom (in which I want to relocate all the fittings and add a separate shower) would be ballpark £4k and probably looking at £6-7k for the whole jobs.
He said labour on the ensuite would be similar (which surprised me as quite a lot less work).

I’m doing pretty much the same as you OP - minus the carpet!- 1st quote from a big name was ( and this was supposedly at the cheaper end) 12k which was ridiculous.

I’ve gone with independent fitters, cost @4k for the work and @3 for the products, so all in just over £7000.

Hi @Chasingsquirrels - this is such an informative response, thank you!!

We've got a Huws Gray fairly near here, so I'll see if they can draw me up a plan 😀

weve just spent £14k for a bathroom did involve a bit more. Works fixtures ans fittings including tiles was £5.5k. All the buildings work was £6k

I just paid £10k for similar although not tiled as we had tile effect panels and the ceiling was brought down a bit rather than skimmed.

I shouldn’t expect you have much change left from £15k especially if you want a high quality finish.

We're in the middle of redoing the en suite atm. Plumber should be finishing off tomorrow.

It'll have taken him 6 days labour so just over 1k

All the gubbins he's needed from the plumbers merchants c300

The shower/tray/enclosure/loo/sink/flooring were just under 1k - got a quote from a bathroom showroom then sourced the exact same products online far cheaper using blue light and work discounts.

We paid about £8,000 in 2019, it still looks amazing to date.

We had our bathroom replaced 2+ years ago. Took out bath and put in a large shower (and we don’t have a bath at all now). Cost us £10k in the south east. Had some quotes much higher.

We did ours in 2020 for around 8.5, 4.5 for labour. Our tiler project managed and arranged all the trades, but we paid his tradesmen separately (quote was itemised). This made things a lot easier as he managed all the timings for everything. We had new ceiling put in to house spotlights on top of the old, think this is cheaper than trying to modify the old ceiling.

£14k last Summer for us.

I just had a very similar size bathroom with the same type of fittings installed in ireland for 7.5k euros.

We’ve just had a loft conversion and are in the process of having the bathroom done.
2.5k for tiles and materials across all walls and floor
4k for shower (1.8m tray) double sink and toilet units and accessories
1.5k for labour.
plasterer for ceiling was approx £350- day rate plus materials

Gosh! I've just paid £5000 for my new en-suite. It's basic fittings but lovely, includes tiling and some work that needed to be done on the floorboards/ceiling below.
I hadn't appreciated how lucky I was with this.

I've yet to have a shower installed that didn't eventually leak. I wouldn't bother.

Anything from £5,000 upwards, you can have a basic shower or a power shower which is going to cost a lot more. In SE here my cousin has just had bath taken out, new shower unit, power shower, non slip base, extra folding door, new wc, basin, chrome ladder radiator, average priced wall and floor tiles £9,000.