New bathroom cost check

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I have a small (1.8m x 2m) bathroom. It is tired and starting to really show it is tired.

No changes to layout. Shower bath, loo and sink 'unit' and one cupboard above. No new extractor fan needed and the plumbing is OK under it all. Towel rail is brand new and can be reused. All simple, off the shelf items and tiles are basically plain white with one run of accent tiles. New plastic ceiling with four spots, but the actual ceiling above is solid. I am flexible on when it is done as well.

I know a small bathroom still has the same as a larger one - shower, taps, sink, bath, loo etc. I also know they are factoring in 'but rotten floor' and similar. However there is a lot smaller tile area, smaller floor and smaller ceiling etc.

I am being quoted £9.5-£11.5k - which seems a lot.

Is this the price a small bathroom is now?

What part of the country are you in? What sort of traders are you getting quotes from?

I had an ensuite a similar size but with quite a lot of electrical work and all the new pipework for a towel rail done (there was nothing before 🥶) for just over £5k last year. Used a local plumber and supplied all the fixtures and fittings myself.

Mid 2023, we had a full bathroom refit including new layout, two new stud walls, fancy (fiddly to fit!) tiles, and all new mid-range fixtures (bath, shower, basin & unit, WC, extract, storage cupboard). We were initially quoted £10k, and paid £15k all-in (we chose more expensive tiles, fixtures etc.).

Your quote feels a bit high to me…!

SE England (Home Counties) if that helps

@Reallybadidea - I am just south of Perth.

I have had one quote from local bathroom specialist place and one estimate without visit from Wickes (I am not going to use them).
I think I need to hunt down a local installer / tradesperson who can do this.

This is your issue. Bathroom showrooms, specialists and places like Wickes are very expensive, with big mark ups. We found a local plumber/fitter, who did the lot. He got other trades in to do the electrics and tiling, but all in the fixed price. He gave us a catalogue for a trade seller, we picked all our own stuff, he got the discount for trade and charged at cost, a really big saving. Fixed price, payment plan 30/30/40.

Northwest 3 years ago. Local recommended guy. We bought most our own bits and he fitted everything.
new plasterboard, tiling, bath and over bath shower fitted. Flooring and radiator. Any piperwork etc .Lights/ceiling boarded like op. Everything in the same
place.

Not the highest priced items by along way though the budget was stretched! Small bathroom and our toilet is elsewhere.

Was 7k. Was more than the quote because the price over everything was increasing. I’d imagine it would easily be 1k + more now!

We’ve done two bathrooms in the last few months for £12k, local plumber. If we’d used the trade place he recommended though we’d have paid £6keach bathroom just for all the fittings, tiles etc so we sourced our own. Still got decent tiles, fittings, but took a lot of time and effort shopping around and hunting down deals.

Shop around OP, we did our bathroom of similar size last year for £7.5k in central Scotland.

Don’t use a bathroom fitter. Find a decent plumber, and they’ll have contacts for other trades you may need (spark, plasterer etc). Some plumbers are happy to tile, others aren’t but they’ll know a decent tiler. Source everything yourself. We did ours this way this year, and the cost was half of the quotes we got from the bathroom fitting companies.

I paid £4k last year for similar in North Yorkshire with a local plumber supplying and fitting.