£11k for a bathroom refit?

[waryandbored]

Happy to hear this is a reasonable price…
We are having our small bathroom refitted. New bath with shower over it, toilet, vanity unit, towel rail, tiles and floor. Some plastering needed and new lighting. We are changing the position of the bath which I guess costs money due to plumbing requirements.

The current bathroom is 20+ years old and grotty. We have a toddler and number 2 on the way so it desperately needs doing as it’s our only bathroom.

Anyway, the quote from Wickes is £11k. The cost of the products is £3.5k and the rest is fitting. This seems so high to me especially as we’ve not chosen high end products particularly. More mid range.

Just looking to see what people think as this is the first work we’ve had done and so don’t really have an idea about what is a reasonable price!

That’s a LOT. We just got a huge bathroom done, high end products, double sink, toilet huge bath large enclosed shower, PVC ceiling and tiled from ceiling to floor and was £11k but a really big space. Your quote seems very high

We paid this BUT we had separate toilet and shower rooms knocked into one, plumbing altered, loft hatch moved etc, it was a lot more involved and definitely wasn't like for like.

Find yourself a plumber, not a bathroom company. Rip the bathroom out yourself.

Source your own loo/shower/sink/vanity etc, buying where you can on Facebook Marketplace and eBay and you’ll save yourself ££££. Bathrooms don’t have to be matchy-matchy to look amazing.

I did this and even made a profit on a £20 loo!

House of Enki do reasonably priced showers/taps etc that look good and work well. It can be done, but you have to be prepared to put the time in to save money on
the project. Good luck!

Find a local plumber/ fitter. Let them source the goods and tiles using trade discount and it will be cheaper. If you are moving plumbing of course its more, plus you need to specify wet board around the bath/ shower area on the walls and green board flooring before floor finish.

Also make sure they put in accessible isolation on all water pipes and buy decent tap fittings like Bristan.

£5.5k for ours, 4 of which was fitting. Included ripping out old bathroom, plastering, retiling, floor, lights, new everything. Got a suite from Victoria Plum with over bath shower and shopped around for tiles etc. Everything was fitted in same place so no changes to existing packing.

We paid £11,000 and £12,000 for our 2 bathrooms doing over the last 2 years. We used a highly regarded local company and we didn't scrimp on anything, we picked exactly what we wanted regardless of price. This included the suspended ceiling, floor to ceiling tiles and all the bathroom equipment and accessories. The company designed it, ordered everything and did everything start to finish in 2 weeks, using their own employed fitters. It was so easy.
So I probably wouldn't pay that sort of money for Wickes as you won't know what the fitters would be like. I would search for local recommendations, maybe ask your neighbours?

Ours was £8.5k a couple of months ago, East Mids, plastering, lighting, vinyl flooring, wall panels instead of tiles, new stud wall, removal of old suite and fitting new sink with vanity, shower bath etc.

Mine was 20k. Yorkshire. 11k sounds reasonable

Complete refurb done 6 months ago, West Midlands; total cost £10,250. Medium sized room. Old suite out; walls back to brick and replastered; new floorboards and new vinyl flooring on top; new plumbing/electrics/radiator/shower cubicle and shower/bath/sink/loo. New d/g window. Shower cubicle and about half room tiled.
Fitters' charges for all the works were £7,500; window £1000; all the rest £1750 - I shopped around!

Oh yes, fitters were small local company recommended by friends. They were excellent, and I ended up with exactly what I wanted.

£3k tops. 10 days labour and the suite - £600 ish

Independent people will be cheaper as Wickes etc will take a cut.

7.5K labour is way too much.

We had our entire bathroom ripped out and re-done last year for £7k - I'd look at getting other quotes from independent tradesmen.

Just had a bathroom refurbishment completed. The fixtures were adapted and rather high spec from various places. I NEEDED an accessible bathroom and wanted one that did not look like it had escaped from the NHS. Standard sized bathroom with sep wc, The refurbishment plumbers cost me £7k for new floor, internal wall removal so wc could become walk in shower, re wire, re plumbing of all pipe work, electrics, plastering, skip, tiling, fitting of adaptive suite tanking for shower area. They also sourced anything I had not realised I needed to order using their plumbing contacts so saved me some money.

It does not matter if your low cost or high spec products, take a careful look at the foundational work needed as that would be the same for whatever you had fitted on top.
Maybe get other quotes in from other fitters in the area to compare with.

Small bathroom. Complete refit with high end tiles and fittings. 8k for everything and done in 10 days by a local builder/fitter.