Bathroom price why is it so much?

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I've had a quote for a tiny bathroom in my tiny 2 bed house for 7250.
This includes ripping out old bathroom, replacing suite, removing tiles and replacing with panels, new floor, new radiator, taps, everything. Said will take 6-7 days.

Is this the going rate these days? I'm in nw. Just seems a lot more than I was hoping. I can get a decent bathroom suite from b and q for less than a grand with taps and bath panels included. The wall panels, adhesive, pipes etc surely wouldnt come to more than a grand. So that means the fitter is charging around 750 a day labour minimum by my calculations. How can that be right? And it will obviously be a lot cheaper for them to get the suite, panels etc.
Thanks

You could do all the removal of old stuff very easily, yourself. and then source a suite, and then just get a plumber to do the fitting, plasterer in. Not hard.

We paid around this for a small bathroom three years ago on the Northwest. It took more like three weeks though, had needed plasterboarding after we removed the tiles ourselves. It was a fitter that did everything himself but lost his apprentice to illness ( this was still covid times)

But it was done very well. We bought things that weren’t mega expensive from Victoria Plumbing, it defo would never have costed 1-2k or 2-4k. People are really not pricing for good quality labour.

The price of some of the pipe work.materials and so on has increased with everything else over the years.

Get more quotes. One quote is not enough. I know people say get 3 quotes, but I got six (!!) for a landscaping job purely because the first couple were taking the piss. I was quoted from £3K all the way to £18K for the same jobs. I genuinely think that they're making it up as they go along. We didn't go for the cheapest quote but it was definitely an eye opening experience.

For reference, earlier this year I was quoted £3K for a new walk in shower, toilet, vanity, radiator, and extractor fan. We'd be keeping the existing flooring and wall tiles. We didn't do anything with the bathroom in the end as we needed to prioritise other stuff in the house.

Thanks a lot for all your comments guys, really helpful and good to know it sounds like the going rate. I'm going to see how much the price will come down if I take the tiles off but then like some of you have said, if I do that I kinda may as well just buy the suite and get someone to fit it but will see how it goes.

Thanks

I needed a plumber to fit a new heating system. A few of them said they were only now fitting bathrooms as they could charge much more than for bathrooms than they could for other plumbing jobs (central heating or mending leaks) which had a lower value attached to them. It’s not about the quality of labour you are buying, it’s that some plumbers see bathrooms as something customers will happily pay for so have increased the price accordingly

I'm currently replacing two bathrooms, one small but needed some structural work. They're working out at £10k each, which is going rate around here.

It's cost us just over £3k for a small bathroom refurb, using a local Jack of all trades and buying a lot of stuff in the sales/off eBay. Labour £1100. We removed the tiles and as much of the bathroom fittings we could and took to the dump everything ourselves.

Quoted £4k labour only by a bathroom fitter.

Is that for one person or two. DH retired in 2020, then average cost of installing new bathroom then was around £3,500 for 2 weeks for 2 people.

Depends what "ripping out the old bathroom" means. Just replacing he bath/shower/loo/sink in a like for like swap out? Sure.

Hacking off and replastering, removing bathroom suite, rearranging the facilities location within the room and associated plumbing, build-in niches or studwall nibs, rewiring for electrics for a new mirror to install etc etc and then install, reinforcing wall for wall hung units or hidden cistern etc etc? Painting and decorating too?

Yeah, that would prob cost more.

Commuter town in Essex. Lots of people moving here from London - prices have gone up hugely since Covid. To be fair the 10k was Wickes, which we had no intention of going for. But the two recommended small businesses' quotes weren't far off. Wanting mid-range, half-tiled, de-misting mirror, shower niche, shower over bath, good quality but not high-end/fancy. Current bathroom is 90s, fully tiled and very prone to mould so expecting some horrors underneath.

Both earn above average but not huge salaries, but very time poor - I have no desire to spend my weekends doing DIY like we did when we first bought our house, pre-child.

I've been watching threads about bathrooms for a while, as ours is due for being done in the next year (hopefully) and that quote sounds in line with most of the ones I have seen on here. Ours is a small room, maybe a little bigger than yours but not so it'd make a lot of difference, and I'm expecting it to be more than that in the NW, which is a cheap area (all the plasterboard will have to be replaced, and with insulated board which is pricey, though the rest of the job should be simple enough).
We had thought of doing a lot ourselves, but we're just having the conservatory tiled (with UF heating) by a local firm that mainly does bathrooms. Their tiler has been great, and I'm thinking we may be better getting them to do most of the bathroom as well. DH tiled the last one, and made a fantastic job, but it was a lot of work for him. The firm does do higher end fittings, they don't like cheap taps for example because they say they don't last, and are often faulty, wasting their time- so it wouldn't be cheap but I think be a better job in the long run, and we don't propose to be moving again so we'll get the full benefit of it. The work we've seen has been excellent, they seem to deal with good suppliers and their designs are clever for small spaces. So I think it may be worth biting the bullet, just doing the really grunt stuff ourselves. I don't fancy trying to co-ordinate plasterers, plumbers, tilers, and electricians all for one small bathroom. Bar wanting to use our own plasterer if he can fit in with them, I'd rather someone else did all the organising.

My partner did ours with help from my sister's partner.

Medium sized room, removing a stud wall, new pipe work, shower, bath, sink, loo and towel radiator + a new window. Some floor joists needed replacing as had woodworm and some rot.

Re tiled and decorated.

Most expensive single item was the flooring which a fitter laid for us.

All done for under £5k, London based.

Luckily partner is incredibly handy. Shopped around for the bathroom suite and got a good deal from Victorian Plumbing.

There is no way we could afford to pay anyone to do stuff for us!

Several years ago I paid £6k all in for a large bathroom. I sourced everything myself. My plumber did all the work and the electrics.

The key was I didn't change the layout at all. I think you need more quotes.