Please help - bathroom ideas

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Will attach a picture to this thread. We are buying a property which currently only has a shower in the bathroom. We have two young children so need to add a bath in. Room isn’t massive (2.14 x 1.88) so not sure that we would be able to add a bath in separately. Once we move we will have around £20k left and I really don’t want to have to spend half if not more on the bathroom. Any suggestions welcomed!!!

Folding bathtub from amazon - about £150 but saves you re-doing a bathroom (unless you wanted to update anyway). Kids will soon be old enough for showers!

I agree with the above poster. At a minimum you will need to pull up the floor and looking at the layout I am not sure where you would actually put a bath. Use a folding bath or a small inflating paddling pool (depending on the age of your children) in the shower and save yourself £££ and a load of hassle.

Assuming the 2.1m wall is the window one, then a standard bath (1.8 x 0.7) will go along left hand wall, leaving 1.4 for a loo and sink - vanity units start at 1.2 so will fit easily.

Do you have an existing floor plan you can put up? Our bathroom is a similar size and has bath and separate shower.

Thanks all for suggestions. I spoke to a plumber earlier who (without seeing it) said we are looking at minimum £10,000 to rip it all out and start again basically. Floor plan added @TheBitterBoy

Thinking we could change the door to a sliding one?

Absolutely doable, but moving plumbing around is expensive. If you can’t spare £10k, I’d go with other people’s suggestions of a folding tub or inflatable pool. A friend has just installed a Japanese bath like this in her tiny bathroom.

I can't see a way to fit both a shower and a bath with that layout of door/window, but there is definitely room for a shower bath / L shaped bath. You'd keep the shower part in the same location, so probably no pipes to move, and the waste for the current toilet wouldn't need to move, you'd need to run a pipe from new toilet under the bath, but we have that in our bathroom, should be no problem for a decent bathroom fitter.

I'd put your bath under the window with a shower on the wall to the left. Move the toilet toward where current shower is, sink on right wall. I'd put radiator/towel rail at end of bath.

If you flip the door to open outwards, will you then have space for a shower?

Agre with others that you could easily fit a bath with overhead shower in that space ...but a full bathroom refit will easily cost 10k, probably more.

You might have enought space to leave the sink and shower where they are and move the toilet. Put the bath under the window and then have a toilet on the wall between the bath and shower. It depends how the shower opens and it might be a bit tight.

I agree thought, new bathroom will be about £10,000 unless you do some yourself. Tiling walls is relatively easy.

Ignore my suggestion 1800mm isn't enough to fit a bath loo and shower.

Our bathroom was the same size and shower over bath with fold back shower screen ( or curtain) was the only option. We used a tapered bath to save space. It was fine. I know a lot of people don’t like SoB and I see they could be problematic if mobility is limited but otherwise there’s no real functionality issue.

I really don't see how it would cost 10K. We've just moved the ensuite from one end of the room to the other and therefore obviously all the plumbing. We painted the room ourselves but got the builder to plaster and fit new shower wet walls, combi toilet/sink unit. We choose the items we wanted and he bought it for us using trade discounts. Obviously electrics involved for extractor fans and light switches. Anyway, all in it's cost less than 5k. Granted builder is doing literally a whole remodel on the house, extension, kitchen etc so he's here, the bathroom is relatively small part of the work and he's earning lots of money doing all the other work so I suspect he's priced very fairly but I would advise looking for a recommended local builder and getting some more quotes.

This is really helpful @K10f1 thank you. I’m trying to find ways to reduce costs a bit, sourcing our own bath and tiles, removing existing tiles and floor ourselves and only tiling where the bath goes. Surely that will make a difference?!

Bath on left hand side with shower in bath and a screen, keep the toilet and sink but move them. Large floor tiles to save time for whoever installs, tile around the bath and paint the rest. You can save thousands you just have to be savvy and plan in advance :)

Could you get a compact bath/small round or a small free standing bath? To go along wall to your right, shifting the sink along towards the loo.
Deeper - but you still put a little only in for kids, so saves water anyway.

https://www.duravit.co.uk/products/bathing/bathtubs/small_bathtubs.com-en.html This kind of thing

@iloveyoubutilovememore The materials thing was really interesting to me and I sourced things in different ways. I didn't need many tiles as just the floor and a row behind the toilet/sink, used wet walls in the shower. I bought the tiles online with a discount code I found. The wet walls I got from homebase, they had an offer on at the time whereby it was a decent discount (20% and then I got another 10%). The ones I chose were being discontinued which helped as already slightly lower on price, they also happened to be the only ones I liked which worked out well. They were more expensive than tiles but also the labour on them was less (because tiling takes longer than sticking wet walls to a wall). But the builder got the rest. I chose what I wanted and priced up the cheapest I could get it for using discounts etc. Then I sent him pictures and he priced it up buying with trade accounts from various suppliers. He got it all £1200 cheaper than I could. So I let him get it. This is what I mean by finding a good builder. Mine is a big project overall and I know he wants to use photos of the extension on his website etc. He wants my money to go as far as possible as the more I can get done before it runs out the better those pictures will be. He needs to pay himself and he needs to pay the people that work for him but he's really helped with sourcing materials etc. The work he's done has been great too. He also helped with planning the way things could be etc. I waited 9 months for him to be available but it was worth it.

I'm impressed with that we've done similar the fixtures alone cost £5k - whole job was £14 including moving some walls etc

@grimupnorthnot I think I have been really lucky with builder. The structural engineer introduced us. I'm not going to lie he disappears occasionally to do quick jobs for other people but he always comes back within a week and carries on.

brilliant, very lucky - we did use the guy who did ours separately to do a second similar job which saved a few £K as was more complicated and we could buy the fixtures and fittings directly from a wholesaler, saying that the shower tray was still a £1000.00 it can soon add up. Hope your build is going well, we're having a break now for a couple of years before we do the 3rd bathroom and the kitchen/diner

I like this but I'd swap out sink and toilet, you wouldn't want to have a bath or sit next to a bath with small children while next to a toilet.

It looks like it would be around 10k, maybe 7-8k if you choose cheap fittings. Moving plumbing around is expensive. We are just having 2 bathrooms done...