Cost of new, small bathroom (SE)? tips for reducing costs?

[Startingagainandagain]

I bought a 1930 terrace last year which had not been maintained well for the past 20 years.

There is only one small bathroom (about 220cm wide & 320 length) upstairs with a shower and no bath. Lino on the floor with wood underneath.

I have been wanting to remove the old cupboards and sink as they are too big for the small space. Now the shower is draining slowly as well so I am wondering if it would be best to plan to just redo the entire thing once and for all.

Any advice on how best to do this and how much I could be looking at? and whether it is best to source all the components myself?

I already have the new cupboard and mirror I want to install but would need a new sink/toilet and hopefully can keep the shower but with better plumbing. I also want to keep the original 1930 tiles on the walls.

Any advice on how best to do that project would be great. I won't do it until the summer next year so it gives me some time to save and look for affordable features.

I'm not in the UK so I cannot advise on prices etc., but I have recently renovated a bathroom in an old house. It is in what used to be a room, so it had a wooden floor on joists. The floorboards were removed and the floor was waterproofed with a sort of chipboard underlay, and then tiled. You need to remove your floor anway to redo the plumbing, so you should definitely do that! If you can keep the wall tiles, you are already ahead in terms of time and money. As regards fittings, I chose mine myself. WCs are not very expensive (I suppose you will have a standing one, not suspended, since you don't want to retile the walls), my sink and furniture are from Ikea because I like their design of the waste which allows for a full drawer underneath the sink. Shower would add cost, but you want to keep yours so it doesn't matter.

Look on Marketplace and you'll likely find someone's off cast purchases that for some reason they chose not to put in their new extension (wrong size, wrong way round shower tray, too big/small basin, didn't like the loo cistern and want built in, plans changed or whatever), and didn't get to return it in time for a refund.
As pretty much every item is white today, you'll likely be able to find enough stuff for a 'set', may not be be exactly matching/match what you have and are keeping but 'match' enough for your needs in that you'd have to tell someone otherwise they wouldn't know.
It's cheap, often free as folk haven't got the room to store it and want it gone!

Thank you for the advice and Ikea and Facebook marketplace seem like good places to start.

I am going to have my usual plumber come in to have a look at the slow draining shower and give me a rough quote for the refurbishment and details of any restrictions in term of what loo/sink I can install then I will start hunting for affordable ones!

If you are wanting to keep the older tiles you could buy a reclaimed vintage suite to go with them? Maybe a coloured one?

It the shower just draining badly or do you want new shower fixings too?
To get to the shower drain, you may need to take the shower tray out and that is likely to damage the tiles. Also if you want a new shower head etc then unless it is surface mounted, it will be difficult to plumb in a new one without damaging the tiles.

I echo the above. Currently doing a bathroom reno and I sourced many things from FB marketplace cheaply. However check everything you purchase carefully as sometimes boxes of new staff is open but don't have everything in etc, so you can run into issues...the most expensive part was the tiles and labour!

I would budget for a minimum 5k if no major changes to the plumbing/where things are.

Thanks everyone. My plumber is coming on Friday to have a look at the shower drain. I am going to talk to him about what can be done in term of refurbishment and a rough estimate.

I gave the shower plug a good clean this morning and a mixture of vinegar and baking soda has helped with the flow but I know all of this is old and was not really installed that well so planning for a refurb anyway.

The ideal would be something vintage or that at least looks vintage!

I would want to keep the shower, just improve the drainage. I suspect the 'fall' (I think that's what it's called?) is not allowing the water to drain as it should.

I just put salt in our shower drain a couple of times a week overnight and that cleans the soap scum, shampoo residue, hair etc. if I don’t do it, it starts taking an age to drain. That is a late 60s/early 70s shower tray.

eBay is worth a look for vintage bits