Anyone a bathroom fitter/can give ballpark cost?

[jackiesgirl]

We're buying a house that in the last couple of years has had its bath replaced with a large shower on the exact footprint of where the bath was. For the 2 of us this would be fine but we have a baby on the way so looking at putting a bath back in. Any idea of how much this is likely to cost to put in a shower over bath in the same place it used to be?

You will probably need to retile to fit the bath and access the hot and cold pipes for the taps so if the whole bathroom is tiled, you may end up needing an entire new bathroom which would need £10,000 budgeting at the mo (although it could be less depending on where you are in the country and whether you can wait for a good bathroom fitter to be free.

I really don't think this would need an entire new bathroom if it's on the same footprint! Once the shower cubicle is removed they can probably access the pipes for the bath taps through the floor. The shower pipes are obviously already there so that shouldn't be complicated.

I'm not going to give a figure but find a trusted plumber and I'm sure they can do that for you, then you'll obviously have to get the area retiled/decorated.

As an aside my NCT friend doesn't have a bath and just bathed her baby in the baby bath inside the shower tray, and then her DD started having showers once she could stand confidently! So it's not a deal breaker to not have a bath, but if you're planning more than one it is helpful to be able to chuck them both in.