Can anyone give me a rough cost for moving a bathroom from one room into an adjacent room?

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Bit of a finger in the wind question I know. We’ve got a very small bedroom and a spacious bathroom which we’d like to swap over. Any ideas what sort of cost we could be looking at - hoping to re-use the toilet, shower and sink. There’s a bath too in the current bathroom but it’s very big so I think we’d need a new bath.

Thanks.

It’s not that simple as just swapping over, underfloor pipework and waste pipes will need changing and soil pipe moved for the waste from the toilet, unfortunately until you get a plumber round to take a look, that will be the only way you can get an idea if firstly it’s possible and then to get a price.

We need a floor plan to be able to do that. Very dependant on where the waste pipes are and may not be possible at all.

Ah ok, I will have to find a plumber to have a look. The room below the adjacent room is the downstairs toilet so I’m hoping that means the plumbing runs that way anyway. Thanks for the replies.

That sounds more promising in that hopefully you’ve got drain access for the new soil pipe for new wc, but yes a plumber will advise if it’s possible.

hoping to re-use the toilet, shower and sink

This will make very little difference to the overall cost. I had my bathroom redone a year ago, keeping the basin with vanity unit and loo. I wanted to reuse the shower but the cubicle and tray (12years old) didn't survive. We were able to reuse the electric shower but it was a close call.

My bathroom do-over was c£10k. I guesstimate your plans are going to be £15k plus.

@davidmiller12 thanks chat gpt

We had a new bathroom (OK we didn't move it) and it was £15K.

That was gutting the room back to bare brick and replacing everything (inc. part of the floor).

I did this a few years ago, was £12k inc all materials.

A bit left field, but it might be cheaper to keep the bathroom where it is, move the fixtures so the room is more compact and then, if structurally viable, take the existing dividing wall down and replace with plasterboard.

That would require less new pipe work and whatever is on the furthest bathroom wall wouldn’t have to be moved at all.

Very sensible suggestion. Moving a wall is likely to be a lot easier and cheaper than moving all the plumbing etc. Especially if they are only stud walls.

We moved a bathroom from one end of the room to another - involved also putting in a masarator as it could only run waste out the front it cost us about £14,000, but nearly £5k of that was fixtures and fittings - also included replastering, new stud walls, etc

The expense won't be the fittings. It will cost a fortune to move pipes and waste etc. I agree it would be cheaper to move a wall.

When I remodelled my favourite house just moving waste and pipes for the toilet was going to add thousands. So I didn't.