How long should a bathroom refit take?

[MrAlyakhin]

So plan on having old bathroom ripped out, tiles etc then replacing with new. Only a small bathroom 2m by 2m. Moving a radiator but everything else is staying in the same place so no need to move pipework etc. My last one took ages but was much larger and pipework needed moving. Bathroom fitter is saying 7 days.

A day to rip out old one. Do walls need replastering? Tiling? 1-2 days each for that due to setting. Floor. Then put in new kit. So 5-7? With a lot of down time in there.

Recently had ours done
3 days to remove old, replace walls (where tiles removed), board the floor, prepare the plumbing and fit the bath
1 day for the plasterer to do the ceiling and walls
3 days to tile walls and floor
2 days to finish the fit
Done over 3 weeks

With my favourite house if took 2 weeks and it nearly did me in. I think a week sounds about right.

I had quotes a couple of years ago and they were 2-3 weeks, albeit with downtime between.

For various reasons the bloke I'm seeing did it with some assistance from me.
It was about 11 months!!

I do love it - but I'm getting someone in to do the main bathroom.

We had a bathroom built from scratch in an extension we took back to brick with new ceiling, new floor and rewired + a kitchen refit and it took a month. The bathroom was the quickest part though. If your just replacing one like for like it could probably be done in under a week although we had paneling not tiles which I think is a bit quicker.

This could really vary. How many different trades do you need. Do you need a plasterer / plumber / electrician etc etc if so you are going to be juggling their time as they fit it around other jobs. Theoretically could be done in 7 days but you might be waiting for availability of a specialist.

Mine took about 3 weeks.

I'd say up to 3 weeks as standard. Any material sourcing issues, hidden problems that arise like damp or dodgy plumbing etc can extend that but even when we had a very complex reno it took 1 month.

Edited to say: that included full rip out, moving pipework, tiling, install of fixtures, fixing a problem. Plasterers and painters were very savvy at working around bathroom fitters so we were lucky but it may take an extra couple of days on top of that if their schedules don't fully align which isn't a red flag.

Mine took one person 7 working days, so a week and a half, but it was small and straightforward, and I had already had the rewiring done.

10 days for ours which sounds pretty similar. Wasn’t actually 10 solid days work but because of the order some things have to happen in and the fact that there is waiting/drying/setting time between some activities it meant that it did take 10 days.

2-4 weeks (the latter depends on replastering and other trades). 2 weeks of just the bathroom itself. I work in this area.

In our case almost 30 years! Is on the To Do list, we've replaced the loo and that's as far as it has got!

We had a bathroom fitted in a room that was previously a bedroom in 10 days (so needed new pipework etc) so 7 days for refitting an existing sounds right.

We had mainly one guy and that was start to finish.

Ours took a week. Old bathroom ripped out on day one (including having to break up the cast iron bath in situ) then four days to put in new bathroom, including replacing stud walls, rewiring, replastering, tiling and new flooring. The loo was staying in the same place, but everything else moved. New separate shower with extractor fan and new towel rail to replace the radiator.

1-2 weeks, depending on how much work needs doing and how hard your fitters are working.