Putting bathroom upstairs

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Okay ladies... question. How much do you think I'd be looking at to put a bathroom upstairs in the 3rd bedroom and then converting the downstairs bathroom into cloakroom and storage/utility area??

I've had the builder round today to have a look and he'll get back to me next week with the written quote, but I've just realised I have no idea how much this will be - not even a rough estimate. This is the first time I've ever owned anything and of course the first time I've ever built/moved anything... is this going to be horrendously expensive???

Is it going to be above the existing bathroom? We are going to swap our current bathroom with a bedroom and have been quoted by 2 builders at about £2k for this. If you put one above teh existing one, I assume it'll just be extending pipework upwards?

The current bathroom is in the (flat roof) extension at the back of the house. The room it will go into is in the 'main' part of the original house iyswim? The room it will go into is at the back of the house and the drainage would be put in upstairs, but would join the current pipes under the patio... does that make sense?

[DISCLAIMER - I clearly don't know much about it!]

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We are moving our bathroom back upstairs, previous owners built a massive kitchen extension and turned the old kitchen into a bathroom. We were quoted £800 plus VAT but the pipework was already there under the floorboards. Bathroom set was another £330 (cant reuse the old set due to size and the fact its foul!). Tiles were £200, plus flooring at another £100. Taps/shower were £180. The walls needed to be boarded with plywood to take the tiles and prepped with PVA etc as the plasterboard wasnt strong enough in places but Dh did that himself otherwise it would have cost another £200 + lowering the floor at £300 (owners had raised the floor to cover the pipes). Lots of bits like sink traps, waste pipes, tile edging, grout, adhesive (at £40-£70 a bag-we needed 3 for a small room), sealant, shower attachment, toilet roll holder etc.

We are removing the old bathroom ourselves so no idea of cost to do that -other than to my hands which are bruised and cut from removing the tiles. The walls will need to be completely replastered as the tiles left a lot of grout/crap behind and some of the plaster came off when I pulled them off. Probably another £250 for that. Capping the old pipework/electric shower and removing the old pipes will be another £250 ish, depending on how much Dh does himself.

The plumbers started on Monday and have already plumbed the bathroom in, the tiler is now working there and once he is finished tomorrow then the plumbers will be back to finish off-screwing everything down and making good. It took me about a day and a half to remove all the tiles in the bathroom, not too hard and the owners had chosen some god-awful penguin motif which gave me the shivers. They also believed that adhesive was for decoration only as some of the penguins slid off the wall enmasse to try and kill me-terrifying little buggers!

Hope that helps, its been a steep learning curve for us!

Thanks - that's all really helpful. I've just heard from the builder and he reckons that I'm looking at £10-12k to put a bathroom upstairs - but that's with him doing it all - he's said I can cut costs by doing stuff myself... I guess I'm going to have to learn how to tile!

Ah, we are paying someone to do the tiling too, forgot about that, about £200 (if you are in the London/SE area I can give you the number of an extremely good tiler/builder/plasterer)floor to ceiling in a smallish room. Tradebathrooms.com are also really good, we got our suite from there at £300 off list price. Man with a van drove it down from N. Yorks to Essex but they were extremely efficient, friendly and helpful in general.
Worth spending a bit on the taps though as they make it look so much more expensive.
Our plumber and electrician (separate companies which worked out cheaper) were also brilliant, turned up at 8.30am and worked solidly till five-must have watched too much Rogue Traders as I was expecting hassle!

We got a plumber in who managed it all, 9k just for bathroom. Complete refit but soil pipe etc in right place. It was right back to the lath.

I’m glad he organised the tiler, electrician, joiner as it meant he dealt with delays caused by stuff not arriving due to covid. He also is now sorting out our central heating.