Rough cost for a fitted bathroom

[Simon Finnigan]

Hi all, I`m looking at getting a bathroom redone in the house. The room is roughly

2m x 2m, and already has the electricity and water in, as well as the waste pipes out. I`m not good at this level of DIY, so i`d be looking at getting a company in to do the entire job - strip out the old one, fit all the new stuff and leave me with a nice, fully working bathroom. I`m after a rough idea of the labour costs involved in this, to figure out how much money will be needed. We want a decent bathroom suite, a nice shower (but no bath), sink and toilet.

Any help will be gratefully received!

[John Rumm]

Starting price of £3500, more if fully tiled, more with posh fittings, more with complex showers, shiney towel rads, snazzy lighting etc.

When you go to the likes of Dolphin etc, £10k is not uncommon.

[Mr Sandman]

£500 for a half decent quality bathroom suite, £250 to fit it, £100 for the bathroom tiles, £150 to fit 'em. add another £100 for nice finishing touches.

So all in i recon £1100, if you organise the workers, and pick and buy the bits and pieces ect.

At least double or even triple that to get a national company to do the lot in one go. Screwing b'stards.

Steve

[John Rumm]

Can we come and live on your planet? Sounds much cheaper than ours!

Depending on what you mean by tiling (i.e. full room or just a splashback), but you could easily spend that on just tiling.

[Mr Sandman]

Tiling shower cubical and splash backs. You can buy plain white tiles from wicks..looks smart, timeless and clean. Paint or paper the rest.

If you want the whole room tiling, maybe 3 days work---unless its mosaics!

This is based on my own experience refubing 5 buy to lets, using local news papers to get quotes for the work and using decent quality fittings from local sheds, online shops, eBay ect.

Steve

[TheScullster]

"John Rumm" wrote

Agreed - a decent shower and shower pump would set you back the thick end of £500 without enclosure and the rest of the suite! Decent mixer tap for basin alone £75+. Your price point may be just about good enough for temporary buy-to-let residence, but something that the OP is going to live with for a number of years, I suspect needs to be firmly pitched into the next quality level.

Phil

[Mr Sandman]

my costs are based on a decent quality bathroom, not wetroom kind of spec. Yes if you want a powerful shower with pump you are looking at those costs. If you want expensive tiles, that costs more. If you want a decent quality bathroom that will look great and last years it can be done for not much more than a grand. YMMV

Steve

[Simon Finnigan]

Ultimately while I`d like to do it as cheaply as possible now, a cheap bathroom fitted now would be ripped out in about 2-3 years when the g/f starts earning serious money. In which case it makes more sense to stretch now and get a very good bathroom fitted and pay it off ASAP. For example, i`m currently using a £75 electric shower which does the trick. What i`d like is something that sprays the water under enough pressure to cut through concrete at any temperature I choose, which is obviosuly in another price band altogether :-) Ditto a cubicle, we`ve got one that must have cost about £50 new, and you can tell.

Although I`d actually prefer seperate taps for the sink :-) Dunno why, but I`ve never liked mixer taps in a bathroom. Weird I know, but that`s life :-)

[John Rumm]

Have a look at a seller called Primrose bathrooms on eBay. They do decent quality enclosures at a third of the price of most outlets. (last

800mm quadrant stone resin tray and 6mm toughened glass and ali enclosure came to about £200 inc delivery.

As I found to my cost, if you fit a mono block mixer with a duck bill type combined lever, it works really well until you bend down to scoop water into you hands to either wash you face or rinse your mouth. You then headbutt the duck bill! DAMHIK.

[djc]

What makes you think a more expensive bathroom would not suffer the same fate?

In which case it makes more sense to

[Dave Gordon]

£500 without enclosure

residence, but something

be firmly pitched into

bathroom fitted now would be

which case it makes

ASAP. For example, i`m

something that sprays

choose, which is

that must have cost

I`ve never liked mixer

Mixer taps are good if you like to wash your hands under the tap. You can wash in something other than scalding hot or freezing cold ;o)

[Huge]

Yeah. Right. In your dreams.

(I've fitted three bathrooms so far in my DIY "career".) The shower (*) alone cost more than a grand in the last two.

(* Pump+valve+enclosure+tray+tiles)

[Simon Finnigan]

Becase a cheap bathroom will be made up of cheaper components, by deffinition. Those cheaper components will annoy us, whereas good quality stuff will keep us happy long term, meaning we won`t rip it out and have to replace it with quality kit 2 years down the line.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Well who needs a pump?

however, yes, a proper shower + enclosure is around a grand all in.

But the rest can be pretty minimal..I'd say less than a grand,so if you simply get a bath with a shower tap on it, and rig a sheet of plastic to it as a shower screen, its possible.

As long as you have mains pressure hot water, anyway.

[Huge]

Anyone who wants a decent shower? Google "Tanganyika boiler" for the kind of thing I want.

Not as specified; "a decent quality bathroom that will look great and last years." A shower over the bath has already failed, IMO.

[Simon Finnigan]

I actually prefer washing my hands on cold water :-) But then again i`ve been told i`m weird before today (hard to believe I know :-) )

[Tony Bryer]

Put a TRV blender under the basin and you can get hand hot water out of the hot tap.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Neat trick that.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Bollocks. I have no pumps and better showers than I have had ANYwhere pumped or not. Mains pressure hot water is all it takes.

Then cough up 2 grand and be done with it.

[geoff]

In message , Dave Gordon writes

Cold water a bit too rufty tufty for you ?