Cost of new bathroom installation - is this fair?

Hi .. I'm in Brighton and need to replace - bath with shower over, loo, w/h basin, tiling - all simple plain clean white! And a cloakroom which needs loo and w/h basin replacing with built in ones along one wall, tiling.

Any recommendations for reliable, reasonably priced plumber/tiler for Brighton please?

Any thoughts on how much would be a reasonable price?

Thanks
Sharon

Brill - thank you! Will be sourcing plumber, plasterer and tiler!

It really all comes down to what finish you expect, how much effort you are willing to put in, how much guarantee you want for the fit, do you want the trouble of dealing with all the seperate trades that may or may not consider the trade following them.

Do you want to pay one guy to deal with everything then all comeback is to the one guy?

If your supplier doesn't get the products to site on time will you pay the tradesmen to stand around and do nothing becuse you didn't get the parts on time?

If you find the wrong parts have arrived will you pay the tradesmen wasted time? Do you want all these problems?

Part of my business for years was full bathroom installations, we learnt quickly not to get invloved in fits where we didn't supply everything as there would alwys be something wrong/lost/forgotten.

We're in Surrey, we were fitting 1 bedroom flats or anything up to country homes. our average bathroom was around the £8000 mark but we also did a lot of wetrooms, these start at £10,000 for a quality installation.

Comparing a bathroom fit on a forum like this is like trying to ask if a four door saloon car is good value for £50,000...if you're used to a ford Escort then it's expensive, if you're expecting a Bentley then it's cheap. It's all relative.

We now just specialise in stone (marble and limestone installations) we decided to stop the full fit when Part P was introduced, it was the straw that broke the camels back and it was no longer viable to operate a one stop shop being completely above board when there are so many fitters who ignore the regulations and openly commit tax fraud to cut your costs.

I don't know much about this sort of thing but I've been quoted £200 for taking out a 3 piece bathroom and replacing it, like-for-like with another one. That doesn't include tiling or shower, just a straight swap but over £4,000 seems ridiculous.

Go through the paper and local internet sites (quote me local etc) and phone loads up, and whatever price they give offer them 5-10% less for cash. Thats what I always do and I've now got my kitchen fitting down from original fitting quote MFI/B&Q from £1,250 to £100 a day in cash for 3 days!

Mine is just a straight swap, no plastering or anything, apparently its 1 and a half days work. I don't know how other members feel about this, but if I want work doing my first port of call is the local pub at 5.30pm! There are always building/plumbers/painters/joiners... having a pint and often more than happy for a 'foreigner' in cash. Proper kitchen/bathroom companies are always expensive because the tradesman they use are often self-emplyed-my ex was a tiler and worked for a bathroom and kitchen company, he charged them £25 sq metre and they charged the customer £30 a square meter, so the firm you use take a few hundred quid just for being the middle man!

I'm not an expert at this, but it could be significantly cheaper getting a oplumer, tiler, plasterer all separately because £800 or more of the OP's quote could just be 'middle man money' as described above.