How much to move bathroom upstairs?

yumyums

Hi everyone

We're looking to buy a typical Victorian terraced house in Bristol. Around here a lot of the houses have downstairs bathrooms but I'd prefer for it to be upstairs.

I was hoping for a rough idea of how much it would cost to move a bathroom upstairs to the 3rd bedroom at the back of the house. In most cases the 3rd bedroom is above the kitchen and the existing bathroom is at the back of the kitchen with nothing above it. I guess this will make plumbing more complicated, thus more expensive?

Approximately how much would it be to just move the bathroom upstairs, and how much would it be if you included "making good" the old bathroom - removing sanitary ware, plastering, etc?

I know it will be hard to give an exact figure but it would be good to hear from people who've had similar jobs done in the past. Oh by the way, we won't be doing any of the work ourselves (though I suppose we could do simple things like remove tiles if need be to save a bit of money)

BitterAndTwisted

Get a couple of quotes as an absolute minimum. Anything else is just crystal-ball gazing. Moving or installing mains, hot-water, soil-pipes and header-tanks can make a huge difference to the price.

Yorkie1

You could try reposting this in the In Your Home sub-forum, which is where such questions are best placed. But I suspect that you'll get replies very similar to B&T's.

yumyums

Thanks for the replies. I will definitely get several quotes at a later stage but was hoping for a really rough estimate at the moment. I haven't found a particular house yet but was just wondering how much I needed to budget for the work when working out our maximum offer if we find a place we like.
Will try posting in the in my home forum. Thank you both again

property.advert

You'll be losing a bedroom so you need to think laterally. If you simply move it upstairs, the cost will include the reduced value of your property as it will have one bedroom less. If feasible, think about extending the rear bathroom up a story to retain 3 bedrooms and give you an extra room / more space on the ground floor.

Plumbing and electric people are impossible to price. Some want a fortune and are crap and some are fair priced and produce good results. Builders the same. You really need a recommendation. I recently found a decent electrician from the Which ? local trader review site.

As for costs, go price up some items. You can get rough prices for a new bathroom, radiators, how you would heat your hot water etc. Plastering is £xx per m2 so you can work that out and you can price materials fairly accurately from the Tradepoint catalogue at B&Q / Wickes etc. Do your homework on brick costs, insulation, roofing etc. and your spreadsheet starts to make sense. All you don't know is labour but remember that a builder will add in a hefty slice for project management and profit, which you can retain my managing it yourself if you are capable.