Cost of upstairs bathroom?

sw_mina

Hello all.

We're looking at buying a terrace house with a downstairs bathroom and wondering roughly how much it would cost to move it upstairs.

Leaving aside the issue of losing a bedroom (long term plan to go into the loft), we have no idea what the cost might be.

We're pretty DIY-inexperienced so it would mean getting tradespeople in for the big jobs. But... on the plus side the bedroom is already housing a brand new boiler and there is plumbing next door to the room for a toilet and sink that's there. We think the hot water tank is in the loftspace.

Realise this is a how-long-is-a-piece-of-string questions but a ball park figure would give us something to consider before making an offer.

martinsurrey

sw_mina wrote: »

Hello all.

We're looking at buying a terrace house with a downstairs bathroom and wondering roughly how much it would cost to move it upstairs.

Leaving aside the issue of losing a bedroom (long term plan to go into the loft), we have no idea what the cost might be.

We're pretty DIY-inexperienced so it would mean getting tradespeople in for the big jobs. But... on the plus side the bedroom is already housing a brand new boiler and there is plumbing next door to the room for a toilet and sink that's there. We think the hot water tank is in the loftspace.

Realise this is a how-long-is-a-piece-of-string questions but a ball park figure would give us something to consider before making an offer.

anything from £2k (you doing everything but wiring with basic fixtures) to £10k+

without liftng the floorboards you wont know if the first floor joists can support a bath (building regs state that joists under a bath must be doubled), add on to that drainage issues, electrical work, fittings and there are too amny variables.

LEJC

we have recently moved a bathroom from down to upstairs into what was a 3rd box room...total cost including all plastering and tiling and a white 3 piece suite of reasonable standard with shower over bath....£3250

A lot will depend on the type of fittings you want but you will be looking at a minimum of around £2500 IMO

ours was project managed by the plumber who also got in an electrician,plasterer and tiler....so its possible that if you were confident at diy there would be some elements that you could tackle....we used tradesmen for speed

keystone

LEJC

Who dealt with LABC for your Building Regs?

Cheers

Southend1

Don't forget to factor in cost (and space/logistics) of moving water cylinder in/from loft (or changing to combi boiler) when you convert the loft further down the line.

sw_mina

martinsurrey wrote: »

anything from £2k (you doing everything but wiring with basic fixtures) to £10k+

without liftng the floorboards you wont know if the first floor joists can support a bath (building regs state that joists under a bath must be doubled), add on to that drainage issues, electrical work, fittings and there are too amny variables.

I assume it would be okay as nearly all the other houses in the row (it's a terrace) have moved their bathroom into this room.

sw_mina

LEJC wrote: »

we have recently moved a bathroom from down to upstairs into what was a 3rd box room...total cost including all plastering and tiling and a white 3 piece suite of reasonable standard with shower over bath....£3250

A lot will depend on the type of fittings you want but you will be looking at a minimum of around £2500 IMO

ours was project managed by the plumber who also got in an electrician,plasterer and tiler....so its possible that if you were confident at diy there would be some elements that you could tackle....we used tradesmen for speed

That's not too bad - think we could cope with that. A roll top bath would be nice but probably out of budget!

keystone

sw_mina wrote: »

........... but probably out of budget!

Sounds as though you are tight on budget. You must allow for Building Regs costs. IRO 10% of value of the work with minimum around the £ 300 mark. Figures not to be taken as gospel - check with your own LABC for confirmation.

Cheers

LEJC

keystone wrote: »

LEJC

Who dealt with LABC for your Building Regs?

Cheers

Building regulations were fully considered,not just in respect of the moving of the bathroom,but because it was a total renovation of an uninhabitable property...there were times that I felt the council visited the property just as frequently as myself!!

keystone

LEJC wrote: »

Building regulations were fully considered,not just in respect of the moving of the bathroom,but because it was a total renovation of an uninhabitable property...there were times that I felt the council visited the property just as frequently as myself!!

Thanks. I wasn't prying! Too may people forget (or don't know) that change of use such as bedroom conversion to bathroom or adding additional bathroom requires LABC involvement. Then the bill comes as a shock!

Cheers

southcoastrgi

martinsurrey wrote: »

without liftng the floorboards you wont know if the first floor joists can support a bath (building regs state that joists under a bath must be doubled)

can you post a link to that