Refitting a Bathroom costs?

SHAD0W

Hi

I'm a first time buyer of a house in Leeds, about to make an offer on Monday. The only drawback with this house is that the bathroom has not been changed since the 1970's and looks horrible to the modern eye.

Obviously I will be considering this when I make my offer, but I need some advice on how much refitting of a bathroom (complete gutting out with new bath (with shower), sink, toilet and storage shelves etc) would possibly cost.

Where would be best to go?

Edit: I'd really like a Japanese toilet with control panel, depending on costs!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

mumlady1

Hi Shadow
the costs will obviously depend on the size of your bathroom, the level of finish you want, tiles, type of shower (if you're having one) type of sanitaryware etc but to give you a very rough guide we had a small 2.5m x 3m ish shower room done in December.

Built in black gloss furniture (2 cupboards & 1 toilet unit), toilet, 1/2 recess sink, shower tray, glass doors, combi shower
Total cost £3400 :eek:

Fully tiled - floor to ceiling - approx £1500 inc labour:eek:

New lighting - approx £100 inc labour.

We've now had a quote for our upstairs bathroom (roughly the same size but a different shape) of £6400 :eek::eek::eek:

You can obviously do the job much cheaper than this or much more expensively but I hope this gives you a ball park figure

lee111s

I've just done my bathroom out. I'm quite handy and done most of the work myself with the exception of plumbing including the the new shower that I built into an unused hot water tank cupboard, vanity unit, toilet, move the radiator to the opposite wall and also plumb in the bath. He charged me £350.

I've had the walls tiled floor to ceiling and that cost £500 in labour, tiles were about £20/sq. m and cost around £400 including the floor tiles.

The room is 2.3 x 1.7 so quite small, but now has a 900 x 760mm shower cupboard which has added about 25% to the size of the room.

I bought my bathroom suite and items from betterbathrooms, it's quite a high standard of finish and the new items cost about £1200.

All in it's cost me around £2700 factoring in the lights, timber, plasterboard and other various accessories..inlcudes underfloor heating too! My plumber mate reckons if I'd got a company in to do it from scratch I'd be looking around 5-6k!!!

squashy

Bathroom suite including L shaped bath, vanity sink, mixer shower, glass screen, tall storage unit £1200- better bathrooms

Tiles from clearance place- tiling floor and 3 walls (one being a feature mosaic) £650

Fitting from local chap includes supplying underfloor heating, moving toilet waste and towel radiator, ripping out airing cupboard and all existing tiles/fitting, supply & fit extractor £1800

So £3650 so far but still to get mirror cabinet and accesories. That is for a 5m2 bathroom

SHAD0W

Thank you all so much! Your responses were very helpful! Looks like I'll be saving up for a while, though!