Building a bathroom upstairs

picket_fence

SailorSam wrote: »

But Picket that could be said about anything you do to improve your house from double glazing to cavity wall insulation . and even fitting central heating or decorating. No matter how much you spend you may not get it all back.

Couldn't agree more, I was merely answering the question by JJlandlord,as to whether it was a contradiction. I did point out that the OP may not care either way as they are talking about their home, rather than an investment. All the best

NJG_2

Thanks for your responses.

The primary reason we want to put a bathroom upstairs for convenience more than saleability, although we do obviously have that element in mind.

We want to turn most of the downstairs bathroom into a larger kitchen. One of the properties along the terrace has done this and created a bathroom upstairs and increased the size of their kitchen downstairs in place of the original bathroom.

Assuming we can put in the correct piping can anyone advise of the sort of costs we're looking at to create the upstairs bathroom?

Doozergirl

SailorSam wrote: »

But Picket that could be said about anything you do to improve your house from double glazing to cavity wall insulation . and even fitting central heating or decorating. No matter how much you spend you may not get it all back.

I'd argue that the cost of double glazing or central heating would reflect immediately in the price of a house, especially if it didn't have it. Insulation is generally close to free so wouldn't particularly makr on my radar.

Having owned terraces of the upstairs and downstairs bathroom variety, there are compromises in both. If a house had no bathroom, it's value would be compromised. If you had two identical terraces, but with differently located but perfectly good bathrooms, the floorspace doesn't change, so the price can't, really.

One has a downstairs loo, inconvenient but very common. One has a considerably smaller bedroom - which again is common and inconvenient. If it's a forever home, do what you like, but these houses are often starter homes for people or BTLs, where the space wasn't designed for a modern kitchen or bathroom at all and, being a terrace, by it's nature particularly difficult to retrofit. The value in spending upwards of £5000 in a (typically) low value home is lost.

Doozergirl

NJG wrote: »

Thanks for your responses.

The primary reason we want to put a bathroom upstairs for convenience more than saleability, although we do obviously have that element in mind.

We want to turn most of the downstairs bathroom into a larger kitchen. One of the properties along the terrace has done this and created a bathroom upstairs and increased the size of their kitchen downstairs in place of the original bathroom.

Assuming we can put in the correct piping can anyone advise of the sort of costs we're looking at to create the upstairs bathroom?

Is this potential bathroom going to have an outside wall? Where is th present soil stack? Presumably there isn't one?

It's pretty hard to say when people can spend £10,000 doing an existing bathroom, but somewhere in the region of £5-10,000 would not be an unrealistic starting point for something bog standard, if you'll excuse the pun.

SailorSam

Financially then it may well be best sticking with a pot under the bed.

NJG_2

The bathroom would be on an inside wall.

Obviously this isn't an idea situation but given the shower is already there and a neighbour with the same layout has a bathroom upstairs, we'd like to be able to install one upstairs. We just want to build something small and convenient that will allow us to make a good sized kitchen out of the small kitchen/bathroom downstairs.

Doozergirl

Are they also a mid-terrace? Why don't you ask the neighbour how much they spent, what kind of drainage they have in place? People love talking about themselves!

googler

NJG wrote: »

One of the properties along the terrace has done this and created a bathroom upstairs and increased the size of their kitchen downstairs in place of the original bathroom.

Assuming we can put in the correct piping can anyone advise of the sort of costs we're looking at to create the upstairs bathroom?

Sorry, but without seeing the house, anyone here might as well try to guess the lottery numbers.

Since you know what's been done in the neighbour's house, wouldn't the first port of call logically be to see if you can find out what it cost them, who they got to do the work, what building control and planning consents they needed, etc?

ethank

Do not get a macerator/saniflo for your upstairs bathroom. They are noisy and you will get woken up by people going to the loo in the middle of night.