Cost of replacing shower cubicle with bath?

mandgreen

Hi Guys

I'm a first time buyer about to complete on my new house.

At the moment the bathroom only has a shower cubicle and no bath so one of the main jobs I want to do upon moving is installing a bath and taking out the shower cubicle. Theres plenty of room so no walls etc would have to be repositioned. Ideally I'd like to keep the shower unit as a shower over the bath so is it as easy as ripping the cubicle out, fitting a bath in, replumbing it and retiling where needs be??? Obviously I would need to get someone in and definitely would not attempt this task on my own!!

Does anyone know approximate costs/amount of days labour involved in this? I am based in the west mids.

Thanks.

Ebe_Scrooge

mandgreen wrote: »

is it as easy as ripping the cubicle out, fitting a bath in, replumbing it and retiling where needs be??? Obviously I would need to get someone in and definitely would not attempt this task on my own!!

Pretty much, yes. If the water supply and drainage is already in place, and doesn't need moving, then it's quite a simple job. You say you wouldn't attempt this on your own - actually it's not a hugely complicated job, and if you're pretty confident at DIY then there's no reason you couldn't do it yourself. The difficulty comes if you need to be putting new drains in, but if you're not moving stuff around then this won't be an issue.

But if you want to get someone in, I can't see it taking more than a day for the plumbing side of things, maybe less. You could do the preparation, i.e. removing the shower cubicle, leaving less for the plumber to do. Then maybe half a day for the tiling, obviously depending on the area involved.

martinsurrey

Ebe_Scrooge wrote: »

Pretty much, yes. If the water supply and drainage is already in place, and doesn't need moving, then it's quite a simple job. You say you wouldn't attempt this on your own - actually it's not a hugely complicated job, and if you're pretty confident at DIY then there's no reason you couldn't do it yourself. The difficulty comes if you need to be putting new drains in, but if you're not moving stuff around then this won't be an issue.

But if you want to get someone in, I can't see it taking more than a day for the plumbing side of things, maybe less. You could do the preparation, i.e. removing the shower cubicle, leaving less for the plumber to do. Then maybe half a day for the tiling, obviously depending on the area involved.

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phill99

Ebe Scrooge is right. However, I would suggest that its realistically a day for a plumber and labourer (baths are a pain to manhandle Single handedly) plus a day to finish off tiling, putting on bath panel, masticing etc. Allow £500 plus parts and you should get it done.