Moving a bathroom upstairs

Rebecca_G

Hi,
I am about to buy a house and thinking about how to arrange/ alter it all (it needs A LOT of work doing to it!) and I'm thinking of moving the current downstairs 'bathroom' (I use that term very loosely for what is there!) upstairs and splitting the rather large master bedroom into a bathroom and smaller bedroom.
The main issue I think there will be is that the current bathroom is at the rear of the house and I want it to be moved to the front.
Does anyone know how much this is likely to cost in terms of plumbing and labour to do that? I know the cost of buying a suit, tiling, electrics, flooring etc. as we can do the most of that. (Not electrics, the whole place is being rewired so that'll be included)
Also I'm having central heating put through, I assume he will do some of the plumbing stuff?!
As you can tell I am a novice at this!!!
Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Doozergirl

The most important part of siting a bathroom is ensuring that the waste is easily accessible. Moving from the back to the front, (if there is not the route and the fall available to get the toilet waste out) either involve a brand new soil stack which subsequently needs to be linked to the sewer, or a macerator which is not ideal.

We have a macerator and pump in our ensuite but it is the secondary bathroom. If it breaks, I still have options. I would not have only one bathroom with a macerator.

andyhop

Doozergirl wrote: »

The most important part of siting a bathroom is ensuring that the waste is easily accessible. Moving from the back to the front, (if there is not the route and the fall available to get the toilet waste out) either involve a brand new soil stack which subsequently needs to be linked to the sewer, or a macerator which is not ideal.

We have a macerator and pump in our ensuite but it is the secondary bathroom. If it breaks, I still have options. I would not have only one bathroom with a macerator.

A only bathroom with a macerater would not pass building controls. Must be direct to sewer

Everything is possible but at what cost. Even on ensuites, I would never recommend or fit pumped drainage. Most of what we do see are incorrectly fitted as you still need a fall to drain after the first rise

TCPPC

think depends if you have access to the waste pipe. i presume if you are moving directly above it then that should be fine? moving to another location of the house then i think that would be more problematic

my own experience, £3.2k for a fully fitted and tile ensuite so i think if you set aside 5 to 10k?