Relocate bathroom from ground to first floor

Motherofcelticdragons

Hi,

I've searched to see if there were similar posts but I'm surprised to see there aren't.

We are looking at a property to buy, Edwardian London terrace. It has the bathroom downstairs, at the back after the kitchen. If we buy the house, we'd be keen to move it upstairs, to the smallest room which is above thr kitchen... And potential use that foot print downstairs to extend the kitchen and have some more space.

What things should we consider? First observation is that a chimney breast has clearly been removed downstairs from the kitchen but is still present in the 3rd bedroom (also a consideration is resale with a 2bed. Have seen some within 1/4mile for 50k more than were paying is I hope its not optimistic that it will appreciate).

And what kind of cost should we expect (zone 4 se London if that matters!) 

Thanks! 

Apodemus

I can't comment on the bathroom question, but make sure that your surveyor has a good look at what is holding up the weight of chimney above first floor level - sometimes the lower supporting structure is removed with very little supporting the huge weight of brick that extends on up through to the roof.

Doozergirl

The main challenge is getting the new toilet waste to the soil stack.  You're going up a full storey, so it shouldn't be much of a problem, but placing the toilet as near to the existing one as possible will prevent you from having to snake metres of 4 inch pipe around the house. 

I'd budget £10k as being a reasonable starting point for a proper job, but a bathroom refurb itself can easily cost more than that, so the sky is the limit.  

Motherofcelticdragons

Thanks both.
Mostly old houses around here so chimney stacks being removed is quite common. Will remember to check that.

And yes, had though 10k would be about right.

Thanks!