Upstairs bathroom

StinkiPinki

Hi, I’ve just bought a little mid terraced house and I’d like some changes made. The first is fitting a bathroom upstairs. It would be DIRECTLY above the old bathroom with access to the soil pipe. The bathroom will be compact and it will not be filled with gold taps and a diamond encrusted toilet seat. The quote was £8k.
This was nowhere near what I was expecting. I had something similar done when I lived in London for less than half that! 

Has anyone had similar work carried out? I don’t deny the skills involved in completing the work, but EIGHT GRAND???

comeandgo

My daughter is getting her bathroom totally redone, it will need everything renewed and decorated and not much change from £10k.  How many quotes did you get?

StinkiPinki

I’ve just had the one today. More to follow but I was not budgeting for that at all!  Where is your daughter living?

Doozergirl

£4k isn't a lot for a bathroom, let alone one that needs all brand new pipework installing and the electrics reqired from scratch.  

£8k really doesn't sound unreasonable.  I wouldn't expect too much in the way of bells and whistles for that either.  I'd put it at the low end of quotes.  

TELLIT01

How long ago was the bathroom in London done? 

StinkiPinki

The London bathroom was just over 3 years ago. 

spo2

We redid our small bathroom earlier this year and think it worked out about £7K with my husband doing some of the work himself so I would say £8k is reasonable. Does this include tiles? Could you reduce costs with panelling instead?

GDB2222

Builders are having a bonanza at the moment, so prices are higher.

Is the quote just for fitting, or are there materials included?

Lots of tiling? Or, painted walls and vinyl floor. 

We could do with more details.

Doozergirl

GDB2222 said:

Builders are having a bonanza at the moment, so prices are higher.

Is the quote just for fitting, or are there materials included?

Lots of tiling? Or, painted walls and vinyl floor. 

We could do with more details.

It's not a bonanza.    The FMB members group on facebook and board meetings are full of complaints and sheets and sheets of price increases.  

I had to buy bricks today that we had quoted last September. They are 37.5% more expensive.  Aluminium doors, up 25%.  

£8k wasn't expensive to create a bathroom from scratch before this. 

We're losing staff because they're off taking on their own jobs, nothing gets delivered on time, everything is delayed so jobs don't run on time.  No one can quote because prices change constantly.  We're having to manage people's expectations whilst getting pooped on in every direction.  

We have to take on less jobs to be able to provide a half decent service. I know of two firms that have packed up because they can't cope with the stress!