Small steps lead to big changes...

jwil

Today's PAD £2

Jan - £141
Feb - £139
March - £89
April £149
May - £79
June - £270
July - £14

jwil

We won £100 on PBs this month, that was a nice surprise!  It will most likely be PADded

However, I have mentioned to DH that I want to start pricing up a bathroom.  It's one of the things that needs to be done in order to achieve my retirement plans, but also, one of our taps leaks so it wastes water.

I've no idea how much a bathroom costs, but ours is small, and will only need a like for like replacing, boxing in pipes, tiling and flooring.  We'll be looking for basic and functional rather than anything too fancy as anything is fancy compared to what we've got (yellow suite, peach tiles and green flooring ).  Our big non-negotiable is that we won't have a plastic bath, it will need to be cast iron/steel or porcelain.  The current one is cast iron so the weight protection in the floor is already there. 

If we could get it done for around £5k, I don't know if that's possible, then my thinking is that we could probably have a decent payback period just on our water bill alone.  We are currently paying over £80 a month for water, where the average bill is £400-£500.  I've no reason to believe we are higher than average users, and would hasten a guess that we are lower than average, as we are careful in the main. The calculators show a saving, even if I'm fairly frivolous for us.  So if we could save a few hundred a year on our water bill, then the bathroom would essentially pay for itself.  Even if we couldn't save loads, I'd prefer to pay for what we use.

The plan is to measure up and get some quotes so we can at least see where we are and make a plan for how to pay for it.

WinterWarrior

Fabulous win on the pb’s, well done 😁
A new bathroom will be lovely. 

savingholmes

Lovely win. 

On the bath is it the type you can paint the outside of?

Good luck with your plans 

jwil

WinterWarrior said:

Fabulous win on the pb’s, well done 😁
A new bathroom will be lovely. 

Thank you  

savingholmes said:

Lovely win. 

On the bath is it the type you can paint the outside of?

Good luck with your plans 

Thank you  

No, it's one that needs a panel.  We did look into getting it re-enameled, but couldn't find anyone that does it locally.  It would need to be stripped right back as we want it white, not yellow.

beanielou

WinterWarrior said:

Fabulous win on the pb’s, well done 😁
A new bathroom will be lovely. 

From me too 

badmemory

I love a bit of bathroom talk.  I do not like tiles, which used to be more from the cleaning point of view.  I had splashwall to avoid the tiles.  I can clean the whole bathroom walls in the time it used to take to do the tiles over the sink.  It costs more but I would it again.

EssexHebridean

We had our bathroom done a few years ago and I think it came in around the sort of price you're talking about, from memory - however, that was including the entire room needing to be stripped right back to bare brick and replastered, and all the plumbing needing redoing too - it was a fairly  major job, so a straight forward redo of tiling and flooring, painting non tiles areas, and replacement suite etc would be less I'd hope. 

Ace PADing - and, well done on the PB win too! 

jwil

beanielou said:

WinterWarrior said:

Fabulous win on the pb’s, well done 😁
A new bathroom will be lovely. 

From me too 

Thank you  

badmemory said:

I love a bit of bathroom talk.  I do not like tiles, which used to be more from the cleaning point of view.  I had splashwall to avoid the tiles.  I can clean the whole bathroom walls in the time it used to take to do the tiles over the sink.  It costs more but I would it again.

Oh thank you, that's useful.  I will have a look.

EssexHebridean said:

We had our bathroom done a few years ago and I think it came in around the sort of price you're talking about, from memory - however, that was including the entire room needing to be stripped right back to bare brick and replastered, and all the plumbing needing redoing too - it was a fairly  major job, so a straight forward redo of tiling and flooring, painting non tiles areas, and replacement suite etc would be less I'd hope. 

Ace PADing - and, well done on the PB win too! 

Oh that's good to know, thank you!  I really wasn't sure.  My only real concern would be if there are any nasty surprises with the plumbing, it's the original bathroom from when the house was built, so not much has been touched in 60 odd years. 

jwil

Today's PAD £10 (survey cashout)

Jan - £141
Feb - £139
March - £89
April £149
May - £79
June - £270
July - £24