How much should a new bathroom cost?

plumb1_2

I’ve just bought a £400 insulated bath this morning, ex display small chip one edge, but that is being fitted to the wall.
£10 plus vat.

Doozergirl

sourpuss2021 said:

Doozergirl said:

sourpuss2021 said:

Thanks for your thoughts and that’s interesting about the Legionnaire’s risk.   I’m very keen not to see the

shower pod happen even if I have to cover the cost  of the new bathroom suite myself.   

The flat is in a £1.3m Victorian property in a desirable inner London location, but with a landlord who just won’t spend money.  

I bet his own bathroom looks as nice as one of yours!

Anyway - to bring it back on topic, the point’s been made that there are bathrooms, and there are Bathrooms!

I'm not sure about the true risk but I really, really don't like the numerous places that germs can harbour in those things.  They're not easy to clean and the parts are really cheap.  Anytime I've seen one it had already been broken, covered in limescale and they weren't very old.  I think there was a time when people thought they might be a good idea but time has moved on.  Your landlord hasn't! 

Well, I Googled it and found similar points made by an authoritative source, 14 years ago!:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/22795111/#Comment_22795111

Omg.  Consistent or a broken record? 😂

Doozergirl

plumb1_2 said:

I’ve just bought a £400 insulated bath this morning, ex display small chip one edge, but that is being fitted to the wall.
£10 plus vat.

i bought my bath with a chip in it too! 🖐️ 

singhini

I have a chip on my shoulder 

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sourpuss2021 said:

Deleted_User said:

Just went to a local bathroom store and he was shocked at the £14k quote. Without tiles, he just quoted me £3,251 for the fittings.

Then how much for the labour?

I've known a plumber to charge £380 a day.  The builder who can do the installation as well as tiling charges £280 but he would want more for managing the project.      Electrician comes at £50 per hour.    Plasterer is just £220.     That's in London with sole traders, no VAT.    So yes would be surprised if you couldn't get your quote down to £10k all-in.

Going to get a quote in a couple of weeks but he said it's probably going to be just below the same amount. 

plumb1_2

singhini said:

I have a chip on my shoulder 

I can remove that with the back of my hand. Just like my mum used to wipe the smile off my face.

plumb1_2

Doozergirl said:

plumb1_2 said:

I’ve just bought a £400 insulated bath this morning, ex display small chip one edge, but that is being fitted to the wall.
£10 plus vat.

i bought my bath with a chip in it too! 🖐️ 

Ya I spotted in the corner of the show room, I joked  saying I’ll give you £10, to my surprise he said ok. Little disappointed when he charged me vat 😂😂😂

Ganga

plumb1_2 said:

Doozergirl said:

plumb1_2 said:

I’ve just bought a £400 insulated bath this morning, ex display small chip one edge, but that is being fitted to the wall.
£10 plus vat.

i bought my bath with a chip in it too! 🖐️ 

Ya I spotted in the corner of the show room, I joked  saying I’ll give you £10, to my surprise he said ok. Little disappointed when he charged me vat 😂😂😂

What!! £12 tell him to do one

plumb1_2

Ganga said:

What!! £12 tell him to do one

I told him to grab hold of it while I opened my van doors 😊

jennifernil

£14k sounds a lot to me.  We had a bathroom done November 2021 and a second one in November 2022, each came in at a bit under £10k, though they did not involve fitting baths.  Also my OH laid the LVT flooring himself.

The first one is 3.6 x 2.1 m and was fully tiled.  Removal of all the old stuff involved removing and replacing the internal wall surfaces, as the house is timber frame.  The ceiling was overboarded for fitting new lights.   We replaced the bath with a 900 x 1200  Mira Flight Safe shower tray, Kudos hinged door corner enclosure and Aqualisa shower.  

The toilet is an Ideal Standard Concept  back to wall with cistern in cabinet, soft close seat and cover

 The inset  basin is also Ideal Standard, set into a new L shaped solid Iroko counter top supported by the 4 original custom made units which were spruced up and re-installed, as were the 4 original wall mounted units and the original custom made mirror.  Original basin mixer was also retained as of good quality and in perfect condition.

A new radiator was fitted, new large electric towel warmer, new lighting, and  the  newish  electric wall mounted fan heater for summer use was retained.     Existing newish extractor fan was also retained.

Walls are fully tiled with 400x250 matt white tiles, flooring is waterproof LVT.

The second bathroom is 2.4x2.4 m and similarly involved a complete rebuild.  Nothing other than the newish extractor fan and the custom made mirror was retained.

Same shower and enclosure, same toilet,  new floor standing units 1200 wide with sit on basin and small Iroko top, new shallow wall units above toilet,  new tap.  New lighting.

The radiator was renewed, and a new large electric towel warmer fitted, as was a new wall mounted electric fan heater.  Existing newish extractor fan retained.  

Walls fully tiled with same tiles as other bathroom, flooring is LVT.

We chose and ordered up all the fittings, tiles etc, company doing all the work supplied all the necessary building materials.

For the first bathroom their charge was £5135, for the second one £5725 as there was much more tiling involved.  We spent about £3k on the first one for the fittings etc, and about £3.5k on the second, mainly due to prices having risen over 12 months.