advice for downstairs toilet renovation?

mlc2009

Hello

My house has a downstairs toilet, and my dad started it like 6 years ago and It's been a mess ever since. It needs everything ripping out. walls and ceiling need plastering, new flooring, new toilet and basin. The plumbing doesn't need changing though

I have been quoted £2500-3000 for renovation in that room, sounds a bit steep as it's tiny. Would it be worth me having individual tradesman do each jobs? Anyone have experience in that field?

Also, I can rip everything out myself but I need help on the order. I presume,

1/ Rip everything out
2/ Plaster walls and ceiling
3/ flooring
4/ toilet and basin installed
5/ painted

does that sound right?

twopenny

That's pretty much what I was quoted during covid for restoring bath, wall treatment, toilet and basin so sounds reasonable some time on.

benson1980

Quote sounds  quite reasonable to me. Days labour being £300 on average perhaps- to do a whole renovation is going to take a fair few days. Room being smaller doesn't necessarily make things that much easier.

We spent £2200 just on fixtures, fittings, flooring and plasterer who we employed separately- the latter being the only trade we got in. Rest DIY- reasonable amount of that though for some decent furniture (really dislike exposed pipework/soil pipes etc).

Might be worth doing strip out as you say, and then getting plasterer in perhaps ready for the bathroom fitter. If you are stripping it out remember you'll need to isolate supply to toilet and sink unless isolation fittings already installed, and sometimes even they leak so you'd need to have some rough idea of simple plumbing if you were taking this approach. Apols if stating the obvious.

ashe

As the owner of a small downstairs toilet and a small en suite I can feel your pain, but as benson says above prices dont scale down as you would expect. you still need tiles, plastering, electrical work, toilet, sink, taps, rad etc all doing so it almost works against you having a small room. 

danrv

My downstairs loo is the same. 
I’d say the plastering is the main thing if electrics are ok. Ripping out is quite straightforward DIY. JG Speedfit caps are very useful here.

mlc2009

danrv said:

My downstairs loo is the same. 
I’d say the plastering is the main thing if electrics are ok. Ripping out is quite straightforward DIY. JG Speedfit caps are very useful here.

I got quoted 600 for plastering walls and ceiling which sounds reasonable enough

benson1980

mlc2009 said:

danrv said:

My downstairs loo is the same. 
I’d say the plastering is the main thing if electrics are ok. Ripping out is quite straightforward DIY. JG Speedfit caps are very useful here.

I got quoted 600 for plastering walls and ceiling which sounds reasonable enough

possibly a little on the high side? I paid £480 for a shower room for reboarding around half of the walls, and skimming, plus ceiling skimmed.

Definitely concur with above re: speedfit stop ends once isolated if you don't have isolating valves on pipework.

mlc2009

benson1980 said:

mlc2009 said:

danrv said:

My downstairs loo is the same. 
I’d say the plastering is the main thing if electrics are ok. Ripping out is quite straightforward DIY. JG Speedfit caps are very useful here.

I got quoted 600 for plastering walls and ceiling which sounds reasonable enough

possibly a little on the high side? I paid £480 for a shower room for reboarding around half of the walls, and skimming, plus ceiling skimmed.

Definitely concur with above re: speedfit stop ends once isolated if you don't have isolating valves on pipework.

It includes stripping the walls also. Paper straight onto plasterboard. I will get some more quotes though

danrv

I paid £380 for plastering a medium sized bathroom. All but the bath/shower wall although I did take the tiles and loose plaster off.
Worth getting two or three quotes as I found they can vary quite a bit.