Bathroom Renovation

Squibble

Hi, 

My elderly parents have received a quotation for a full bathroom renovation and would appreciate views on whether the figure is reasonable. The quoted price is £10,000. I will have to supply all the materials. The scope of works includes:

1. Removal of existing tiles and bathroom furniture.

2. Installation of new floorboards.

3. Full tiling of both the floor and the walls.

4. Installation of a wet room style walk-in shower and extractor fan.

5. Fitting of radiator, shower fixtures and vanity units and the usual fittings you would find in a bathroom.

6. Complete water tanking of the bathroom (not limited to the shower area).

Does the quote seem a fair charge for the above works? 

Many thanks in advance x

Albermarle

If the bathroom is a normal sort of size ( say 2M x 2M) then I would say it is a bit high if you have to supply everything .
Although I not sure of the cost implications of tanking the whole room. 

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vacheron

I would say that it isn't extortionate, but not a bargain either. 

My parents house originally had 1 reasonably sized (3 x 2.5m) bathroom. They have just had this bathroom completely stripped and replaced similarly to your quote, but with a shower over bath and no tanking.

However, in additon they also had the rear 2.5 meters of an existing over-garage extention (which originally had rear patio doors opening to a small balocony) partitioned off, the balcony and patio doors removed and bricked up, and a bathroom window fitted in its place, and a new second bathroom with toilet, sink unit and a walk in shower fitted in this new 2.5 x 2.5m space. 

The total cost for everything was £14K.

Location makes a big difference too though, this was the north east, not London! 


EDIT: I missed the bit where you had to supply the materials!
My parents quote above included all materials, tiling and plumbing, for both bathrooms, plus building work, bricks windows, wall partitioning, new interior door,  and all demolition required to make the second bathroom!  

tacpot12

My parents had a bathroom 'renovation' done when they needed to remove the bath and switch to a walking shower. The cost was less than £2500, but the work was done much more simply; PVC panels were installed over a low shower tray, and a non-slip lino was laid over 3mm hardboard onto the existing floorboards. They didn't need any electrical work done, other than to route the power for the existing electriic shower and extractor fan through the PVC panels. 

My point is that there is more than one way to skin a cat, and the quote is proably fair for the amount of work involved in it; but do they actually need to do that much work?

The important bits with bathrooms are the bits that leak; a simple make-over with attention paid to the critical areas of drainage and seams could be all they actually need. 

Squibble

Wow that seems like a bargain! My parents bathroom is about 9ft by 8ft sorry I don't even know how to convert to metres. I think the price is somewhat extortionate. They had another quote for £3,500 and that again all materials would need to be supplied. I found that both prices are on extreme ends of each other! I just don't want someone taking advantage of my elderly parents. I am seeing someone today who has come recommended but again they all keep saying we would have to provide materials.  

srioss85

I would say it’s quite high. I’m currently paying 10.5k installation costs to build a whole new bathroom in my house, which includes knocking down a wall, building a new wall, new soil pipe etc, water tanking whole bathroom. the only extras I have to pay for are the actual tiles and bathroom fittings  

victor2

We had our bathroom completely gutted and old airing cupboard space converted to a walk-in shower. Not a full wet room, but the whole floor tiled, walls a mix of tiling and replastering, new window, power for the new toilet, dual fuel towel radiator. Cost £15K including a nice suite, storage units and very nice (ie. expensive!) toilet.

That's in the Midlands by a company who specialises in "luxury" bathrroms and kitchens.

So, depending where you are, £10K plus materials does seem a bit high, although I have no idea what tanking costs.

Squibble

This is what I was thinking the quote is high especially since we have to supply the materials. I will have to think about this. I am seeing someone shortly and see what he quotes. 

Squibble

tacpot12 said:

My parents had a bathroom 'renovation' done when they needed to remove the bath and switch to a walking shower. The cost was less than £2500, but the work was done much more simply; PVC panels were installed over a low shower tray, and a non-slip lino was laid over 3mm hardboard onto the existing floorboards. They didn't need any electrical work done, other than to route the power for the existing electriic shower and extractor fan through the PVC panels. 

My point is that there is more than one way to skin a cat, and the quote is proably fair for the amount of work involved in it; but do they actually need to do that much work?

The important bits with bathrooms are the bits that leak; a simple make-over with attention paid to the critical areas of drainage and seams could be all they actually need. 

That is also a good point but there's some leaks and the floor needs to be changed, but my dad is a little bit of a stickler and he wants tiles he doesn't trust these PVC panels, I really don't know what he has against them! No works have been done to the bathroom for over 40 years  

Emmia

Squibble said:

Wow that seems like a bargain! My parents bathroom is about 9ft by 8ft sorry I don't even know how to convert to metres. I think the price is somewhat extortionate. They had another quote for £3,500 and that again all materials would need to be supplied. I found that both prices are on extreme ends of each other! I just don't want someone taking advantage of my elderly parents. I am seeing someone today who has come recommended but again they all keep saying we would have to provide materials.  

Where are you getting the quotes from? We used a bathroom shop in London for the refit of our shower - rip out, tiles on 3 walls and floor, new vanity/basin, and mirror wall cabinet, towel rail, wall hung loo, low profile shower tray and two glass panels (no door) rain head shower and handheld attachment + fitting- in London (zone 2) for ~£11k. 

None of the fittings or tiles were cheap/budget options.

The only thing I supplied was the wall mounted shower basket which is an easy clean, stainless steel Robert Welch one that cost £100 (do think about having a storage option like this, to save bending). We got this basket as the shelves in the shower before the refurb were difficult to clean and far too easy to knock things off.

Squibble

Emmia said:

Squibble said:

Wow that seems like a bargain! My parents bathroom is about 9ft by 8ft sorry I don't even know how to convert to metres. I think the price is somewhat extortionate. They had another quote for £3,500 and that again all materials would need to be supplied. I found that both prices are on extreme ends of each other! I just don't want someone taking advantage of my elderly parents. I am seeing someone today who has come recommended but again they all keep saying we would have to provide materials.  

Where are you getting the quotes from? We used a bathroom shop in London for the refit of our shower - rip out, tiles on 3 walls and floor, new vanity/basin, and mirror wall cabinet, towel rail, wall hung loo, low profile shower tray and two glass panels (no door) rain head shower and handheld attachment + fitting- in London (zone 2) for ~£11k. 

None of the fittings or tiles were cheap/budget options.

The only thing I supplied was the wall mounted shower basket which is an easy clean, stainless steel Robert Welch one that cost £100 (do think about having a storage option like this, to save bending). We got this basket as the shelves in the shower before the refurb were difficult to clean and far too easy to knock things off.

I think the £10k quote was from some friend of a friend who is a builder. This other one that quoted £3.5k was from gumtree which my uncle found this is why I was like what is this?! As they say too many cooks spoil the broth. So I have told them all to hold fire whilst I look in to it.