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PostPosted: 23:00 - 17 Dec 2013    Post subject: cost of a bathroom Reply with quote
I'm currently doing up my en-suite bathroom, and are getting a couple of quotes.
Should be about 5 days work. Obviously I dont want to have my pants pulled down but i want a decent job done. What do the BCF massive think a good price would be. I know its hard to say without seeing and its a bit of a vague question but ball park figures ... and what you have had done and how much did it cost..?
The tiling and floor space is tiny and the 'bits' needed are a shower tray, sliding doors, shower head and mixer tap, toilet, sink and taps. A few (literally) tiles and a few other bits and bobs but thats the bones of it.
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PostPosted: 23:14 - 17 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sore topic as still not finished, b and q Homefit, 12 days for refit and still problems with fit and finish! One thing away from trading standards / watchdog due to getting beyond a joke.
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PostPosted: 23:18 - 17 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
£5-6k

Or they're Cow Pokes.

Maybe £4K if they are VERY reasonable.
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PostPosted: 23:21 - 17 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Much brother paid someone he knows, cost him 4k. Fully tiled new suite very swanky looking, really neat job. I thought 4k was expensive but obviously not.
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PostPosted: 23:26 - 17 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Walloper wrote:
£5-6k

Or they're Cow Pokes.

Maybe £4K if they are VERY reasonable.


Cow pokes??
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PostPosted: 23:29 - 17 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I paid £3k for a bathroom to be completely re tiled, the suite replaced and a heated towel rail fitted. However, I got all the parts at cost because my cousin did it, so I suspect it was quite cheap. It was also a few years ago now.
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PostPosted: 23:31 - 17 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yup, you won't get a primary contractor out of bed for less than £5K.

Recession, right, I can't get anyone to put 3 tiles back on my roof for love nor money.
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PostPosted: 23:31 - 17 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
pooley_99 wrote:
Walloper wrote:
£5-6k

Or they're Cow Pokes.

Maybe £4K if they are VERY reasonable.


Cow pokes??


One who earns a living Poking Cows but not even very good at that.

Cowboy.

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Is your google broke? Shocked

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PostPosted: 23:34 - 17 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
Yup, you won't get a primary contractor out of bed for less than £5K.

Recession, right, I can't get anyone to put 3 tiles back on my roof for love nor money.


I'll do it, but it'll cost ya guvna.

How's 1k sound?

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PostPosted: 23:38 - 17 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I did head straight to urban dictionary.. but I still needed clarity. Never heard that one! Wink

I was pretty shocked at the first quote of 5k I actually laughed. Got another one down to 4, which I still thought was a lot but starting to think its not so bad now... They're good fitters and use good bits too.
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PostPosted: 23:58 - 17 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
pooley_99 wrote:
I did head straight to urban dictionary.. but I still needed clarity. Never heard that one! Wink


Well there's your problem mate, you're obviously needing the rural dictionary.
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PostPosted: 00:04 - 18 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Find a cost for the parts and weigh up whether it's worth doing it yourself.
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PostPosted: 00:07 - 18 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
Yup, you won't get a primary contractor out of bed for less than £5K.

Recession, right, I can't get anyone to put 3 tiles back on my roof for love nor money.



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PostPosted: 00:13 - 18 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chalky. wrote:
Find a cost for the parts and weigh up whether it's worth fuckingit up yourself.

Fixed for you, Chalky.
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PostPosted: 00:31 - 18 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
they will want £150 an hour to fit it plus materials, I wish I could demand that kind of cash.
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PostPosted: 00:38 - 18 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ariel Badger wrote:
they will want £150 an hour to fit it plus materials, I wish I could demand that kind of cash.



You must be working the wrong bus stops big yin.

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PostPosted: 18:08 - 18 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
When I had my bathroom done about 5 years ago it cost me about £2k all in. The split of costs was roughly:

£400 for bath, sink, toilet, taps, towel rail - cheapest of each from the local plumbers merchant.
£100 for tiles and grout - again cheap stuff from a tile shop.
£1300 labour - 4 days of plumber/builder, 1 day of tiler
£200 other bits - shower rail and curtain, cupboard, other fittings.

I found the plumber on mybuilder.com. He initially come out to move a pipe in the kitchen, I got him to have a look at the bathroom while he was there and he had a spare week.
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PostPosted: 18:30 - 18 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
We recently had our bathroom totally refitted:

P-shaped bath, shower screen, basin, taps, toilet, shower rail, heated towel rail, bath taps/shower thing £1200

Wall tiles floor to ceiling £600

New light and extractor fan £200

New cabinet £130

Ceiling skimmed £200

New lino floor (might have to have it up again so didn't tile it) £130

Labour to fit it £2200 (bathroom fitter and mate for 5 days to include removal of old suite, reboard the floor, plumb the suite, fit the suite, tile top to bottom)


So, £4660 all in.

And our bathroom is small too, only 6x7ft.

When I look at it, I'm seriously pleased I paid someone else to do it as I hate DIY and couldn't have done anything like the job they've done Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 18:36 - 18 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chalky. wrote:
Find a cost for the parts and weigh up whether it's worth doing it yourself.


Most of this stuff isn't hard to do. It just depends if you have the time to do it.

I'm doing up a bathroom soon, I'd do it myself but I value my spare time more so I'll have to see if I can persuade someone to come and look at the job. I'll probably land up doing it myself though then getting the flooring people in because the stuff I want is a bit tricksy to deal with (that said, the flooring people always seem to be pretty on the ball, presumably because they don't get paid for the stuff until it's been fitted).

I reckon the parts (shower, sink, bog, taps, a few tiles (one box will fill in the gaps, towel rail and flooring) are going come in at around the £1,500 to £2,000 mark. No shite mind, all quality stuff. Call it £2.5k if I decide on a new door and swapping the windows out.

However, by being deliberately obtuse, by giving me "Can't be arsed" quotes or by simply being useless, our local contractors are doing a fine job of making me learn how to do many household jobs myself. I've had several jobs recently I would happily have paid someone to do but I'm fucked if I'm asking someone to come round and give me a quote more than once.

So. I reweired my own lights, insulated and floored my own loft, plumbed in my own water pipe and fixed my own boiler. I suspect I may be learning to fit outside doors soon. A bathroom is a piece of piss though, especially if the pipes and holes in the walls are in more or less the right place already. Do it in a weekend I reckon.
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PostPosted: 18:46 - 18 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:

However, by being deliberately obtuse, by giving me "Can't be arsed" quotes or by simply being useless, our local contractors are doing a fine job of making me learn how to do many household jobs myself. I've had several jobs recently I would happily have paid someone to do but I'm fucked if I'm asking someone to come round and give me a quote more than once.

So. I reweired my own lights, insulated and floored my own loft, plumbed in my own water pipe and fixed my own boiler. I suspect I may be learning to fit outside doors soon. A bathroom is a piece of piss though, especially if the pipes and holes in the walls are in more or less the right place already. Do it in a weekend I reckon.


I fitted a diverter switch/valve to my CH (controls flow between HW and CH)
Next winter heating went on Blink again. Sad
COuld not find problem so called plumber. Before he came he informed me of his £100 call out. Cnut, it was Baltic and I needed thefecking heating fixed.
Turned out to be the Diverter again. Plus the original house wiring was wrong which he suspected fooked the original valve (and my new one.)

I do all my DIY myself. (DIY myself Smile )

Except gas which needs certified fitters. Sad

I could easy do a lavy to quality standards as the secret is in using quality products and materials in the first place. And stuff that easily integrates with each other. Having to use several fitting methods in the same area can be a hassle. Eg. push fit for some pipes solder for some pipe or cement for others. I normally do the job by trying to standardise all systems to one manufacturer or one industry standard.
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PostPosted: 19:07 - 18 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
I reweired my own lights, insulated and floored my own loft, plumbed in my own water pipe and fixed my own boiler. I suspect I may be learning to fit outside doors soon.

Can you come and put 3 tiles back on my roof then?

My roofer was a no-show today, of course. After investing 5 minutes giving it "Yer no gonnae call sumwin else in efter ah've agreed tae dae it, are ye?" on Monday. Of course.

ratedpeople.com assure me that a roofer from 40 miles away is about to call me to arrange putting the 3 tiles back on. I can't get my usual guy who lives 4 minutes away to pick up his phone.

Might as well plan to do it yourself.
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PostPosted: 19:29 - 18 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you don't want to get your hands dirty and actually do the work yourself you will find it cheaper if you were to project manage the process. If you were to source the materials then get a plumber in on a day/hourly rate. It will depend on the fittings/sanitary wear of course but he'd probably only need a couple of days, then maybe one more once the tilings done. You'd have to organize you own tiler, plaster ,electrician ect and make sure that they all come at the right times and know what needs doing.
When people quote for complete bathrooms(the same with kitchens) it seems like they just whack a load extra on the price.
I've been in so called 5k, 10k and 15k bathrooms and it's really hard to see where the moneys gone so at least this way you can tell if you're paying somebody 2k for half a days work.
Some of the prices the big DIY chains charge for bathroom fitting is outrageous, I don't think B&Q ect even have their own fitters they just sub the work out to local fitters and whack a shit load on top for themselves.
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PostPosted: 19:33 - 18 Dec 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just found my spreadsheet from 2005. Removal of old suite and wall tiles, new suite (bath, sink, loo), new tiles, laminate flooring, new shower (including new upgraded wiring from consumer box and rerouting plumbing through loft) and a custom wall cabinet, £2900. Back when VAT was 17.5%.
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Rogerborg wrote:
Can you come and put 3 tiles back on my roof then?


You couldn't afford me. Wink

If you can get up there, just feed a loop of galvenised fencing wire up under the tile above the missing one and round its nail, thread your new tile onto it and tighten the wire until it's sitting in the right place then tuck the ends in.

It'll last as long as the nails will.

I suppose this whole DIY malarkey is a bit like motorcycle servicing. The people who do it have structured their industry in such a way as it's an order of magnitude cheaper, easier, and less overall hassle to just do the job myself.

If someone could do any of these jobs for say, double what it costs me to do it myself, to the same standard, when they say they will and without leaving me standing about like a silly cunt (be that in my house waiting for them or wandering the streets waiting for them to do my bike), I'd never pick up a tool again.
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Why not just watch youtube vids and do it yourself,At least you know no one is ripping you off
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