How long's a piece of string content... Has anyone got recent experience of costs around the London/Surrey border?
We've had 3 quotes for bathroom and a downstairs WC and all are higher than expected (which may suggest we're the ones out of touch). All quotes are to slightly different spec, but the lower 2 are a pretty similar price given the variations in the detail and work involved.
These are for rip out and & fit only so the below prices are before buying sanitaryware, tiles or grout. And we're even doing our painting!
The main bathroom is split across 2 rooms, with toilet in a separate room and we're keeping that layout.
Main bathroom: 3.2 x 1.6m
Replace bath and sink in existing locations
New boxing to fit a wall-hung vanity unit with hidden pipes
Replace radiator with towel rail
Full-height tiling alongside bath, half-height elsewhere
Tiled floor
Toilet Room: 1.6 x 0.8m
Replace toilet
Boxing for back to wall toilet & to hide sink pipework
Add a mini sink
Add a plumbed towel rail
Half-height tiles
Tile floor
Move light switch to outside
Replace extractor fan
Downstairs WC 1.9 x 0.9m
Replace toilet & sink
Boxing for back to wall toilet & to hide sink pipework
Half-height tiles
Tile floor
Move light switch to outside
Replace radiator with towel rail (moving location)
We're not fitting any spotlights anywhere, but replacing existing central ceiling light and patching a couple of ceiling cracks.
Quotes around £11.5k inc vat. That's on the basis of 30x30cm wall tiles. We were told that 20x10 metro tiles would be an additional £1200 labour alone.
If that's the going rate, we'll pay. We need a bathroom and don't really want to delay pending further quotes just to end up paying the same. But prices for the industry are so opaque that it's difficult to know if you've stumbled across something expensive or not.
Doesn't sound miles out, that's quite a bit of work in an expensive area at a busy time. Do all the things that you are replacing actually need replacing? White units clean up pretty well. When I did ours some stuff was cleaned and kept, others replaced. All looked like new afterwards.
I'd also avoid tiles personallly. Shower wall panels for any walls, vinyl for floors. Easier to fit and better to live with imo.
I had our little en-suite refitted last year (it's only 2200mm x 1400mm) ; everything ripped out, then fully tiled floor(60x60cm tiles) and walls (30x60cm), toilet, shower tray and panel, vanity unit with sink, and electrified cupboard above sink. Pre-pandemic I'd spent quite a while looking at work that had been done at friends and neighbours houses to help a)decide what I wanted, b)select a fitter.
In the end the quote came in at £12500 (in 2018 or 2019?) but by the time everything had been completed and some magical covid uplift added it was £15k. A big number to swallow at the time, but I'm really happy with how it's turned out, and so is my wife.
(I'm Twickenham here, so comparable location)
Sounds about right to me but I’m no expert.
About to refurb a flat and for the small bathroom I have allowed £5.5k that’s with reasonable quality fixtures and fittings so no chrome plated plastic but reliable grohe mixer/shower some boxing with recess’s led mirror cabinet, terrazzo sink etc.
Tiles will be £50/M terrazzo in select areas (recess’s and maybe instead of skirting) the rest something cheaper.
This is London but using a north Kent fitter which may mean cheaper but not by much.
We got quoted similar so I did my own bathroom last year and managed to get all new units (toilet, bath, shower, sink, taps etc) for just shy of £3k, tiles for around £1,500 then all the bits to put it all together for around £600 - being generous let's call it £5k.
However, it ended up taking around 3 weeks from start to finish - three days to gut it and do first fit then had to do it whenever I could around work and commitments. This meant that we had to live with the inlaws for an eternity.
No doubt I'd be quicker doing it next time, but if someone said to me they'd do it for under £10k all in and finished within a week I'd bite their hand off.
A couple of years ago, we paid 5k to have a 6x6 bathroom redone.
Standard white fittings, but decent quality walls and floor tiled.
Bought the taps and mixer (Grohe) ourselves on top of that.
if someone said to me they’d do it for under £10k all in and finished within a week I’d bite their hand off.
They could say it, but they’d be lying!
I do a lot of high end bathroom fitting in Leicestershire and the average job takes 2-4 weeks and costs £3-6k +VAT based on labour only.
Do all the things that you are replacing actually need replacing?
Yes unfortunately. We haven't even got the keys yet as we've just completed, but it's a house that was previously let out to students so could do with a lot of updating (which means there's also loads of money needing spent elsewhere too!) In theory we could just pretend the downstairs loo isn't there for a bit, but it's less hassle to get it all done together.
Tiling seems to be a big part of the cost so we'll try to scale that back in favour of painted walls.
I’m in London/Essex. Just having our bathroom refitted actually, 2.0m x 3.0m. Labour and materials came in at ~ 5,500. Higher due to metro tiles.
Including some electrical work for the fan, skimming ceiling, boarding and straightening walls/corners, fully tiled walls, new boxing in pipes. Fitting three cabinets as well, corner bath, trad loo and sink. Building a frame for the cistern to be fixed to.
Going to take two guys around 12 days all in, they are not hanging about but with the overlapping steps for drying times it does add up a fair bit.
I think your quote sounds about right to be honest.
Best thing I did was line the floors with 2mm correx protection sheets, makes it super easy to vacuum end of day and a quick mop. The tile dust gets everywhere 😢