Just a quick question for anyone who's had a new bathroom in the last few years.
Roughly how much does it cost for a new bathroom? I'm talking strilling it back to bare brick walls and starting again from scratch.

We're thinking of getting a builder to fit a B&Q one, or maybe a fully designed one depending on the costs.

£1500 upwards.
Imagine a day or two to remove/replace the white goods and strip the tiles.
Tiles are anywhere from £5/square metre upwards. Cuts and fiddly bits take ages, but 4 corners a window and a door in your average bathroom should be done in three days. Flooring?
Anyway the bigger your tiles less time taken but more expensive to buy.
basic job up to a weeks work @£750 plus suite tiles and adhesive/grout @£750 plus

Here in West London I typically quote around £4k for a full bathroom refit - you can do it for less, but it's easy to spend a lot more. I'm just finishing one now that'll run to about £8k by the time we're done - lots of tiling, under-floor heating, total change of layout so all the pipework had to be re-run etc.. etc.. That's labour costs, doesn't include any of the sanitary ware or fittings you can see, but that's designed & installed, all plumbing and electrics certified. Typically a full refit takes about 10 working days, though the current one will be almost three weeks.

A local bathroom stockists/plumbers merchant should do you much better prices than B&Q, btw.

HTH Pete

Yep. I'd agree. Last summer I had my bathroom stripped completely, retiled and a new suite put in and I suspect it cost me something between 1500 and 1800 quid.

Jon

I agree. We went for a mid-range bathroom last year.

We threw everything out, back to bear walls and floor. We then tiled floor and walls and put a moisture absorbing coating on the ceiling. New basin, cupboards and shower, plus a towel-warmer radiator.

The interesting thing was that the shower head and taps with chromed, square piping cost a grand, but the radiator was just over 100€.

we went for a fairly good set of tiles (Italian, large format) which cost a couple of grand.

If you go for the basics, it isn't too expensive. We went for mid to upper range, but without toilet or bath, just a walk-in shower area. That set us back nearly 10k, but we had friends who did the plumbing and tiling on the cheap.

I think we paid about £7200 but that included power shower, glass brick divider, new hot water tank and repositioning of it etc. So way more than a bathroom.

Cost us under £500 on a major bargain hunt but then I stripped out and replaced the bath, sink and toilet and the GF did the tiling and walls.

The worse part was cutting a single piece of padded 'posh' flooring to fit perfectly around everything.

If you have a couple of days spare it saves a lot of cash.

I've only done that once, very satisfying.

True.

Thinking about it it was more satisfying than fitting the bathroom just because it was so fiddly.

Well we've had a couple of places quote £5-6K to strip it back to the bricks, rearrange the plumbing and build a whole new bathroom from scratch.
Another has said between £6-8k and one £10-12k.
Obviously we've not looked at the £10k one, but the others we are thinking about.