Approx Price on New Bathroom?

[Quilted]

The heating engineer who put in my central heating last year said he could do a new bathroom for me if needed. He's due tomorrow to service the boiler and I'm going to ask him to price for that.

It's not a large bathroom, 3.25m x 1.5m and I'd be looking for a bog standard bath with a glass screen, sink but no pan/cistern as I replaced them last year with a low profile one. I'd need the room tiled as well. I'd want some pipework done to move things around possibly, and I'd want the central heating pipes sunk into the brick walls.

I want a thermostatic mixer to replace the electric shower.

This is just something I'm thinking on at the moment, rather than being firm on, because I need work done in the bathroom anyway.

I couldn't really afford anything over 2.5K, do I'd like to have some idea roughly what kind of price I'm looking at.

 

[Mike2007]

Once your plumber has quoted you, say thanks and you will give him a ring once you have done your sums!
Get another two plumbers to quote, preferably from a recommended source.
As us lot to quote blind even with a decent description is a bit daft!
People always want the lowest price for the maximum work, thats human nature. But if you are fair to your plumber he will stick by you at 4am on a Sunday morning when your pipe is leaking!

 

[stumac54]

There is a lot of variables with a bathroom quote depending on quality of fixtures, and type of tiles you go for
. I Have been installing bathrooms for eighteen years and from what you describe it sounds to be about five to six days work.
Ask what his hourly rate or day rate would be plus cost of materials?
Or you could source all the materials yourself and get him to fit them.

 

[Quilted]

Well, he did do my central heating for considerably less than I had thought. There's a lot of tiling work in there so the tiler coming tomorrow will quote too (or just going ahead with the small tiling job if I don't get the bathroom done).

I wouldn't expect a quote from you guys to have any kind of accuracy. Really I'm asking if there's any possibility of it being this side of 2 and a half grand. Or if that's likely to be pie in the sky

I can price the bath, basin, shower screen and thermostatic mixer. What I can't do is price the tiling - 19 m2 plus tiles, and the plumbing work.

 

[joe-90]

Gas fitters usually make poor bathroom fitters.

Get a guy that fits bathrooms - not boilers.

Also, get away from the 80s all tiled look, paint is cheaper and looks much warmer. A good fitter will also be able to plaster, so nice smooth walls are assured. Gas fitters don't plaster.

£2.5K is much more than enough if you do it that way. The more time spent tiling - the higher the price.

Have a look at a few bathroom magazines and you'll see what I mean.

 

[Quilted]

Ok, so it might be possible in my budget.

I do have unusual tastes, I don't like warm. I like cold and clean. Black/white/chrome - we all have our own tastes!

Edit : Oops I should say that I'll take the advice to go look at how things are these days. I may find that painted with tiles is more to my liking. Wallpaper is what I like the least, the rest of my flat is all painted walls apart from one wall in the living room.

 

[Norcon]

You could always tile and then paint over them. Then you have the best of both worlds.
Did you send the sds drill back yet?

Are the shelves still on the wall?

 

[Terry lambert]

Gas fitters usually make poor bathroom fitters.

Get a guy that fits bathrooms - not boilers.

Also, get away from the 80s all tiled look, paint is cheaper and looks much warmer. A good fitter will also be able to plaster, so nice smooth walls are assured. Gas fitters don't plaster.

£2.5K is much more than enough if you do it that way. The more time spent tiling - the higher the price.

Have a look at a few bathroom magazines and you'll see what I mean.

Absolute rubbish

 

[Quilted]

Do you mean rubbish that a heating engineer can't do it or do you mean rubbish that it's possible under 2.5K?

 

[Terry lambert]

There are a lot of qualified engineers that started out As bathroom fitters.

I can also tile, plaster etc

I've seen some shocking work from specialist bathroom installers.

Like anything else, it comes down to the individual

 

[Quilted]

Ah, I see. I think I'd agree with you.

He does have a point though... it's possible that for example a heating engineer isn't busy and takes on a bathroom fitting job while he hasn't done one for 15 years...

It's not the case here though.

 

[Terry lambert]

I could fit out a wet room or bathroom just as well or quick as I could 15 years ago.

I must have been in six houses today for central heating quotes and not one of them had a decent fit in their bathroom.

All probably carried out by specialist bathroom installers (as advertised)

I don't do them anymore because I earn a lot more and have less hassle doing heating

 

[Quilted]

Would you mind answering some questions on what I'm thinking might (probably won't) fit in the bathroom?

At the moment there's just a council bath from the 80s. White, but nasty.

I'd like one of those shower baths, however it's too wide to go at the door, so the bulge in it would have to go in the middle of the room.

Is that a non-starter? Or is it possible?

I've done a very poor, not to scale diagram. I'm not asking for a promise that it will work, more along the lines of an indication if it's going to be impossible or if there might be a way for it to work.

 

[Terry lambert]

The type of bath you have drawn is a p shaped shower bath.

It's designed for you to shower in the wider section, this is also where the screen goes.

If you installed it as per your drawing you would have nowhere to fix the screen or house the shower valve and fix the shower head/ riser

This section should be against. Wall

 

[Quilted]

So the o part of the P has to go against two walls? That is what I had feared. I had hoped it would be possible to have a glass wall as an option for the bath and have the shower screen fitted to that, and the shower itself on the wall.

It pretty much rules it out because one wall has the window the other has the door.