Owning your own home

Yes couldn’t find black fittings 2 years ago for love nor money. Think they don’t wear particularly well though, unless they are very good quality - think Vola.

My bathroom is:
£1,550 for suite
£1,070 for the other bits (like shower screen and bathroom cabinet)
£700 in tiles
£2,000 to fit it
£1,000 to tile it
And the room cost another £1,500 to prep in walls, ceilings, electrics, etc...

So, just under £8k

Mmm Vola. Wanted that for our kitchen but grohe does a decent version kind of like the Jacobsen ones, amd impressed so far.
Feel the black offerings are clearly style
Over substance.

I’m not even going to put my numbers here as they add nothing to the discussion except maybe a copy paste into the golf club thread, but you can basically spend as much as you want. If tenderloin achieved something satisfactory for £5k and you’re happy with how far that went then it seems a good target. Personally I think less would be a squeeze if you’re starting from scratch. If you want to spend more, it is very easy to do so.

ours (2.5m x 2.5m, so not massive) was:

INSTAL NEW BATHROOM SUITE TILE WALLS AND FLOOR. FIT NEW TOWEL RADIATOR. - £1550
EXTRAS INCLUDING RENEWING PLASTERBOARD ON TILED WALLS, ELECTRICIAN FOR
LIGHTS, SUPPLYING ADHESIVE AND GROUT, BUILDING UP/INSTALLING CABINET AROUND GAS
METER AND SUPPLYING AND FITTING SKIRTING BOARDS - £485

suite - c.£1100
tiles - c£350/400

total c£4k (in scotland, not the bad and hated and expensive london)

Black fittings + hard water + my ability to keep on top of cleaning = not a good combo. Which is a shame, as I was well up for going super mono on it all.

Ours was also between the 5-10 mark that everyone else's was - closer to 10.

Seems like 10k is a 'safe' ballpark as long as you don't want to moneygun it.

post the numbers u coward

I am doing my best to forget them.

Interesting, so £4.5 in labour. Ours is small 2m x 2m got some good deals along the way re fittings. We want to move around the shower from one side to the next, move sink and radiator.

Also if all water from boiler heads up through the bathroom and if when eventually we go up into loft should it be now we should prep hot water pipes to go up again another level?

The £19k custom mosaic in renaissance style is embarrassing

I also spent £200 on fluffy towels from Heal’s. #golfclubmofo

Not doing black fittings I would go for Jasper Morrison ideal standard bar the bath which won’t work. We have got Johnson’s prismatics tiles which in Matt and 10x10 are really nice and not expensive

GF has also found the flooring which is vinyl which won’t be much which was in her hairdressers-not sure how to take that

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Hardware? And suite?

I spent a pittance on my bathrooms - for e.g. the shower door was £15 collected from some chap in Kent, the steel shower tray was £60, the throne was £300 with the frame and cistern (and that stung for months). Bath and basin was £250 together, the bath is 220cm long and I can lie in it full length. I did all the work myself, so it's possible to do it very cheaply.

Exactly.

I’m tempted to remove all old tiling ,do the tiling myself and painting. Then It gets down getting someone to do the job would charge £5k to do all the above and also charge £5k to remove all tiling, do the tiling and painting I presume.

The people that just finished our kitchen extension just didn’t want to quote for it

Does anyone know the bit of Walthamstow just south of Queens Road?

Specifically the bit west of the cemetery. A nice, wild card house has appeared. It's not an area we'd really considered but I always think dead people make good neighbours...

I live on the east side of the cemetary.

There can be a bit of minor anti-social behavior around Gosport / Exmouth Rd and that bit suffers from some poor town late 80's/90's planning with all the dead ends/cut throughs. The roads around Chelmsford/Landsdown etc are really lovely of course, probably all very expensive now but some of the houses around Queens Rd at the Markhouse end have been done up recently. Really well located though for tube/high street though of course.

Bet none of you cunts have a hose to clean your arseholes.

I do.

@Fox Where else are you looking in Walthamstow? Don’t know the cemetery area like @Prole. but we are up opposite the magistrates of you need any info this way.

Endangered species taps. Mechanical manatee made of towelling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxIv8pX92Lk&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=lordmoog

Got the keys today - now to unpick someone’s mess

Send me the good stuff pls. I love the bits that make no sense until you piece together all the bits of historic neglect that have been cheaply rectified and have a eureka moment. I don’t love the bit after where you have to fix them properly, but as its your house I can skip that bit.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88100174#/media?id=media1

Before it was an lshaped bathroom and weird box room - I knocked it all through, pulled down ceiling etc. We did the whole house on the ‘cheap’ as we didn’t really realise how much of a shithole it was when we bought it! So bought most of the bathroom stuff on eBay (all new) apart from tiles which we got from wickes on a family members discount. That being said I think a lot of bathrooms you seen online are just overly specced, of the moment numbers. A good chippy and fairly minimal bathroom suite/tiles all fitted nicely is probably the way to go.
Bring on the critique but I mentioned it as it looked ok, was cheap and was a bedroom next to bathroom converted into one single large bathroom. Was also down mostly by Marius.

It was ripped out straight away by new owners, so make of that what you will!