How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Would normally agree but this is a legit person, who has been doing work for me for years.

We got a bathroom fitting firm to quote for the same scope and they said £13k, my plumber plus his joiner said £14k.

I guess I can get more quotes. At least I know the scope and have the design ready.

Oh man, keeping that mirror clean must've been a headache.

A wipe every now and again. I was careful around it though. It was a breathe of fresh air to have a nice tall mirror I could actually see myself in after years of a pathetic small square one that could barely fit my face.

I have an Omnitub on my list when the bathroom gets done. Sister put one into her place a year ago and likes it lots.

Sadly seems way out of reach practically. The room is about 3 square metres and the quotes start at 10k.

That surprisingly not too bad for London's famous London.

Our end up being 8k in total which including removal of old bathroom, digging through neighbour outhouse to move our toliet from the old outhouse to the new room, insulating, tiling, repumbling, electric underfloor heating etc. it's also tiny at 2 by 2 metres.

Is he supplying the suite, tiles etc at that money? You could likely make some savings there.

Ask him if he’d be prepared to work on a day rate and take some of the labour off him by taking all the old tiles off etc.

Thanks, we had seen omnitub. My only thought was they are made from fibre glass which I thought was the lowest end material choice?

just had my bathroom done (12m²) and the cost was about over £10.5k for labour and parts

That was for a full rip out, moving pipes, new waste, tiles 3/4 up the wall and new plaster above that. Timber frame to square off walls, hide pipes etc. Included new bath, shower, sink, tiles, toilet, radiator etc etc.

Disposal of all waste included and finished to a very high standard of work

Thanks, it is indeed a price for supplying all materials and disposing of old ones etc.

After discussing today it does seem there's room for improvement but a discussion with my partner has concluded we are just going to leave it for now. The existing bathroom works fine and the improvement that a refurbishment would bring seems disproportionate to the cost, even if that cost is reduced from where the quotes are at.

I'm predicting now that if I haven't managed to move house in the interim, I'll be back here talking about doing the bathroom after all in 6-9 months :)

Cheers, a useful reference.

Same to you @edscoble many thanks, albeit I am in Scotland. By the by, the pics of the work on your new place look great.

I presume you've found Omnitub which look to be very good, I was trying to convince Mrs. Nahguavkire to let me squeeze one into the bathroom alongside a proper walk in shower but sense prevailed and we're going to just do a shower over bath instead...

I do know Roca do one in steel too...

The existing bathroom works fine and the improvement that a refurbishment would bring seems disproportionate to the cost,

I spent ten years with this position in my old flat. The improvement of a pretty functional bathroom was never enough to justify the cost and disruption

Best bet is to smash the still functional but ultimately disappointing bathroom to bits in a spate of 'I can DIY this shiz' then find out you can't then after years of procrastination and pooping in a shoe box and showering in a bucket get the pros in

^ don't do this

The improvement of a pretty functional bathroom was never enough to justify the cost and disruption

We plan our saving and mortgage to including the bathroom as the toilet is in the old outhouse that been converted to enter from the inside rather than outside and it’s not practical.

First three is old bathroom, toliet been dug out through to put in bathroom and bath convert to shower, that was the most expensive.

Piping been removed from wall to put on floor and raise floor to match rest of house plus insulation.

Now old toilet is utility room, a small toilet and sink make room much bigger.

I think it helped that it’s ground floor rather than first floor.

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And now it’s this (utility door been made bigger as it was tiny);

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Looking great, love the colour of the shower tiles. Next job on my list is removing downstairs toilet and moving the washing machine in there too, it takes up way too much space in our kitchen leaving us no room for a dishwasher.

I was lucky enough to learn this lesson just doing the dry bits of a DIY kitchen... Biggest lesson learned was to never try to DIY a bathroom.

Well, not the only bathroom in my flat at any rate. Maybe would DIY a second bathroom in a house. This is how the hilarious misadventures start, isn't it?

Yeah we had seen omnitub. It's just difficult to know the feel of something through a screen. We're basically in the same position as you were, I'm trying to avoid a shower over bath and girlfriend would quite like a bath of sorts.

Thanks for the link we'd not seen that.

Any particular reason for avoiding shower over bath? We were hoping to do so, but then realised we didn't have room for a bath (we both love a good, hot bath!) and a shower (an absolute must, let's be honest).

Really happy with what we have ended up with. The shower is over the bath, but plumbed in separately; not via the hot/cold taps on the bath. Not electric, not power, just mains pressure.

Think it's a Crosswater one.

Yeah I'm not entirely keen on having the shower over bath but I think separates would have been a bit cluttered for us and we want to have a bath for future childer situations...

We're going for this bath and screen in the end...

Roca The Gap 1700x750 Single Ended

Merlyn Black Square Bath Screen

realise you're not necessarily doing yours as pictured, but one thing i'd say about the position of the taps at the back of the bath like that is that if they ever come loose or start to leak etc, it's a massive PITA to try and get around the back of the bath to try and sort them out.

Any particular reason for avoiding shower over bath?

May affect house value (as in potential buyer may want a tub to wash their offspring).

I've obviously misunderstood the use of "over", in this context! I was thinking literally over, as in above. Whereas now I understand it's been used as "rather than"!

Ignore me. :D

I'm confused now, I've been meaning shower above bath 😅

@bigshape absolutely! I'm going for a 3-way wall mounted mixer which will do rain head, handheld shower and bath filler and everything will be wall mounted. The shower heads and mixer will be on a wall that can be accessed from behind if needs be and I had thought about putting the bath filler around to the side but I'll have a look and see how it fits before committing to it.
I've taken the slab off the wall on the long side of the bath already to make a niche for shampoo bottles and whatnot so lots of opportunity for reconfiguring!