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I just did my bathroom on the cheap for 6.5k that’s my second cousin (who does bathrooms) doing the work and me doing any running around plus doing things efficiently so LVT flooring with no grout/adhesive/time wasting, me doing the self level. He did the tiling which would normally be subbed out as he’s not a tiler and we picked big tiles to make it faster and the finish is good enough for what i want.
that price includes new stud walls and a full skim as the walls were fooked after ripping the tiles off.
the suite was not bargain basement just decent stuff that didn’t look grim as it has to last 2 years of rental and then not let the flat down when i come to sell.
Next bathroom we will try to do for £9.5k which will include some terrazzo, a tiler doing his thing, fancy custom metal powder coated vanity unit with reeded glass and satin bronze taps/towel radiator and the window reveal done in recycled plastic or perspex.
You can do things well without going silly you just have to put the work in sourcing, getting the right people and doing some of the work yourself. I have ripped out some of the bathroom already and will move all the rubble sacks and deal with waste collection as I want him doing the stuff i can’t do and do not want to pay him to stand in a queue at screwfix! appreciate this will not work for everyone and you might not have a ‘second cousin Dave’.
The plasterer was a bit of a find, nearly retired and from ‘Norf Kent’ but he starts at 7am as his wife gets up at 5am for work so he needs something to do, leaves just after lunch having cracked on with the job and charged me half London prices.