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It also depends how fussy you are and what you're willing to do yourself. A builder will always want to smash it all out and start over - as they'd sooner have a £10k job than a £2k job. I mean aside from your practical point it all looks in good condition with a good finish, even if it's not your dream bathroom.
We've worked around our existing kitchen, which now has a few bodges, but from a holistic view it's passable.
The issues I can see are:
- longer bath means it won't line up with the tile end. Will this bother you?
- wider bath is going to be limited by the basin placement
- where the shower screen sits needs to be considered with a wider bath - maybe it'll be fine, maybe you'll have it overhanging the inside of the bath.
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- longer bath means it won't line up with the tile end. Will this bother you?
hugo7
Complete pie in the sky question from someone with zero experience of such things.
Looking at maybe having our bathroom refreshed a bit.
7yr old new build flat, bathroom approx 3.5x3m with shower over bath.
All we really want is for the bath to be replaced with something a bit bigger as it’s weirdly shallow and short given the space.
It’s reached the point that we need a plumber anyway to deal with the low pressure(crappy communal building hot water) and toilet that is always trickling cos of dodgy seals.
So yeah, would like to think it wouldn’t need to be gutted completely but rough idea for someone to supply/fit a better bath/shower screen and make good on the other bits that just need refreshing?
Oh, we’re in E17 if that makes a difference/recommendations.
Fully understand it’s probably got potentially to snowball and not as simple as just buy/fit bath..