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  • You are going to have to retile unless the bath somehow ends up exactly the same height/position. Any compromise or making it look ok-ish will look obvious.
    Minimum of 6.5k. More if the tiles come off and the wall is a mess.
    You will need plumbing, bath panel, shower screen, taps, tile trim and personally if having this done I would update the sink and surround to something a bit more modern.

  • Yeah so realistically it’ll be closer to £10k as I suspected by the time it’s done properly.
    Many thanks, something to think about at least :)

  • Baths have height adjustable feet (and often packing underneath). If all you want to do is swap the bath, you can just swap the bath without touching the tiles.

    (assuming there's enough height available and the width isn't different)

  • 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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  • I know everything is expensive but no way is that a 6.5k job 😂 as @grams said, just shim it if its a bit lower

    My mate (N.london), 1 or two years ago had a whole bathroom done for 8k and it was done to a fairly high standard

  • Surely it depends on what refresh means and how complicated everything else is?

    What I'm hearing is:


    WorkCreep
    Repair WC sealsnew WC if not replaceable, redo tiles behind if match isn't close enough/issues arise
    Pressure pumpfitting complication and remedial work depending on location
    New bathmoving basin, redoing basin and WC box and tiling
    New shower screenredoing tiling, extending wall depending on bath width and shape

  • ...at which point in the worst case you may be tempted to redo all the wall tiles because there are so few remaining.

  • Dont forget this is the London £40k Kitchen and Single Speed Forum.
    Easily doable for under £5k if you are OK not having top of the line everything.

  • There is that.

    From the reflection the door way does not appear to be opposite the sink. So reconfiguring the layout for that might be pricy.

  • I see you've been taking notes on my house renovation.
    Let's just get the kitchen done, we want to move a radiator and neaten the sink pipes so let's pull up the floor to get to the plumbing. Rather than just swapping the radiator let's upgrade/replace the entire central heating system and build a new subfloor. We want to replace the bath so let's do the plumbing for that at the same time. We need to remove everything to get the floor up so let's just do the whole bathroom. Etc etc.

  • Get out of my head

  • this thread is 100% guilty of assuming everything starts at circa 10k

    my mum had a 2x2m hallway/entrance extension including roof, windows, all electrics, plastering, only thing not included was the front door for 16k, if you'd asked before in here before starting you'd have put aside 50k!

  • only thing not included was the front door for 16k

    That's an expensive front door

  • she checked in this thread first and the consensus was that it sounded about right

  • Must be some front door to be 16k.

  • Does it ever end?

  • I think we we got quotes of £6k and £7k for a new front door in London's famous London.

    Eventually got it done for ~£1700 thanks to a local chippie. Although he said he didn't want any more door work as our job reminded him just how much doing doors/frames annoys him.

  • Not from where I’m standing


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  • Not sure that's fair. It sounds like your mum got a decent price, but you've phrased it as though it's a big job, when in fact there's no serious structural stuff, likely minimal excavation, no plumbing, minor electrical, limited materials for finishing, etc.

    I'd say the main thing this place is guilty of is expensive tastes. The sort of inspiration people post tends to be top end.

    A builder mate always used to moan about people asking for quotes for things - like say a bathroom hoping it'd be £5k. While sharing a mood board full of >£20k bathrooms.

  • oh yeah she definitely got a good price and it wasn't a complicated build but the idea that replacing a bath would be either 1/3 or 2/3 of the cost of a job where trades were on site for weeks is insanity.

    Im just conscious that in this thread you might believe you weren't getting your pants pulled down if someone quoted you 6.5k minimum to swap a bath out and 10k for it to be done to a good standard.

  • I think my bathroom was 4.5k… maybe that was just labour though.

  • Would also say only 1 person replied saying 6.5k and then OP said more like 10k.

  • I did a cheap bathroom refurb for 6.5k including bath/vanity unit/sink/toilet/tiles/electric shower/bayh panel/floor and some boarding out and skim but this was using north Kent priced trades coming into London and economising where possible so we used click flooring and big wall tiles so the bathroom fitter could do them quickly instead of getting a tiler in, I self levelled and did all the running around getting plumbing bits etc.
    This was to better than rental standard but in no way a nice bathroom.
    The days of paying 6k for something that looks good and will last 10 years are long gone.

  • If you look at bath tubs, there are some that are better for taking showers than others.
    But they would probably too wide.
    Hate ours, way narrower at the shower end.

  • I seem to remember some chat about mains water filters/descalers/purifiers, but can't seem to find it in the search in the various house threads.

    Has anyone tried these, are they effective for London's hard water, does it meaningfully slow down the flow rate, should they be fitted to mains or just the kitchen tap, which system is the best? Etc. etc.

    Any help would be most appreciated 🙂

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