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Bathroom refit - recommendations

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  • 21-08-2017 9:57am
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    Wheety
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    Can any one recommend bathroom design/suppliers/fitters? We're looking for a total refit of the bathroom. It's around 8ft x 6ft.

    Classic Bathrooms on Longmile are going to measure up and quote. They reckon around €6k (that's before seeing it).

    Will give Ripples a shout too, but does anyone have any specific recommendations and what prices are like these days?

    House is in Dublin.


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    jmBuildExt
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    I wont know the answer either way (im interested to know though), but someone that has potential to know will need more info...
    Depends on lots of things.

    is there a bath? just a shower tray? are they tiling the entire surface of the walls? What type of sanitary ware


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    Wheety
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    At the moment, there's a shower tray. It looks like they replaced a bath with an accessible shower. We'll be putting a bath back in. The whole room will be tiled.


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    jmBuildExt
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    You should calculate your materials costs first to work out how much they are charging for fitting
    e.g. you have about 19 sqm of wall tiles. A conservative price for an average wall tile is 25/sqm (you can get chepaer, you can get dearer...depends)

    So thats 19*25 = 475

    Floor tiles - you need about 4 sqm (prob less since you have a bath going in) - say you allow 35/sqm for these

    4*35 = 140

    New bath - 200
    shower screen over bath - 100
    Bath taps - 100

    Toilet - 200
    sink - 150
    sink taps 80

    Fixtures/fittings for tiles (beading/grout/sub floor) - 150
    plumbing fixtures/fittings - 200


    So there's your basics, and it comes to €1800 for materials.

    You may want a vanity unit, shower unit, mirror, medicine cabinet fitted on top of that.
    Edit: I forgot to factor in disposing of your old stuff (small skips worth)

    The prices i've put are middle of the road - e.g. you can get full bathroom suites for €329 online... http://www.bathroomfactorystore.com/special-offers - including taps!! Also you can get tiles cheaper too.
    Obviously you can go the other way and get expensive sanitaryware/tiles/taps etc

    In the case I've given, they are charging 4k to fit it. But you would need to know what you are getting, hardware wise, to do a proper calculation/comparison.

    It might seem expensive but I'd say its probably the going rate for those type of places.

    My advice would be shop around to get a good price. And whoever you decide on, make sure you see examples of their previous work.


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