Budget Friendly Options to Buy Tiles, Bathrooms Fixtures & Fittings

Info_Seeker

Hi Folks,

Need to renovate/refurbish three bathrooms and change entire ground floor flooring. Looking for recommendations for Budget Friendly yet Durable options to buy:

1. Tiles (bathrooms, ground floor)
2. Bathrooms Fixtures (tub with screen, walk-in shower, basin/sink, toilet, etc.)
3. Bathroom Fittings (showers, mixers, taps, etc.)

Looking for budget friendly but durable options.

Thanks!

Info_Seeker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058315065/budget-friendly-options-to-buy-tiles-bathrooms-fixtures-fittings

Any help here will be highly appreciated!!

RichardAnd

You can sometimes pick things up on adverts second hand for cheap, or even free. Sometimes you have to do a bit of renovation on the items, but with some work, it's not too hard to make a used item look good. You can even sometimes find them in a skip.

Tiles are harder to find second hand, especially if you want a certain type. However, I was able to tile around my bath for just 250 (200 for tiles and about 50 for grout) by doing the work myself, and the job is respectable enough considering I'm not a tiler. If you're really stuck with ugly tiles on the wall or floor, you can paint them using tile paint. This is a last resort however, as the paint will eventually chip.

Caranica

Friend recently finished a self build and they got all their bathroom stuff from rea.pl and saved an absolute fortune.

Info_Seeker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121153238#Comment_121153238

Thanks @Caranica. Pardon my ignorance, what is rea.pl? It is not opening and showing as a unsafe page

antoinolachtnai

Your plumber can get all the bathroom stuff inexpensively in heat merchants or Chadwick’s. They have a range of stuff from ‘no-name’ brands. It won’t be the highest quality but it will do.

For tiles, the cheapest way is to go around tile places and look for ‘remnants’, where you buy the last few boxes of a particular tile.

Info_Seeker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121157688#Comment_121157688

Thanks @antoinolachtnai. Can only plumbers buy stuff from heat merchants, Chadwick's or Screw Fix? My builder prefers to work on labour only basis i.e. I need to buy all the stuff myself.

gipi

Chadwicks and Screwfix are open to anyone, I don't know about heat merchants.

Check out b&q, they're advertising discounts on bathroom items at the moment.

Caranica

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121155683#Comment_121155683

Sorry, that's who they tagged on Instagram but the actual website is https://lazienka-rea.com.pl/

antoinolachtnai

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121158745#Comment_121158745

they’ll all sell to anybody. But with Chadwick’s and Heat Merchants they mess around with discounts that some people get, other don’t.

screwfix is fine too. As with all these things an 80 euro toilet just isn’t going to be as good quality as a 400 euro toilet. But it will work.

Personally I would not buy the budget ranges unless the plumber was prepared to stand over them, which your plumber is not. But everyone has their budget and to each his or her own.

everyone is always advertising discounts on low end bathroom ware.