Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry 1 Sep 15, 2011 9:41 pm Hi all, I need help! We need to redo our laundry and bathrooms and I don't know where to begin! With the bathrooms we want to keep the layout the same but make them look new, functional, easy to clean etc My question is where to begin. We have had some fairly pricey quotes to have it all done for us. If I coordinate myself, am I likely to save a lot? or for a complete home reno idiot like myself is that likely to end in divorce!! Are there any reliable cost calculaters on line to work out approximate costs of redoing bathrooms? All the guys have come in and said, "Whats your budget?" I haven't quite known how to answer this as I have no idea whats a fair and reasonable price to expect to pay for a bathroom make over. Any advice on helping me start would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Re: First time reno, where to begin? 2Sep 15, 2011 9:54 pm If you co-ordinate this yourself you will save a packet. We did. We hired a skip bin We sourced the products we wanted, ie spa, vanity, mixers and taps etc. We hired a demolition company to chip off all the tiles (you can do this yourself if you want) however they did it in an hour and a half for a couple of hundred. We sourced out own tiler and plumber and electrician. We ended up doing the whole bathroom for under $8,000. If you shop around you can find bargains. Whole of the works took 2.5 weeks. Re: First time reno, where to begin? 3Sep 15, 2011 10:23 pm Thanks for the reply. One guy who has given us a quote who we really liked was happy to do the whole thing or was happy for us to supply and he would just do the installation. What are the areas of bathrooms that really increase the price? Is it vanities, shower screens, baths or tiles etc Are these fittings much cheaper to buy myself off the shelf or does it not make much difference when the tradie may be able to get discounts? Re: First time reno, where to begin? 4Sep 16, 2011 10:30 am hi there, in our current home we renovated the bathroom. We pulled everything out ourselves including the bath, cabinet and removed the tiles ( this was a longer job and took us about two weekends, because they had been cemented to the shower wall). We also treated the walls and floors ourselves (water sealing layer) and purchased our tiles from a warehouse that sold seconds ( there was nothing wrong with them just end of the line). Our bath, cabinet and shower screen came from bunnings and were on sale at different times, it was easy to find matching items because our bathroom is all white, if your going for something in a specific color or pattern that might be more pricy because you will want all your items to match. Our taps etc came from a plumbing supply store nearby, much cheaper then I had anticipated. I installed the bath myself (having taken the old one out I could kinda see how it went together and I also watched a few youtube clips lol). It wasn't hard at all! We got a friend to install the cabinet and sink and we also got a friend to finish the tiling (mates rates). Tiling I found to be the hardest because I had a young child at the time and so mixing stuff was a bit scary, I decided to outsource that. All in all our bathroom came in under $3000. The most expensive items being the bath and the shower screen ( our shower is tiled which was cheaper option at the time). Having said that the shower screen was $300 on sale at bunnings, I had seen some scary quotes (thousands) for them on various websites so we were stoked to find it. Because we didn't want the shower encrouching on the floor space we opted to use just the glass panal from the shower screen set which our tiler friend installed, the rest of the unit we have put into storage because we are moving and may use it in renovating our next home. My advice is to take into account what your skills are, your time factor, and also do your homework getting prices online. Also look for items on sale, quite often there is nothing wrong with them they are just end of the line, if you keep your design simple, you can save loads. Hope that is more helpful then ramble Re: First time reno, where to begin? 6Oct 27, 2011 11:58 am Correct me if I am wrong but I think it is about 1-2% of your homes value you can spend on your bathroom before you start to overcapitalize. Anyone else heard of this?? Either way it's hard to compare your bathroom reno budget to others really it depends on the value of your house. Even though it's a small room it can get costly with all the fixtures/tiles/etc, if you are getting things on the cheap you could end up replacing them a lot quicker than if you get quality fittings. As for doing the work yourself it depends what you know how to do and if you have the time (and the second bathoom!) Ardo That is so funny! I wonder how many people know who Larry Haun is these days. I have a couple of young guys we call Mo 1 & Mo 2 who run a crew of 6 boys and… 9 15538 Can anyone give me any onfo on New Homes WA? Good or bad, hopefully good just need to know if my choice was good or not? Thanks ❤️ 0 8950 So it looks like we finally have some movement on site! Definitely later than expected, but I'll take any progress at this point. I'll drop by over the weekend to get… 5 27739 |