Bathroom Remodel Costs?

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We did a complete DIY bathroom remodel at our old house. We tore everything down to the studs, extended a wall to close the room in (it had been open to the bedroom and we wanted to have a door to close), closed off an exterior storage closet and opened the wall to make another closet, removed a roman tub, relocated plumbing, added a window, added a shower/tub combo, and installed a storage cabinet. With everything, including new carpet in the master bedroom that was needed when the walls were moved, we spent about $8k, I believe.

I imagine it would be close to double this amount if we hired out.

[Susie]

We haven't done our full bath yet, but we did our half bath, which is about 4x5.  I want to say it was around $2k.  We DIY'ed everything.  We're thinking more like $6-8k when we do the full bath, because there are some parts that we want done faster than we'll get around to DIYing (like shower tiling), plus it's bigger, so more materials.

We started here; I promise this is as flattering a shot as could be taken:


it looked like this for a while in the middle:


and we finished up here, with brand-new-everything-you-can-see (except the door):


We definitely deal-shopped for the toilet, sink, and tile.

[littlemisssunshine]

We re did our master bath two years. Rough costs: 

Shower/vanity demo: $50
Plumbing (installing new fixtures) $75
Tile work: $1000 included a 3x4 shower (floor to ceiling) and floor tile in bathroom (6-8) 
Tile Costs: $500 (includes shower tile and floor tile)
Vanity (61" Custom size vanity with solid limestone top plus install) $1950
55" Mirror: $68
Vanity Light Fixtures: $100
Canned lights for shower: $57
Sink faucet: $129
Shower fixtures: $160
Electrician: $150 to install two canned lights in shower
Texture bathroom walls and paint: $250
Paint: $25


Total: $4514



We did not put in new baseboards or replace any doors. At the same time we also put in hardwood floors in master bedroom and carpet in the hallway/stairwell. All told we spent about 8k for the remodel. 

[who22]

My parents gutted to the studs their bathroom which is roughly 8x6-ish. The only thing they reused was the toilet. All new plumbing, sheetrock, fiberglass tub and surround, faucets, sink and vanity, sheet vinyl flooring, lighting, new open linen shelves, and beadboard paneling. They hired everything out except the painting, which I did for them. It ran them $8-9k two years ago.

[salsaverde]

We had ours done in 15 days (should've been faster, but one of the workers disappeared for a weekend and left us with zero water, nightmare) and we paid $5K. The only thing we kept was the tub which was refinished and needs a touch up already. We had new walls, floors, plumbing, toilet, fixtures, glass shower door, paint job, new window because our old window was so embarrassing. pretty much a brand new bathroom.

[auntie]

We paid $12K for a to the studs reno in our old house about 25 years ago. The bathroom was about 6 x 6".

We replaced the window, didn't move any lines, had nicer fixtures and faucets bought throught our plumber and marked up. (this gave us labor on any repair/replacement of stuff he sold us) Our cast iron tub was over $800 and I recall that my faucets cost more than my tub, toilet and sink.

It also included decorating which was probably close to $800 for wallpaper, custom shower curtain and mongramed towels.

[auntie]

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We had a 10" rough. After the plumber ripped our only toilet out, we discovered that there was no American Standard 10" rough toilet in Sterling east of the Mississippi.

[kitty]

We did a semi DIY "refresh" of our tiny master bath last year and spent about 4k. We did not go down to the studs, except around the tub and had no water damage. We hired out the plumbing and the tile but did the electrical, painting and general grunt work ourselves.

New bathtub/drain/faucet/showerhead
New sink/vanity top/faucet (splurged on Cambria which was ~$650 for a standard 37"x22")
New light fixture from RH
New knobs/pulls from RH
Removed, repainted, reinstalled existing vanity (used BM Advance paint)
Repainted existing medicine cabinet
Retiled around tub
Left flooring, toilet, and fan unchanged

[memenee]

Susie very well done! Just curious, are you and dh pretty handy overall? I want to jump in on a bigger project like this but worry about our skills!

[h]

We recently did makeovers on a half bath and a smallish full bath, but did not move plumbing, and we painted rather than replacing the vanities. This is what we did:

Half bath -- new toilet, new sink and faucet, new quartz countertop, new tile floor, new can lights and sconce, new wallpaper, painted wainscoting and vanity, new mirror, new cabinet hardware

Small full bath -- new sink and faucet, new granite countertop, new tile floor, new light fixture, replaced shower fixtures and glass door (did not reptile shower), painted vanity, wainscoting, and walls, new mirror, new towel bats, new cabinet hardware

It worked out to be about $3500 per room.

[sillygoosegirl]

Don't know the condition of your cast iron tub or why you want to be rid of it, but ours had some unsightly chips in the enamel that made me want to replace it. I was able to buy some enamel repair stuff off Amazon for like $10 and covered up the chips with it, and I really have to search to find where the damage was now.

We pulled up enough of our floor, subfloor, and drywall to determine where the water damage went (not as far as we feared, fortunately--only extended like 2 inches under/behind the tub), and hired a guy to repair the subfloor and drywall, and install a new toilet for $900 (nice toilet but vinyl floor).

We recaulked and regrouted ourselves, which was maybe $30. And replaced the faucet ourselves ($20), which was the original cause of the massive amounts of water getting out of the tub (it was running up the back of the faucet and then gushing onto the floor). And added new towel rods, curtain rod, and paint, all DIY.

Nice thing about doing the demo ourselves was that we were able to see how far we really needed to go with it. I wasn't really comfortable with starting the project until we had the money for a major remodel available, but I was very glad to be able to spend most of it on other projects, as it turned out.