NPR: anyone done a bathroom remodel?

DubbleDubs

We have a chronically leaky shower---it is all ceramic tile (including the shower floor) with glass doors. Water keeps leaking into the basement and to make a long story short, I think the best thing is going to be replacing the whole thing. The problem is that the tile in the shower extends onto the walls of the bathroom...so if we change the shower, we have to remove that too. So basically, we might as well just remodel the whole thing since we need a new floor in the bathroom too. Anyway, I plan on getting some estimates, but I'm curious how much your basic, nothing fancy bathroom remodel runs. We are in Illinois as I know it probably varies.

Not exactly in the budget now that we are expecting again, but I don't know that we can avoid it.

Mrbatesisinnocent

You can do a good bathroom remodel from 2000 to 8000 if you're careful with your money.

insertclevername

Around here if you hire someone it is around $5000-$10,000.  If you demo yourselves and don't go overboard on tile and fixtures you should be able to remodel on the lower end.

nola+runner

We are in the middle of that now. All our estimates have been 12-14k. We are gutting it. 

lp0

Our bathroom was about $5,000 in materials and for a hired plumber. My dh did the rest of the work himself.

If I remember correctly it was:

$1200 for the plumber (keep in mind we moved our shower/bath from one side of the room to the other)

MEP923

We just gutted our entire upstairs bathroom, we removed a window that was in the shower and tiled the entire shower and the floor. We were going to tile some of the walls outside the shower but it became too much and we put a new sink in. DH is in constru

hlkliesch

My DH and I bought a foreclosure about two years ago.  This house was in SERIOUS need of love and repair.  No one had cared for it since 1968 when it was built.  The master bathroom did not work - as in, the hot water was not even hooked

MEP923

hlkliesch:

My DH and I bought a foreclosure about two years ago.  This house was in SERIOUS need of love and repair. &nbs

DubbleDubs

Thanks ladies. Ugh, I wish my husband was handy so we could save some cash that way. I think what will end up happening is he will do the demo himself, and we will shop for all the materials ahead of time, and then just hire someone to put it all back tog