Yeah there is even big money to be saved in doing the demolition/tear out yourself if money is an issue

The cost of fittings and materials has actually come down a bit in the last 10 years. A big part of it is China entering the high-end tile game and now starting to get it right. Yes to the trained eye you can spot the difference between Italian glazed porcelain and Chinese but 9/10 people won’t know the difference and Chinese is less than half the price

Also cabinets etc come mix and match with porcelain tops and flat pack cabinets etc

As noted above you won’t get a 2 person spa bath but that wasn’t pictured




Also I should mention that I’m paying prime cost on thousands of meters of tiles and 20-30 toilets and vanities at a time (mid-high end) so I might be out of touch on what it costs per unit to buy once-off

I literally just looked up prices at home depot and floor and decor. A gallon of behr paint starts at $37 at home depot.

Who tf paints a bathroom

Waterproof and tile up to the cornice, it’s not the 70’s anymore jack

Wow lol, you're a phuckin loser dude lol

That's 30k-35k max including labor
But for a soyboy liberal phggot in seattle
Its going to cost him double,
70k is reasonable

Imagine your wife making you do this **** lol. The sad state of the modern man. They're cucks.

Obviously you just want to argue and have never done any remodels in your life. The bathroom in the first picture is 5 feet wide. The tub is a standard 60 inch tub making the room 60 inches. Based on visual estimate, the room is approximately 12 feet long with 9 foot ceilings. 200 sq ft of the wall is sheetrock that needs to be painted. A gallon of paint covers between 300-400 sq ft. Two gallons will easily cover this bathroom.

I guess also for the people saying DIY, it’s not a *trivial* amount of equipment required for a job like this

Tear out you would minimum need a reciprocating demo hammer (mini jackhammer)

Pry bar the wall tiles

Then to lay tiles you would minimum need a decent tile cutter, angle grinder, at least 3 different diamond edge hole saws to get through porcelain, and masonry drills to get through for mounting fixtures

You might get away without a wet saw for the tiles depending on how many cuts and what pattern you were laying

General plumbing tools to unhook and reinstall toilets, shower heads and vanities

You might need a gas torch if the old style copper fittings are sweated/soldered on (ie if it’s an old place they may not have put the taps outside the wall, they might be tee’d in with copper)

Laser level depending on how you were setting the wall tiles and how crooked the floors are

Like if you literally had zero tools you might need $1500-$2k in tools




The biggest barrier is being able to lay tiles straight, it requires some planning, skill and patience





…and suddenly I remember why I only do new construction now lmao

and that includes a $50 stool next to the bed to watch the tradie bang their wife/bf too.

Where I live a basic bathroom install without tile is 10k. It is like the ****ers have a union.

Before anyone says to just do it yourself you have to consider insurance when working on plumbing in an apartment building. They do not always let you choose what they do ala carte either. They have enough work they can move on.

This is the true issue to be discussed.

you are dumb as fuk.you know that?

Take your pick from cheapest to the most expensive Behr paint that Home Depot sells. Two options would be easily under $100 for two gallons. One would be just over $100 and the most expensive is $25 over $100.

Explain how. I gave prices that I verified just now to complete a bathroom remodel that matches the materials used in the picture.

5k is actually pretty close.

Tile 1.5k
Vanity 2k
Paint and other bs/grout/etc 1k.
Shower kit 1k

I'm sure you could spend more but that gets you a nice bathroom.

Even if you take it down to the studs drywall/tape/mud is only another 200/500

Behr paint is garbage tard boy. Kelly Moore, Shermin Williams, Benjamin Moore are quality for indoors

Can everyone please stop saying they’re going to paint their phukking bathroom walls

You can paint the ceilings and cornices in mould-resistant ceiling white and that’s it

The rest is tiled with waterproofing membrane underneath

He’s buying a $2k vanity though lol

Toilets are $800 for a nice Italian one, you can go up to $2k for a concealed cistern but nobody wants the maintenance issues on that

Even if you call the materials $10k the $60k labour seems pretty steep without knowing what the actual job entailed in terms of actual repairs, water damage, relocation of pipes etx

But maybe that’s just what labour costs now

Or maybe the guy revealed himself to be an prick when he was getting estimates so they charged him the prick tax

Nah

I wouldn’t even do it for myself any more

Although the reno will take like a year waiting for the 1 tiler that I use to become available lol

There was recently a South Park special about this lol.

70k? must be trying to use some top of the line stuff there. from personal experience, there's no way it would cost that much otherwise.

Relocating plumbing, water leakage or other unknown structural issues lurking behind the walls would be my guess

If they haven’t done the tear-out a sensible contractor would quote based on the worst case scenario having regard to the age and overall condition of the building

Based level: over 9000!

What are general plumbing tools to hook up a vanity, toilet or shower head jfl

You can do that with two tools lmao


You don’t even need map gas smh just shut the water off and cut the pipes with a cutter or grinder, since it would be diy just use sharkbite and pex at that point. I thankfully have a propress so I would never have to put sharkbites of tectite fittings in my house

General plumbing tools would be a pipe wrench, sliding wrench, deep socket set, pipe cutter if the old copper tubes, possibly a tube bender, few rolls of tape and then yeah map burner if you’ve retaining copper tube

I didn’t know you could mate pex to copper but tbh I don’t know much about that aspect of plumbing

Our plumbing standards allow olive fittings outside a wall so I would cut the copper tube outside the wall, use olives to press into a spigot tap and just run the hot and cold into a mixer tax from these

That pretty minor though, the main thing is if the bathroom is old, water seal is failed and load bearers have rotted out

That will take your estimate from zero to sixty fairly quick

that guys channel is alpha lmao

Nikka have you ever done plumbing smh

A pipe wrench? You aren’t running gas a simple channel lock will do the shower head, crescent wrench for the toilet and maybe a grinder if the old bolts are rusted.

Why are you using rolls of tape? you don’t use tape on compression fittings or really on anything besides the shower head

Wtf kinda plumbers you got down in Australia

Exactly my first thought.

If he wants to go cheap then for aesthetics he should just put in new floor (go with slate instead of marble) and shower tile, a new sink, paint, new baseboards, upgrade fixtures and call it a day. Most anybody can do that themselves over a long weekend for $4K or less. I'd hire a pro if I wanted to switch from a step in to walk-in shower though.