Renovation costs - bath, kitchen, floor walls?? Help!!

[Phteven]

How much has it cost you to install a new kitchen or bathroom in your home?
We're looking at putting in a small new kitchen (galley style) and a new bathroom (replacing a shower with a spa/bath/shower).
I'm not a DIY type person, DH is but doesn't have time so we would be getting it done by other people.

Also new flooring throughout (carpet & tiles), rendering on the walls, new light fittings.

I really need a ball park figure because we're looking at 2 places. One needs renovations and the other doesn't and I'm not sure what would work out cheaper.

Please PM me if you don't want to put your figures up in public

[Loula]

Our Kitehen which is quite large with an area for books and study computer on one wall cost us around $30,000 with all new appliances and flooring, splashback, lighting blinds.

Our bathroom cost us less than $3000 but DH is a plumber, so it was just paying for tiles, tiler, shower screen, basin, toilet, accessories
Now we need to do the laundry!!!

GL

[HotI]

We are hoping to redo our bathroom and have had a few people come out to do quotes.

Currently, bathroom has a shower and a basin. We want to replace shower, basin and add in a bath shaped spa bath. This also involves moving an internal wall. Walls and Floor also have to re-tiled.

Quotes have ranged from $22,000 to $30,000 with tradespeople doing all the work (we only have one bathroom so don't have the luxury of taking our time doing it ourselves and not having a functioning bathroom). It will take between 2 to 3 weeks, but we can hire a shower and toilet on a trailer for that time.

The actual shower,bath,fittings etc was just over $5,000 but alot of the cost is in the waterproofing etc. If you know tradespeople and can get mates rates this will reduce the cost.

Kitchen is meant to be most expensive room to renovate, followed by the bathroom.

[Loula]

I should add we had tradie friends do the lot, but never expect a discount, just know that they are very good and trust them, although i have also been burnt using friends so sometimes it doesnt pay

[OldMate]

We had our kitchen done by Kitchen Connections. Of hand I can't remember how much the total bill was. I was a little disappointed though. We had a few little differences that we wanted and their normal contractors didn't do it (stainless steel splash back cut to size), so they organised for a sub to do the work. Terrible experience and we finally ditched him and got our own in. I would suggest having a chat to a couple of cabinet makers or if you can, talk to the contractors that a kitchen place use. You might be able to employ them direct and cut out the middle man.

Oh, and if you are tiling the kitchen, my suggestion would be to tile the whole floor first before putting the benches on. It may cost more to begin with for tiles that you can't see, but in 5-10 years, if you want to redo the kitchen again or change a few things around, you won't need to re-tile. Does that sort of make sense?

[2CheekyMonkeys]

well they said it would cost us about 3 grand to render our whole house.. it isnt a massive house.

we got a bath tub installed recently and it alone cost 3 thousand, luckily they didnt have to rip up tiles from the ground cause that would have made it more.

we have an extension going up at the moment and it is about 20m2 or a bit more, no plumbing and its 40 grand. that was the cheapest quote another one was 60 grand.

i suggest you get at least 3 quotes from different people to make sure you get a good price.

carpets, mid range are about 36 bucks a square metre installed (and its not that great carpet) and tiles are quoted as $35m3 and instillation is at $30m2.

hope that helps.