Costs of home improvemnents??

[tiff211]

I am clueless when it comes to how much something would cost. What would be a ball park figure of putting in a 1/2 bath w/ a shower if there is the plumbing is easily assessible? I wouldn't know if it would cost $1000 or $10,000!

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Depends on the size of room, flooring, cabinets, countertops, fixtures you want! Basically it can range from I would say 4,000 to 10,000.

 

[Chicago526]

It also depends on if you do the work yourself or have a contractor do it for you.

I'm trying to figure out how much the privacy fence we want will cost, so I feel your pain!

 

[Galahad]

We are having a 6' x 12' full bath gutted and remodelled for $12,000. We originally estimated that it would cost $6,000. Doing a new bathroom, I would think, would get quite steep.

 

[Living with the Land]

I would say for a small bathroom aound 4,000. You can do it cheaper if you do most of the work yourself. That is very basic though it adds up fast.

Holly

 

[malibuconlee]

Well, we're in the process and depending on where you live, especially if you hire out the work it can be expensive.

We have to move the bath plumbing to install a shower because the tub (no previous shower) was under an eave. One bid we had for that a new flange for the toilet and to install a double sink connection was over $2,000. That's not including fixtures!!! That's just labor and materials (pipes basically). We've got another guy that s going to do it hourly and charge us a lower hourly rate than the other guy.

I'm planning on spending at least $10,000 for the whole thing and we already did all the demo ourselves.


OT question. Would a double vanity be more of a selling point to you if you were looking at buying a house? I tend to think so. Just thought I'd ask.

 

[Crankyshank]

We are knocking out a wall, replacing tile, adding drywall, installing an exhaust vent, and putting in a new tub/toliet/sink. We're doing the work ourselves, and we were told it would cost about $4000 depending on what we put in there.

 

[golfgal]

There are some online project estimators that you can plug in some dimensions, etc and get an approximation. What you are doing is a 3/4 bath if you are having a toilet, sink and shower. A 1/2 bath would be just a toilet and a sink. A full bath has everything.

If you did all the work yourself, you could probably do it as cheaply as $2000 but that would be using very basic materials, a small vanity, no frills faucets, etc. Your costs would go up from there.

We are in the process of re-doing the boys bathroom. We replaced the toilet, counter top, sink, faucet and towel bars. With new paint, shower curtain, etc. it is going to run about $700-it would have been less if we didn't have to buy a 2nd new toilet after DH cracked the bowl of the first .

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Are you adding the room itself or just rededicating space?

We were told for adding a room that it would be near 5 digits.

 

[Galahad]

OT question. Would a double vanity be more of a selling point to you if you were looking at buying a house? I tend to think so. Just thought I'd ask.

I think it depends on what you do and the family of the buyer. We are replacing a double with a new single (with a vessel sink etc.). It will open up a small room to have a smaller vanity. But, we don't have daughters (so extra counter space on the vanity isn't important) and we plan on retiring in this house so turning around a profit isn't high on our list of priorities.

 

[malibuconlee]

Thanks. We have redone a bathroom before and we weren't planning on selling that house either. We did the pedestal sink for that, but I think otehrs would prefer the space in the double sink/vanity.