Question About Bathroom Installation...
We've found an incredible property, way below FMV, and plan to install a bathroom in the basement. (The basement is finished and plumbing is roughed in.) This will increase the value when flipping.
We intend to install a simple tub/shower combo and a small sink with medicine cabinet. Nothing fancy.
We've never subbed out a bathroom installation like this. ANyone care to guess at a fair price?
Thanks,
-JQ
Are the walls to the bathroom in place, or is there just a sewer stump and water lines in a section of the basement? Has the electrical wiring been run to the location?
You'll need a plumber to set the sink, tub, and toilet; connect the water and sewer lines, and vent the fixtures.
You'll need an electrican to install GF outlets, switches, a fart fan, and a light
fixture.
The carpenter can frame the walls, hang the drywall, install the tiles(?), install the floor, hang the door, etc.
You might be able to save a few bucks by acting as your own GC, but for the sake of simplicity, you should simply hire someone to do the whole job.
You can spend anywhere from $2,500 to $4,000 or way more depending upon the size, quality of materials, etc.
Thanks.
The room exists, with the 'stumps' sticking through the floor so luckily we'll save on carpenter and dry-wall fees.
It's a small room, only 8 ft square so we'll have to keep it very simple.
Thanks for the info.
J
8 square feet? Or eight by eight?
I'd consider a 36" fiberglass shower stall instead of a tub, but the drain's position will dictate it's location. . I'd consider a pedastal sink vs. cabinet.
Why not visit Home Depot website, enter the floorplan and request a materials quote?
With an 8 x 8 room you can do almost anything you want. If it's set up correctly you could do a tub/shower unit and the toilet on one side and have room for a vanity and whatever else on the other. As far as the cost each area is different not to mention each contractor charges a little different as well. I know my subs all charge a little more than the next guy, but you get what you pay for Also, watch what Home Depot tells you. I just built a house for a friend and he wanted to buy his stuff through HD, for some dumb reason, and the salesperson that came out to his house told him nothing would work and proceeded to tell him how the builder would have to reframe his whole bathroom. Needless to say the bathroom worked fine just how it was laid out. Just a word of caution as some of those people have no clue
Bathrooms are fun to do as you can get very carried away. People always told me that adding a bathroom was good for at least $10,000 more on the price of a normal housie.
Once upon a time I got carried away. I created this monster tiled shower area with the shower on one wall and on the opposite wall I placed on the same tiles draining to a central floor drain this wonderfull wood tub from Japan. Just enough for two people who really knew each other well, to sit facing. It had a lovely odor of camphor wood and cedar. You could shower like crazy and then climb into the hot water and really relax.
Next to this was a small cubicle room in which was the toilet, you know so you can read with the door closed and be very private. Next to the toilet was the Bidet with a mix valve so you could set the water temp. God how I hate to climb onto a Bidet and have that cold water hit you, talk about instant airborn. Then the skylight with the trees outside showing thru. My favorite place. reminded me of Japan and all those good times.
Well as life proceeds you sometimes have to move on, I give up the swinging little bachelor house. Could not get a decent price for this little masculine oriented pad. Nothing worked and finaly I sold it to a rather stern lady editor who corrected books and hated creative writers. She owned a standard poodle with whom I think she was very close..
I came back a year or so latter at the request of a friend of mine who is gramaticaly challenged, he had finished a really great book about picture biz and she was his editor. Sooo the party was at her house.
I walked in and oh my god I thought I had arrived in the middle of the valley. The colors were all changed and everything looked like the showfloor area of Home Depot.
Slowly I opened the door to my wonderful bathroom. It was gone. The shower now had a nice little enclosure of glass and the tiles all gone and replaced in shocking pink. The bidet missing and a new toilet with one of those fuzzy coverings on the top. Little towels much too small for normal use, all lined up on little holders. A toothbrush stark naked in a funny little hand coming out of the wall.
Well, my night was ruined so I had my usual stullifying two Martinis and in celebration of the bad taste of the editor lady I had the extra Martini.
Dont remember much of what happened after, I do know I wore my customary lamp shade. I cried alot and I think the editor lady taking pitty on me arranged for me to spend the night.
It was early in the morning when the first waves of nausea drove me from sleep and the embraces of the poodle.
I entered the bathroom. Once again, surrounded by pink tile and bad taste. I put the room to good use as a modern day Vomitorium. Shades of ancient Rome.
I ran out of the house, to my parked truck and half clothed drove back to my new home in the slums of North Hollywood. No I was not wearing the Lamp Shade. But in my minds eye even to this day I see that bathroom and I will never more have the third Martini.
The morale of this tale. Never install a Bidet without a temperature mix valve.
The End. Lucius