Family bathrooms in Ayrshire

What does a family bathroom cost in Ayrshire?

Our guide range in Ayrshire is £5,800–£10,500 including VAT. Prices in Ayrshire run at about 4% below the UK guide, based on Scotland labour rates.

Guide prices for Ayrshire including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.

Which towns do we cover in Ayrshire?

• Kilmarnock
• Ayr
• Irvine
• Kilwinning

Most of Ayrshire is supplied with soft water. That leaves you free to choose matt black, brushed brass or clear glass without worrying much about limescale. Hardness varies street by street, so check the figure for your postcode with your water supplier. If you have young children at home in Kilmarnock, we can talk through a bath that is easy to lean over, a slip-resistant floor and high-level storage.

What the job includes

• A layout that keeps a full-size bath, with options for a shower over it or a separate enclosure if the room allows
• Strip-out of the old suite and tiles, with the waste taken away by a licensed waste carrier
• A free home survey covering room sizes, the soil stack position, your boiler or cylinder type and water pressure
• Moisture-resistant boarding and tanking around the bath and shower before any tiling
• Final silicone, a test of every tap and waste, and a clean handover
• Wall and floor tiling, with a floor finish chosen to grip under wet feet

Decisions to make first

Storage

A vanity under the basin, a tall unit or a mirror cabinet. High-level or lockable storage keeps medicines and cleaning products out of reach of small children.

Bath shape

A standard 1700 mm bath fits most rooms. A shower bath widens at one end to give more standing room under the shower; a double-ended bath puts the waste in the middle so two children can share without one sitting on the plug.

Shower over the bath or separate

A shower over the bath with a fixed or hinged screen is the most space-efficient. A separate enclosure needs roughly another square metre of floor but means the bath queue no longer holds up the shower queue.

Bath material

Reinforced acrylic is warm to the touch and light on the floor. Steel enamel is harder-wearing and feels more solid, but it draws heat from the water faster.

Rules that apply in Scotland

Refitting a family bathroom in the same room does not need planning permission. The electrics must meet BS 7671, with 30 mA RCD protection on every circuit in the room and at least IPX4 fittings in the zone above the bath, up to 2.25 m. The water fittings rules in each nation limit a new WC to a 6-litre flush and require protection against dirty water flowing back into the supply.

In Scotland there is no Part P. A straight replacement of a family bathroom rarely needs a building warrant, but altering the drainage or forming a bathroom in a different room may. Water fittings are covered by the Scottish Water Byelaws 2014, and the electrics should be tested and certified to BS 7671.