Family bathrooms in Fife

What does a family bathroom cost in Fife?

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

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

Which towns do we cover in Fife?

• Dunfermline
• Kirkcaldy
• Glenrothes
• St Andrews

Most of Fife 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. For a busy Dunfermline household sharing one main bathroom, a thermostatic shower over a full-size bath is usually the most practical layout.

What the job includes

• A free home survey covering room sizes, the soil stack position, your boiler or cylinder type and water pressure
• 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
• Lights, extractor fan and towel rail wired by a qualified electrician, tested and certified
• Moisture-resistant boarding and tanking around the bath and shower before any tiling
• Supply of the bath, basin, WC, brassware, shower, screen, tiles and heated towel rail

Decisions to make first

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.

Screen or curtain

Glass keeps water in better than a curtain and does not go mouldy at the hem. A folding or hinged screen swings out of the way when you are kneeling to bath a child.

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.

Floor

Matt or textured porcelain is the hardest-wearing option. Luxury vinyl tile (LVT) is warmer, quieter and cheaper to lay. Avoid polished tiles where children climb out of the bath.

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.