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Author	jerrysprinkles
Comment	Hi my partner and I are in a similar boat. Top floor tenement, moving a galley bathroom internally, knocking a hole through a wall (and also moving a kitchen). Rough guide as follows based on our research: As mentioned previously, you absolutely need to speak to Building control [contactable here. ](https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=17319) You’ll need to submit basic drawings of the alterations you want to make for their approval. There’s an admin fee of approx £120 for this. You’ll also need to pay someone to do the drawings most likely. You need to find a structural engineer to advise on any work to walls. In a tenement flat, internal walls tend to be single leaf of brick and every wall tends to run the full height of the building so knocking holes on the GF can have serious repercussions to neighbours above. I’d budget between £600-800 for an SE to advise, design any steelwork required and provide you with an SEC certificate (which you’ll need to be granted approval by building control). Budget another 2k approx for the actual work to change the wall etc. If you’re moving the bathroom, you’ll need to review where your soil vent pipe and waste water drainage exits the building. You might get lucky in your new bathroom placement but chances are by extending the distance between this exit and your bathroom, you won’t have sufficient depth under your floor to meet the required “drainage falls” - this could either mean you having to raise your bathroom floor or re-route your pipe work altogether. Budget at least another 2k for this process. Probably another £500 for extract air services and potentially £100-200 for new lighting. Depending on gas pipe and electric wiring in the flat, you could be looking at 1000-2000 each to upgrade/re-do these services (we’ve been quoted around £1500 for a new boiler installation). Re-plastering after the work looks to be around £300-500 per room based on sqm sizes. Painting you can do yourself but otherwise is £150-300 a room in my experience. These figures are all obviously before you purchase a new bathroom suite etc itself so add on top whatever you have in mind. We’re budgeting approx £25k for everything all together but you might be more like £15-20k absolute worst case scenario. If you take on the work yourself, you could maybe bring this down nearer to £10k Happy to provide any more info via a dm if it would help :) I work as an architect so might be able to at least steer you in the right sort of direction! Best of luck in any case! P.s. [this website ](https://www.priceyourjob.co.uk/) is excellent for just getting your head around what’s involved in various projects and for what the going rate (roughly) of what tradesmen/materials etc cost
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Hi my partner and I are in a similar boat. Top floor tenement, moving a galley bathroom internally, knocking a hole through a wall (and also moving a kitchen). Rough guide as follows based on our research:

As mentioned previously, you absolutely need to speak to Building control [contactable here. ](https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=17319)
You’ll need to submit basic drawings of the alterations you want to make for their approval. There’s an admin fee of approx £120 for this. You’ll also need to pay someone to do the drawings most likely.

You need to find a structural engineer to advise on any work to walls. In a tenement flat, internal walls tend to be single leaf of brick and every wall tends to run the full height of the building so knocking holes on the GF can have serious repercussions to neighbours above. I’d budget between £600-800 for an SE to advise, design any steelwork required and provide you with an SEC certificate (which you’ll need to be granted approval by building control). Budget another 2k approx for the actual work to change the wall etc.

If you’re moving the bathroom, you’ll need to review where your soil vent pipe and waste water drainage exits the building. You might get lucky in your new bathroom placement but chances are by extending the distance between this exit and your bathroom, you won’t have sufficient depth under your floor to meet the required “drainage falls” - this could either mean you having to raise your bathroom floor or re-route your pipe work altogether. Budget at least another 2k for this process. Probably another £500 for extract air services and potentially £100-200 for new lighting.

Depending on gas pipe and electric wiring in the flat, you could be looking at 1000-2000 each to upgrade/re-do these services (we’ve been quoted around £1500 for a new boiler installation).

Re-plastering after the work looks to be around £300-500 per room based on sqm sizes. Painting you can do yourself but otherwise is £150-300 a room in my experience.

These figures are all obviously before you purchase a new bathroom suite etc itself so add on top whatever you have in mind. We’re budgeting approx £25k for everything all together but you might be more like £15-20k absolute worst case scenario. If you take on the work yourself, you could maybe bring this down nearer to £10k

Happy to provide any more info via a dm if it would help :) I work as an architect so might be able to at least steer you in the right sort of direction! Best of luck in any case!

P.s. [this website ](https://www.priceyourjob.co.uk/) is excellent for just getting your head around what’s involved in various projects and for what the going rate (roughly) of what tradesmen/materials etc cost