Full floor retile or patch up?

One of the IP has missing tiles below the vanity. Trade suggested retiling the entire floor costing about $900.

If the bathroom in in good condition, I would have done it (and pick nicer tiles) - but problem is the bathtub. It was resurfaced 1.5 years ago and the resurfacer said it's rusting badly and he can't guarantee how long it will last (he usually guarantee 7 years but can't after looking at the condition).

So option is either patch the missing parts (i think will look terrible) or retile the floor with potential of redoing it in 1-3 years :-/

Thoughts?

 

Why not box in the vanity with a cabinet? It looks like the basin doesn't have one currently?

I would just repair the gap. Either try to match the tiles or use a colour that fits.

 

It has a hanging cabinet on top.
From photo...Tile is tiny 1960 tiles. I think trying to match it would be futile, so maybe just white tiles

 

If the shower/ bath is white tiled then that could work.

Or you could match the vanity top colour. Hard to know how this would look without seeing the whole bathroom, though.

I suspect small tiles might look best rather than larger ones whichever colour you use.

 

Everything else in the room is paneled, but smaller tiles might work... or bigger one coloured to make it look like it's supposed to be there

Will ask the $ to just patch it up.

 

I would just put the cheapest similar matching tiles i could find.
With a bathroom in that condition, its not like a tenant is going to go "oh the tiles don't match, I don't want to rent it".....

Fix it up cheaply, but make sure its proper so you don't get leakages resulting in wood rot etc.

Then at some point, tear the whole bathroom out and start again.

 

Can you bring forward the bathroom reno and do it all sooner?
Marg

 

I want to, but still have tenant at the moment with rental agreement until mid next year. Only 1 bathroom at the place

 

I had 1 bathroom in mine too.
It was a separate toilet + separate bathroom style.

The options i considered were
#1
Keep current structure
Renovate separate toilet
Renovate separate bathroom
Renovate laundry and make it into a laundry + 2nd bathroom

#2
Knockdown existing wall between toilet and bathroom and make it into a bigger toilet
Renovate laundry and make it into a laundry + 2nd bathroom

#3
Keep current structure
Keep separate toilet, but just change the pan and cistern
Add toilet to existing bathroom
Renovate laundry, but keep it as a laundry

I went with number #3 because it was the cheapest and best value on return.
The house is an older style house.
Without a major structural overhaul, it was always going to be smaller 3 bedroom house
The rental income increase would have been minimal (if any, even if i went to option #1 or #2).
I now have 1.5 bathrooms, which is good enough.

 

@neK Nice options... did you have a ball park on how much each option would have costed you?

This is a cheapy house, but addition of toilet in bathroom sounds good

 

@EN710 it was $10k for the bathroom reno.

To change the laundry to laundry + bathroom would have been around $10k too.

To knock down the wall between the separate toilet and bathroom would have been $2-3k (but only because the walls were concrete)

For the separate toilet, I was given two options $2700 for a full gut and retile and installation of a new basin OR $200 and change the toilet only (no basin) (in both options I needed to supply toilet / basin). You can guess which option i went with

Based on these
Option #1
$10 (laundry) + $10 (bathroom) + 2.7 (separate toilet)= 22.7k

Option #2
$3 (remove wall) + $12 (bathroom) + $10 (laundry) = 25k

Option #3
$1 (Gut and tile wet areas only) + $10 (Bathroom) + 0.2 (toilet) = 11.2k

At best Option #1 or #2 would have gained me an extra $10~20 per week.

 

Option 3 anyday....I had been quoted 3 years ago when I bought the property, for retile and change tub for 4K. Currently regretting for not going with it!

 

I think retile the floor. If you do other things later you can go upwards from the floor.

 

If all redone need waterproofing redone as well no?

 

Only issue with that is it forces @EN710 to match the exact existing layout. That's ok if the existing layout is the most effective, but from what i gathered from other posts, you could utilise the space better.

Either patch up on the cheap or if you're going to fix it, fix up properly once and for all.

 

It could be better I think - depends on how big it is. I have just redone the other bathroom and added shower space in a 1.5 x 2.2m room (separate toilet). Might not go that direction for this one but adding toilet sounds plausible...

My preference as well... $900 is hardly cheap