How Much Does It Cost To Fit a Shower Tray?
Cost To Fit a Shower Tray
| Job | Description | Labour |
| 1 | A like for like shower tray changeover. It’s bound to go past a day’s work, so that’s 1.5 days labour | £290 |
| Plus materials etc. for the above | £100 | |
| 2 | If the waste needs reconfiguring and the floor is wooden add …… | £120 |
| 3 | If the waste needs reconfiguring and the floor is solid, or wooden but needs strengthening add… | £250 |
| 4 | For a bigger/smaller tray, see our page on fitting a shower cubicle | £?? |
“Labour” at £175 a day (tradesman) £100 (labourer), includes incidental fixings etc. and tipping. “Materials” if mentioned, are larger things (a boiler) and stuff only you can choose (tiles etc). Also VAT must be added all round.
Information Sheet on Fitting a Shower Tray
Bit of a can of worms this one. I was once asked by a South African chap to change one for him. A day later we were both on the case. I was under the floor in the next room feeding a waste pipe to him through a hole…. and it was never going to work.
He was a wealthy man, had never been involved in the lowlife, seamy, grime-filled, thankless task of trying to manipulate the “unmanipulatable”, that is the sorry lot of the working man. He might have been wealthy and used to moving in better circles than he found himself in at that moment but he slithered right down to my level when he sighed and said…
“I’ll tell you what mate, forget this. (obviously he didn’t actually use the word “forget”)….I’m going to hire a bulldozer and demolish the house, then we can start from scratch!
(By the way…only South Africans can say “scratch” like that).
Only if you can fit exactly the same shower tray as the old one, can you guarantee there won’t be anything but the usual problems to solve (no job is ever totally problem free) ie removing and replacing the cubicle.
1. A different sized shower tray will mean a complete new cubicle and tiling.
2. A different configuration shower tray will mean that the waste outlet won’t be in the same position. If the floor is solid, this will mean a bit of demolition!
3. A lower shower tray will require more tiling, can you still get matching ones?
4. A taller shower tray will mean tile cutting (and they will be stuck to the wall)!
Whatever shower tray gets fitted, the cubicle will have to be removed and returned and this may need new fixing holes. If the wall is timber studding, will there be anything to screw to? Also, I don’t care how careful he is, some of the bottom tiles will come away. AND he will probably need a new waste outlet and that has to match as well!!
I’ll warm the bulldozer up shall I?
FAQs 'traffic light' guide
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What's easy about this job…
Open or CloseEven like for like is never easy so expect delays
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What's tricky about this job…
Open or CloseMaking sure your new waste fits. Are there joists in the way?
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Potential problems with regards to this job…
Open or CloseIf you want a low-profile tray, but have had a higher one previously, this may mean you do not have enough 'fall' i.e. the water cannot run up hill! You may have to lift your floor and alter your soil stack.
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