What would a walk in shower cost for your bathroom?
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What does a walk in shower actually cost?
The straight answer, with real prices, before anyone sets foot in your home.
Prices reflect UK installer and trade cost guides published in 2026. Last reviewed September 2026.
If you have rung around for bathroom prices, you will already know the frustrating part: hardly anyone will give you a number. Some firms will not quote at all until a salesman is sitting in your front room. Families report quotes for the same small bathroom varying by thousands of pounds, and discounts that appear the moment you hesitate.
This page does it the other way round. Here are the honest ranges first, what moves them up or down, and then, if you want it, the exact figure for your own bathroom from a free home visit. No pressure at any point.
Get my free written quote5 quick questions · free written quote from an established local installer · no pressureTypical UK walk in shower and wet room prices in 2026
A quick word on how to read this table. These are supplied and fitted prices for the accessible version of each job, done by a firm that fits them every week. The lower end is a straightforward swap in a small bathroom where the drain is already close to where the shower is going. The upper end is a bigger room, a moved drain, or a floor that has to come up.
| The job | Typical price installed | What that usually buys |
|---|---|---|
| Bath replaced with a walk in shower | typically from around £3,500 to £9,500 | The bath out, a low tray or level access shower in its place, the walls made good and a screen or door fitted |
| Full wet room conversion | typically from around £5,000 to £15,000 | The whole floor tanked and laid to a fall, new drainage, slip resistant flooring and the room refitted around it |
| Walk in bath | typically from around £2,700 to £4,750 | A door sealed bath supplied and fitted, with a seat and thermostatic controls |
The walk in shower and wet room ranges come from the 2026 accessible bathroom price guides published by Absolute Mobility and EA Mobility, and the wet room cost guide published by Checkatrade. The walk in bath range comes from the 2026 walk in bath cost guide published by MyJobQuote.
If you have seen much lower prices advertised, check what they include. A general bathroom fitter quoting an ordinary shower enclosure in place of a bath can come in at well under these figures, and for some homes that is the right job. The ranges above are for the accessible version: a low or level threshold, a floor that drains properly, and grab points set where they are actually needed.
Before you ask for a quote, here is the difference
Four words get used as if they mean the same thing, and they do not. This is the part that makes two quotes for the same room look thousands apart.
- A bath replacement shower. The bath comes out and a shower goes in the same footprint, on a low tray with a small step up. The cheapest of the four, and for plenty of people it is enough.
- A level access shower. The tray sits flush with the floor, so there is nothing to step over at all. The floor usually has to come up to get the drain low enough, which is where the extra cost lives.
- A full wet room. The whole room is waterproofed and laid to a fall, with the drain in the floor and no tray at all. The most work, the most flexible, and the easiest room to use with a frame or a chair.
- A walk in bath. A bath with a sealed door, for someone who still wants a soak rather than a shower. You get in, close the door, then it fills, and it has to empty again before you get out.
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Check my bathroom5 quick questions · takes under a minuteWhich one do you need?
Walk in shower
The bath goes, a shower takes its place. Low tray or fully level, depending on how much floor work the room allows.
The usual answer for most homes
Wet room
The whole room waterproofed and drained. Nothing to step over anywhere, and room for a carer or a shower chair.
Most work, most flexible
Walk in bath
For someone who wants a proper soak rather than a shower. A sealed door instead of a high side to climb over.
A bath, without the climb
Two questions usually settle it. Does the person want to sit and soak, or stand and shower? And is there any chance they will need a frame, a chair or someone helping them in the next few years? A soak points to a walk in bath. Help or a chair points to a wet room. Everything else is usually a walk in shower.
What moves the price up or down
- Room size and layout. A small bathroom where the shower goes exactly where the bath was is the cheapest job on the list. Moving the basin or the toilet to make space turns it into a refit.
- Moving plumbing or drainage. This is the big one. If the waste can stay roughly where it is, the job stays simple. If the drain has to travel, or a pump is needed to get the water away, the price steps up.
- Floor works and tanking. Level access and wet rooms need the floor taken down and waterproofed properly. On a timber floor that means cutting into joists and rebuilding. On concrete it is different work again. This is what separates a tray shower from a true wet room.
- Fittings chosen. Screens, seats, taps, grab points, flooring and tiling all have a fair range. A good installer will show you where spending more is worth it and where it is not.
Why do people have it done?
Not usually because of one dramatic moment. Usually because the bath has quietly become the hardest part of the house. The side is high. The bottom is slippery. Getting out takes both arms and a plan. The shower over the bath has not been used in a year because nobody fancies standing in it.
- Washing properly again. A room that works is a room people use. That is the whole point of the job.
- Staying in the home you know. A new bathroom costs a fraction of moving house or building a downstairs extension.
- Easier on family, too. Sons and daughters stop worrying about the bath, and stop having the same circular conversation about it.
- The room still looks like a bathroom. Done well, it reads as a modern bathroom, not a hospital. That matters more to most people than they admit out loud.
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What you want changed, who it is for, when, whether the home is owned or rented, and how you expect to pay. That is all we need to sort your written quote. It takes under a minute.
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A local installer comes out, measures the room, looks at the floor and the drainage, and talks you through what will actually fit. No script, no pressure, no obligation. Bring a son or daughter into the conversation if you would like; good installers welcome it. They will call it a survey, because that is the trade word for it.
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Fitted, usually inside a week on site
A straightforward bath swap is often 3 to 5 days. A full wet room is usually 5 to 7. A good installer tells you up front how many of those days you will be without a usable bathroom, and most will work around one usable toilet throughout.
What a fair installer looks like:
Free home visit, written quote valid 30 days, no prices that expire today, the VAT question asked and answered before quoting, honest advice about which of the 4 jobs your room actually needs, and a clear answer on how many days the bathroom is out of use. Where this guide covers your area, an established local installer works exactly this way.
Paying for it: private, VAT relief and the council grant
There are two routes, and most families end up on the private one. Here is what each involves, honestly.
Paying privately. You choose the installer, you choose the date, and the work happens when you say so. No council forms. No means test. The written quote is the price, and it holds for 30 days so you can think about it.
The council route: the Disabled Facilities Grant. This is real money and worth knowing about. In England a Disabled Facilities Grant can be worth up to £30,000, in Wales up to £36,000 and in Northern Ireland up to £35,000, and it is administered by your local council. For an adult it is means tested, although Foundations, the national body for home improvement agencies, notes that people already receiving a means tested benefit usually get a full grant, and that where the adaptation is for a disabled child there is no means test at all. Savings affect how much you get rather than ruling you out.
The part nobody mentions is the wait. Foundations reports that the total average time to complete a Disabled Facilities Grant in England was 247 working days in 2023 to 2024, up from 223 the year before. That is roughly a year of assessments, approvals and scheduling. For a family who can manage, that wait is fine and the grant is worth having. For a family where someone cannot safely use the bath now, it is the reason a great many people pay privately instead.
Those are your options. If you want to try the grant, start by contacting your local council and asking for an occupational therapy assessment. If you want the work done sooner, a written quote is useful either way, and the grant paperwork asks for one.
Questions people always ask
How many days will we be without a bathroom?
For a bath swapped for a walk in shower, usually 3 to 5 working days on site, with the room unusable for most of that. A full wet room is usually 5 to 7 because the tanking and the floor need time to go off properly. Ask the installer at the visit how many of those days the toilet stays usable, because with most layouts it can be, and that is the difference between an inconvenience and a nightmare.
Will it look like a hospital?
Not unless you choose fittings that do. Grab points come in brushed steel and matt black as well as white plastic, screens are the same glass a new bathroom would use, and slip resistant flooring now comes in wood and stone patterns. Ask to see photographs of the installer's last 3 jobs. If they all look clinical, that is the installer, not the job.
Can I get a price without a home visit?
You can get a realistic idea without anyone visiting, and the ranges on this page are that idea. A firm written quote does need somebody to see the room, because the price turns almost entirely on the floor and the drainage, and nobody can see those in a photograph. Either way, no one visits unless you ask.
Does the floor really have to come up?
For a level access shower or a wet room, usually yes, at least in part, because the drain has to sit below the floor surface and the floor has to fall towards it. On a timber floor that means working between the joists. On a concrete floor it can mean a pumped waste instead. If an installer promises level access with no floor work at all, ask them to explain exactly where the water goes.
Is a wet room a problem when we come to sell?
A well built one is a modern bathroom and estate agents treat it as such. A badly tanked one is a leak waiting to happen, which is the real reason to use somebody who fits them every week rather than a general builder doing their first. Ask what waterproofing system they use and what guarantee comes with it, in writing.
What about a walk in bath, is the wait to fill it as bad as people say?
You do sit in an empty bath while it fills, and you do wait for it to drain before the door opens, so it is worth asking to see one and timing it. Fast fill taps and quick drain waste help a good deal. For somebody who genuinely wants to soak, most owners say it is a fair trade. For somebody who is happy showering, a walk in shower is the simpler answer.
Do we need planning permission or building regulations?
Planning permission, almost never for work inside an existing bathroom. Building regulations can apply to drainage, electrics and ventilation, and a proper installer handles that as part of the job. Ask who is certifying the electrical work and make sure the answer appears on the quote.
Can you fit around a downstairs toilet or a small room?
Often yes. Some of the neatest jobs are the small ones, because a compact room needs less floor work. The visit is what settles it. Bring a tape measure to the phone call if you like, but the width of the doorway and what is under the floor matter more than the floor area.
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