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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Can you be more specific in what you are doing, suite staying in the same place? How old is the old one. I have put in a suite lately and came up against imperial pipe work, toilet waste too far from the wall and the bath waste was in brass! There are numerous adaptors available for the pipe work, get plumbers to quote and to explain exactly - ask about....
Isolation valves on the hot and cold feed pipes, use of flexible pipes, copper pipe to be used or plastic(plastic pipes are available now for hot water applications), toilet soil waste which will be going through your floor or through the wall- ask how easy it will be to couple to a new modern toilet ( ask about Multikwik adaptors- these are anything up to �28.00). Cold water feed to your existing toilet cistern- where is it? modern toilets are piped low and behind the toilet so this pipework will need rerouting.Get them to earth bond all metal pipework where possible
A good plumber will do this job easily in a day with a mate. Copper fittings are pricey, i would be happy to pay around �250 - �300 inclusive of vat and materials
Check out www.Screwfix.co.uk for prices of copper fittings, waste traps, isolation valves, flexi pipes.