bathroom quote.... Does this seem reasonable?

[Dupont666]

Been quoted £2,817.50 for my bathroom and was wondering what you lot thought of the quote.

It involves:

Strip out existing bath, basin and toilet and dispose of.
Strip off all existing tiling.
Take up laminate flooring
Remove all boxing to check what it covers

Plaster skim bathroom ceiling.
Install four shower/fire rated chrome downlighters to be switched
from outside. Low voltage with individual transfromers

Lay marine ply to floor to provide suitable surface for floor tiles.
(If necessary remove existing floorboards level joists and lay ply
atop).

Fit steel Kaldewei 1600 bath along window wall and make frame
Fit closecoupled toilet along right hand wall and new washbasin
New bath taps, basin taps and surface mounted thermostatic shower control

New soil pipe to toilet and all new fittings to external waste.
Box in where pipes visible

Tiling to floor and tiling to wet area to bath/shower

Fit new chrome towel rail
Labour £2450:00
vat@15% £367:50
Materials PC sums £2,817.50
Bath toilet and basin £500.00
Bath and basin taps £350.00
Shower mixer and slider kit £225.00
Tiles £250.00
Towel Rail £135.00
Bath panel £60.00
Miscellaneous fittings ply etc
timber, adhesive grout plaster. £200.00
Light fittings £80.00
Total £1800:00


I can get anything I want from another supplier and they dont mind that either, but since im new at this bathroom fitting stuff thought i would check and see if you lot think its reasonable. That includes the materials.

Ta

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

That's not too bad in my experience....as long as they stick to it and the 'extra's' don't mount up.

Edited to say:-

If that's London it's actually a rather good quote!

Edited by ThatPhilBrettGuy on Tuesday 14th April 12:28

[CatherineJ]

I don't think that is too bad at all.

We are currently having our shower cubical replaced. We are paying £1,848 and that is for:

Stripping out the Existing Cubical, Shower Mixer and Tiles

Installing new Stone Resin Tray, Door, Shower Mixer and Tiles.

[Dupont666]

That is in London and was a recommendation from a friend who is a PHer... anyone know any good bathroom suppliers so i can look up some individual prices themselves?

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Dupont666 said:

That is in London and was a recommendation from a friend who is a PHer... anyone know any good bathroom suppliers so i can look up some individual prices themselves?

Most of the online box shifters should be you an idea and to be honest they're much of a muchness. I tend to use a place in Southend (Hadleigh Bathrooms) but they don't have many online prices when I last looked.

[JRM]

Yeah that looks pretty OK to me (being a fellow Londoner). Removing old tiles and making good the walls is a hell of a job

[Chris77]

Looks about right to me. best bet get 2 more quotes and compare. If you want a laugh go to BnQ get them to quote as they are advertising 50% off all bathrooms and instalation, one of our customers did and it was £6K!!! and that was half price!!! for a basic bathroom

[Dupont666]

Damn... just got a friend to redo the quote so it can be read properly as the mac has issues with xls.

Its £2800 for labour and £1800 for materials making the quote closer to £4600.

Just how long does it take to refurb a bathroom and how hard is it?

I thought it would be less than 5 days and that makes it £560 a day to do stuff.

Im now wondering how much I can do myself as I can live at the OHs flat whilst I do everything.

Have asked the builder to quantify the estimate as I have no actual estimate total over all that why I assumed the £2800 included the materials as well.

[sleep envy]

Dupont666 said:

I thought it would be less than 5 days

really?

want a job as a site agent?

[CatherineJ]

Ah well that is a bit different.

As a comparison when we looked to have the whole bathroom done (excluding the tiling and flooring we were quoted £1,800 for the labour. That was to fit the shower tray, door, shower mixer, bath and taps, sink and taps and toilet.

[spikeyhead]

You could always strip out everything yourself, get a plaster in to skim the walls and ceiling a flooring bloke to sort the floor, a tiler to do the walls, a sparks to fit the lights and a plumber for the rest, btu I suspect the cost of phoning them all up when they've not turned up, and to delay the others because of a delay from the first one will outweigh any savings.

[-C-]

Having done the majority of our bathroom myself, I would be inclined to have a go at it yourself. Its really not that difficult. You have one big advantage of time. You won't be so rushed to get the job done for maximum profit.

At worst I would strip the whole lot out yourself, and make as much good as you can.

It's easy to say it now, but i'd even give the plumbing a go too. You could easily save a fortune

[Plotloss]

Dupont666 said:

I thought it would be less than 5 days and that makes it £560 a day to do stuff.

If one man could do all that in 5 days he'd be worth £560 a day.

[sleep envy]

Strip out existing bath, basin and toilet and dispose of. Day 1
Strip off all existing tiling. Day 2
Take up laminate flooring Day 2
Remove all boxing to check what it covers Day 1

Plaster skim bathroom ceiling. Day 3
Install four shower/fire rated chrome downlighters to be switched
from outside. Low voltage with individual transfromers Day 4

Lay marine ply to floor to provide suitable surface for floor tiles. Day 5
(If necessary remove existing floorboards level joists and lay ply
atop). additional day if required

Fit steel Kaldewei 1600 bath along window wall and make frame Day 6
Fit closecoupled toilet along right hand wall and new washbasin Day 6
New bath taps, basin taps and surface mounted thermostatic shower control Day 7

New soil pipe to toilet and all new fittings to external waste. Day 7
Box in where pipes visible Day 7

Tiling to floor and tiling to wet area to bath/shower Day 8 & 9

mastic and builder's clean incl paint door and making good frame/architrave day 10

can't be done in 5 days - you can't get all the trades in one room with one working on the ceiling, the other on a wall and the last on the floor...

[Dupont666]

how difficult to remove the suite myself or at least get it into a state that it just needs picking up and throwing away and what kid of price will that save me?

is it worth doing that?

the boxed in bit I can tear apart as its plaster/fibre board and needs checking anyway.... so a hammer and a saw and having some fun by me can also be done.

[Chris77]

Dupont666 said:

I thought it would be less than 5 days

Yea just like changeing rooms, Good luck with that

[sleep envy]

very easy as long as you turn off the water

is it a cast iron bath? you can smash it up to m ake getting it out of the flat far easier

also taking tiles off the wall is very easy too

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

sleep envy said:

also taking tiles off the wall is very easy too

Well, that depends! At one house we had they were the original tiles from the 20's and the only way was to kango back to the brick. Right arse of a job that turned out to be.

[Dupont666]

but how much reasonably can i assume it might reduce the price?

2 days... take off £560 off the quote?

just for tiles, suite disconnection and box removal.

2 porcelain and plastic bath.

[Chris77]

sleep envy said:

also taking tiles off the wall is very easy too

That does depend on how they are fixed to the wall really, the old method of cementing each one is a bastid to get off, or if powder adhesive is used. modern acrylic adhesive is alot easier to remove.

Ive just spent 2 days with a chissil in my bathroom and still got more to remove