Plumbing toilet

crabbycrabcrab · 13 August 2017 at 2:33PM

Had an issue with the toilet and I am away so left it to a housemate to let the plumber in. The plumber said the inlet had fail, the duel flush along with the button needed replacing too. The toilet also needed rodding.
He quoted £150. Is this the right kind of price range for this kind of work?

phill99 · 13 August 2017 at 5:34PM

Depends where you are. Plumbers are a law unto themselves. A flush valve is about £15. Plus standard call out, plus VAT, so £150 isn't off the scale.

Carrot007 · 13 August 2017 at 5:43PM

Depends on the quality of the toilet/parts/fiddlyness.

After moving to my current house the toilet failed. Rather than fiddle about I got a Wickes all in one cistern stuff prefitted dual flush toilet for £60 and fitted it myself (only needing a cheap outlet bend and some goop above the toilet).

That makes it seems expensive to me.

However the expense in plumbing is the labour so yes depends where you are.

crabbycrabcrab · 13 August 2017 at 5:47PM

Hey guy was in the house for about 30mins doing the work. Not sure if that changes anything.

phill99 · 13 August 2017 at 6:46PM

crabbycrabcrab wrote: »

Hey guy was in the house for about 30mins doing the work. Not sure if that changes anything.

Not really. Its a standard callout. Remember you aren't paying for time, you are paying for expertise. If we only paid for time, brain surgeons would be paid the same as truck drivers.

crabbycrabcrab · 13 August 2017 at 9:59PM

Cool, seems like it about right then:) I will use him for future work!

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