Radiator replacement

john_white · 7 July 2015 at 8:13PM

Hi,

We are having two small rads replaced with bigger ones. One is the same width but much taller (towel rad) the other is wider and a designer radiator, which seems heavy at 40kg.

The first quote is £380 ( we are supplying the rads and valves).

I was expecting it to be about £200, no idea why tho

bridgedino · 7 July 2015 at 8:18PM

£380 seems steep unless it's going to take a whole day, or it's a British Gas quote

john_white · 7 July 2015 at 8:23PM

They did say they would need to strengthen the towel rad wall as it's just plasterboard. Possibly the same with the other rad.

jayyar66 · 8 July 2015 at 8:21AM

It's amazing how the time can add up, by the time you've fitted battens to fix the new rads to (if required) and got access under the floor to move pipes. Maybe a wee bit on the dear side, but not excessively so. But then I haven't seen the job

dirty_magic · 8 July 2015 at 9:48PM

We've just had a quote for £380 for moving the supply pipework to existing radiators and supplying two new ones so if yours is fitting only it sounds on the high side.

redmalc · 10 July 2015 at 1:51PM

John
we have just had a six foot radiator put in the kitchen and they had to chop the studded wall out to get a batten into the wall to fix to,also required re plastering

thegasmon · 23 July 2015 at 4:57PM

seems a good price for labour, pipe, fittings, chemicals, timber, etc.....

2 good quality bottles of inhibitor are £30-35 alone.

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