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Archives for January 2013

Double Glazing Quote
I had a company (based in the South East) fit 5 large windows last year (top quality spec) and they charged me £2900 for supply and installation. Although I know there were cheaper alternatives, I'm very happy with the service and quality and want to use them again. I've just asked them out for a quote for UPVC French…
Is This Carpet Quote Fair?
We're having a new carpet fitted in our house, and have received 3 quotes. :j Having called all the master carpet fitters in my area (http://www.nicfltd.org.uk), they all refuse to fit a carpet we have bought ourselves because they say there's no profit in it for them! Cheeky buggars... :) So it looks like we're having to…
Not a quote as such, but requesting advice
Hopefully some of the professionals on here will reply to this plea for advise on how to deal with a situation. We recently had some work done in the house (remove existing coving to main bedroom and dining room and replace with new moulded cornice, tape new cupboard and repairs to ceiling hatch and wall behind stove,…
House renovating in Barry
Hi there I live in Barry (South Wales). I have a house to renovate. I asked few local tradesmans for estimation for a work and now I am waiting. In the meantime I am trying to find how much labour could cost. 1) Scraping wallpaper from walls and ceilings. Dimensions aprox in square meters: bedroom 1 walls: 33 m2 - ceiling:…
Double Glazing Quote (Brighton)
Hi all, I have received 3 quotes ranging from £2,600 to £3,100 for purchasing and fitting double glazed windows as follows: 3 @ 1800x1200 mm 1 @ 425x1050 mm 1 @ 1210x1050 mm "A" Rated with easy clean hinges. The price includes submission of the necessary planning application. The quotes are from local firms, FENSA…
Plastering Quote
Hi I have been given a quote for plastering a slighly over (inches) 9ft x 5ft room inc ceiling of £200. Is this about right? Thanks
carpet fitting quote
I am looking for carpet to be fitted in 3 rooms and the hall/stairways the lounge is 2858 x 4813mm and so is the 1st bedroom the hsecond bedroom is 3861 by 2673 mm i do not have the exact measurments for the hall and stairs. please could anyone give a rough estimate as to the cost of this please cheers dan
£9000 quote for skimming/laying of cushion flooring re kitchen floor
I'm worried my parents are being taken advantage off. They have large stone (?) tiles with fairly large grouting margins that make up their kitchen floor at the moment. They want much softer flooring instead. Because of the existing tiles it is necessary to skim the floor. It will be two days work. It's a fairly large…
A heads up for me about to start looking for a double glazing quote
Hi Can any of the experienced people on here please give me some tips re: what I should be aware of before I begin my DG quote journey? I have a 1950s detached house with 10 windows and 3 pairs of French doors - currently all wooden. I'm considering replacing the doors/windows as I'm soon to weatherboard the place and…
wired smoke alarm system
Hello, I have been quoted £800 (including both labour and materials) to install a wired interlinked smoke alarm system -- one heat alarm in the kitchen, and smoke alarms in each of the living room, upper and lower hallways and three bedrooms (i.e. seven alarms in total). It is a compact ex-council maisonette. Wires will be…
New Gas System Boiler Quote
Hi, Quote to replace an aging Potterton Netaheat with a Vaillant system boiler in the same place in the kitchen: Vaillant EcoTEC Plus 630 system boiler and horizontal flue Vaillant spacer bracket to allow pipework to be routed up behind the boiler to the existing flow and return Heating system filter to keep the boiler,…
Fit 5 internal doors
£125 labour only. I am providing the doors and all fittings (Wickes) Old house so each hole different, some wonkey lintels too. Fair? D70
SE London - loft & s/s extension
Hi there - we're looking at getting some work done and have had two quotes, which are quite far apart. We bought the house several years ago, which already had the loft converted, however only into the eaves, with a side dormer. We have all the building reg approvals etc for ths. I want a hip to gable conversion, with two…
Installing a new wall hung basin vanity unit
Hi What is a fair price in South Wales to replace an existing washstand style sink unit similar to http://www.onlinebathrooms.com/product_info.php?products_id=2384&gclid=CMznuYOIgbUCFU3HtAodcywAVA with a wall hung sink shown below http://www.qssupplies.co.uk/bathroom-furniture-shower-taps/62807.htm All of the pipework will…
replacing back boiler with combi
Back boiler replaced with combi boiler. Going to be situated upstairs where hot water tank is now. £2450 for A rated boiler with 2 year guarantee or £2750 if we opt for Worcester boiler with 5 year guarantee. Both quotes include all pipework, parts and labour. Our house is 2 bed end terrace with 5 radiators (not being…
Architect fee - small extension
Small (roughly 1.5 x 3.5 m) single storey extension. Hopefully to be done under PD rather than needing to submit to planning. Quote is for detailed bulding regs plans and includes talking to the local building inspector to get to conditional approval stage but not the fees payable for the building regs application or site…
quote for Wetroom, bathroom fit and tiling
Hi, we recently had our kitchen tiled and they did such a great job we decided to get bathroom tiled and new suite and wetroom.They said they could provide all plumbing and tiling and gave us a quote but just want to check if it's reasonable at £5600. We are supplying suite , shower, new rad & victorian floor tiles. Live…
Carpet fitting all inc.?
I have a quote for £520 for carpet for lounge, 2 bedrooms and stairs in a flat/maisonette, is this about right? That's for everything (it's just floorboards at the moment) but he's worked it out on a small flat- mine might be a bit bigger. I haven't added top hallway or entrance hall in this, but I've never done this…
new boiler quote
Hi I just moved in to our new house just before Christmas and was planning to change the boiler anyway sometime in the future but our Biasi old one seems to be not up to scratch and is turning itself off with no reason and you have to leave it for a while and start again.. anyway.. Started the quoting system and one guy…
Kitchen Quality comparison
Not sure if this is the right place to post this but ive just had a Howdsen kitchen designer at my home along with someone from Wickes. The Wickes rep tried to claim that Howdens quality was inferior to that of Wickes. Whilst i believe this to be just a sales pitch i was wondering if anyone else agreed with his view ? as…

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