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Garage Roof Repair/Flashing
Hi all, Looking for some advice here. My house has a retrofit garage in which the roof isn't properly sealed to the wall (like that since we've been here). Had 2 quotes for a job with lead flashing ranging from £650-£750 which would include some brick repointing at the back. Does that seem expensive? Picture of roof…
Electrical work in a bungalow
Hi, ive just had a quote of £560 from a local electrician to remove the old mains board and replace with a new metal clad RCBO mains board with surge protection and also to upgrade the 16mm tails with 25 mm tails. And also, £120, to install 2x bonding conductors, one for incoming gas and one for incoming water supply! This…
New fence quote
Hi everyone, please could you let me know what you think of the quote we have received for replacing a boundary fence at 20 meters long? Dispose of old fence, prune any hedges and plants prior to new fence fit new posts (cost shared with neighbour) attach 6ft overlap panel fence £1600 with 50% deposit required (is this…
Carpet fitting quote
Evening all, Please can you tell me if the following quote for carpet fitting is accurate/fair. It's the labor side that concerns me. Since we've sourced the carpet and know the costs it's confusing why they are saying it's more than we calculated (I know it may be a tad more to allow for wastage) I'm concerned they are…
Quotes for Replacement Roof
Hi All, I am looking for some advice on the following two quotes for replacing a roof, that comprises of a part flat roof. What are your thoughts? Thanks in advance. Quote 1. Roof replacement - including flat roof: £9440. Flat roof - 2 millimeter underlay with 5 millimeter charcoal finish - 25 years guarantee.2 rolled…
Radiator take off
What kind of price would you think is reasonable for a plumber to take off a radiator and then come back at a later date to put it back on (for decorating purposes)?
Council tax
Our original park home in South Wales was in Band A in 1979. Currently it has been banded as a band C. When an appeal was made to the council regarding incorrect banding, was told "well all other similar properties are banded the same. When my local MP was questioned, after making enquires was informed that all the banding…
£1400 to do BUS grant paperwork?
Hey all, Very (very) long story short, we've been working towards getting our 1930's house properly insulated and a heatpump installed. We finally found an installer who we like, who understands what we want to do, and who can work with an insulation guy to get a correctly sized HP and have everything installed at the same…
Plumbing and Pipe work for downstairs toilet quote
Morning all, we have a utility room that sit beneath our bathroom upstairs, we are wanting to install a downstair toilet, We have a door to the outside and was planning to dig the floor up for the soil pipe and tap into the existing soil pipe outside. But due to the work required the plumber has said its will be easier to…
Comparing Two Roofing Quotes
Hi All, I'm in the process of buying a house and I know the roof needs some significant repairs. I thought as there isn't much life left in the roof and it looks poor, now was a good time to change it. It's a bungalow, three bedrooms, with a large dining room that was extended, extension consists of a flat roof. Jobs to be…
Replacing shower cubicle
I have a corner shower cubicle in my small en-suite, it's old and the frame has warped so need to get it replaced. Ideally want to get a slightly bigger one so will need a new tray and to extend or replace the tiles. Existing electric shower to be kept (capped off then put back on if re-tiling needed). I had a plumber to…
Repairs to soil pipe joints and gully
This is a victorian terrace, so combined sewer system. The soil pipe has been CCTV surveyed and has found that there were two displaced joints within about 1m of it going underground adjacent to the house. The same company have proposed a 'no dig' repair where I think they essentially apply some sort of plastic to the…
Kitchen supply and fitting
Hi all, looking at completely gutting my kitchen and starting again. After reading lots of threads and lots of horror stories I've been speaking to a local DIY store who have been around for 75 years that nobody seems to have a bad word to say about. Before I give them the go ahead wanted to check there is nothing raising…
Complete new roof.
Not me - asking on behalf of (older) friends who are normally quite savvy, but..... 4 bed house with a dorma window (nowhere near London or South East) They were concerned about mould in their bathroom, so asked a local builder to have a look at it. He promptly declared that their whole roof was on the verge of total…
Changing our mind on flooring
Hi - long story short, we needed our ground floor leveled urgently before our kitchen was installed but hadn’t decided on a floor. we went to a local flooring company who quoted us for the a floor and materials (as a placeholder until we chose one) which we’ve paid for at £4000 plus fitting seperately. we have had the…
Cost if window shutter
Does anyone know the cost of tier on tier window shutters that open down the centre of the window and fold back into the recess? We live in a typical terraced house and the total window size is 103cm wide and 165cm drop. This is split into two windows half way if that makes sense! Photo attached of the kind of things I am…
Cost of upgrading 9 radiators to trvs, plus a bit of pipe work?
Just looking for a rough guide, have 9 radiators - all have the old style twisty knobs to control flow and want to upgrade them all to trv valves. 5 of them have a standard sized pipe going in at opposite ends, 4 have this weird thing where the valve at one end has two micro bore pipes going in and there is no outlet at…
bathroom refit
had a quote for bathroom refit .£12-000 .this involes removing bath wash basin & shower unit & wc & radiator ,to be replaced by new shower unit ,wash basin & new wc all walls tiled & flooring & new radiator.thought this was a bit steep what does anybody else think .obviously i will be getting a few more quotes .tia
New Windows in Tenement Flat
I'm looking to get some very old windows replaced and I'm wondering what I should be looking out for. I stay in the Southside of Glasgow and saw a 2 vans in the area replacing windows, so I called them for quotes. One is just shy of 7k, the other just shy of 10k. 9 windows on the 3rd floor and approximately 1m x 2.3m each…
Loft insulation, half boarding out and loft ladder fitting
I am really struggling to get quotes for this. I have contacted so many people and only obtained 3 quotes. Small 3 bed semi in the south east. Current insulation about 50mm, I would like this topped up and around half the loft boarded, so I can store things and a loft ladder installed so I can access the space properly.…

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