Bathroom boxing in and tiling quote.

elsien

I had someone put a new suite in which led to some extra unexpected work once the old airing cupboard came out, so I'm wanting one person to come in and finish off the lot just to make life easier.
When someone recommended to me came to quote, he said he'd work on a day rate of £120, assuming it would take 5 days so it would be less if he did it quicker.
Then I got this in the post, which seems an awful lot to me bearing in mind it's a small room, so comments would be appreciated as it seems to be a fixed quote regardless of how long it takes.

Re-route 22 mm pipework (this is in one corner, runs for a couple of feet and does not involve lifting any floorboards, although obviously it'll mean draining the system.)
Repair all holes in ceilings and walls (mainly filling in where the old pipes came out, with a couple of larger bits where I've had electric cables run into the wall, and a slightly dodgy bit on the ceiling.)
Lay boarding to floor area (this is to cover the knackered floorboards so I can have lino down.)
Lay flooring (customer to supply floor materials)
Tile walls to agreed height (customer to supply tiles)
Make bath panel (must be removeable)
Make box section for end of bath
Make box section to hide pipe work between hand basin and toilet (no more than 3 feet)
Tile all box sections and bath pane.

Parts and labour £960.

The amount of tiling including all the boxing in is about 8 sq m. And the suite that was put in is fine - no remedial work to put right, or anything.

elsien

Forgot to say, I'm in the Midlands.

elsien

Anyone able to help?

darich

That's almost as much as the labour to do my whole bathroom.
That included
remove old suite
repair some damp/damaged floorboards
new gyproc on ceiling and 1.5 walls
new tiles on the rest of the walls including boxing bath in (non removable - now regretting it cos a bath tap is loose and we can't tighten it)
plywood on floor and new ceramic tiles on floor
fit mixer shower and shower screen
fit mirror with built in lights.]
take all old parts and suite to tip

all that was done in around a week and cost me something like £1200 in Glasgow

on the face of it your price seems a bit high.
I'd be reluctant to agree to a daily rate - it's not in his interest to speed the work along. Also to an untrained eye he could make a mistake (deliberately or not) then spend additional time fixing it......all at your agreed daily rate.

Get a fixed quote........then if he's slow, he's the one losing out.

elsien

The daily rate bit seems to have vanished as the quote appears to be a fixed one. It does seem high, but the tiler the plumber recommended said £750. and that was without the plaster work, rerouting the pipe and the flooring.
Which is why I thought I'd ask on here, as I only seem to be finding expensive people at the moment!