Plumbing for new bathroom

robwend

just remember you have no come back to this guy if anything goes wrong as hes doing it for cash and out of hours, im in this boat with a leaking soil pipe and using a bucket with 2 kids!! be warned, ive now got to claim on my insurance

keith234

great posts...!

Simon_Barron

Presumably he is not paying tax on the earnings either?

Don't you have any moral issues with him undercutting legal plumbers through fraud of tax payers - or is saving money all that matters?

Alan_M_2

Simon_Barron wrote:

Presumably he is not paying tax on the earnings either?

Don't you have any moral issues with him undercutting legal plumbers through fraud of tax payers - or is saving money all that matters?

Welcome to the Great British skill of turning a blind eye when it suits.:rolleyes:

James_N

sillymum wrote:

Hello

To cut a long story short we have had 3 quotes to have our old bathroom removed and a new one installed. We are supplying the bath, shower, shower cubicle, toilet, wash basin, tiles, etc and also paying for the plasterer and tiler. A few pipes will need removing from one side of the room and installed in the other side. Also, the toilet, bath and washbasin need repositioning slightly.

We've had two quotes from plumbers using the traditional copper pipe, and they are both almost £2.500 We were completely shocked as we thought it would be about a third of that amount!

We have had a quote from another plumber tonight, though, who has been recommended to us, who uses Hep2O plastic pipes (excuse me using the wrong terminology by the way, this is all new to me!!). His quote is £500 which would obviously save us a fortune. But would it be a false economy? Does anyone know about this type of plumbing and whether it's reliable??

Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks

A LESSON: OTHER PEOPLE"S DIY CAN BE LETHAL
We bought a flat in Scotland where the owner had "Done it up", including electrics and plumbing: it passed a basic valuation with no problem.
The second night we slept there I was woken by the sound of a pump running like mad. The bathroom was under water. Turning the stopcock did not solve the problem. Hours later, with soaked and ruined carpets and floors, and exausted I contacted the selling agent who ran down the problem through a series of professional tradesmen - and then the lawyers. It appears the owner's father had done all the plastic replumbing. All it took was one wrongly reversed and concealed sealing joint and an incompetent use of a DOUBLE shower pump to boost the SINGLE feed of low pressure hot-water for this disaster to strike: the wrongly assembled joint crept apart, then burst - only for the demand-led pump to pump the ENTIRE contents of the hot water cylinder out behind the panelling. Spurred by the discovery of this bit of lunacy I went on an inspection-blitz of everything else and discovered (I am no electrician but am a well informed ABLE DIYer):
An extensive jerry-built low voltage lighting system all supplied on a spur from a 45 amp cooker point.
A fridge supplied from TWO sets of differently sized cable all joined with tape and hidden behind the new units.
And worst of all - a junction box for the cooker base hidden at the back of a kitchen unit (as one does) but with NO COVER and POORLY BARED WIRES. Basicaly, a metal pan handle pushed to the back could have shorted across the terminals with fatal results.
Needless to say I had the whole place checked by a local company and all the faults professionally seen to. As the flat was firstly let to my own daughter and now her friends - no chance could be taken.
All the costs for plumbing, electical and flooring were paid by the seller's insurance after a fight. THANKS SCOTS LAW!
My own DIY sklls were well above this idiots, but I can see how it is the law needed to be changed. You should not do this work yourself now.
WATER AND ELECRTRICITY AND GAS CANNOT BE DONE ON THE CHEAP. YOU WILL "PAY" for poor work - perhaps with your life.

drpoth

people need to sort it out 2500 is well expensive, 500 seems about right not to cheap like has been mentioned a standard 1 in 1 out would be around 300 then plus extras like moving basin fittin shower ect but there are a hell of a lot of cowboys out there giving us all a bad name check he is fully quallified or at least has reasonable experiance or u might end up paying another plumber to come and fix his mistakes as i've regulary been called to repair another "PLUMBERS" f##k ups.