Installation of outside tap

mumoffour77

I have been quoted £60 for the installation of an outside tap,

I have the tap and my garage has a main water supply.....

Can anyone advise if this is a good price?

Pretani

Give us an idea of how difficult it woulf be for him?,

does he simply have to go through your garage wall?, it's a rip off, get a handyman.

or does he have to go from one side of the garage to the other? £60 is a good price

mumoffour77

Erm he just has to go through the garage wall.....

How much is reasonable?

Golden_Anemone

My lovely wonderful plumber Kevin charges me £15 an hour plus parts. Your plumber will need a metre or so of copper piping, a few joints and some lagging as well as the means to drill through the garage wall and an hour or so to fit the pipe. A fair rate is probably about £40. £60 isn't too bad to be honest. If you are in Co Down area I can PM you my plumber's contact details. He would be hard to beat. :-)

Pretani

£40 would still be on the high side. Lagging isn't dear, he'll also be using scraps for the pipe and will probably only have to buy 1 joint.

Why not try it yourself, you can buy plastic parts in B&Q, just use plumbers tape instead of solder.

ooo000ooo

15 or 16mm masonry drill would be about a tenner if you don't have one already though? Plumbing parts would be a few quid for the plastic stuff. Mop and bucket for when it all goes wrong, lifeboat call out if it really goes wrong......:)

bylromarha

If it's just going through a wall and connecting to the mains, you can get a £20 kit with all the bits you need and instructions from B+Q. The kit is a bit more expensive than all the seperate parts, but worth it for piece of mind to know you have everything. Assuming you have a drill with a masonry bit it is dead simple. Really. It is.

Milko

Regardless of what people on here tell you, only you can judge if its "reasonable".
Yes he may be using scraps of pipe, yes lagging isn't expensive, he probably already has the relevant drill bit (& bought the expensive drill) & yes it'll only take him about an hour ...
but he has to drive to you, do the work & warranty it, insure, tax & psv his van, public liability, tax, national insurance etc... all before he makes any money
So in answer to your question, do you want to drive to B&Q for the kit with "everything" in it & take a stab at it yourself or can you warrant paying £60 to have it done by a professional (assuming you've already had other quotes)
That all said, plumbers really have got a license to print money :rotfl:

mumoffour77

I would like to thank YOU ALL, for your helpful advice!!

BUT

My Daddy is amazing and put it in for me!!!!

Pretani

Dads are useful, wish mine was as handy, usually I do all the work for him lol

mumoffour77

Pretani wrote: »

Dads are useful, wish mine was as handy, usually I do all the work for him lol

Anything to do with ordering things over the internet, I do for him:D, He done it in the nicest way tho, I went off to the hospital on sunday....as i do every sunday and came back to it being done!!:money: