£1600 to fit bathroom suite and tile?

lomogomez

Hi there, first post so hope you've got some good advice for me...

Just had a quote through for re-doing our bathroom, involving fitting a new suite, heated towel rail, shower and tiling everything. The room measures 1.68 x 1.88 metres with an average height ceiling and the floor measures approximately 120 x 170 metres. The only special requirement is having the shower and basin pipes chased into the walls which are plaster and thermalite block (I think, its the soft stuff anyway).

I'm taking out the old suite myself, having the walls skimmed level and nailing marine ply to the chipboard floor, and also supplying all of the tiles, adhesives, grout, fixtures and fittings. I live just outside Bury, directly north of Manchester outside the M60, and the quote is for fitting the bathroom suite, modifying the pipework to sit inside the walls and tiling it (well under 15sq/m in total).

What do you all reckon?

Tom_Jones

Plumber probably 2 days @ around £250 per day, Tiler 3 days @ £200 per day so around £1100 would be more like it IMHO

plumb1_2

Are you suppling the bathroon suite? if so the quote is a little heavy.

ps, dont nail the ply, screw it!
Had to drive through Bury today back from Rochdale, the M60 was closed:mad:

BobProperty

plumb1 wrote:

Are you suppling the bathroon suite? if so the quote is a little heavy.

ps, dont nail the ply, screw it!
Had to drive through Bury today back from Rochdale, the M60 was closed:mad:

and you don't need marine ply, WBP is good enough.

lomogomez

I know plumb1, the weather's awful at the mo, half the houses where I live are missing chunks of roof, I actually work in Rochdale and its been a bit of a nightmare getting back recently.

Must say it did seem a bit steep to me, and yes, I am supplying the suite, so it really is just labour and basic materials. Been told it should take about a week and a half, that's one person doing everything.

Thanks for the tip on the ply, but forgiving my ignorance, what's 'WBP'?

BobProperty

WBP = Water/Weather Boil Proof. Marine is something like better quality laminations (so it can be shaped ?) and/or salt water resistant/proof. So you don't need to go to the expense of Marine, WBP being expensive enough anyway

plumb1_2

lomogomez wrote:

I know plumb1, the weather's awful at the mo, half the houses where I live are missing chunks of roof, I actually work in Rochdale and its been a bit of a nightmare getting back recently.

Must say it did seem a bit steep to me, and yes, I am supplying the suite, so it really is just labour and basic materials. Been told it should take about a week and a half, that's one person doing everything.

Thanks for the tip on the ply, but forgiving my ignorance, what's 'WBP'?

No more than £1200 tops imo

dobs

Well i just had my bathroom done the builder charged me £2,000 not including plumber plasterer electrician bath suite tiles etc etc!cost £5,000 altogether and yes i did nearly faint!Just try and get a complete quote up front cos mine charges by the day but it took six weeks altogether as he's good but v slow. If i'd known i'd have gone for a fixed price. the bathrooms lovely but i still can't bear to think of the final cost!