Bathroom Quotes - can we ask them to go lower?

suisidevw

FWIW, I went from the below to the below including all building materials (plasterboard, ply, timber etc) and adhesive etc. I supplied the loo,shower,taps,tiles,grout,rad etc. He also did my underfloor heating for £1750

andyhop

suisidevw wrote: »

FWIW, I went from the below to the below including all building materials (plasterboard, ply, timber etc) and adhesive etc. I supplied the loo,shower,taps,tiles,grout,rad etc. He also did my underfloor heating for £1750

Not a bad install but not perfect

Expansion joints looked grouted not siliconed, Waste pipes on show when should have been chased into the walls, Rad pipes look squint, No tile trims used and biscuit colour of tile looks terrible on shelf edge

As for the other 2 prices, Both seem very cheap and the spec is very low. No tanking membranes, Both doing the cheapest /lowest of preperation, One doing none and the other boarding over existing plaster which is probably loose and now hes reducing the size of the room by 25mm per wall

I spend approx £700-£900 per bathroom on building materials alone. This consists of a complete rip out of plaster, floor and ceiling. Skip hire is approx £150. Bathroom designed to last 25-30+yrs....I see too many bathrooms fitted by so called specialists that fail at less than 10% of that.....What can appear a bargain now isnt!!

suisidevw

Which are the expansion joints? Rad pipes defo not squint, didn't think of the tile trims and I personally disagree with the colour on the shelf edge! That's all personal opinion of course.

Goleo

We went with Bob (the more expensive one).
He started work on Monday, ripped out all the bathroom, tiles etc back to the brick. Put plasterboard stuff on the walls and has tiled on them. Can't say i'm ecstatic with it up to now. I came home from work today and have a few issues to raise with him when I see him in the morning. I hope he doesn't think i'm a moaning perfectionist but I'm paing a lot for this so I want a good job doing.

1. The tiles are further out than the door frame - this seems a bit weird to me.
2. The bath taps are very close to the wall and i'm concerned how he will seal/grout around them.
3. Sink being added in separate toilet (next to the room with the sink and bath in it). He mentioned to my partner that he was going to tile the floor in there - I want the pipes to come up out of the floor not go along the wall from next room. Ideally they would be in the wall - is this possible?

What are expansion joints?