Fit new bathroom suite cost

Leif

keystone wrote: »

£5k seems high for where I am too. Average job is £ 2k - £ 2½k excl suite, tiles etc. Average elapsed timescale is two weeks.

Yes, 2 weeks here too. That seems cheap, especially for your area. Obviously I am not questioning the above, you know better than most the current prices. I wish I could have found someone at that price. My first amount was a bit high (I forgot the exact quotes), but about £4K plus furniture was the cheapest. Prices for things like tiling seemed outrageous to me. This was 2 years ago.

Leif

Dan-Dan wrote: »

Really? how many days work do you think it is then , 20 odd ?

Sorry? I don't like your tone.

I got 3 quotes. My neighbour did the same.

The cheapest quote was £5,000 including furniture from builders who did other work for me, but the project manager was so difficult to deal with, that I went elsewhere. So £4K was the cheapest for labour and materials excluding furniture. Others were higher, one much more so.

As an aside, I first went with an unknown company (via CheckATrade, 47 glowing reviews) who were cowboys and it took 1 year to get compensation to partially pay for a refit. The second company were recommended by a colleague and were okay.

frugal_mike

I recently had my bathroom done. New bath, thermostatic shower valve, sink and toilet (all in the same place they used to be). Artex ceiling skimmed, walls plastered, about 15-18 square metres of tiling, and a box wall adding around the exposed stink pipe. Labour came to about £1500 (in the midlands). We didn't have any electrical work or windows adding though.

This is obviously pretty cheap, and there are pitfalls with that. The guy put the thermostatic shower valve on upside down (hot inlet connected to cold pipe etc) which obviously meant it didn't work properly.

Leif

keystone wrote: »

Find a bathroom fitter not a builder too. Logical to use a builder when the job is part of an extension. Its not in your case.,

Is it logical? In my case the cowboys did bathrooms and kitchens, and were not competent, I doubt a respectable builder would hire them as trades. The chap who did a decent job of the bathroom subcontracted out most of the actual work to a chap who does only bathrooms. Having someone who you know did a decent job for someone else is important. I might expect dedicated bathroom fitters to be cheaper as they do most of the work themselves, but it seems not to be the case down here.

Tintin1963

Hi all
I have just had a quote to refit my bathroom £4200 for 10 days work, £420 a day......astronomical.............

Especially as I have already purchased all the sanitary good and the tiles.

Does anyone else think thats excessive?

Just because we are in Royal Berkshire doesnt mean we all live in castles

A1P

The usual caveat,difficult without seeing it.I am based in West Yorks.In this area I would be working on 10-11 days at £150 a day so around your budget.I do all except electrics,have a tame sparky.I would be having someone to fit a window.Tiling is the key to job,plumbing should be neat but it is the tiled finish which is noticed.In an ideal world someone not VAT registered.See previous work.I have references and previous job pictures on my I Pad.Hope it goes well for you.

keystone

For goodness sake thats three times now you've hijacked three different threads to post the same thing. If you want help please, please stop wasting peoples time and forum bandwidth. POst in one place preferably in your own thread and then you get concentrated answers which will help you. Sorry if I'm being scratchy and I know you are new here but you ain't helping yourself by this scatter gun approach. Please do take that in the spirit that it's meant which isn't nasty at all.

Cheers