wet room

yazzine

Hi everyone,

My gran is getting a wet room put in her property as well as a disabled ramp, curb dropped on the pavement and a few bits to help her carry on living independantly. But with a small grant from the council to help with the costs.

She has chosen her builder based on recomendations, price and inspection of previouse works. Total cost is £18,000 and grant for £5,000

She had submitted his quote to the council but they have asked for the ' estimate to be itemised and individually priced against schedual of works'

He is a small simple builder who although can do the work is not good at the written stuff. Does he need to list everything ie remove old bathroom = cost, fit wall tiles = cost etc or is it simply copy back the schedual to them with total cost of each section ie wet room = cost, ramp = cost etc?

TIA

Yazzine

ey143

yes i believe so. We've commissioned an architect to remodel our house and his contract includes a schedule of costs in which building firms have to itemise everything so we can see where they are being unrealistic.

paint

yazzine wrote: »

He is a small simple builder who although can do the work is not good at the written stuff. Does he need to list everything ie remove old bathroom = cost, fit wall tiles = cost etc or is it simply copy back the schedual to them with total cost of each section ie wet room = cost, ramp = cost etc?

Regardless of what the Council require, your Gran is forking out £13,000 of her own money, and I'd expect the Builder (or anyone I was handing that kind of cash over to) to be absolutely explicit in what was being provided for that, and to fully document it. Anyone running their own business should be more than capable of this, so you should expect nothing less from him. Good luck.

yazzine

Thank you ey143 for your reply.

Thank you paint also for your reply.

Before she decided on the two builder's whose quotes she submitted she asked to see previous jobs, spoke to the clients, asked to see valid liability insurance and that they are registered, one of them has a contract system, both of them have invoice systems.

Both have given details all of the jobs they will carry out, the cheaper one has given us a contract should he get accepted that he want's signed (which was also given to the council) which has work schedual, payment schedual, permission of photos but he hasn't listed prices against each job. He has listed his complete price for the wet room, his complete price for the ramp, his complete price for changing the doors etc.

But he is not, as mentioned good at the written stuff and had asked what it means. Got him to talk to the lady managing my gran's application to make things clearer and now all sorted.

Thank you for all the good advice though : )

Yazzine

ey143

Whilst on the topic, could you please tell me what you were quoted for a wet room, what size and what contents as we are looking to put a few in our house and was told by the architect it can be expensive but we dont know how much. thx.

ChristineL

ey143 wrote: »

Whilst on the topic, could you please tell me what you were quoted for a wet room, what size and what contents as we are looking to put a few in our house and was told by the architect it can be expensive but we dont know how much. thx.

Just to give you one data point - I had a wet room fitted a couple of years ago for about £8,000. That included the work and the materials. It was a local tradesman who did it arranged by Homebase (where I bought the materials). The job took about a week and included:
- take out old bath, loo, washbasin and lights
- strip all the old wall tiles and floor covering
- re-plaster walls and ceiling
- build in a storage cupboard
- fit wet room floor, new shower and glass panel
- fit "stormwall" to shower area and above washbasin
- fit new loo and washbasin
- tile floor
- fit new lights
- fit new skirting boards

Bathroom size is about 3 meters by 2 meters.

I was very happy with the results. I've since used the same tradesman for my other bathroom but for that I employed him directly without Homebase.

andyhop

ChristineL wrote: »

Just to give you one data point - I had a wet room fitted a couple of years ago for about £8,000. That included the work and the materials. It was a local tradesman who did it arranged by Homebase (where I bought the materials). The job took about a week and included:
- take out old bath, loo, washbasin and lights
- strip all the old wall tiles and floor covering
- re-plaster walls and ceiling
- build in a storage cupboard
- fit wet room floor, new shower and glass panel
- fit "stormwall" to shower area and above washbasin
- fit new loo and washbasin
- tile floor
- fit new lights
- fit new skirting boards

Bathroom size is about 3 meters by 2 meters.

I was very happy with the results. I've since used the same tradesman for my other bathroom but for that I employed him directly without Homebase.

Laminate panels with a tiled floor in a wetroom?? I do hope tanking membrane was used behind the laminate panels otherwise its defo going to be a wet floor

In the many hundreds of wet floors we have done we have never nor would we ever fit skirting boards !!! 5-7k for a full strip back with mid range materials and porcelain tiles

yazzine

ey143 wrote: »

Whilst on the topic, could you please tell me what you were quoted for a wet room, what size and what contents as we are looking to put a few in our house and was told by the architect it can be expensive but we dont know how much. thx.

Sorry ey143 for not getting back to you sooner but had to help start gran proofing my mum's house. She is a real clean clean clean lady. So we started a deep clean of the house, and only normal cleaning needed when she moves in for the week!

The wet room cost is £8,600, and covers:
specialist flooring,
wall replastering + tiling,
new hand basin + toilet,
ceiling replastered + new steam proof light plus painted ceiling, half shower cubical,
Aqua dec shower tray former + pump,
new power shower,
grab rails in shower area + folding seat,
grab rails near toilet,
painting ceiling,
extractor fan,
half glass door,
new double glazed window,
toilet and hand basin will be moved to new location, removal of current wall tiles and laminate flooring.

ey143

Sorry for my late reply came back by chance as didn't get the auto notification.

£8k for a wet room - wow is it really that much?! I'm renovating my whole house and thought about putting several in. Didn't realise its that much just to have a hole in the floor and some water proofing.

ChristineL

Hi ey. If you read what I had done then it's a lot more than "a hole in the floor and some waterproofing" Ours was a complete refit that involved stripping everything out and starting from scratch - plastering, plumbing, electrics, joinery, tiling. I know we did pay a bit extra by going through Homebase and with hindsight and more knowledge now, I wouldn't do that again. But any kind of bathroom with that amount of work is going to cost a bit.

ey143

We building from scratch as we converting another room into an en suite. Still shocking though.