Bathroom / Toilet Quotes

cazziebo

£1500 to supply, fit and tile bathroom - bath, toilet, sink. also includes tiling floor and walls (but not tiles) and installing an illuminated mirror.

YOUNGE1

YOUNGE1 wrote: »

Got another quote for plumbing only:£350 for ensuite (from scratch) and £450 for bathroom. Just need to get tiler now!!
May resort to doing it ourselves

Plumber's wife called to say £350 for ensuite still but need to increase bathroom to £550. Did not quibble as still much cheaper than other quotes, but hope it doesn't keep creeping up.

YOUNGE1

cazziebo wrote: »

£1500 to supply, fit and tile bathroom - bath, toilet, sink. also includes tiling floor and walls (but not tiles) and installing an illuminated mirror.

That sounds cheap to me as it includes goods and labour. we were quoted £1800-2800 for labour alone initially.

cazziebo

Yep - well here's an update.

Came and stripped out bathroom, removed cladding, horrendous tiles, took up floor. (All left in driveway).

No word for a week - then phone call to say problems and he won't be back until after Christmas. Family coming home for Christmas and we have one downstairs toilet with no light... Paid half plus cost of tiles upfront...

27col

I have found over the years, that tradesmen do not like to turn down a job. I include myself in this. So what they do is to charge over the odds. They are really saying that they are busy or that they don't want that particular job. They don't expect to get the job and usually don't care, as they have plenty of work at the time. If the client accepts, then more fool him. They are not really trying it on. They just don't want the work.I don't know why they can't just come out and say so.

YOUNGE1

cazziebo wrote: »

Yep - well here's an update.

Came and stripped out bathroom, removed cladding, horrendous tiles, took up floor. (All left in driveway).

No word for a week - then phone call to say problems and he won't be back until after Christmas. Family coming home for Christmas and we have one downstairs toilet with no light... Paid half plus cost of tiles upfront...

Sorry to hear that. If it makes you feel any better we have been in chaos all over Christmas too!
The ensuite toilet has leaked, got replaced, leaked again and is due to be replaced again on Mon, with a totally diff style this time. Good old b and q. I guess you get what you pay for. All this is costing extra plumbing now though. Plumber is reliable though and turns up when he says, as has tiler (eventually got one through plumber). Just trying to get plasterer now....
At moment we have a gutted bathroom, leaky toilet in ensuite and a downstairs cloakroom toilet.
MFI put wrong toilet for bathroom on order form and it came broken. Got that changed, so the right toilet would come, but they said they could only deliver a week after they originally agreed to replace broken one, as there would be no deliveries in our area that date. I pointed out that they were willing to redeliver the wrong toilet again to replace the broken one on the date required, so obviously there would be deliveries in our area on that date, so why not deliver the right one on that same date? Eventually they agreed. Big of them, since it was their mistake putting wrong toilet on order, although we didn't notice as name was similar. Rant over!

All this bathroom nonsense has been much more stressful and much more work than I'd anticipated. Probably a bit mad doing a new ensuite and bathroom at same time though...:eek:

cheekyweegit

You know, reading this thread has made me feel a whole lot better. Why ? I'm in a similar situation.

New bathroom started 11th December, I had ripped off the old tiles and the old bathroom suite was taken out along with the old radiator (new chrome towel rail "supposed " to be going in in it's place).

I was without a toilet during the day for most of the week which the suite took to be fitted and had to use my neighbours toilet and shower for the week. (So greatful I get on well with my neighbours).

Bathroom suite finally fitted but the toilet leaked, the bath leaked both flooding my kitchen and the guy who fitted it is away on holiday and not back until 11th January.

He also made a mistake when fitting my tiles and did not take into account adjustments which needed to be made on the other wall for border tiles knocking the alignment out by about 5cm on the window wall in the corner. Very obvious! I told him to take the tiles down and re-do them. Thankfully I had got lots of extra tiles as I'd bought a job lot from a brilliant helpful seller on ebay.

He did in his defence arrange for another tiler to come round, who did turn up (just not at the time he said surprisingly)(what is it about trades men's watches?) but I had to send him away as there was no way he could finish the tiling when I had leaks.

I've a waterfall fill on the new bath (aptly named a frog now due to it resembling a smiling frogs head) but it turns out I don't have the water pressure to use the waterfall system for the hot water, and the water just runs down the back of the bath (probably unsealed) and I've to fill the bath with the shower attachment which is part of the bath taps. Again due to low water pressure this trickles out. New bathroom suite and taps has 15mm fittings and old one had 22mm fittings hence the difference in the fill apparently. My bath fills as if I'm filling it with a combi boiler and I'm so not used to this. The days of a quick bath are now long gone!

Anyway, had to get in another plumber - he came, he went, he came, he went, he disappeared and I've never seen him or heard from him since! I'll say no more other than the leak was still there. :mad::mad::mad:

To cut a long story short, a friend of mine had a look and the bath leak was caused by the cold pipe to the bath tap not being tightened enough - a few turns on the bolt and this sorted it.

The waste pipe on the bath was missing a plastic seal and I was lucky my kitchen roof never came down and probably would've if I'd been using my bath as normal and it had continued to leak the way it was. My bath is 1900mm x 900mm so a swimming pool to some. (I only got this bath as I wanted to experience the knees and shoulders under the water at the same time ).

The toilet, wasn't fitted properly either, and still isn't but my friend has managed to sort it enough to stop it leaking thankfully.

So to sum up, another one for the disaster list, I'm awaiting the plumber to come back from his holiday and I'll give him hell and he will get the bill to redecorate my kitchen and replace the kitchen unit which is now knackered. Ironically I was away to re-do the kitchen too, but I'm terrified to start after all this.

As if this wasn't bad enough, exactly a month before all this, my car had been involved in a hit and run in a shopping centre car park causing £821.xx worth of damage. Details on another post here, but thankfully and I hope this is the start of better luck, I head the other day they managed to get the other driver and have charged the witch.

Can I finish off saying, fingers crossed we all get things sorted and due to what's gone wrong for us at the end of this year means things brighten up dramatically for us in 2008.

:j:beer::j

Ps I paid him half the money too - what was I thinking of ?

jamesy

Since when did baths have 15mm fittings as far as i am aware they should be 22mm still

cazziebo

Cheekyweegit and Younge1 = so sorry to hear of your trials and tribulations but thanks for your posts - good to know I'm not alone!

The plumber did give in to my pleas and promised me a working toilet for Christmas. He arrived on Christmas eve with a box - and then came downstairs to tell me there was no cistern and the suppliers was now closed! :mad:

He is now on holiday but said his mate would be here between Christmas and New Year - still waiting and as this is Scotland, I'm sure he won't turn up tomorrow or the rest of this week...

Both my dds live in residences and were so looking forward to a bath....

Hope you both get sorted soon!

Happy New Year!

XX

BobProperty

jamesy wrote: »

Since when did baths have 15mm fittings as far as i am aware they should be 22mm still

The taps will have 3/4" threads but there's no point in using 22mm pipe if the incoming mains is in lead and 15mm and you have a combi boiler. 22mm is used to get a tolerable volume through taps from the old hot water cylinder and header tank arrangements.

PS - to all the regulars - I'm back, I've moved and it's taken weeks to get the broadband back on.