Verbal quotes from plumbers

Doozergirl

fenwick458 said:

nofoollikeold said:

2. If you buy the appliances, you will have no come back on the installer if there are problems.  You might save a little money up front, but could lose a lot further down the line.  Say the bath develops a fault, the supplier will replace it, but you will have to pay to have the replacement installed.  

Just to clear this up
If the customer buys a bath, and the tradesman simply fits it, it's the customer that has to deal with any problems that come up later. an example I can think of is the finish peeling off the bath a year down the line, not something like the bath being installed out of level and with gaps around the sides...
so if a tradesman is expected to supply and fit the bath, deal with any problems like this, (most manufacturers won't pay any labour costs, some do but it's generally on really high value items) then they are obviously going to just build this into the cost of the original bath, and then you're basically paying for it to be replaced once as soon as you buy it!
another option for the tradesman if they are having to supply the bath, simply buy the most expensive bath they can find, from the supplier who is known to be really easy to deal with regarding returns and warranty issues (probably the most expensive) and this will in turn reduce the risk of having to go back and fix any problems.
anyone who thinks this is unfair, and the tradesman should just supply the lowest cost items from discount stores and apply no markup on it and warranty it for life is dreaming!

The husband learned that lesson on one of the first jobs we did for someone else.  They provided a cheap imported tap that was supposed to be singing and dancing.  It took hours and hours over about three visits to get the thing working properly at all.   We could have bought them a high end tap for what it cost us in labour.  

Never ever again.  It's better for a client anyway if the thing isn't liable to break.  No one wants a call back, least of all clients.