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Decorate hall and extend downstairs loo
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PaulA
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We’ve had a quote to decorate a hall and extend/redo a downstairs loo. Any thoughts if it is reasonable?
The work involved is:
Decorating:
I’m in north London and they are travelling a fair distance, which might have bumped the price up a bit. However I have friends they have worked for before so I know they are good.
I’ve had a previous quote to just extend the loo at around £1800 (again not including toilet, basin and tiles), from someone else.
Thanks
The work involved is:
Decorating:
- Remove Woodchip from walls upstairs and down
- Make good any damage to walls
- Hang lining paper
- Paint walls
- Sand down all woodwork, make good, undercoat & paint in gloss - Seven doors (2 with glass panels), Nine door frames, Front door and surround, skirting
- Sand and pint banisters and rails, window ledge and understairs cupboard
- Paint ceilings
- Replace two radiators (keep existing pipework)
- Remove existing door and frame
- Extend small partition wall approx 1 foot
- Move electrical socket approx two feet
- Cut wooden floor to new profile
- Install new door and frame and join up to ceiling
- Remove existing toilet and basin
- Tile floor and walls
- Install new toilet and basin (some small change to pipework)
I’m in north London and they are travelling a fair distance, which might have bumped the price up a bit. However I have friends they have worked for before so I know they are good.
I’ve had a previous quote to just extend the loo at around £1800 (again not including toilet, basin and tiles), from someone else.
Thanks
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Even if it included new loo etc I would say that was on the expensive side.
Site unseen I'd guess that was about 10 -12 days work for one man not two. So you could work out that the labour seems out by a factor of two.0
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