Contractor having a laugh????
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About to start a renovation project. I know this post screams of how long is a piece of string however.....
Last night the architect passed me some quotes from a contractor for various parts of the build. The total breakdown I have yet to see.
A 4 bedroom 1930's chalet type house that is to be totally gutted and having insulated plaster board fitted on the internal walls. All floors (suspended) to be ripped out, filled and insulated. So the plumbers and sparkies are going in to a bare shell.
House is 1900sq feet aprox
This our first quote so far with 3 more to come but here is a couple of nuggets....
Painting and decorating outside and inside as to spec £5k. Seems very reasonable!
Alarm system £1500 (again seems fair).
However,
Rewire house £12k plus VAT
Oil fired condensing grant boiler, rads, pipework and new plumbing for bathrooms (1 master, 1 ensuite, 1 cloak) and kitchen (no sanitaryware )
£15k plus VAT
I've still to get into the rest of it but I'm looking for the very basic of install for wiring and plumbing. I'm not in an expensive area either.
Still waiting on others but would like some thoughts in the meantime.
Ok, thanks guys.
I think the plumbing and electric are both around £5k too much.
I've just seen his gutting out quote to which is £10k more than he verbally suggested when he first looked at the site (we were going to have it stripped to see exactly what was going on internally).
Apparently he hasn't filled the architects quotation schedule properly at all.
Fecking builders.
Ganglandboss said:
Are you having a ridiculous quantity of downlighters, data cabling, high specification accessories, or expensive luminaires? If not, £12k for a bare shell rewire is an absolute p*ss-take.
Other than a fair bit of data cabling (which I can do without) and 3 tv and sat points, everything else is just basic.We asked for a breakdown and it's not forthcoming.
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