cost of facia / soffit / barge boards ...is £3k excessive ??

[alfaman]

I have just had a fairly hard sales pitch from a national firm of window suppliers for this.

The firm was doorstepping in my area today - accepted an offer of someone coming round to quote as I really need front and side barge boards ( gables ) replacing.

Sales pitch was for the whole lot : gables / soffits /gutters / facias ... initial quote £7.4k .

.. and then *only* if I signed tonight as I was their 2nd customer in the area and I could receive the full marketing subsidy for showing a sign outside my house / photos in mag etc etc ....blah blah

£3.1k , but ONLY tonight. [ work included guttering and fixing roofing felt to the small kitchen extension protuding out the back ]

I said I needed more than one quote so didnt sign ...

so the question is ... what is a reasonable rate ?? [ 3 bed semi, external dimensions about 20 foot wide , 25+ foot deep

I'd welcome any advice...

[Soir]

I would have thought more like £1500

[GG89]

So they dropped their original quote by 4 grand! That should have set alarm bells ringing straight away. Get a quote from a smaller company you should be pleasantly surprised.

[Globulator]

Put it this way, I have full (large) house scaffolding for 8 weeks, which cost just under £2k.

That's right up to the roof (3 lift) on all sides and an extra 28 metres of single storey (1 lift) roof level.

[alfaman]

Thanks Guys ... seems like I did the right thing not signing .... If anyone knows a good and reasonable local roofing / gabling etc business in South Beds .. PM me :-)

[andy43]

Don't touch 'em with a bargepole.
Find a small local firm willing to do it using a scaffold tower, and you'll get it done for at least 1k less, I'm sure. Plus they'll give you a proper price without shiny suit and hairgel bullst.
Ours I had done for just under 3.5k, but there must be about 60 metres of it (bungalow with integral garage).

[Pferdestarke]

http://www.rockpanel.co.uk/processing/working+with...

Click to view animation. For that money I'd expect some material like this!! Not PVC crap!

[alfaman]

andy43 said:

Don't touch 'em with a bargepole.
Find a small local firm willing to do it using a scaffold tower, and you'll get it done for at least 1k less, I'm sure. Plus they'll give you a proper price without shiny suit and hairgel bullst.
Ours I had done for just under 3.5k, but there must be about 60 metres of it (bungalow with integral garage).

... salesman had 1/ shiny bad suit 2/ gel hair 3/ brown pointy shoes

.. and the firm wasnt the himalayan mtn , ... more like *** and the art of motorcyle maintenance

Edited by alfaman on Saturday 16th October 22:27

[Wings]

Globulator said:

Put it this way, I have full (large) house scaffolding for 8 weeks, which cost just under £2k.

That's right up to the roof (3 lift) on all sides and an extra 28 metres of single storey (1 lift) roof level.

Just ordered 5 lifts of scaffolding, on 3 elevations for 8 weeks at £2.5k, and last week replaced 3 weatherboards 14.5 ft x 7" treated for £52, with me and the wife fitting the same.

[Simpo Two]

alfaman said:

.. and then *only* if I signed tonight

Red rag - bull - door - bye.

Amazing that commission-only lowlifes are stil peddling such bullshot. Haven't they got some solar panel Government Grant panels to sell?

[Flintstone]

Soir is right, I had mine done for £1400 two years ago. Make sure they don't just nail it over the old boards either. You want it replaced with the material running up beneath at least two rows of tiles/slates.

I forgot to mention. Detached four bedroom house plus single, detached garage.

Edited by Flintstone on Sunday 17th October 14:12

[furtive]

I've just had a quote of £2.4k plus vat for the stuff that is nailed over the rotten wood. That's on a 4-bed detached with an attached double garage so lots to do on the ground floor roof level as well.
The chap was adamant that the wood didn't need to be removed - he said they would just remove any rotten bits and replace with plywood, and treat it with cuprinol (or something)

Currently waiting for a quote for another company to do it properly.

[GarryA]

I got a local company round to do my windows and I asked one of the lads if he would do a barrow job on his day off for the gutters and facias, he charged me £750 - average semi detached.

[onomatopoeia]

Paid a local firm £1400 five years ago, four bed bungalow so a lot of meterage. They didn't (wouldn't) do the soffits though as those were asbestos. However I wasn't concerned about them, it was the barge boards and fascias that were disintegrating and the gutters falling off. Whole lot removed and new put in.