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I've got a bathroom to fully redo, back to stud and start again job (easier than dealing with the disaster of various crappy trades apprentice practice work that it appears to be). Services are in the right place and at least correct so thats a start!
Tried to get a decent bathroom company to did it, the only one that showed up and quoted wanted £5k for the labour and consumables. And thats with the offer of me stripping back all the way and an empty house/easy option for services turned off whenever they want etc.
By my estimates its 2 guys who know what they are doing for a week absolute max, and a couple of K in actual parts (supplied by me as have a reasonable rate trade account which will be less than them supplying). I had decent plumber/bathroom fitters down as around £275/300 a day (a 7 hour day lol), so quite over priced. they also had good local rep, but no work they could show me which puts me off. Also they didn't seem particularly familiar with mains pressure hot water tanks which is the plan + beefy simplified pipework throughout to supply shower with a cubic fuck load of high pressure hot water*
Guess will be doing a bathroom next month then! Was planning on stud > ply sheet it > that plastic wall panel stuff all the way around, build a cupboard for the hot water system > click together UPVC ceiling for speed and durability.
But seen a bunch of folk use modern tile board systems and tile over with ease in the wet areas, then use blue plasterboard for the rest, certainly a lot cheaper now than plastic sheets (with 2022 pricing!) but more labour on my part. Planning a decent extractor and through roof with a condensate collector in it so not too worried about blue plasterboard in an internal bathroom.
*Absolutely cannot stand it when you see someone has just unloaded £mega on a new bathroom/boiler/plumbing, and then there is a pissy little 10kw electric shower that just dribbles luke warm water on part of you. Nope. Or even worse, they've gone to the effort of working out how to make a mixer shower work well, but have plumbed it backwards, or installed skinny piping throttled by those non full bore isolation valves in multiple locations and again, a pissy warm dribble is the result.
BrickMan-
Ha! A lot of familiar feeling here - the plasterers doing work at ours are on 300 a day (each, two of them - though paying per room which works out cheaper than that tbh) - if they did 7 hours I’d be smitted, usually end up at around 4.5 on average with an uncanny knack of only ever being here two days in a row and then at least a week elsewhere which has held up bits here there and everywhere. They’re very good though, what can you do…
We just green plasterboarded the bathroom to tile on top of, skimmed where there’ll be paint.
Progress from today (caveat: not DIY, unless you count screwing down the ply subfloor before I add the forum’s favourite flooring)
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Apparently there was a mix up, I was certain the plumbers said they'd be back after tiling, and that bath fitting (bar water connections) was on me as they're not 'doing' the bathroom.
They came round this morning to fit everything properly and connected the taps/waste too, just in time for the tilers to start this afternoon - finally feels like something's going right here!
Suppose this shouldn't really be in 'Home DIY' after all..!