I have decided that the bathroom at my IP needs renovating. The reason, it's pretty awful.
It's in an ex-State house, and has low water pressure. When we first bought the house just over 2 years ago, there was no shower so I decided to get a shower installed over the bath. There was considerable disagreement over this between myself and my partner, he thought that we should just leave it, but I said we needed one, and I won. I don't really know if I have won at all though, because it's been a pain ever since.
To say the least, the person who came and gave me a quote for the bathroom a couple of weeks ago, said it was "the most pathetic shower he had ever seen". After the first plumber installed the shower, the tenant complained some months later that the pressure wasn't very good. I ended up getting another Plumber (the reason is a whole nother story) and this new Plumber went up into the roof and did all sorts of stuff, and then charged me $1400.
The tenant didn't say anything about the pressure, until I went up there last week to take this guy to give me a quote for a new bathroom. We turned the shower on and I can honestly say it is truely pathetic. This new guy reckons the wrong shower head is on it, that the cold and hot water have quite good pressure, and he can think of no other reason for it being so pathetic. But he's also not a plumber. And I've had a number of bad experiences with stupid plumbers in the last two weeks.
So anyway I told him I wanted the bathroom updated and my quote has come in at $7,500 incl GST. He estimates it will take 3 days to complete.
Does this sound reasonable, because I don't think the quote is broken down enough. I think it should have a description of the product and then the price next to it. Including the price for labour content. But the quote only has e.g. Desciption and then Qty, e.g. 1 next to bath, Aqualine 8. Seems alot of gib for the bathroom the size of a shoebox. It's only the length of a bath and probably the width of two baths.
Anyway can you have a look at tell me what you think.
Duo Bath in Frame
Bath and Plug waster
Bath screen, single
Bath liner, 3 sided
Shower caddy, white
Venturi concealed shower mixer
Progetto slideshower, low pressure
Stella Vanity
Venturi Basin Mixer
Pop up waste
Mirror, client to select from showroom
Reuse clients bath taps
Through wall extractor fan with outside flap valve
Goldair heated towel rail med
Stock Sheets of Aqualine Giboard 2400 x 1200 x 8
Tradesmen Misc - pipes, bends, glues, silicones, nails, screws, scotias, architraves, timber
Rubbish Removal
Renovation Labour.
Plaster walls to paint finish
Client to organise own flooring
Painting by client
This also includes stripping out old bathroom.
I wanted to reuse the old bath, which I thought I could get re-newed. But he said I shouldn't use it as a proper bath thats going to have a shower over it has a longer lip so it doesn't leak up the wall. I don't think it needs a towel rail, and a pop up waste is probably a waste of time and money, wouldn't a plug do. And even I haven't got a glass shower screen, I'm sure a curtain would suffice. I also asked for the extractor fan to turn on when the light turns on and stay on for a specifc time, which it doesn't say anything about.
When I showed my partner the quote I said to him that I was going to ring these people back up and say I wanted the quote to be in more detail, with prices for specific items, so that if I thought they were overpriced I could change them. But he said, don't be stupid, that's how people make all that money renovating - because they don't tell you what everything is going to cost.
But I disagree. I like everything to be transparent, or is this not how it's done. It's been an accomplishment just getting one quote, I have been trying to get someone else to come up and give me another one for about the last 3 weeks, but they are too busy. I need at least 3 so I can compare apples with apples, but it's like getting blood out of a stone!
I also thought we could reuse the slide shower, and just get a new head. I'm quickly going off the whole idea now and wondering if it's worth the hassle. Maybe the tenant will just have to put up with the poxy shower.
Regards
QB
It's in an ex-State house, and has low water pressure. When we first bought the house just over 2 years ago, there was no shower so I decided to get a shower installed over the bath. There was considerable disagreement over this between myself and my partner, he thought that we should just leave it, but I said we needed one, and I won. I don't really know if I have won at all though, because it's been a pain ever since.
To say the least, the person who came and gave me a quote for the bathroom a couple of weeks ago, said it was "the most pathetic shower he had ever seen". After the first plumber installed the shower, the tenant complained some months later that the pressure wasn't very good. I ended up getting another Plumber (the reason is a whole nother story) and this new Plumber went up into the roof and did all sorts of stuff, and then charged me $1400.
The tenant didn't say anything about the pressure, until I went up there last week to take this guy to give me a quote for a new bathroom. We turned the shower on and I can honestly say it is truely pathetic. This new guy reckons the wrong shower head is on it, that the cold and hot water have quite good pressure, and he can think of no other reason for it being so pathetic. But he's also not a plumber. And I've had a number of bad experiences with stupid plumbers in the last two weeks.
So anyway I told him I wanted the bathroom updated and my quote has come in at $7,500 incl GST. He estimates it will take 3 days to complete.
Does this sound reasonable, because I don't think the quote is broken down enough. I think it should have a description of the product and then the price next to it. Including the price for labour content. But the quote only has e.g. Desciption and then Qty, e.g. 1 next to bath, Aqualine 8. Seems alot of gib for the bathroom the size of a shoebox. It's only the length of a bath and probably the width of two baths.
Anyway can you have a look at tell me what you think.
Duo Bath in Frame
Bath and Plug waster
Bath screen, single
Bath liner, 3 sided
Shower caddy, white
Venturi concealed shower mixer
Progetto slideshower, low pressure
Stella Vanity
Venturi Basin Mixer
Pop up waste
Mirror, client to select from showroom
Reuse clients bath taps
Through wall extractor fan with outside flap valve
Goldair heated towel rail med
Stock Sheets of Aqualine Giboard 2400 x 1200 x 8
Tradesmen Misc - pipes, bends, glues, silicones, nails, screws, scotias, architraves, timber
Rubbish Removal
Renovation Labour.
Plaster walls to paint finish
Client to organise own flooring
Painting by client
This also includes stripping out old bathroom.
I wanted to reuse the old bath, which I thought I could get re-newed. But he said I shouldn't use it as a proper bath thats going to have a shower over it has a longer lip so it doesn't leak up the wall. I don't think it needs a towel rail, and a pop up waste is probably a waste of time and money, wouldn't a plug do. And even I haven't got a glass shower screen, I'm sure a curtain would suffice. I also asked for the extractor fan to turn on when the light turns on and stay on for a specifc time, which it doesn't say anything about.
When I showed my partner the quote I said to him that I was going to ring these people back up and say I wanted the quote to be in more detail, with prices for specific items, so that if I thought they were overpriced I could change them. But he said, don't be stupid, that's how people make all that money renovating - because they don't tell you what everything is going to cost.
But I disagree. I like everything to be transparent, or is this not how it's done. It's been an accomplishment just getting one quote, I have been trying to get someone else to come up and give me another one for about the last 3 weeks, but they are too busy. I need at least 3 so I can compare apples with apples, but it's like getting blood out of a stone!
I also thought we could reuse the slide shower, and just get a new head. I'm quickly going off the whole idea now and wondering if it's worth the hassle. Maybe the tenant will just have to put up with the poxy shower.
Regards
QB
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