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I hate with a passion and almost never touch them, I finished a heating job yesterday, from an old solid fuel rayburn (leaking) new boiler unvented etc. and the customer says can you JUST change the taps in the bathroom while your here. Does everyone hate changing bath taps or is it just me?
 
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I find bathrooms very difficult to price, but I am a firm believer that if you can get a good team of people together and do good quality work then people will happily pay top money for it. I am going to aim to get in to bathrooms a little more next year as I try and expand, I have been mainly doing heating work up until now. I have already had 3 people ask me to reserve them time to refurb there bathrooms without me even quoting for it yet, I have told them it will have to wait until April as I am pretty much sorted with work until then as it is.
 
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I am crap at saying no , and I have allegedly one more bathroom to do next year( but I know what will happen)
i actually think they are very good earners, tons harder to price than boiler heating swaps etc.
totally agree with mfgs , people will pay top money for the right job.
 
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I have done bathrooms before but my work drifted to just heating and I hate them now, but as said priced correct they can earn well. I feel Ive been bending pipes long enough to know what I can earn from and be satisfied Ive done a good job. There are blokes round my way that do a cracking job with tiling, lighting and all that goes with it
 
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Can be so much unforseen. Rotten floorboards under bath.
Rrmoving tiles and the whole lot comes off.
What ever price I think I want I just stick 1k on top and if they dont want it doing - fine lol
 
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mfgs said:
I find bathrooms very difficult to price, but I am a firm believer that if you can get a good team of people together and do good quality work then people will happily pay top money for it. I am going to aim to get in to bathrooms a little more next year as I try and expand, I have been mainly doing heating work up until now. I have already had 3 people ask me to reserve them time to refurb there bathrooms without me even quoting for it yet, I have told them it will have to wait until April as I am pretty much sorted with work until then as it is.
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You price them in a same way as anything else. Dosh for your time on a project + all the gear and materials to do the job, OK you have to understand what should go in here accordingly to the budget. You’ll get the nag with time. You’ll be fine.
 
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Not the biggest fan of bathrooms but we do around 10 full refurbs a year so not easy to turn away as i aint charging peanuts. Must lose about the same amount on quotes if not more as some people think you'll do em for peanuts and some cowboys do. But do lose a few good ones in winter As custs want it done next week blah blah.
 
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Custs dont appreciate the work needed to transform a bathroom.

Its nice when somebody wants to spend on decent gear to get the job done.
 
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Never really did bathrooms as a line of work there are some very good guys round here who specialise in it and make a better living then the heating guys in the area,

realistically though you want to be replacing the floor for marine ply scraping the walls back new hard wall new wastes etc so when you walk away you can be sure that bathroom can easily see out the next15 years. Problem is no one budgets for that level of work and those that do opt for bathroom fitters not joe bloggs plumbing and heating
 
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Ply is good. But did you know that you can tile straight on the floor boards?
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You shouldn't really do that, meant to have about 30mm thickness of wood on the floor to tile on it. I always put 12mm ply over the boards to give it extra strength so there is no chance of movement.
 
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mfgs said:
You shouldn't really do that, meant to have about 30mm thickness of wood on the floor to tile on it. I always put 12mm ply over the boards to give it extra strength so there is no chance of movement.
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Nothing wrong with that, if you've got right gear, why not. I'm not BAL rep by the way but I love the gear. As I say check it out.
 
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Hardi backer board for me, then tile over it. No need for all this priming malacky. Before that, it was 15mm ply. i love bathrooms. Easy money. I always overcharge to be on the safe side. If customer says NO, I thank God and move on.
 
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