Advice Please: Is Travertine Unusually Expensive to Lay?

[IvegotsTILE]

If you say "He QUOTED you the price to lay STONE flooring" then A. Travertine is stone so he can't get out of that one and B. Quoted you the price,not an estimate then he has to honour the price by law(I think).
I personally would never quote until I knew the tile,as said before though travertine is one of the easier stones in my opinion.Its not like you've turned up with uncalibrated slate.
Most builders aren't tilers,as said before do you want someone whos not confident laying your expensive tiles,its too late once they're down.Make him pay for a tiler.
Good luck.

 

[kilty55]

just to add,again have u a set price job or an estimate of works from him

if its an estimate and he thought u may bring slate back ....he may well be confident in laying slate but never have used tunbled trav then he is right to get a tiler to price it

at the end of the day would you rather he had a go himself,i think hes done the right thing in speaking up

 

[mgoodw]

Thanks to everyone that contributed to this thread - it gave me the information that I needed to resolve the situation that I faced.

The outcome was as follows; we got 4 quotes from professional floor tilers and went with the cheapest (although that was still 3x what the builder had allowed for when pricing the overall job).

With the help of the information supplied to me via this forum I was able to convince the builder that he had made a mistake in his quotation and that the additional cost has not arisen due to my choice of stone. However, as it was a genuine mistake and the work has been completed properly to a high standard (rather than being bodged to fit the original budget) I will make a contribution towards the paying cost-overrun.

Conclusion; everyone is (more or less) happy.

Thanks again for the inputs that I received.

 

[doug boardley]

glad we could help

 

[The D]

It is nice to know the outcome of these threads so thank you for that. I'm glad you got it all sorted out.

 

[Andy Allen]

nice one

 

[kilty55]

nice one

 

[Scott]

glad it worked out for you, well kind of

 

[stevee]

not ideal but turned out well ,fair play to the builder ,some would have done/bodged it to save a few quid