Landlord requiring help!

[Landlord]

Hi all

I'm hoping you can help me.

I'm a non-resident Landlord with a situation in the UK with the tenants living in our home. One of the stipulations of them moving in to our property was that we installed a shower in the bath the family bathroom.

It had a mixer tap and shower hose already in the bath, but it wasn't attached to the wall.

We asked a builder to give us a quote for the work, but due to a miscommunication, they went ahead with the work before quoting. We were left with an extremely high bill for what essentially turned out to be tiling around the bath, putting a bracket on the wall and hanging a shower curtain.

So my question to you is - if there is already a set of tiles surrounding a bath (about 4 high), how much would it cost to tile the length of the bath and the top of the bath to allow for a shower to be installed?

A ball-park figure would be very helpful - including supply of plain white tiles.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[The D]

Best thing to do m8 is have a look at the bottomed of the bill that will tell you how much it will cost you :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Landlord]

Best thing to do m8 is have a look at the bottomed of the bill that will tell you how much it will cost you :smilewinkgrin:

Thanks for your reply Dean.

I already know what my builder charged me! What I'm asking is what would you charge? If you say a price near to his I won't feel ripped off. But if not ...

 

[Gazzer]

We do not discuss pricing in the open forums. If you require a quote you can do so via the PM system.
Please ask here
http://www.tilersforums.com/im-looking-wall-floor-tiler/

 

[Landlord]

Ah, that makes sense.

Thanks Sir Ramic. I'll do that.

Cheers

 

[The D]

Thanks for your reply Dean.

I already know what my builder charged me! What I'm asking is what would you charge? If you say a price near to his I won't feel ripped off. But if not ...

What difference does it make what I or any other tiler would charge you did not use me or any other tiler you used a builder. It is a bit late in the day for getting quotes.

 

[Landlord]

What difference does it make what I or any other tiler would charge you did not use me or any other tiler you used a builder. It is a bit late in the day for getting quotes.

Because I need further work done in that bathroom and I'm wondering if I have a bargaining tool if I was over-charged. If I was, I'll go elsewhere.

 

[The D]

Just out of interest if you do find people willing to give you a retrospective quote and they are more expensive than your builder are you going to call him and offer him some more money as he has under charged you ???????

 

[Landlord]

They get £££s out of me, so no. And at nearly £*** to put up some tiles and a bracket to hang the existing mixer tap hose, I don't think I've been undercharged.

Do you?

 

[ian158]

Just out of interest if you do find people willing to give you a retrospective quote and they are more expensive than your builder are you going to call him and offer him some more money as he has under charged you ???????

did you get out of the wrong side of the bed ?...not sure the OP needs to hear such brash direct comments..or is it me.

 

[The D]

Must be you

 

[charlie1]

Some people where just born on the wrong side of the bed!!! Comon cheer up deano! ;-)

 

[Martyn Leeds]

I think you just need to discuss it with the builder. Maybe he can explain what he's done, materials costs, labour costs etc. I'm not sure it really matters what I or any other UK tiler say, fact is, you've had the work done, and the dude needs paying

 

[The D]

Some people where just born on the wrong side of the bed!!! Comon cheer up deano! ;-)

I hope you are not referring to me m8 I am a happy go lucky sort of chap :smilewinkgrin:

 

[DHTiling]

So how did this builder gain access to said property if you did not give the go ahead.. if you did not authorise it then he is in the wrong..?

 

[kilty55]

pretty much my thoughts, how did the builder think he had been given the go ahead to do a job in your property with an agreed price and agreed tiles shower etc and also how did he gain access?

 

[charlie1]

Agree, something fishy! So, all we can gather from this side of the story is that a builder has done work and not yet been paid due to a "miscommunication" we have heard all these stories before from both sides. Who is right or wrong? Who knows!! But the guy is on asking for a rough price for work, I'd give you my price but not sure what good it would do you really. If I had agreed a price with client for work then at end of job they come back and queried my bill due to cross examination via Internet forum I'd be utterly furious. If your looking for excuse not to pay then I'd recommend you don't mention a forum, and just tell him the truth.

 

[Gazzer]

I dont think its so fishy. I do work for a builder that has keys to all his clients houses as he does all the maintenance .

 

[charlie1]

I dont think its so fishy. I do work for a builder that has keys to all his clients houses as he does all the maintenance .

By fishy I mean, there is another side to this story that's totally different from above... "Miscommunication" ... It's a bit fluffy!

 

[The D]

I personally do not think there is anything fishy about it it’s just another one of those customers that gets a job done and then starts to look for ways to ether get out of paying for the work or reduce the cost of the work. Ether way it is out of order to go asking for prices to bash the chap that did the work with and getting them from people that have not seen the job the tiles or the adhesive so they will only ever be able to give a guesstmate at best.

 

[flaggy]

well your right there deano :8:

 

[Stef]

If I had done this job & then the op queried the price then sorry I'm not monkeying about but my adhesive & grouts coming back off the walls..
If your tiles get damaged in the process then so be it!!