Materials costs

[McP77]

Yeah fair comment. That's why I personally don't like estimates. Anyone can throw in a really low estimate and then jack the price up as it goes along.

 

[Fekin]

I can fully understand tradsmen giving out estimates if the job is going to require some form of unearthing, where you ain't going to know what something is like until halfway through a job, like after removing a full bathroom of tiles, and having a load of repair work that needs to be done to the walls.

So, really, an estimate should only ever shoot up dramatically if something like this has happened, and it should be shown\ told to the customer.

Forgetting what half your job is going to entail though when giving an estimate is no excuse, like forgetting about trims, propper amount of adhesive\grouts that are going to be needed and so on.

 

[Dan]

The tiler is using Ardex so it's probabl fair to say the materials cost was spot on and the tiler knows a good brand. So if he's estimated it's going to cost twie the labour price then it's probably a fair price. I think there's more to this job than meets the eye.

 

[Fekin]

There must be, because nearly doubling the price is quite steep.