plumber tiling a kitchen

[brinkley]

hi i got a call yesterday from a lady in distress over how much she was charged fo her 3m2 of kitchen walls the bill came in at £499.50 of labour and £28.00 materials :yikes:.
So i went to see thekitchen today and have agreed to give her a quote nothing special a days work max.
th work is already done by the pumber /tiler and he has put a bill in of 4.5 days labour at £20 per hour.but this pricealso include a day that his son in law helped out at £9.00 ph

she went to trading standards over this and they have told her to get 3 quotes fom local tilers to work out an average price for this kitchen.
i have quoted this at £280.00 nc mats which is still hefty for 3 meters imo
but i will receve £20.00 for 5 mins of looking at the job and 10 mins of writing up an invoice on the comp
she hasnot paid any money yet but did offer £300.00 which he declined saying there was lots of cutting and the son in law cut his finger on the sharpe edge (crazy).
any one else had to quote for a job already done?and get paid

 

[White Room]

She obviously never got a quote to start with..

In heavans name what was the son doing, other than cutting his finger..

I take it they were standard tiles

 

[devonmark]

let me get this right...he has charged for cutting a finger ?

 

[brinkley]

no the plumber would not give her a quote but it alsoturns out he is a frind of a friend and he tiled her bathroom. the tiles were 4inch ceramic with a 2 inch mosaic border with a feature of mosaics going from hob to hood nothing majorly hard wish i could get £30.00 per m2

 

[brinkley]

mark that was one of his arguments on charging such a high price so yes

 

[Colour Republic]

Not sure how this is going to work or what trading standards could do about it??

It does seem very expensive but I think it's a little unfair. I mean you were told why she wanted a quote and also how much the guy had charged, it sounds like you did a fair quote but still seems a little unfair even more so that you have no idea what state the walls were in before he started.

I'm not trying to defend the guy, but the customer can of course only give one side of the story to both you and trading standards.

I suppose the biggest question is 'Is the tiling up to scratch?'

 

[brinkley]

£130.00 per m2i meant

 

[brinkley]

the tiling is passable just ifyou have a tilers eye you can see the rough cuts and mistakes

 

[Colour Republic]

no the plumber would not give her a quote

Ahhh I see why TS are asking her to get quotes now.

If there was no agreement in place then if he invents a figure then I guess she can do the same:lol:

mark that was one of his arguments on charging such a high price so yes

Numpty:mad2::mad2:

 

[hillhead]

Shocking price, poor woman is all i can say.

 

[Andy Allen]

did he give her a written quote for the job or a price per day or per hour.

 

[enduro]

Yes it is too much money...But i do not do kitchen splashbacks on sqm price...Doing one tmro 2sqm behind an Aga all prep has been done im charging £300.00 inc addy. Customer has had two quotes and gone with mine, so am i expensive? well i got the job. Yes he should of given her an idea of price and she should of asked for one before work started.

 

[brinkley]

i agree enduro a price should be given before work commences .
andy he didnt give her a price or an indication on on till the bill arrived

 

[tfs]

The lady should have got a rpice Im afraid. None of us realy now what was involved but, if it was 4.5 day labour one day with an extra man then this price does not seem too crazy in my opinion.

If we are to judge someone on this we need to know what they did exactly! e.g. prep, materials supplied and layout/ design etc

Do you agree?

 

[brinkley]

tfs £28.00 mats probably tubbed addy
walls looked flat to me think he has tiled on to previously flat painted walls
he is a plumber not a tiler
the one thing i could say to her is that this job would have taken me a day but i could do the plumbing in 4 days although a plumber would take a day is it justifiable to charge for 4 days for a job that you can eventually do when another trade who actually do this day in day out can do it in one day basically charging for four days when it can be done in one by the right tradesman