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Phillips wife

Hi there,
I am new to this site so - apols if I have posted this in the wrong place.
I had some tiling done in a kitchen of a rented flat, the walls are straight but the property is old. I have tried up loading a photo of the job, but so far have failed miserably. Please advise how much is should have cost for labour only 111 x 4 inch tiles? My working out is that this is just over 1 sq metre (1.11 to be exact). There are a few cuts (4) for plug sockets. The Plumber did the tiling and although the workmanship is okay, his price (labour only) was not. It works out at nearly £4 per tile ( boring, but glossy tiles).
I will continue to upload a photo, but on about 7th attempt!
All advice gratefully received.
Mrs Phillips
 
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Mrs Phillips
Unfortunately we don't allow discussions about pricing in the open forums, so our members won't be able to put any prices/quotes/estimations up in this thread. What I would suggest is that if any of our members would like to chat with you directly about the price you were charged for your work, they can make contact with you via the private message service.

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Phillips wife

Phillips wife said:
Hi there,
I am new to this site so - apols if I have posted this in the wrong place.
I had some tiling done in a kitchen of a rented flat, the walls are straight but the property is old. I have tried up loading a photo of the job, but so far have failed miserably. Please advise how much is should have cost for labour only 111 x 4 inch tiles? My working out is that this is just over 1 sq metre (1.11 to be exact). There are a few cuts (4) for plug sockets. The Plumber did the tiling and although the workmanship is okay, his price (labour only) was not. It works out at nearly £4 per tile ( boring, but glossy tiles).
I will continue to upload a photo, but on about 7th attempt!
All advice gratefully received.
Mrs Phillips
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thank you everyone for your comments. Unfortunately I did not get a quote as his brother was " project manager" and he appointed him. His bill was for £420 ! Said it took him over 15.5 hours!
 
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Phillips wife

Phillips wife said:
Hi there,
I am new to this site so - apols if I have posted this in the wrong place.
I had some tiling done in a kitchen of a rented flat, the walls are straight but the property is old. I have tried up loading a photo of the job, but so far have failed miserably. Please advise how much is should have cost for labour only 111 x 4 inch tiles? My working out is that this is just over 1 sq metre (1.11 to be exact). There are a few cuts (4) for plug sockets. The Plumber did the tiling and although the workmanship is okay, his price (labour only) was not. It works out at nearly £4 per tile ( boring, but glossy tiles).
I will continue to upload a photo, but on about 7th attempt!
All advice gratefully received.
Mrs Phillips
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Thank you, this is been one of those jobs. The plumber has viewed me as a cashpoint and I have paid him just over half and he is taking me to court for the rest. This was labour only and just for the tiling, the plumbing is another saga, just been ripped off by him and his brother.
 
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Time's Ran Out

Phillips wife said:
Thank you, this is been one of those jobs. The plumber has viewed me as a cashpoint and I have paid him just over half and he is taking me to court for the rest. This was labour only and just for the tiling, the plumbing is another saga, just been ripped off by him and his brother.
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Another one of those posts where the information comes in drifts and drabs!
As you are as careful with your money as you are with the details of this thread, then you will get some home truths in answers.
Why accept a job without knowing how much it will cost - sometimes customers like yourself deserve the outcome you've got! Bend the facts and expect the tissues to come out!
Dragons Den - I'am out!
 
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Stef

deanotile said:
i think that is a bit harsh the op was looking for an honest estimate to compare against the extortionate rate being charged the facts are irreverent £400.00 per m2 is extortion even if the tile was solid gold you would not charge that.
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Oh I think it is an obscene amount of money but there wasn't a price discussed so it's a catch 22.
I've been caught out before & you have to take it on the chin.
 
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Stef

deanotile said:
not if you have not paid yet i would tell him to sling his hook but yes i agree a price should have been agreed first but that doesn't give them the right to just rip someone off.
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The op has stated that they told her that there was over 15.5hrs in this job so on that if you break it down it's not so expensive.
Even if it is just 1m2 we don't know enough about prep or what else the job involved.
I wish we all could get that kind of price for jobs, work half an hour per day & home..
 
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TJ Smiler

As Deano says it's not right for anyone to rip someone off and 400 quid for 1m2 sounds ridiculous, but we also don't know the full facts and have no idea of the prep involved or anything about the situation. So many times i have agreed with a customer that a job will take x amount of days and be x price based on the discussion i have had with them IE: if skirts are removed, carpet removed, area cleared etc etc only to turn up and find out that they have not kept there end of the bargain and have then had to spend several hours doing it myself before i can even get on with what it was i priced to do, it's a rarity i charge for this but it is something i find a complete liberty on the customers front.

I did a 4 m2 kitchen in metro's earlier on this month and it took me...... First day 8am until 6pm, second day 8am until 8:30 pm (22 hours) cos the job was not as the customer said it was. I didn't charge any extra for the extra work i done as i knew it would create a bad feeling but at the end of the day the customer had a lovely job that involved a ton of work at a good price £250 and i walked away knackered, peed off and feeling like i had been taken for ride (obviously there was more to this job than you are hearing, i had mentioned the extra work to customer but i could tell it would just undo all the good work i had done if i then charged more).

And each post that op is leaving more facts are coming out so it might be a case of them not being straight with the plumber in the first place and the plumber charging 2 days rate plus materials...... Who knows. Like i say if i could get 400 quid for a day on my jobs i would charge it and lose no sleep about it.
 
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£400psm in plain terms, sounds expensive.
£400 for 2 days labour however is far from expensive.

If the walls were straight/flat then why did it take 15 hours?

Personally on jobs like this (small splashbacks) i always put a minimum charge which equates to about 1.75 days. Still would make my bill less than your plumbers though.
Has to be a reason why 1.11sqm takes 2 days. Prep, repair, downtime?

Live and learn though. If you dont at least gwt an idea of price out of them youre effectively handing over a blank cheque.
 
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brum

Phillips wife said:
Hi there,
I am new to this site so - apols if I have posted this in the wrong place.
I had some tiling done in a kitchen of a rented flat, the walls are straight but the property is old. I have tried up loading a photo of the job, but so far have failed miserably. Please advise how much is should have cost for labour only 111 x 4 inch tiles? My working out is that this is just over 1 sq metre (1.11 to be exact). There are a few cuts (4) for plug sockets. The Plumber did the tiling and although the workmanship is okay, his price (labour only) was not. It works out at nearly £4 per tile ( boring, but glossy tiles).
I will continue to upload a photo, but on about 7th attempt!
All advice gratefully received.
Mrs Phillips
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Hi mrs Phillips have you not also got a thread on plumbers forum slating a plumber for overcharging,
Come on now do you think were all a bunch of numpties.
 
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