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Hi guys,
My builder is just about finishing a retile of my two bathrooms. He's laid 24 square metres of 10cm x 10cm tumbled marble with 17 square metres of bull nose dado. He's done a great job.
However he's now asking an extra £xx because I asked him to tile in a diamond pattern above the dado rail.
For both bathrooms this adds up to an area of 4.39 metres square in a diamond pattern but he claims that to create this diamond pattern has taken an extra weeks work.
This seems ridiculous and calculates to £xx per square metre extra ontop of the money I've already paid to have them tiled anyway. It'd be over £xx square metre if I combined the quote cost and extra cost.
In real terms 62 tiles have been cut in half to form the edges and the rest just rotated 45 degrees. Is that worth £xx extra? Is there much more time involved? An extra week?
When I specified the diamond pattern nothing was mentioned about an increase in cost or difficulty and had I know it was going to be such an increase I would have just kept the tiles horizontal.
Putting aside that I didn't authorise the increased cost, I've built a good relationship with him (so I thought) and would like to use him again on other projects in the future. I don't wish to fall out but is he justified to ask for more or is he just trying it on?
Thanks. Appreciate your comments.
Bathroom 1 and 2 below:
My builder is just about finishing a retile of my two bathrooms. He's laid 24 square metres of 10cm x 10cm tumbled marble with 17 square metres of bull nose dado. He's done a great job.
However he's now asking an extra £xx because I asked him to tile in a diamond pattern above the dado rail.
For both bathrooms this adds up to an area of 4.39 metres square in a diamond pattern but he claims that to create this diamond pattern has taken an extra weeks work.
This seems ridiculous and calculates to £xx per square metre extra ontop of the money I've already paid to have them tiled anyway. It'd be over £xx square metre if I combined the quote cost and extra cost.
In real terms 62 tiles have been cut in half to form the edges and the rest just rotated 45 degrees. Is that worth £xx extra? Is there much more time involved? An extra week?
When I specified the diamond pattern nothing was mentioned about an increase in cost or difficulty and had I know it was going to be such an increase I would have just kept the tiles horizontal.
Putting aside that I didn't authorise the increased cost, I've built a good relationship with him (so I thought) and would like to use him again on other projects in the future. I don't wish to fall out but is he justified to ask for more or is he just trying it on?
Thanks. Appreciate your comments.
Bathroom 1 and 2 below:
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