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Yeah I thought 4K for such a tiny room was a pretty healthy budget. Perhaps even have some change from it. Seems not! Lol

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Thanks for the advice! I’m definitely going to have a dig around to try and get more quotes but I am seriously wondering now if a new bathroom is realistic for me. 4K sounded like such a lot of money to me and it took me ages to save it! Nursing obviously isn’t a very lucrative career choice...

yes I will do thank you. As for the electrics I assume he would be getting someone in although my friends who is a qualified electrician has said he’d do any electrics for me. But when I mentioned to the plumber getting anyone I knew in to do stuff he didn’t seem to keen

I thought that would be super expensive? and my budget (really stretching myself) is only 4K

Yes that’s about what I’d been told to expect to pay in labour costs on a day rate. So was just a little surprised at the quote. I’m a qualified professional and don’t earn near 2.5k in a whole month as nurse! But now others are saying it will take 1 to 2 weeks then it seems not as much as it...

I’d love to get more quotes but I don’t know where to start! Apart from randomly phoning plumber online?? And no the work wasn’t itemised but thanks for the advice.

So my budget was not totally unrealistic then at least?!

So my budget was not totally unrealistic then at least?!

He said he does everything himself and just has an unqualified helper type thing. Except the electrics.

I appreciate that tradesmen are skilled and you are paying for their experience as well as hard work but if the materials he was supplying cost £650 for example, even if the work took a week (and £500 to his helper?) 2.5k a week in wages seems huge! Doctors don’t earn that! Lol. Of course they...

what’s the alternative though? Show him what I want and then he goes and buys it from somewhere?

You’ve got me second guessing myself now but I am sure he said 2 to 3 days. I offered (with the kind offer of help off someone) to get all the bathroom taken out and all the tiles removed so he had a blank canvas so to speak but he declined saying that was a nothing job for him and wouldn’t take...

Yes I am fully aware this may well be a fair price, I just really didn’t have a clue and now it seems my 4K budget was completely unrealistic! I did think 4K was a fairly healthy budget for such a small room, but as I would be supplying most of the materials I guess I’m looking at more like 6k.

I am wanting to get my bathroom sorted out and as always I am stumped as to where to go for a recommended tradesman so I got a quote off a plumber that a friend had used for some work, but I was a bit surprised at what he quoted me. I am aware that I may have a completely unrealistic...

That’s very informative. Thank you very much for taking the time to reply

and how does that water I the tank I’m the loft get heated if that is what supplies my hot water? Does it get heated by the boiler and then go into my cylinder to be stored? Cos I am guessing it doesn’t get heated in the tank in the loft?

I’m sooo confused! just to clarify - what exactly does that tank in the loft supply, just the hot water? where does the water come from to hear my radiators? Does my cold water come direct from the mains? Thanks for all the replies, I realise it must be like pulling teeth trying to...

Again sorry for being super unknowledgable but does this mean that my cold water comes from the mains but my hot water comes from that tank in the loft? And my central heating water comes from the boiler? Where does the water get heated up for my hot water?

I’m sorry for being stupid here but does this mean that I don’t have a gravity fed system? The reason this has all come about is because I’m wanting to install a mixer shower and not sure it’s a good idea with the system that I have.