FAO: Builders - Does this quote sound about right?

DanTheMan

DanTheMan

DanTheMan

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My nanna's upstairs toilet recently had a burst pipe and left the kitchen and downstairs toilet completely flooded. We got a local building firm to assess the damage and they've given us a breakdown of costs, I'm just wondering if anybody would be able to have a quick glance to see if the costs look reasonable. Obviously without assessing it, it's going to be very hard to judge, I'm just looking for very rough estimates.

Dehumidifier
Supply large dehumidifier for 1 week - £110

Damaged ceilings
Supply necessary materials and labour to remove water damaged ceiling in kitchen and section of water damaged ceiling in lounge. Plaster board and skim flat where affected, only once area has dried out - £600

Water damaged walls
Hack off plaster works to wall in back room, kitched and W.C under stairs where water damaged. Re-plaster flat where affected - £480

Kitchen wall
Hack off wall tiles in kitchen and over skim flat - £800

Internal doors
Remove 3 water damaged doors and cart to tip. Supply and fit 3 lightweight flush doors with ironware and door furniture - £210

Kitchen units and worktop
Estimate only. Supply all necessary materials and labour for new kitchen units and worktop and appliances as existing/in keeping - £3500

Decoration
Supply materials and labour to paint in emulsion all internal walls and undercoat and gloss all woodwork to ground floor rooms as discussed - £800

Cheers,
 
Sounds not bad, some of it seems a little high though

is she not deciding on her own kitchen design ? :confused:


is insurance not covering it?
 
£800 to remove some tiles and plaster a wall?!

Removing tiles any monkey can do, plastering a wall requires a little skill, but £800?!

And lol at the quote for a kitchen "we havn't decided what you're having yet, but it's going to cost you at least £3.5k"
 
Ouch thats a lot for the dehum. Ring any HSS/Speedy hire/Brandon and ask for a quote for a large dehum delivered for a week.

Or if someone is there just buy a small one from B&Q/homebase/screwfix and use that, will just need to empty it a fair bit if flooding was bad. To boost effect of dehums just use a normal heater of some description (even turning up central heating has same effect). Small dehum + heater will work faster than a big one on its own, the size really only makes a diff to emptying not the ability to extract the moisture.
The heat lifts the moisture out.

Its always handy to have a dehum in the garage/shed of a family member for exactly these times!
 
If a water leak did that much damage i'm a monkeys uncle.

Expensive too, i'd get some more quotes from a couple more firms.
 
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Nobody was living in the property at the time and stupidly my mum had cancelled everything, including home insurance.

I have no idea what skimming flat is but I presuming it's just plastering the walls flat. If so, £800 is extortianate I agree.

The doors were very light chipboard as my nanna has arthritis and has trouble opening anything heavier. The doors were all swollen and falling apart.
 
get some more quote and play the builders off on each other, and it's perfectly fine to "bend the truth" a little on other quotes you've been given.

Might also be worth using checkatrade.com to look for reputable builders as it's all vetted and has customer feedback.
 
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