Why would they be doing that in a like for like replacement?
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Is it an average or above average size bath
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Swapping avocado for brown.
It's not as simple as just taking one sink out and put new one in.
Same height sink?
Same type of taps?
Same distance from wall to taps?
Same distance apart ?
Is the waste trap the same?
Does it have the same overflow or not?
Same as the bath - all of these things are highly unlikely to be just "plug and play"
Far far to many variables to just give a time to do a job.
Your obviously wanting it done for £50 or something or you wouldn't be asking silly questions.....
Ask a local plumber for a price - it's not just lift one out and put new one in and connect up the taps....
These aren't silly questions if you are not in the industry. As I said I am keep everything in the same location and wanted to know what the average time it would take. The work would be less than rearranging the whole bathroom. I needed a estimate of time it would take to unplug and then attached the new bath toilet and sink, tiling would be done by someone else.
Example you ask a cabby how long it would take to go from A to B, cabby says 1 hour. Of course it is not going to be an hour it could be a bit more or a be less. I wanted to know average time it would take.
If you don't know, or going to be unhelpful why post?
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The point is that your not grasping is that there is no average time. Every install is different. That’s why trades people tend to come and look at a job before giving a price.
They may not even give you a price, just an hourly rate and let you know the bill once it’s done as there are so many things to take into account that impact the time it takes.
They may not even give you a price, just an hourly rate and let you know the bill once it’s done as there are so many things to take into account that impact the time it takes.
It'll take 1 hour and cost you £100. Is that what you wanted to hear?
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It's a good question and for me, as a first time homeowner with a house with one bathroom which (I'm told) needs replacing, it has a simple answer: I'll need to swap out the bathroom suite the same day. The other furnishings and fittings can be done afterwards, but the household needs a working bathroom, so the plan is to do a ton of research, so I know exactly where each pipe goes and where each new pipe needs to go, get an early start and get the suite changed and plumbed in the same day. I found a good guide here:
www.diydoctor.org.uk
How To Fit A Bath or Bathroom Suite
In this DIY guide learn all about how to replace a bathroom suite and installing a bathtub, sink, taps, heating and plumbing
www.diydoctor.org.uk
Drive from A to B is a quantifiable distance - i.e 50 miles.... Easy to quote for that.
Swapping a bathroom suite around isn't like for like - nothing is exactly the same....The pipes in one sink/bath will not line up exactly where the old one is - I guarantee that. Pipework could be old, in need of replacement, pipes won't exactly line up with new suite......
I give up trying here - Get 2 or 3 plumbers to give you a quote - they will need to see the job. No tradesman is giving you a price purely based on you telling them "it's take one out and put one in"
Good luck - but I can't help you anymore as you clearly don't understand that it's not just as simple as pull one out and plug the next one in......
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It's not plug and play but modern fittings make things easier. I.e. for water connections most people now would chop the pipes off and use Flexi tap tails. The taps and wastes are likely to be broadly in the same position on most sinks and baths so Flexi pipes make things a lot easier.
If everything is going in the same spot I'd be taking the bath out first and leaving the toilet in place until the end then swapping that last. An experienced bathroom fitter could do a bath sink and toilet in a day I think, if he didn't have to worry about any other issues.
However what if you find rotten floorboards or plasterboard behind the existing suite? Then youd want to be rectifying that before fitting the new one which will add time.
You've still got to get quotes though.
If everything is going in the same spot I'd be taking the bath out first and leaving the toilet in place until the end then swapping that last. An experienced bathroom fitter could do a bath sink and toilet in a day I think, if he didn't have to worry about any other issues.
However what if you find rotten floorboards or plasterboard behind the existing suite? Then youd want to be rectifying that before fitting the new one which will add time.
You've still got to get quotes though.
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It's not rocket science though, he's not asking you to quote him to the nearest penny, we had a bath done last week which wasn't a straight swap and that was half a day and getting the old one out was the most difficult/time consuming bit, the new stuff didn't match up but it was still done in about an hour. Even if you timesd that half day by 3 it would be 1.5 days, so if a plumber turns up and quotes a week then he's probably taking the Mickey unless there's a major something the OP has left out. If he gets a couple of quotes, they are probably going to be in the region of 2 days tops.
FYI I refurbish houses, so whilst not a plumber myself I have had about 10 bathrooms done in the last 4-5 years and have done 3 of them myself. A plumber should be quicker than me which is why I do still sometimes use one.
I don't really understand the "I don't know the answer so I'll just be randomly aggressive to strangers" approach.