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Hi ,
Will try and keep this as simple as possible but its difficult alot to explain .
Gone for a quote of a builder who is local. I asked for a quote how do people quote these days what he brought me was 3 different prices scribbled down on a piece of paper for possibly 3 different ways of going around doing what we want .
Our house is just a normal sized semi detached 3 bedroom house no extensions .The list of what we wanted doing below .
1. New roof ( it is 3 sided )
2. New soffit & facia & guttering
3.Chimney badly needs repointing
4. A metal heavy postbox embedding in our porch that goes thru the wall so its a basic job of knocking a few bricks out reusing and repointing thats it . Had a quote before of 2 blokes for £200 which i thought was bit ott didnt need 2 people for £100 each beer money . To me its a £150 tops job .
5. We have a small conservatory prob 10 foot by 8 foot that has one of those horrible polyuthrene ( plastic ) roofs that the big metal bars go through . We want this taking off and maybe a flat roof and as large a window as possible putting in . Our house is quite dark position wise to sun .
The materials .
For the roof we ideally wanted rosemary roof tiles ( i know alot more expensive more battens and smaller tile ) but would settle for 20/20 tiles clay flanders style tiles .
Soffit & facia and guttering we 100% want black all the way . Im a window cleaner and ive seen to many awfull looking new white gutterings within 2 years for a lifetime . Also we want deep guttering , so more expensive i know .
The conservatory we are open to ideas but he settled on a flat glass fibre build and a hinged window large ( extra cost ) , but he did give us a good idea in coming up with no hinged window just a double glazed pane would let in tons of light and cut down on cost .We do have side windows and a door to let heat out should we need to .
We got quoted a top price of for all the best stuff £14700 all in everything .
£11700 for everything but having instead of the rosemary tiles the 20/20 tiles .
£11200 for the cheaper option of concrete tiles on roof but everything else the same .
We talked about it and went for the middle one the 20/20 tiles its not 100% what we wanted but thats what we went for . We knock on his door and accept this is where it starts to get iffy . He says " that is a vat free quote if you want a receipt i would have to charge vat so 20% more on those prices :O !! . I was a bit miffed about this as i think his quote originally is slighty expensive and thought this included vat . But still we thought about it and was going to accept as ive seen his work and its good .
Anyway it went a day as he was going to get some tiles to show us , when he returned with the tiles he knocked on our door gave us the tiles and said .Im really embaressed i dont want to do you job now as ive left off £1500 pounds of the bill ive not charged for the extra scaffolding for the conservatory roof and the skip .Going to admit i just let him walk away as i find all this pretty iffy as i think his original price is quite pricey .What do other people think ?? .
Other info he did say was if we didnt want the conservatory roof doing to knock off either £4000 or £5000 .
If you do reply to this and thankyou please remember we are in the midlands not up scotland or in london where prices prob differ alot , please bare that in mind .
Im basically asking were we getting ripped off at £11700 ??? esp as he wanted to then add another £1500 and if you also think about it if we wanted a receipt it was then an extra 20% on top off £11700 plus £1500 , surely this was taking the pee .
Thanks
P.s 2 more builders coming next week , always pays to get more than one quote ( case in point ) .
Will try and keep this as simple as possible but its difficult alot to explain .
Gone for a quote of a builder who is local. I asked for a quote how do people quote these days what he brought me was 3 different prices scribbled down on a piece of paper for possibly 3 different ways of going around doing what we want .
Our house is just a normal sized semi detached 3 bedroom house no extensions .The list of what we wanted doing below .
1. New roof ( it is 3 sided )
2. New soffit & facia & guttering
3.Chimney badly needs repointing
4. A metal heavy postbox embedding in our porch that goes thru the wall so its a basic job of knocking a few bricks out reusing and repointing thats it . Had a quote before of 2 blokes for £200 which i thought was bit ott didnt need 2 people for £100 each beer money . To me its a £150 tops job .
5. We have a small conservatory prob 10 foot by 8 foot that has one of those horrible polyuthrene ( plastic ) roofs that the big metal bars go through . We want this taking off and maybe a flat roof and as large a window as possible putting in . Our house is quite dark position wise to sun .
The materials .
For the roof we ideally wanted rosemary roof tiles ( i know alot more expensive more battens and smaller tile ) but would settle for 20/20 tiles clay flanders style tiles .
Soffit & facia and guttering we 100% want black all the way . Im a window cleaner and ive seen to many awfull looking new white gutterings within 2 years for a lifetime . Also we want deep guttering , so more expensive i know .
The conservatory we are open to ideas but he settled on a flat glass fibre build and a hinged window large ( extra cost ) , but he did give us a good idea in coming up with no hinged window just a double glazed pane would let in tons of light and cut down on cost .We do have side windows and a door to let heat out should we need to .
We got quoted a top price of for all the best stuff £14700 all in everything .
£11700 for everything but having instead of the rosemary tiles the 20/20 tiles .
£11200 for the cheaper option of concrete tiles on roof but everything else the same .
We talked about it and went for the middle one the 20/20 tiles its not 100% what we wanted but thats what we went for . We knock on his door and accept this is where it starts to get iffy . He says " that is a vat free quote if you want a receipt i would have to charge vat so 20% more on those prices :O !! . I was a bit miffed about this as i think his quote originally is slighty expensive and thought this included vat . But still we thought about it and was going to accept as ive seen his work and its good .
Anyway it went a day as he was going to get some tiles to show us , when he returned with the tiles he knocked on our door gave us the tiles and said .Im really embaressed i dont want to do you job now as ive left off £1500 pounds of the bill ive not charged for the extra scaffolding for the conservatory roof and the skip .Going to admit i just let him walk away as i find all this pretty iffy as i think his original price is quite pricey .What do other people think ?? .
Other info he did say was if we didnt want the conservatory roof doing to knock off either £4000 or £5000 .
If you do reply to this and thankyou please remember we are in the midlands not up scotland or in london where prices prob differ alot , please bare that in mind .
Im basically asking were we getting ripped off at £11700 ??? esp as he wanted to then add another £1500 and if you also think about it if we wanted a receipt it was then an extra 20% on top off £11700 plus £1500 , surely this was taking the pee .
Thanks
P.s 2 more builders coming next week , always pays to get more than one quote ( case in point ) .