Kitchen Worktop Price

[taxboy]

I'm looking to see if a quote I've received to replace a kitchen worktop in my rental property is over the top - it seems that way to me but looking for advice from anyone in the trade please.

The worktop is in a U shape and will require 2 x 3000 x 600 and 1 x 2050 x 665

The cost for supply and cutting, delivery & miniskip in a Bushboard laminate is £770 + VAT with a further £660 for fitting to include plumber & sundry supplies

All advice appreciated

 

[viv1969]

Seeing as Bushboard at the first given dims can be had for less than £70 plus vat, I'd say that's a tad steep.

 

[kendo1]

I'm looking to see if a quote I've received to replace a kitchen worktop in my rental property is over the top - it seems that way to me but looking for advice from anyone in the trade please.

The worktop is in a U shape and will require 2 x 3000 x 600 and 1 x 2050 x 665

The cost for supply and cutting, delivery & miniskip in a Bushboard laminate is £770 + VAT with a further £660 for fitting to include plumber & sundry supplies

All advice appreciated

At a quick glance I'd say that was over the top!

What needs cut out? Sink, for 1 anyway. Hob?

 

[kendo1]

As a rough guide, I recently fitted a similar layout, a U shaped kitchen worktop - cut to length, cutouts for a sink and a hob, 4 mitre cuts and 8 slots for connection bolts - for £250, done in one day (finished by 4.00, working on my own, 3 x 3M worktops)

Fitting a sink is normally about £190, but that is from a bare wall kitchen - so making up all inlet connections, inc washing machine and dishwasher, and all new waste and trap, inc outlets for washing machine and dishwasher. A refit of an existing sink would be around £100.
Electric hob would come in at about £45, gas hob under £100 - I get my pet gas fitter to do that

As above, a standard bullnose laminate worktop, 3M, is around £70. Breakfast bars are more expensive, sometimes double.

 

[taxboy]

As a rough guide, I recently fitted a similar layout, a U shaped kitchen worktop - cut to length, cutouts for a sink and a hob, 4 mitre cuts and 8 slots for connection bolts - for £250, done in one day (finished by 4.00, working on my own, 3 x 3M worktops)

Fitting a sink is normally about £190, but that is from a bare wall kitchen - so making up all inlet connections, inc washing machine and dishwasher, and all new waste and trap, inc outlets for washing machine and dishwasher. A refit of an existing sink would be around £100.
Electric hob would come in at about £45, gas hob under £100 - I get my pet gas fitter to do that

As above, a standard bullnose laminate worktop, 3M, is around £70. Breakfast bars are more expensive, sometimes double.

Thanks for coming back to me so quickly. You've confirmed what I suspected especially as adding a plumbers charge to remove and refit an existing sink. I thought this would be a straightforward job for any competent fitter. There's only one cut out as the hob sits on another wall fortunately [emoji5]

I wonder if the job is too small and rather than tell me he idnt really want to to do it he's overpriced it so on the off chance I go ahead it makes it worth his while ?

The search for a fitter goes on.

 

[kendo1]

I wonder if the job is too small and rather than tell me he didnt really want to to do it he's overpriced it so on the off chance I go ahead it makes it worth his while ?


It's known to happen...

My first time fitting a bathroom was handed to me as a fitter didn't want to do it. I'd been fitting kitchens for a few years so it was much the same.
The job was priced at twice the going rate so that he was unlikely to get it, and the customer agreed