Bathroom fitting daily rates

[Lee Ruddock]

Hi I’m thinking about setting up a bathroom fitting company as a sole trader
My mate who has just been made redundant wants to work with me with us both going in as self employed but he has never worked in the trade before and he’s happy to be my labourer
What would be the ideal daily rate to charge a customer for both of us to fit a bathroom
I live in northeast England

 

[rpm]

Lee, ring around locally, see what others are quoting.

 

[Lee Ruddock]

Lee, ring around locally, see what others are quoting.

Yeah I have
I’ve got 5 different quotes from bathroom fitters. For a bathroom I pretended I wanted renovating.
All said it would take 5 days. I asked for all the same
Supplied and fitted ranged from £4200 to 7k
None of them would give me the labour charge believe it or not
Apparently you are buying the whole package and that’s the figure

 

[rpm]

Yeah I have
I’ve got 5 different quotes from bathroom fitters. For a bathroom I pretended I wanted renovating.
All said it would take 5 days. I asked for all the same
Supplied and fitted ranged from £4200 to 7k
None of them would give me the labour charge believe it or not
Apparently you are buying the whole package and that’s the figure

Not unusual otherwise the customer finds the cost of things online and simply deducts it from the total to see what your labour charge is however they never calculate in all the other stuff do they?

 

[Lee Ruddock]

Not unusual otherwise the customer finds the cost of things online and simply deducts it from the total to see what your labour charge is however they never calculate in all the other stuff do they?

Yeah this is true
I’ve been out the plumbing trade a few years now
Wanting to get back into it
It’s getting the quotes right that I’m dreading

 

[Chalked]

Not many bathrooms done on a day rate. Most are priced. Add up how many days you expect it to take and times that by how much you expect to earn a day.
If your too expensive you won't get work.

 

[thereisawizza]

And always add a spare day... You can always deduct it at the end of the job (if you're feeling nice) and if not you know you've got a contingency!

 

[king of pipes]

Bathrooms always take longer than you expect you should be looking around 2-3k for the average bathroom install depend on tiling and sanitryware this is only for labour cheers. Kop

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Rough guide

Unspecialised stnd bathroom 6-8k all in

Disabled bathroom 6-10k

Straight swap which you will never do 1.5-2k

 

[rpm]

https://www.ukplumbersforums.co.uk/threads/your-price-on-this-bathroom.99043/

 

[Old Account]

But you also need to consider that the tilers work various a lot. The tiler won't charge the same amount of money for Mosaik, or pattern tiles. It will cost a lot more

 

[king of pipes]

I take the whole job on and do my own tiling it may take a bit longer but i have no one to blame for niggling imperfections which i find you get from employing tilers examples of jobs completed and on going

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[Deleted member 96286]

Hi I’m thinking about setting up a bathroom fitting company as a sole trader
My mate who has just been made redundant wants to work with me with us both going in as self employed but he has never worked in the trade before and he’s happy to be my labourer
What would be the ideal daily rate to charge a customer for both of us to fit a bathroom
I live in northeast England

Hi Lee, I've never heard of a bathroom install been done on a daily rate. I'm in the bathroom installation business and installs are priced based on the goods that the customer wants and the time it will take to install it. If you must go down the daily rate route, then £200 per day is a good price to start off with. Add 30% mark up to the price of goods then total up the number of days at £200 per day and this will give you a rough guide to start from.