how much to install new cold water storage tank?

[apcdave]

Hi guys,

How much would you charge to remove an old galvanised steel loft tank and install new one ? approx?


cheers

dave

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

depends on where you live,and what's involved,have you had a price already?

 

[REDSAW]

sub £220.

 

[joe brown]

depends on size £150 - £220

 

[Puddle]

well you do not say were you are,you would save it you do not need old tank removing from loft as if does not fit through trap door will require cutting up and turn one man job into a two man one

if you just want old disconnecting ,leaving in loft and new plastic fitting to meet all by laws ,would think £220 very minimum,I would budget nearer £300+

you have at 50 gal tank kit
fittings to old pipework
pipe+valves
misc


just check out material bill for that little list


£150 ????

nothing like making life hard for ourselves !!!




imho

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

and as i have sometimes found (rarely) but it happens no overflow fitted also would need a by-law 30 kit but redsaw and puddle and joe brown have probably taken this into account

 

[apcdave]

Thanks fellas - so if you say £300 , is that £150 for the materials and £150 for the labour?

dave

 

[PlumbBobBob]

sounds about right to me.

 

[Henno82]

I would be more inclined to £350 + this would include removal of old tank installing new tank with iso valves and fittings lagging of pipework and tweaking of pipework if need be and as others have stated taking into account of the byelaw 30.

 

[royston]

£350 + cricky you wouldnt get the job up here in yorkshire £200 for tank swap but would charge for extras.

 

[Henno82]

Glad i don't live in Yorkshire then Roy : ) seriously my prices reflect the area that i live in if i lived in Yorkshire then i'm sure my prices would reflect that.

 

[stevetheplumber]

£300min in london leaving oldtank in loft if its iron

 

[WHPES]

I have done a few of these and a lot depends on the job. On one I had to get the joiner to make a bigger hatch in order to get a new tank up there!

More often than not modifying the old pipework can be a right pain. Sometimes the old metal tank will be sat on scaffold poles so you need to make a proper wooden frame and board on top to support it whic can take a couple of hours by itself. If it has been plumbed into screwed iron pipework, it can take hours to reconnect a new one............

 

[joe brown]

Yes thats correct whipes, I actually forgot about the small entry holes !