is this excessive

duckcfc

Sister has a house with 14 rads and had a plumber out pricing to install a stove with boiler to heat rads and was quoted 1100euro for the job.

I've been told all he has to do is bring stove in, set in fireplace and connect 2 pipes and run them to the hotpress and connect a pump to the stove. If so, 1100 euro sounds very excessive to me. What's your thoughts! I'd be thinking 2 days work max and should be in and around 400euro.

h2005

Very hard to say without looking at it. Get more quotes if you think it's excessive?

duckcfc

h2005 wrote: »

Very hard to say without looking at it. Get more quotes if you think it's excessive?

Its a basic 5 bed 2 storey house with a sunroom/utility. Nothing to big TBH

cork2

A mans price is his price. I don't agree with arguing it, he thinks he's worth it. I'm not saying he's right I'm just saying price two or three more plumbers.

witnessmenow

Would have thought a plumbers rate was higher than €25 p/h which is what your 2 days for €400 estimates to?

Agree with others, price other plumbers if you think the price is wrong

duckcfc

witnessmenow wrote: »

Would have thought a plumbers rate was higher than €25 p/h which is what your 2 days for €400 estimates to?

Agree with others, price other plumbers if you think the price is wrong

€25 per hour is a decent rate I would think. 200euro a day is near 70k a year for a plumber!

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

duckcfc wrote: »

€25 per hour is a decent rate I would think. 200euro a day is near 70k a year for a plumber!

Fortunately it's not you who decides the rates. 4 years serving an apprenticeship, having to buy a van, tools, insurance, rgi, no sick or holiday pay etc and you want it for a score an hour after tax?

Getting off topic anyway, the best advice you'll get is to get another quote, you'll have a much better idea then if it's excessive.

sydthebeat

70k turn over can write easily equal 30k profit.

Feck all for a professional tradesman

air

duckcfc wrote: »

€25 per hour is a decent rate I would think. 200euro a day is near 70k a year for a plumber!

It is if he works 365 days a year!

Czhornet

Where is the hot press in relation to the stove? has he to break through walls to get to the hot press or chase walls to bury the pipes (if its upstairs). there will be two 1" pipes to go to the cylinder with a circulation pump fitted to keep the water moving. 1100 does sound excessive. is he supplying the pipework for the flue/blanking plate for the fireplace?
price around I'd say, hemp and boss white are not that dear!

boosabum

duckcfc wrote: »

Sister has a house with 14 rads and had a plumber out pricing to install a stove with boiler to heat rads and was quoted 1100euro for the job.

I've been told all he has to do is bring stove in, set in fireplace and connect 2 pipes and run them to the hotpress and connect a pump to the stove. If so, 1100 euro sounds very excessive to me. What's your thoughts! I'd be thinking 2 days work max and should be in and around 400euro.

Its much more complicated than that, the system needs it's own loop (like a seperate heating system).
The actual fittings for this job will be the guts of €800 alone, doe the €1,100 include fittings ?

Family member had this done last year and i don't think it's worth doing as the back boiler takes the heat from the stove (and the room it's in more so) and only mildly warms the radiators.