Amtico high install cost? Advice please - again :)

To be fair to spacey £1500 is a lot for labour but the total isn’t and I think it’s just the way the company has split it


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If there’s no vat


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Thank you

The problem is that paying more doesn't always relate to a better job. I dont trust CheckATrade and where else do you go I will get a couple more quotes from other local amtico sellers and see what they say for reference. It is painful paying somebody £300 to DPM the floor which I suspect even I couldnt do badly (but what do I know).
ps: I thought Bradbeers were more of a rip off shop that JL, hence my surprise.

 

If you dont want to pay for amtico get a vinyl floor put down, seems fair price to me, I'd want for that work about a grand +vat minimum, you then also have the shops markup on the fitting.

You want a high end floor you will have to pay for it, pay peanuts get monkeys

 

Thanks. We are at the end of our extension and money is now tighter than at the start of the build (same for everybody I guess). It is annoying knowing I could save £500 alone by buying the flooring elsewhere. JL are supposed to be 20% off Amtico material at the moment but they didn't even put that on their quote (not that it mattered).
You are all doing well if you can command 1200-1500 for 3 days work

 

Now that’s why I don’t put my prices out as people have in their minds what they want to pay a trade. I don’t think people that work high up in a bank should command £1m bonus a year for sitting on their arse and running a business into the ground but that’s life. As you say pay more doesn’t always get you a better job. Checkatrade is not perfect and the people that do the best out of that are the ones that own it. You’ve already saved yourself over £1000 on the John Lewis quote? Or you could do what my grandfather would do and do it yourself to save money. He did a really great job for diy and was happy with it but he wasn’t a professional standard. I totally get how you fell as I’ve just done a extension at mine and you start to begrudge paying people especially toward the end but there a lot more to day rate than numbers.



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I'm not working for less on jobs when I can get paid more elsewhere, by splitting the contract by going online for materials and a fitter for fitting I'd be surprised if you got a guarantee from manufacturer or fitter, when many moons ago I did fit only jobs was under the premise of no guarantee as had no knowledge of where stock was from or how had been stored etc, like I said if money is an issue go for a cheaper floor to keep cost down.

 

Same as you we won’t entertain a fit only job you never know how it was stored and they’re generally B stock or discontinued lines.


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To get a professional for fit products they haven’t supplied if this first sign of this job not working

 

Thanks for more replies.
I fully appreciate that you suggest getting the fitter to source the product. In fact I was already sold on that idea hence going to JL etc. However I have also been looking at products suggested on here (various brands) and of course they all are in different retailers dotted around my area. Needless to say, I don't want to pay 4.5k if I find an alternative that I can source for 3k fitted (provided I can be sure the fitter is also reputable).

Oddly, I went to two other retailers yesterday who both told me that they would wait for the screed to cure instead of putting down a DPM. One said that the moisture has nowhere to go if you block it.

Is it better to wait until dry, and then proceed without a DPM?

I am going to look at some other ranges suggested over the weekend (and some I cannot source locally anyway).

Cheers all.

 

Well he doesn’t understand what a moisture suppressant actually does then. Worried again but yes if you can wait for it to dry there’s no need for it


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