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If you have used this, was it OK? I need the existing kit (including the Olympic sized bath) stripped out and replaced with a new bath, walk-in shower, washbasin, radiator, heated towel rail and extractor fan.
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I suspect B&Q put the labour out to the lowest tender and you'll get what you pay for.
B&Q 'designed' a relatives bathroom, although it installed by a builder they trusted. It was a comedy of errors, with wrong parts delivered and lots missing which B&Q promised would be delivered. It took months to sort out.
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I can't answer directly - but have exprience of B & Q kitchen installation. A generally good job was done, but various details were wrong (recessed lighting etc.) and it was a devil of a job to get them back. Took ages for it to be finalised - the usual run-around, phone calls not returned, disagreement over who should do what, etc.
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I had no idea so set a budget of 3 to 4k for remove and replace with new units, and new floor.
Bathroom designers laughed and said no way under 7k, easily more without trying.
B&Q didn't laugh, but with fitting, came in at 7k.
Found local plumber and then his recommended local flooring company, shopped for bits using their trade catalogues and their advice, total cost was £2900 all in, job done in four days. Passes the swmbo test with flying colours.
Just now doing something similar with kitchen though of course going to cost a bit more. Perhaps double.
Find a trusted local chap if you can. In my case he was recommended by a neighbour who'd just used him.
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Worth having a read of these. They've often been mentioned on Wales TV Consumer programmes.
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Too late to edit my own, but just in case anyone cares. It was £2400, not £2900. Slip of the ipad finger.
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Thanks for all the above. The balance of opinion is heavily against B&Q so I will find an alternative.
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"The balance of opinion is heavily against B&Q so I will find an alternative."
Yes, indeed. I should have added that using a local tradesman is certainly best - with one important proviso: he must come with a personal recommendation.
I used a local plumber/bathroom installer on a job where he installed the bath, shower, wash-basin and loo, so we had a working bathroom within a day, which left me to do the tiling and other cosmetic stuff myself. I seem to recall we used B & Q hardware.
That job worked out very cheap, but I can't remember the total.
Subsequently used the same guy for another bathroom installation, including tiling this time. The quality in both cases was excellent, with absolutely no niggles.
I now have a specialist tiler to call on, who has done three floor ceramic tiling jobs for me, the last one my conservatory floor, which has an odd-shaped plan, with some strange angles; this was tiled on the diagonal, with a border - quite a work of art and top standard.
If you ask around you should find the tradesmen you want - I got my bathroom guy from enquiries in my neighbourhood watch group and the tiler from my immediate neighbour.
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B&Q Bathroom installation service - bathtub tom
