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Depends on the bathroom mate. I price each job individually. I do not use set prices.

Same as this. I did myself a print out so I could take to each job. Tick boxes etc on what is / isn't needed and I have set costs for those. Like electrics etc. Tiling per sq m.

I take a deposit if buying the suite, but a lot of the time I send customer in to pay for it as it keeps my turnover down and under VAT.
 
@Harvest Fields - hard to tell i know but. What would you roughly charge to fit tongue and groove white cladding ceiling 1.5 x 2.5 (its in 250mm wide sheets) and then 3 wall panels in shower. 880 x 1160 x 880.

Sent a price to a guy yesterday and got told I was ripping him off lol. Just wondering what you would guestimate at incase I am, ripping him off lol. I hate cladded ceilings.
 
I do not do ceiling work mate. The only person I know has fitted one off the top of my head is @king of pipes (I think it was him anyway)

Was the panels labour only? Are you stripping the old stuff out? Skip? What’s there are the minute. Are you fitting the shower tray/bath (If bath I wouldn’t panel the walls, I would get a tiler to do it. Probably to many factors unless you have a list of everything mate.
 
I do not do ceiling work mate. The only person I know has fitted one off the top of my head is @king of pipes (I think it was him anyway)

Was the panels labour only? Are you stripping the old stuff out? Skip? What’s there are the minute. Are you fitting the shower tray/bath (If bath I wouldn’t panel the walls, I would get a tiler to do it. Probably to many factors unless you have a list of everything mate.

Labour only mate, hes getting ceiling panels and shower board panels.

He said he'll strip the old screen out and tiles but I've got to just disconnect shower. So no skip either.

I'll then board wall panels onto wall there, as long as its sound. If not i'll tell him he'll need it re-plasterboarded / plastered. The ceiling is new but for the cladding i've always been told best to put 2x1 on the ceiling screwed through into existing joists and then pin the cladding to that. Some pin through cladding into plaster ceiling and glue it but i'd rather not.

I do my own tiling too.

The panelling is always something I struggle to quote haha
 
Hi bud i have clad a few ceilings it's a all day job so a day for that and 2 days for 2 men to do the panels if they are not straight forward , just finished one they come out at 2- 2.5 k for labour from start to finish so even a small bathroom your looking at 5K , I have 6 bathrooms on my books taking 2.5 - 3 weeks a time to complete so I am well into the new year with the heating switch on and 70 + boiler services to do I am gonna struggle but can't complain . Kop

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See this is the pig. The basin and toilet are staying and so are the tiles behind them.

Only the shower area being boarded and ceiling being done. Ceiling an arse because I'm working over everything.

@king of pipes Do you 2x1 the ceiling to fix to or go straight into the existing ceiling with glue and screw?

I went 680 including glue for shower area boards and ceiling which I though was Okay. The boards and ceiling materials are 600 quid
 
I use a j trim around the perimeter of the room stuck up with up low modulus silicone and stapled in place with stainless steel staples ceiling boards are slid in stuck up and stapled in place through the tounge , that's how I do it boarding can't be rushed if you want a satisfactory finish £680 labour seems ok . Cheers kop
 
See this is the pig. The basin and toilet are staying and so are the tiles behind them.

Only the shower area being boarded and ceiling being done. Ceiling an arse because I'm working over everything.

@king of pipes Do you 2x1 the ceiling to fix to or go straight into the existing ceiling with glue and screw?

I went 680 including glue for shower area boards and ceiling which I though was Okay. The boards and ceiling materials are 600 quid
Not terrible but I would probably Have been higher if I’m honest. By a few hundred
 
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@king of pipes - ah i've heard so many different ways. I would have also stapled, some say inch screws. Neither here nor there that but then some say 2x1 on ceiling to staple to, some say no need. I guess as long as its also siliconed to ceiling and stapled it shouldn't move.

@Harvest Fields - I wish i was now mate haha
 

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