PRICE REVEALED FOR THIS BATHROOM REFURB & A few other little PLUMBING jobs
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- Опубликовано: 22 янв 2022
- A lot of people ask how I price jobs, what I charge for various jobs/bathrooms etc so I thought I would take you along for a day of looking and pricing jobs, and finishing nailing down a quote to see just how close I was to my “rough guess”
#plumbing #bathroom #pricing
Please note, Prices change up and down the country
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JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT TONIGHTS VIDEO....AS IM SURE PEOPLE WILL ASK
These are prices based upon where i live (Warwickshire) and the prices that i am happy charging my customers, in no way is it a guide to what YOU should charge.
I hope you enjoyed the video, if so give it a like, get subscribed and drop me a comment below....
Can you not go underneath the bathroom to change the valve surly easier to take the celling boards down then take the bath out tiles etc
@@rastageordie7338 it’s a little tricky below as it’s the kitchen with units on the walls etc etc… would struggle to get to the area we would need…. But it’s an option👍🏼
Fantastic insight into a jobbing plumber and getting work quoted up.
Your experience pays dividends.
For comparison like you asked for on the jobs you looked at I would be at.
1st job waste pipe £55 -£70
2nd job shower and Labour £210 - £250
3rd job bathroom suite £5300 - £5700
Just out of curiosity did those prices include VAT?
Think this is a great video for trades but also customers to see what skilled trades charge so what to expect.
Spot on mark 👍👊🤟
Thanks for the heads up, I’m moving into your area real quick!!
@@davidtaylor7119 thanks mate…. That’s a great comparison…… out of interest where abouts are you??
That doesn’t include VAT as I’m not VAT registered…😉👍🏼
👍 Thank you again. Honesty goes a long way. Plan to start out on my own soon in a few months. Your videos, when I have time to watch, have been a massive help.
Thanks Martin, that’s great me… hope it goes well
Bathrooms always take longer and cost more than any inexperienced person will ever realise because they are normally a small room that you cannot fit more than 1 or 2 people into at the same time. They also often involve, carpentry, plastering, boarding, tanking, electrics, plumbing, sometimes gas, tiling, painting, underfloor heating, flooring, etc. it is by far the trickiest room in a house to renovate. On top of that everything needs to be water proof, leak free and there are specific zones for electrics. For those guys saying it should be around £4k, you are welcome to do all my bathrooms for me but you will be out of business within a year or 2. Remember that loads of plumbers are self employed so they are not paid when off sick or on holiday and there is still insurance for vans, tools, fuel, etc.
Exactly mate 👍🏼👍🏼
am working on a toilet room with a rising damp problem.. removed the skirting and found a bunch of black mould there cos the plaster and insulating barrier had been installed before laying the concrete flooring
Really appreciate this video… no one teaches you about pricing so this is a great help for people just starting out by themselves👍🏼
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it…👍🏼👍🏼
@@MJTiffPlumbing a break down on how you went about pricing the barn conversion would be a good insight with the much larger jobs as well👍🏼…
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Great video Mark, great to hear you breakdown the work 👍
Thanks mate
The pricing, chasing around and getting everything sorted takes so much time people don’t realise, great insight for people, take care, hope you get the job and get the chance to film it. 👍
Thanks Peter…… yep it’s the time people don’t see
These videos are so helpful in more ways that one for a diyer like me. Not only do We learn how things are done, why things happen and how to repair them.. Also the terminology. I had no idea a blending valve existed! Thanks for all the help
Thanks buddy 👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks mate ,I'm just starting out on the bathroom side of things,done many bathrooms but for family and friends and this Is helpful.
Glad you liked it mate👍🏼👍🏼
Great video Mark! Easily the best video you have done to date imo!
Always good to get an insight into what other trades charge and how things are priced up. Keep it up mate! 👍
Thanks mate…. Glad you liked it 👍🏼👍🏼
@@MJTiffPlumbing Would love more videos like this mate. I’m sure plenty of others would too. You’ll be hitting 50k subs in no time 😉🤙
@@Tony91177 thanks mate….. just let me know what you want to see and I will see what I can do
really great content mark bang on the button and makes us realise in the valleys how we sell our self short keep up the good vid, as previously said go in through ceiling or thermal image camera as you already know till the next one
Thanks Mike….. costings is all area relevant aswell mate👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks for this Mark asked for this few weeks ago when u did a video wanting suggestions just shows u appreciate our comments
Thanks Sam…. Glad you enjoyed it.
Always want to try and give the people who watch a voice and if I can help then I will 👍🏼👍🏼
Great video, so helpful and completely understandable. Keep up the good work and videos 👍
Thanks mate….
Thanks excellent as always.I’m doing level 2 plumbing . You are a legend
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it👍🏼
Great video mate. Enjoyed this, very thorough process for your pricing. As I am new in the trade and retraining it’s great to get a feel for costs . Subscribed 👍
Thanks buddy 👍🏼👍🏼
great well balanced video keep up the good work on pricing these jobs.
Thanks buddy
Forget about the plumbing, the editing skills are phenomenal! Great Video Mate had me hooked from the intro.
Thankyou mate, I really appreciate comments about the editing of my videos as I really do enjoy that part of it and it has to be perfect. I want to make something I would want to watch 👍🏼👍🏼
Brilliant video as always!
Dont know if it helps but I have twice found a blending valve under freestanding bath next to the waste!
That’s what I’m hoping for 🤞🏼🤞🏼
If you took the bath tap out, you could potentially thread an inspection camera down the hole along the pipes and see if the mixer valve is close by.
Good idea. Or a thermal camera to trace the pipes
Cracking vid very good and very interesting keep up the good work.👍👍👍
Thankyou mate 👍🏼👍🏼
Totally agree with your pricing….i go in with a mid to high end bathroom refurb around 10-12k. Fully high end £15k upwards. Also would recommend and extractor fan if theres not one there👍🏼
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Good video and you covered a helluva lot there. You will be relieved to hear I have no questions or novel suggestions (because I have read the other comments😉) - however on that first video with the warm water at the bath - if the thermal imaging camera suggests the thermostatic block is under the tap - then I would suggest a quick up and under is probably worth it even if you have to take down kitchen cupboard(s) - it’s not just about being cost effective it’s also about being time effective.😉👍
Thanks Norman 👍🏼
Thanks for this video, really interesting to watch some else pricing. I’d have been in the exact same ball park for the bathroom
Thanks James….. 👍🏼👍🏼… glad you enjoyed it mate
Love the window in the bath/shower I bet the neighbours have a great show every morning/night
If they had neighbours🤣
It was obviously frosted before it was all handed over 😉
You could try borrowing a thermal imaging camera may tell you where the hot pipe goes into blending valve then goes colder after then just need to remove a few tiles hopefully? Worth a try. Glad you liked my suction pads ideas for the shower trays in the barn a few months back. Keep up the good vids and prices are good from another plumber 👍🏻
I will be using my thermal camera on it…Someone mentioned that earlier and I didn’t even think of it…(it was even in the van)🤣
With the bath I usually tell them that the ceiling below would be the cheapest option as the tiles would probably need to be totally removed and swapped for a near match or complete change.
Yep, that’s an option….. if it’s even in the floor
@@MJTiffPlumbing yeah that’s the nature of that kind of job though unfortunately
Am learning quite a lot from you m8,stay Blessed 🙌
Thankyou mate, glad your enjoying it
Great Video. Really interesting to see your pricing. Ive done a lot bathrooms over the years and do the whole lot myself. I was around the same price too! Quoted for loads recently where I’ve been £3000more! I’ve quoted for 12days and other guys say it will take 6days only for me to get called out when there new bathroom isn’t working correctly! Builders cutting of vents and piping toilet straight into soil stack is my favourite 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks mate, glad you liked it
Don’t know if anybody else has commented on this as I haven’t got the time to go through over 300 comments, but an infrared sensor may well show the position of a valve (future job), depending on how much heat is going through the pipe.
I have just used a Flir unit connected to my phone, to trace pipework in my flooring and it worked surprisingly well. Not particularly cheap, but for a pro you would likely recover the cost fairly quickly and it would save you a ton of hassle!
Great content as ever. Well done you letting us know your pricing there’s more to it than materials and labour. Visit to site costing guarantee etc etc. No shame in charging for what your worth. Cowboys would charge same or more for poor work. Keep up the good work. All the best Pete 👍👍
Thanks mate
Hi Mark,
Another brilliant film, thank you for making this film. Most trades/tradesmen on RUclips appear to be apprehensive
about discussing their price and how they cost their work/labour etc. This has been a brilliant insight, I understand that
prices will vary in different areas of the country, like you said in the film.
The bath tap job sounds like a ball ache, the thermal camera sounds like a good starting point.
I look forward to the next film, take care, as always, regards, Chris. 👍👍👍
Really glad you liked it Chris, and yes I thought people would like to see the pricing of some jobs as it’s not usually put out there.
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Very honest to share the realities of quoting! So many will say can be done cheaper quicker etc but if it was such an amazing deal plumbers would be queuing up to fit bathrooms but they are not!
Indeed mate
7-8k was my guess depending on quality of fittings. This would be for bulk standard fittings. This is why as a landlord I take on most of the work myself only using a plumber and a sparky for speed when necessary and also a Plasterer to skim coat my boarding. Doing it my way the job would take 3 weeks to do and only cost me about 3.2k total. About 1200 for a plumber, 230 plasterer, 400 for sparky installing extraction fan etc the materials being about 1400. My time is obviously free and it would be a good free weeks from start to finish to complete. I expect you would get it done in a week, depending on the plastering
Spot on, great advice, 👍
Glad you enjoyed it Lee 👍🏼
Very informative pal, Top bloke 👍🏻
Thanks mate 👍🏼👍🏼
Well done mate! A new Subscriber here! Keep up the good work 👍
Thanks mate and welcome to the channel
@@MJTiffPlumbing
Thank you!
Please if i would send you few pictures and explain you through a message vocale,what needs to be done,would u be able to help me quote for a bathroom to be refurbished?
Can you do more videos about pricing please. Perhaps pricing smaller jobs too...I.e replacing taps, fitting outside taps etc. Cheers
I will do over time I guess….. 👍🏼👍🏼
Great content Mark
Thanks Robert 👍🏼👍🏼
Really enjoy your video’s mate
Thanks Russ, glad you like the content mate
Thanks mate.
love your honesty
Thanks mate 👍🏼🙏🏼
Good breakdowns, props for being upfront and laying it all out.
That's a smart move to kick off with the "basic but not cheap" complete package for the bathroom, then see if the client wants upgrades.
I'm wondering if you give people a timeline of sorts, as in it will take 8 working days or whatever your estimate is?
Do you work off a daily or weekly price for yourself, that includes all your operating cost, margins etc? Or more directly the number you feel comfortable with (“3000 will make this worth my while”).
I find the troubleshooting and problemsolving really interesting, I would love to see the follow up on that bath/tap situation - what turned out to be the issue, and where it was all located?
For a straight forward bathroom I usually allow a 2 week turn around….. never usually go over that
Another brilliant video. I liked the fact that you did talk about pricing etc. For me it is always a big struggle to price up jobs. Never sure what to charge the labour part. What to price for say: swap inlet valve in toilet and what to charge for boiler straight swap? Materials wise I am not bad but my labour costs I am always shy and underprice myself
Glad you enjoyed it mate 👍🏼👍🏼
Consider this: "What is a working toilet worth to the customer?" Of course they're happy if it's only 50, but maybe it costs 200? Or even 1000? The client has no idea, so just be realistic. Ask enough that you can comfortably do the job, and give good service. You'll never regret a fair take.
It’s a great idea to ask the customer ‘their budget’ for a job👍👍
Where lots of guys/gals fail at Estimating jobs is ensure they cover their overheads fully. Advice I was given about 45 years ago; calculate all your overheads & double that figure.
DON’T GO BY WHAT OTHER PEOPLE CHARGE AS YOUR LABOUR RATE!!! Calculate your own Labour Rate, it’s no hard. Also another lesson I learned early on, look at your material & Labour ‘Mark Up’ in different ways, it can make a big difference to your final total for the job.
There’s a tendency to add a smaller MU on materials(as Mark said 15-20%), but depending on the ratio of Labour & Material on the job, it can make a world of difference!!
Thanks Mark👍
Exactly right mate……👍🏼👍🏼
Glad so many people are liking this video, the likes of me and you it comes pretty second nature but hopefully this helped some who are struggling 👍🏼
Your either a tradesman earning a wage or a business man using your trade to make money. The sooner you realise the latter the better
@@seanmolyneux6165 love that quote. I’m having it 😂👌🏻👍
Interesting video. I have just renovated my own bathroom which involved moving the bath and the vanity basin to another part of the room so as to accomodate a separate walk in shower. The bath and toilet were in good condition so were reused but the vanity unit was falling to pieces so was replaced and of course there was the need to buy a shower enclosure and tray on top of the tiles, paint flooring and a heated towel rail. I haven't kept a tight tally of the costs but its around 1.5 - 2k. Taken me 3 months of mostly working weekends. Have saved a lot of money doing it myself.
However I appreciate that it would be a different story doing the same work for as a professional. It's one thing doing it in your own property that you know well, know your requirements. Would be quite another doing the same work in someone else's property that you have never worked on before, having to assess what needs doing and not knowing what you are going to find.
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I usually cut the ceiling and fit plastic access panels to any maintenance parts.
Access from underneath is limited but it’s an option👍🏼
Some freestanding taps have a temperature limiting cartridge fitted, it looks almost the same as the one on your flog except it has a red adjustable ring fitted around the blue tooth top of the cartridge, the original installer may have removed it or it could be the cartridge itself is knackered or the incorrect one is fitted.
Exactly why I took this one out👍🏼….. it’s not a temp limiting one and still the temp is low so it points elsewhere…
I need to put my price up thanks for that vid
Thanks mate, prices are very area dependant buddy
Great video!
Thanks buddy 👍🏼👍🏼
It's great to see a plumber explain how pricing a job works. When I was an apprentice, I was always very keen to know everything about learning about how to do the manual side of the job. Working with tools and producing a great job was all that I concentrated on - and I actually became very good at it.
But, the problem came when I found myself working for firms that were charging the customer the going rate, yet I wasn't earning much more than if I just got a shelf stacking job in Sainburys.
I did eventually go self-employed, but I was still sub-contracting for massive firms. I did see my pay packet vastly improve when I did this, but the problem I found by doing that, was that when the work dried up, then so did my job. And because I had put all my eggs in one basket I was no better off. Even having a few grand saved in the bank will very rapidly disappear when you can't find a new situation.
I just wished I'd been able to build up my own business without always being in someone else's pocket all the time.
I hear you mate, it’s tough and the only way to make good money is by going it on your own, but that comes with pros and cons as we all know…
What are you doing now??
I look at it like this. If any potential customer thinks it's too overpriced, then ask them to source the carpenter, plasterer and electrician. Maybe even floorlayer, tiler, etc. Sorting out other trades in, can be a nightmare!
As they'd no doubt find : )
First and foremost, you're a plumber....not a small builder. And if the job requires other trades, then i'd place it in the latter category!
Interesting video, Mark. Enjoyed watching it. It certainly generated a diverse array of comments, lol.
Thanks Ian… yer some great comments and also some interesting ones about pricing. Exactly why I made the video👍🏼👍🏼
I've come across that problem with the bath tap running Luke warm Mark, turned out to be the tap cartridge - it seemed to allowing the cold to run into the hot side. Try turning the hot water off and open the tap on hot only and see if you get cold water bypassing. Worth a try 👍
Always worth a try 👍🏼👍🏼
Me as well, and that was a plastic cartridge. Unusual to put a TMV on the bath and not on the basin, will there be an update on this job
Hi, love the videos.
Question - are you fully qualified recognized or are you experienced trained?
looking to get into the industry but only want to do the intensive course of 1st and 2nd fixing a bathroom suite ect. I'm looking to get into smaller jobs really, just a tick over for through the winter period as we go quiet then.
Some pillar bath taps have what is basically a ibox in the floor with the thermostatic mixer inside it. Given size of floor plate I’d say it’s that. So try take the tap out first.
Thanks mate, I did wonder if that may be the case hence taking the valve out to see if it was anything like that.
Deffo worth a try….👍🏼👍🏼
I'm looking at doing a very similar job on my own bathroom, at around 5k in labour I'm glad I can do it all myself (minus plastering)
You will save a few quid👍🏼👍🏼
Hey! Regarding bathroom renovation. How's about moving shower position to the opposite end. 1500 X 700mm tray with a 1000mm wet room slab of glass. Rather than a sliding door so no moving parts to go wrong. Alternatively, could go with an 800mm wet room glass with a 300mm flipper on the end, would give more elbow room to get in and out. Fantastic vids 👍 great work.
Yep, that’s an option but the customer wanted a price for a full “cubicle” style.
I like fitting the flipper screens, think they work well
Gotta go with what customer wants mate. I say spot on with those prices 🎯 down on south coast.
Here we go, pricing as I watch before you reveal Mark. Sitting here with my son who’s a second year plumbing apprentice and asking him too so he gets a feel for pricing. Repair the soil attach with new boss and inch and a quarter solvent pipe back to basin £180 plus VAT inc materials.
👍🏼👍🏼….. very similar to my quote
Job 2, try a FLIR cam buddy run the hot on the basin and bath and try the cam from above and below hopefully you can see a blender from below, also try unscrewing the bath tap from the Mount and pull the tap out from the floor as far as it will go to see if they kinked the hot flex. Just a thought buddy, top vid👍.
Thanks mate, had a thermal camera on it in a follow up video… still no joy
Go from underneath to find that blender mate then get the plasterer to repair make good might be a good shout Iv had that before
Yep that’s an option if we need it
Great video this has really helped me as I’ve started going out on my own. Really appreciate you taking the time on these videos. Do you have any advice for someone starting out on there own. I don’t want to be under selling myself.
Thanks mate, glad you like the content.
Advice would be work hard and build up a good name for yourself. Be on time
@@MJTiffPlumbing Thank you. Look forward to new content also any tools that you would recommend pricey or cheap don’t matter
You could possibly try a thermal image camera to find that blender, it could just show it
That mate is a VERY VERY good shout…… 👏🏼👏🏼
I may well give that a try👍🏼
Last bathroom i done in Southampton was £8k on the dot. Bath out 1700 tray in,wet room shower screen, shower mixer, basin toilet vanity unit, 1200 towel rad. Aquaboard shower area and splash back, reskim walls and ceiling, move light switch to outside and extractor fan installed and waterproof Malmo click flooring.
Near on this price then buddy 👍🏼👍🏼
2nd job is very similar to a block of new build flats we now look after, built 3 years ago and blending valves buried in walls. Absolutely mental, some of them don't have blending valves so they just turned the tank temperature down below legionella requirements. So many corners cut when it comes to new builds, no idea what developers are thinking.
It’s a nightmare mate, honestly…..
And the worse bit is you can’t price for something you don’t know
@@MJTiffPlumbing Yeah, I have to go to the block on Tuesday and find where the rising main has given up. All boxed in and likely run up the building in 28mm speed fit if the workmanship in the flats was the norm. If you're going to look for it though, get a thermal camera and run the hot out the outlets it'll make life much easier - remembering there's only supposed to be 1-1.5m between TMV and outlet it will give you an idea if they have indeed put it near the outlet or behind the hot outlet of the tank/ entrance to the bathroom.
Those are the standard locations we have been finding for them in these new builds anyway.
@@effervescence5664 good luck with that mate….
Yer will get the camera out and see what I can find
I think you're spot on with the pricing for that bathroom. The people on here saying 4k haven't a clue
I've just redone my bathroom myself (first time ever) its a little bigger than the one you've shown but not by loads. I did everything except the plastering so i know the true cost. It was similar to what you was going to do, ie: rip the tiles off, plaster, replaster the ceiling
All the materials including the plasterer came to £4200. Its basically a £10k bathroom had i had it fitted by someone.
By comparison the next door neighbor did his (himself) at exactly the same time. His cost £1300. But it looks a bodge, he's tiled over 3 sets of existing tiles and everything is basically a cover up instead of ripping out and starting fresh..
You get what you pay for
Thanks mate 👍🏼
i always went through ceilings before lifting floors/tiles etc,so if thats an option could save your customer some dough,and easier to fix than a tiled floor :)
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With the bath tap you may find it under the bath? Best thing i bought was an inspection camera (you can get cheap ones that work with your phone) that way you only need to do little damage in the ceiling below to see if it is in the floor? 👍🏻
Yep we are hoping it’s under the bath….
(And watch out for tomorrow nights video😉)
Cane to say the same thing.. and those inspection cameras are so good. For around 20quid on eBay you can get a Wi-Fi one that connect to your phone. So handy for the price.
@@vinylspinner87 will take a look👍🏼👍🏼
They're awesome. Even has little adjustable led lights on the end too 👍 perfect for Plumbers and sparks
Try seeing what is underneath bracket, as in less damage if you come up thru ceiling [submarine] haha worth a go if nothing better🤙
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Really interesting to see the pricing of a complete refurbishment, hope to see more like this.
What would be the price of installing a new unvented cylinder from an old vented system? Thanks
Depends On so many things to be honest mate
As an ex Kitchen & Bathroom fitter of 10 years experience, I like your honesty in the video Mark - no BS - just the honest facts of life. The bathroom job does sound a tad pricey? but I'm thinking your work is 5* - the customer must appreciate you do get what you pay for with tradesmen (& women of course!) - unfortunately with many European plumbers, the price starts low in the original quote, then escalates during the progress of the job and the standards aren't always the best - 'que sera sera' as the saying goes! Enjoyed watching your video matey, I'd be happy for you to quote for my job 👍
Thanks mate, that’s just what the channel is about, Real World Plumbing…. Showing it all as it is.
Bathroom wise some people have said it’s too cheap, it’s all very different up and down the country for prices…
Glad you liked the video buddy👍🏼👍🏼
Re that bath, could you use a infa red/ heat tracking camera and trace it that way, maybe from the ceiling from below even? Should be a good temp gradient up to the mixer.
Interesting …. To be honest that price for the bathroom is reasonable, and I’m Bristol based, I might be just a little cheaper.
It helps being transparent with the pricing so if the customer does query you have nothing to hide and don’t look like a rip off merchant.
Great video mate. 👍🏻
Thanks James, interesting to know it’s a similar price your way…👍🏼
Glad you like the channel James and thanks for watching & commenting
Similiar to me in Oldham although a lot of cowboys out there quoting under 5k. If customers budget is 5k I am nice about it but I dont even go and look.
I’m bristol based - I’d charge about 8 for this job - depending if customers want top tier utilities or a more basic set.
I like the upfront frankness. Only experience can tell you what you’re up against. That bathroom I would say today around the 10k mark. 7.5k is a great price.
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Best running the bath tap hot feed pipe into a bucket to check the temperature and flow rate. Hopefully help narrow down the cause a bit better then. And if it is a hidden blending valve just sack off finding it. Price to run a fresh hot pipe from the basin to the bath tap. Maybe via the ceiling below for minimum disruption
First thing to check is the hot and cold fed from the same source easy to do if there is 2 sources turn one off.
Seen hot fed from the attic and cold from mains b4.
That will be 3k please.
Nice content mate, I admire your honesty and I clearly don’t charge enough😂👍🏻
Thanks mate 👍🏼👍🏼
Prices are all area relevant
Very interesting mark , I’m a “London plumber “ some of the things you’ve quoted for would get taken to the cleaners down here , you can imagine .😂
Very fair prices to be fair .
Love your vids 👍🏻
Thanks mate…. Yer I can imagine some prices are crazy in London.
Glad you enjoyed it mate 👍🏼👍🏼
Great video as always. I might have been watching a bit too much PB lately, but would a thermal imaging camera be an option for that bath mixer? Thanks for all the content and hope it keeps coming
Yep the thermal camera will be coming out this week on it😉
Any recommendations of thermal cameras?
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Keep your eye out on my channel at 6pm tomorrow😉😉
Nice to see you fit and well again mark you where spot on with them prices I said 120-140 for that leak on the waste. That freestanding tap I would remove it from the floor and check the hot inlet isn't blocked if you can't get any adjustments on the main tap, there is usually a plastic ring you can turn to adjust the temperature on the main tap. Only an idiot would hide a blender, if there is a blender it's not under the sink behind them drawers is it?
Thanks mate, nope the basin Pipework again just goes into the wall… but that is red hot.
Thermal imaging camera is the next port of call, someone suggested it on here and I hadn’t even thought of that….. and it was sat in the van!!!
Good call thermal imaging camera mine has saved me a lot of time fault finding and from ripping things up 👍
@@adierob1 yep, handy tools….👍🏼👍🏼
Bath = access through downstairs ceiling = massive savings for the customer as apposed to alternative. 12.5mm 8x4foot plasterboard sheet would be more than enough to cover the bathrooms access needed. Repair access with said board and skim entire ceiling = 1 day plastering and plastering materials only £450.00 tops. I would not want to get involved in that tiling looking at the rest of the work you presented. Great video 👍
All sorted now…. It’s in a video… interesting result
Bath. My way would be from room below. 80mm drilled hole in cieling take a look in void. or feel if pipes are blended yet. if not see what dirrection and drill hole further away then see if pipes are blended yet. after your done battern holes put cores back in, bit of filler. and access panel where valve is ( IF you even find it). They could have even brought pipes up under bath and back out. So Holes from below should be easyest and cheapest to start..Good Luck MT
Thanks mate, thermal imaging it to hopefully see if I can find it, failing that access below is an option aswell
@@MJTiffPlumbing Now that would be ideal (Thermal Image) i hadnt even thought of that. Good Shout
Mark,could you use the thermal imager to find the blending valve and pipe run ?
I’ve tried that mate…. Still no joy🙈🙈
Still watching but my thoughts on that ridiculous bath tap blender would be an infrared camera to chase the hot feed either under the tiles or from the ceiling below. Might give you a non destructive way to narrow it down.
Yep thermal camera will be used this week to try and help the location…👍🏼
Great video
Thanks mate 👍🏼👍🏼
Tiff, do you ever get the customers who want to do the ripp out themselves? Taking out all the fixtures and fittings, tiles etc
Yes from time to time….. will save them a few hundred quid, but usually takes them longer to be perfectly honest
Great video mate.
Stupid question about the blending valve issue but would it not be easier to pop the cellings below to find it then make good cellings, replaster and paint? No tile matching etc??
Or as it has downlights can you pop one or two daom and put a small camera up and look for the pipe work then follow it??
Yep there options as others have said👍🏼👍🏼
I’ve had dirt in the flexi of the tap before so the cold was overpowering the hot .
Oh this is deffo a valve somewhere, all the other properties around have had a similar issue🙈
But thanks for the comment mate👍🏼
Hi mate Being a builder/plumber myself I mostly do repair work , a 100 % percent take tiles up as last resort . Go from ceiling below. Try and cut nice square holes between joist . As this looks better for the customer and also is easier/cheaper to repair and make good. Draw a square or cut round a wooden template with a multi tool . Also don’t cut to deep to avoid hitting cables or pipe work .
Thanks for the comment 👍🏼👍🏼
@M J Tiff Plumbing 😂😂😂😂 and don't forget to tie your shoelaces and put socks on
When you whip that bath out youv got the area that the bath covers to make access to find the mixer !! I bet its bang under the bath tiles
Hopefully 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Reg, to that Bath (isolation) feed etc ....where ideally would u put a isolation valve on those fancy freed standing Taps/ Baths ...
any ideas ...we're to fit isolation valve 🤔🤔
My hourly rate is 135 an hour. But with most of my work, I just come up with a price, I always go on the high end.. example 40 gallon water heater.. 1500-1700. That includes new flexes gas and water, gas shut off while using the existing earth quake straps and disposal of old unit..Iam located in L.A county , CA. South Bay Area.. a little pricing my way, keep up the great work
Nice one Timothy 🙌🏼🙌🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Could you take a floorboard up outside the bathroom and get a inspection camera under to see if you can see the blending valve?
Always an option… and going from below
Hi Mark, really enjoying the vids, on this one, was there a reason you didn't use the bath taps to put in a bar shower and forget the dreaded electric shower??
Thanks buddy….. can’t remember what it was tbh
Camera then only need to drill some 10mm holes to put end in
Don't remove tiled floor always ceiling underneath as plasterer can patch it in cheaply by feathering it in
Yep that’s an option, however it’s a fully fitted kitchen below with limited access due to unit positions etc…. Hopefully it’s just under the bath🤞🏼
Have you tried using that rapid blue stuff, it would be good to see a video with you using it and feedback on what you think.
I haven’t yet
Awesome video this, hope you get the bath job, be cool to see what disasters lie beneath that floor given the "quality" of the builders other work.
Do they have downlights in the room below? Can you stick an inspection camera up there and find the valve that way?
Yer that’s an option…. Fully fitted kitchen below so access would be tricky but another angle
Id be taking a tile up thats under the bath and try finding the tmv , if you find it jackpot, take it out and put bath back, no one would ever know you’ve been!
That’s where I will be starting I think
Great video, gonna subscribe 👍
With the bath, would it not have been easier to go up through the ceiling below? Much easier and cheaper to repair.
Thanks mate….
Below is a fully fitted kitchen so would struggle, also it turns out that it’s had a camera put into the ceiling a few months back with no joy… sadly.
This is going to be fun that’s for sure!!
Have you tried looking under the utility room sink base unit for the TMV. Would be the first place I'd look. 😂
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I was gonna do that.👍
A insight to how you do the taxes would be super helpful!!
Plenty of channels for that mate, I won’t be showing that much detail on here I’m afraid.
Okaaay, that’s no worries! Love watching your vids tho! I’m Training to become a plumber and this is awesome stuff!
Great video Mark. Can you get hold of a thermal camera ? Might help
Thanks buddy 👍🏼👍🏼
There is a follow up video…. Make sure you check it out😉
Great video as always mate. Just catching up now.
What about going from below the bathroom and having a bit of ceiling down? Probably been mentioned by someone else 😊
Thanks mate, yer that’s an option, as is a thermal imagine camera to see if we can locate it…
@@MJTiffPlumbing that’s a good shout 👍🏼 Good luck with it bud 🤞🏼
@@brighton_locksmith cheers mate…🤞🏼
What about a thermal imaging camera to see if you can see the pipes for that bath.
Have you looked in the loft. Sound silly but who knows ? 👍👍
Yep been in the loft, looked everywhere accessible👍🏼
Thermal camera coming out next week on it👍🏼