Removing Tiles

[carlton23]

Wick`s quoted £18 per sq yrd to remove tiles off a plasterboard bathroom wall and £54 to replace new one`s plus the price of the new tiles. What is your opinion folks?

[carlton23]

Exactly.

[venator]

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[Twenty20]

Obviously as you've queried it on here you think it's too expensive. With this in mind why not get a few other quotes to compare prices?

[theshedman]

Hi carlton, has the wall been skimmed or is it just tiles on plasterboard. If it is the latter it may be very hard to get them off without damaging the wall itself and one option may be to tile on the tiles that are already there. As for the question asked it does seem expensive. As an ex decorator I have tiled a few bathrooms in my time and I wish I could have got that type of money for doing it.

[Ankou]

were they taking the pee ?

i mean, did they really quote you in square yards ?

anyhow it appears over the top, how many square yards/metres in total ?

[dennisb66]

I recently had a quote for £30 sq.m for tiling only.

[Old_Geezer]

Everything seems so expensive these days. Last job I wanted doing I got such a high quote for I thought the guy was trying to put me off. Got some more and they were all the same price area.

Yeah get a few quotes if you can find enough tradesmen willing to bother to turn up and look at the small job. It just seems to me that taking tiles off of board whilst leaving it in a state that it doesn't need replacing, might be a little awkward, and therefore pricey?

[Ankou]

i am currently having the tiles in my conservatory floor overlaid with new tiles. two quotes so far, one was £375, the other was £751. which works out to about £20/m2 and £40/m2 respectively.

only real difference (apart from price obv.) was that the second one can't 'fit me in until june'.

[ummmm]

Wow...

(ummmm wonders off happy she knows a tiler)

[Old_Geezer]

One of the reasons I DIY where I can. I find tiling nerve wracking though. Walls never perfect, horizontal & vertical lines need to be right, as does the surface, no steps between tiles. Then there is ensuring you don't end up in the corner with ¼" tiles to lay. As I recall, once into it not as difficult as feared, but not something I'd want to do too often. Get it wrong and it looks horrible.

[Giggsie]

we have just had ours done tiled on tiles beautiful. you get special cement for tiling on tiles would not like to be the person to decorate in the future though.

[rabbitygirl]

Firstly, Wickes will not undertake just tiling. These rates are part of the extras work rates to go with a full bathroom installation. The installer Wickes allocate to do the job will do the whole lot - job done - without you waiting for separate trades to do each part.
Wickes are competitive when up against other major diy chains but you will always find someone to do the project, any project, cheaper.
They are not in it to compete with your local tiler, plumber etc. There are also higher admin charges over and above a small company. Wickes customers like the fact that the job is taken care of by one organisation, which, btw, covers the entire job with a 2 year warranty following completion.

[carlton23]

Many thanks to all, further consideration required.

[ummmm]

Ok...I know two tilers :-)

One who'll do it for free...