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To feel a bit sick at this quote?

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EmoIsntDead · 10/03/2025 18:33

We need or fascia’s and soffits replace round the roofline. Bits have rotted and birds are getting in under the wood. Got our first quote tonight - nearly £15k!! I feel a bit sick at the thought. My question is, is this a reasonable quote? I have nothing to compare it to (yet). Am I being unreasonable to think this is a bit much?

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Yellowpingu · 10/03/2025 20:35

Islands here. Got both mine and my Mum’s detached bungalows done for under £8k in total.

ERthree · 10/03/2025 20:34

We are in Ayrshire, Scaffolder Husband has just choked on his tea when i told him the tell price, he says and i quote " tell her to tell them tae get awa tae fuck" ( not bad for an English man)

Bunnycat101 · 10/03/2025 20:31

As others have said wait until you get the other quotes in and I’m sure you’ll get a smaller business in for much cheaper. Not the same thing at all but we’ve just been getting quotes for a small 2 by 2m bathroom and one of the quotes was £36k which was outrageous.

Inthebleakmidwinter1 · 10/03/2025 20:30

They don’t want the job

lljkk · 10/03/2025 20:28

We had quotes that were insane for fascia boards., and some that were fine. In reality, We actually got away with sanding & repainting ( which was very good value, many years later repeated and still solid enough).

TheChosenTwo · 10/03/2025 20:27

Get a couple more quotes, independent local builders not a national chain.
ask for recommendations in your local area.
At first I thought it was just someone who didn’t want the job but a big company like that have big overheads to pay for so will charge a lot a rest on their name.
We paid about 5K about 6/7 years ago down in the SE but we already had scaffold up as we were doing our loft conversion and rendering the house/replacing windows etc all at the same time.

OxfordInkling · 10/03/2025 20:27

Anglian are scammers who quote at least 3x what the job should be.

you need more quotes - £6k or thereabouts max

JustRollWithIt · 10/03/2025 20:25

That is insane. We received 2 quotes 3 years ago, one for £4500 and one for £2400. Also included new downpipes and guttering. We went with the cheaper one. Looks great.

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EmoIsntDead · 10/03/2025 20:25

Clarabell77 · 10/03/2025 19:50

I’m in Lanarkshire and can give you a number of someone good and very honest… Will PM you if you want it?

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That would be great, thanks 😊

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TeaRoseTallulah · 10/03/2025 20:23

Get some more quotes in, we paid £5 for gutters and pipes and 2 flat roofs and I'm down south BUT that was 7 years ago and they did it with ladders, one quote was nearly 500 more per day for a scaffolding.

Grammarnut · 10/03/2025 20:22

Had soffits done on our large house, with full scaffolding. Nowhere this price.

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EmoIsntDead · 10/03/2025 20:20

zzplea · 10/03/2025 20:15

Oh, they definitely want the job, they just want you to pay triple the going rate.

Companies like Anglian have a sales script: offer a high price then reduce it because of some limited time offer. Even do the phone-their-manager-in-your-presence-act to make it seem they're making a special concession just for you.

£15k is more like the price of a new roof and probably on the high side of that too.

This is EXACTLY what happened

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EmoIsntDead · 10/03/2025 20:19

Lighttodark · 10/03/2025 20:16

You mentioned wood? I thought those parts were upvc, maybe that makes a difference

It’s the original wood that needs replacing. Will replace with UPVC.

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BunnyLake · 10/03/2025 20:18

Shop around. I needed some building work (damaged in a storm not covered by the insurance) I got a quote for £20k (nearly keeled over) and one for just under £3k. Went with the £3k and they did a great job.

Lighttodark · 10/03/2025 20:16

You mentioned wood? I thought those parts were upvc, maybe that makes a difference

zzplea · 10/03/2025 20:15

Oh, they definitely want the job, they just want you to pay triple the going rate.

Companies like Anglian have a sales script: offer a high price then reduce it because of some limited time offer. Even do the phone-their-manager-in-your-presence-act to make it seem they're making a special concession just for you.

£15k is more like the price of a new roof and probably on the high side of that too.

Notjustabrunette · 10/03/2025 20:13

Contact an independent roofer. Had mine done a few years ago and was about 5k.

Nomdejeur · 10/03/2025 20:08

They are either chancing their luck or don’t want the job.

ItsCalledAConversation · 10/03/2025 20:04

Big house south coast of England, £4k just recently

DarkMagicStars · 10/03/2025 20:03

Tradesmen are open about massively over estimating jobs they don’t want to do.

Get more quotes.

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EmoIsntDead · 10/03/2025 20:02

sometimesmovingforwards · 10/03/2025 19:49

Try a different religion, might be better value for money.

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Didn’t even notice the autocorrect 🤣

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KeepOnKeepingOn25 · 10/03/2025 19:55

Tiddlywinkly · 10/03/2025 19:26

Came on to say the same

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Literally came on to say the same!

This is a known thing trades do when they don’t want a job, will quote sky high (so you go elsewhere or they get a ridiculous sum for doing it)

Lemonyyy · 10/03/2025 19:51

We had ours done 4 years ago, was £4800 (they also sorted a couple of bits on our roof within that quote) including scaffolding.

Clarabell77 · 10/03/2025 19:50

EmoIsntDead · 10/03/2025 18:52

We’re in a small detached house in the Glasgow area. Scaffolding will be needed, that was included in quote.

I’m in Lanarkshire and can give you a number of someone good and very honest… Will PM you if you want it?

Sunshineandoranges · 10/03/2025 19:49

I got good quotes for other jobs from checkatrade. Trust a trader might also be good. I read reviews carefully before getting quotes