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Is this quote extortionate?

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AngelaChasesBestLife · 03/09/2021 20:53

We are thinking about having our spare room decorated. It needs replastering, an artex ceiling skimmed, the skirting replacing (we have to remove some fitted wardrobes and the previous occupiers removed the skirting when they fitted them) and then repaint. We've been quoted nearly £2900 for this by one firm. That's too much surely? We had quotes pre lockdown for this which much, much less! We are in the SE.

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ThisOldSaddo · 03/09/2021 20:54

Everything is now way more expensive coz Brexit.

They might not want the work.

Get other quotes, and then choose the one you want.

bonfireheart · 03/09/2021 20:59

Everything is stupid money right now and good tradespeople all booked out for months. Get 3-5 quotes.

m0therofdragons · 03/09/2021 21:02

Skimming artex ceiling is a nightmare job (I hear) but that sounds high. I’d get a couple of quotes!

Sxxyfing · 03/09/2021 21:23

We paid £1k in SW London earlier this year for 3 double bedrooms artex ceilings replastered. It was 1 plasterer and took him 3 days.

BlueMongoose · 03/09/2021 22:51

Go back to whoever did the lower quotes and ask them to requote? But they may resent being messed about, unless you can give them a good reason.

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