Patio Quote - Reasonable?

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I’ve got a quote for a patio. I trust the builder but after chatting with a friend I think it might be quite high.
It’s approximately 5m x 3m. Includes digging out about 4m2 of concrete base that a greenhouse used to sit on, removing existing patio (lifting bricks rested in sand), preparing base, laying new Indian sandstone. Also includes removing a small tree, and all rubbish removal.

I’ve been quoted £5.7K. West Midlands, fairly expensive area. What do you think?

To be done properly it does sound about right

We had a quote of almost £40,000 to remove some crumbling steps, remove some excess soil and replace two existing patios.

That sounds reasonable compared with what I was getting quoted a few years ago , in the end I bought my lovely husband a whacker plate for his birthday and he built it himself and it looks brilliant

I would think that is fairly reasonable. I’m guessing it’s possibly up to 7-10 days of work, depending how many labourers. Equipment hire, which they won’t need every day, is £500 alone probably if you were to do it yourself. Material costs are high.

Dh does a bit of land management work, so managing fields, clearing hedges, that sort of thing. Just him working alone with a machine we already own and don’t need to hire with no materials costs involved is probably £500-600 a day. x that by 7-10 days, add in all the materials, added landscaping, removal costs. We’re having building works done and it’s £500 every time they haul out a trailer load of rubble. We’re keeping most of it and just going to bury it somewhere!

Whoops 😬

We're having 9m2 of paving done soon, as well as an aco drain installing next to the house. We're paying £2.2k.

We’ve just had a huge area (130sqm) done in porcelain tiles. They had to dig up tarmac, old patios, numerous concrete bases. Drop everything below dpc and install aco drains. Plus remove all rubbish. Overall cost was £125sqm including labour and materials

You did well there @RedPanda3did that include the porcelain tiles and VAT?

4 years ago my son in law did mine for free as the garden was for his children when they stayed at mine. The patio was extended and re layed to add on another 4mx4m. He needed 2 of the big skips for dig out soil and waste crazy paving and they were £400 all in. Cheapest heavy duty council style pavers, crush run/mot, sand etc was another £800z his 4-5 days of labour was free as was his dad’s help. Looking at the local builders merchants near me this would be close to £2300 today and so I’d actually say that with the extras you wanted, the labour etc and pension contributions/holiday pay, is a decent price.

oh that includes the Indian stone? Yes sounds ok then.

Sounds about right to me. Prices have more than doubled in the last few years.

We had a comparable patio done in London and it cost more than that

DIY it, you'll soon find out where the costs mount up, and that is before you get to the Indian Sandstone that has been shipped nearly a 1/4 of the way around the planet.

We paid £20k to have ours done a couple of years ago. There’s a massive amount of work to do the job properly. Getting the levels right is a major undertaking as is the cost of equipment, skips, materials, etc, etc.

I don’t know the exact dimensions of our patio but it’s not a big by any means. It was using porcelain tiles.

We paid £20k to have ours done a couple of years ago. There’s a massive amount of work to do the job properly. Getting the levels right is a major undertaking as is the cost of equipment, skips, materials, etc, etc.

I don’t know the exact dimensions of our patio but it’s not a big by any means. It was using porcelain tiles.

Don’t know why my post came up twice.

Does the quote include the body to go underneath it, or do you provide your own?

I don't remember saying that.

Ask me for a detailed cost breakdown, e.g.
Clearing site
Preparation of sub-base
Laying of patio
Materials
VAT

I think thats cheap. Particularly if it includes materials and taking away rubbish

We paid around £5k about 20 years ago for a similar size and we did a
it of the breaking up of patio ourselves.

Thanks all!
To answer a question that’s come up a couple of times, yes all materials included. End to end job etc.

It’s good to know that we’re not being ripped off. I’d have been surprised if we were since, like I say, I trust the builder.

I got a similar quote but couldn’t afford it so went on YouTube and built our own, spending £1k on materials and tool hire. It was exhausting - such hard physical work. It looks great and we’re proud of it but if you have the money and trust your builder, I reckon that’s a fair price.

As someone pricing up the materials for a 2.5m round patio and about 15m of 1m wide path, I am at £2.5k on materials.

Oh wow well done! That’s very impressive!
Yes we are two full time working parents to a 2 and 4 year old so I barely have enough spare time or energy to brush my teeth! I think building a patio is probably beyond my talents too 😅

Chat GPT will make it's guess based on just a patio being laid and not all the prep work of removing concrete etc