Two bathroom quotes can differ substantially and both be honest. The gap is almost never profit; it is what each one assumed about preparation, making good, flooring and who is buying the suite. That gap only becomes visible once the room is stripped, which is the worst moment to find it.
Fylde Bathrooms fits bathrooms across Fleetwood, and these are the questions that make competing quotes describe the same job.
What the figure includes beyond fitting
A price for fitting a suite is not a price for a finished room. The difference lives in removal and disposal, making good walls and ceiling after strip-out, the flooring, the electrical work for lighting and extraction, and the decorating at the end.
Ask each quote those five things explicitly and write the answers beside the figure. If two quotes answer differently, you are not comparing like with like, and the cheaper one is very often describing less work rather than better value.
- Removal and disposal of the old suite and tiling.
- Making good after strip-out.
- Flooring, electrics and extraction.
- Decorating, or the room handed back ready to paint.
Who supplies what, and when it must arrive
This single question causes more confusion than any other. A quote should say plainly whether suite, taps, shower valve, tiles, adhesive, tray, screen and flooring are inside the figure or expected from the customer.
Where you are supplying items, the quote should also say when they must be on site and who checks them for damage. Sanitaryware arriving after strip-out has begun stops the whole sequence, and a fitter cannot fill that gap at short notice.
- A named list of what the fitter supplies.
- A named list of what you supply, with dates.
- Deliveries checked for damage before work starts.
The assumptions and exclusions
Every bathroom quote rests on assumptions about what is behind the walls and under the floor: that the soil connection is reusable, the floor is sound, the walls will take tiling without replastering, and the existing circuit suits the intended fittings.
A good quote states them, and lists what would be extra. Knowing in advance that replastering or floor levelling sits outside the figure turns a mid-job surprise into a decision you can price and plan for.
Changes and what completion means
Almost every bathroom has at least one change: something found behind a wall, a tile out of stock, or a better idea once the space is open. Agree in advance how a change is priced and recorded, rather than settling it from memory at the end.
Then define completion as an event rather than a feeling: a walk-through where every outlet runs, the bath and shower are tested together, the extractor is proven, and anything found is dealt with before the team leaves. Fylde Bathrooms treats that walk-through as part of the job.
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Questions customers ask
Why is one bathroom quote so much cheaper?
Usually because it describes less: preparation, making good, flooring and electrics are the four items most often included in one quote and omitted from another. Ask all four of every quote.
Should I supply my own suite and tiles?
You can, and some people prefer to. The trade-off is that responsibility for correct, undamaged, on-time delivery becomes yours, and a missing waste kit can hold up a booked week.
What should completion actually involve?
A walk-through with everything run at once, the extractor proven, a torch under the bath while water drains, and any snag dealt with before the fitter leaves site.
Make every quote answer the same five scope questions, name who supplies what, state its assumptions and define completion. Then the figures finally mean something.
Fylde Bathrooms quotes on that basis across Fleetwood. The contact page starts with photographs of your room.
