This is one of those annoying posts that I'll pre-apologize for, as I won't be able to provide all of the details for a truly accurate answer to my question.
What I'm really looking for is a ballpark estimate for what the work should cost, as I just received a bid from my regular plumbers I've been using on this project (who I'd been completely happy with up until this point) that seems astronomically high to me, but I may just be an idiot and not really understand the work involved. Hence this post. Many thanks in advance for any help or wisdom.
The Project:
I'm adding a new master bathroom to a house I'm remodeling in central Texas. Pretty standard layout (tub, vanity, toilet). The project is a bit tricky as the new bath is going into what was a later addition to the house; the addition has a slab foundation, while the main house is pier and beam. All the concrete removal for drains and vents has been completed, though, and a hole has been dug out underneath the footer of the slab foundation, to connect to the trench to be dug outside to tie into the existing cast-iron sewer line. The main house was built in 1950 and the hot/cold water lines will be tapped into the existing galvanized.
The bathroom addition has been studded out from existing space in what used to be a den, so there's easy access to all studs for running lines. It's probably about 30' from the bathroom to tie back into the sewer line and about 20' to tie into the nearest hot/cold lines.
The bid I got was for materials and labor and was for the rough plumbing only. It included digging out the a 30' trench for the 4" PVC drain to connect to the existing cast-iron sewer line, installing drains and vents, flashing for roof pipe, tapping into hot/cold water and running new lines overhead for the tub/toilet/vanity.
Bid was for $5,300.
Again, I know the details above are skeletal and that it's nowhere near enough information, but I was pretty shocked at the price. Previous work they've done for me was very reasonable, so I'm not sure what's up, if I'm just missing something, or if the reasonable bids for prior work were done with hopes of cashing in on the last big project remaining.
I simply can't pay them that much, so I'm going to ask them to work up a bid if I handle all the trench work. Any thoughts on what a reasonable bid would be for just the rough plumbing for a project as outlined above (with all the concrete work and trench work already handled)? Many, many thanks for any advice.
What I'm really looking for is a ballpark estimate for what the work should cost, as I just received a bid from my regular plumbers I've been using on this project (who I'd been completely happy with up until this point) that seems astronomically high to me, but I may just be an idiot and not really understand the work involved. Hence this post. Many thanks in advance for any help or wisdom.
The Project:
I'm adding a new master bathroom to a house I'm remodeling in central Texas. Pretty standard layout (tub, vanity, toilet). The project is a bit tricky as the new bath is going into what was a later addition to the house; the addition has a slab foundation, while the main house is pier and beam. All the concrete removal for drains and vents has been completed, though, and a hole has been dug out underneath the footer of the slab foundation, to connect to the trench to be dug outside to tie into the existing cast-iron sewer line. The main house was built in 1950 and the hot/cold water lines will be tapped into the existing galvanized.
The bathroom addition has been studded out from existing space in what used to be a den, so there's easy access to all studs for running lines. It's probably about 30' from the bathroom to tie back into the sewer line and about 20' to tie into the nearest hot/cold lines.
The bid I got was for materials and labor and was for the rough plumbing only. It included digging out the a 30' trench for the 4" PVC drain to connect to the existing cast-iron sewer line, installing drains and vents, flashing for roof pipe, tapping into hot/cold water and running new lines overhead for the tub/toilet/vanity.
Bid was for $5,300.
Again, I know the details above are skeletal and that it's nowhere near enough information, but I was pretty shocked at the price. Previous work they've done for me was very reasonable, so I'm not sure what's up, if I'm just missing something, or if the reasonable bids for prior work were done with hopes of cashing in on the last big project remaining.
I simply can't pay them that much, so I'm going to ask them to work up a bid if I handle all the trench work. Any thoughts on what a reasonable bid would be for just the rough plumbing for a project as outlined above (with all the concrete work and trench work already handled)? Many, many thanks for any advice.