On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:57:46 -0700, Jonathan wrote:

There was a graphic in the Times, illustrating some figures.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ic_smaller.jpg

The figures in the graphic are in cloud cuckoo land.

Well what do you expect from a newspaper artist?

£761 to lag the tank? £755 for loft insulation?? £2,240 for
thermostatic radiator valves? At £9 per valve that's a pretty big
house!.

But that's not £761 *just* to lag the tank or £2,240 *just* for TRVs is
it? As you should know if you'd spent a few minutes following the link
(in the "Building" page you link to) to the spreadsheet which gives the
quoted figures.

Most of the figures may seem unreasonably high but they say "All costs
sourced from the BCIS Housing Repair Cost Guide 2006" so presumably they're
the costs a RICS member would charge for a job, i.e. including a
substantial cut for the surveyor on top of the tradespeople's labour.

So for example the £2,240 figure is made up of:

Digital programmer £785
Delayed start thermostat £275
Thermostatic radiator valves 6off at £97 £582
Booster Pump (Assumed). £450
Uplift to Current Costs 7.08% £148

In the case of, for example, the cost for TRVs their figure is perhaps
closer to a realistic installed figure than your parts-only price.


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John Stumbles

I'm less competitive than you