Are you frustrated by trying to find the right bathroom fitter or bathroom fitting tradesperson for your home improvement or bathroom fitting job?Fed up with waiting in all day for so called tradesmen to turn up to give you a quote. Wasting your leisure time sitting around and they never turn up.
First of all, of course, you have to get them to answer the phone. Countless answer machines kick in when you come to contact the tradespeople. Spending hours poring over telephone directories or leafing through newspapers and of course all the good bathroom specialist tradespeople that your friends and family swear by are always booked up for months, or even years on end?
Why cant you get the right tradesperson you need when you need them?
Let us tell you why. Because the bathroom fitter or bathroom fitting tradesman or tradesperson or other tradeperson that your friends or family use is more often than not a sole trader, one man band business or at the very most he or she may have a couple of people who work for him or her. They have limited time and limited availability. They can only do a days work in a day because they have limited man hours available to do their bathroom fitting or bathroom fitter jobs.
What other options do you have?
At first sight it would appear that you only have two options
OPTION 1 - Wait Ages For A Bathroom Fitter
You can wait and keep trying to find a bathroom fitter or bathroom fitting tradesperson for a reasonable price.
This could take you an age, because as we mentioned above – most of the small independent one man band bathroom fitting tradespeople are booked up for months if you are relying on word of mouth recommendation.
You will also find that a lot of the ones that are really busy will not turn up to even quote for your job because they have got too many jobs to do already maybe even for your family and friends. They are spending all their time ‘doing’ the bathroom fitting jobs to go and look at new bathroom specialist jobs.
If they do turn up it could be weeks or months before they can get to you. Depending on the nature of your job – in this case – bathroom fitting or fitted bathroom or bathroom fitter – by the time the independent or sole trader bathroom fitter or fitted bathroom or bathroom fitter tradesperson has got round to you to do your job your bathroom fitting or fitted bathroom or bathroom fitter job could go from being an issue to a problem.
You might get lucky and get someone straight away who will charge a fair price for a fair job but over the long term you will find that a lot of the time you will be let down just trying to find independents yourself. You will find that you become more and more frustrated by the process – stressed even.
If you do find good tradespeople – hang on to them. They are like gold dust. But even then. It is still important to always get a few quotes from tradesmen for your jobs. Familiarity breeds contempt and if your tradesman thinks that you will pay whatever price he or she asks because you like them and have been using them for years they may at some point or another use it to their advantage. If they think that you are always a nailed on customer then they may start to overcharge you because you ‘like them’. Please note – not all tradespeople are like this – it is just always wise to be wary regarding quotes from any industry in which you are not an expert and this advice is supported by most consumer bodies. It is not just our opinion.
OPTION 2 - Use A Large Bathroom Fitting Company
You can go to a large national or regional bathroom company – they at least will have more bathroom tradespeople to carry out your bathroom job. However, what tends to happen is that when you contact a large regional or national bathroom company they just tend to use the very same self employed, sole trader bathroom tradespeople that you would use if you could only get to them to carry out your bathroom job.
However, they will usually mark up the labour because they are guaranteeing the job and of course they have the bathroom tradesman as their contact – (you don’t have them as your contact) by up to 100% - sometimes more. You pay more because they know a bathroom tradesperson, and you don’t. They subcontract your work to the bathroom fitter and charge you for it. In effect, you are getting the very same bathroom tradesman who you would get yourself if you could only find them using option 1. The problem is the independent sole trader bathroom tradespeople don’t tend to advertise because they are a one man band and can’t afford it – so they go off word of mouth advertising and their contacts in the building and construction industry who get them work. – but you are paying twice as much – sometimes more!
You pay the bathroom company who CAN afford to advertise (and charge you more) and they literally pay the sole trader bathroom tradespeople who CAN’T afford to advertise and either have to go off word of mouth advertising or they have to work as self employed subcontractors to bathroom companies like the one you would be paying. Please note: Some bathroom fitting, bathroom fitter or fitted bathroom companies are very good but you will usually pay more and this is not the cheap option.
To summarise. Your two options would appear to be – waste time or waste money.
THERE IS ANOTHER WAY – THIS COULD SAVE YOU HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS OF POUNDS ON YOUR HOME IMPROVEMENT JOBS. THIS WAY YOU SAVE TIME AND SAVE MONEY RATHER THAN WASTING TIME AND WASTING MONEY
OPTION 3 - Use Our Top Tradespeople's free Bathroom Fitters Quotes Services
Simply post your job on the Top Tradespeople site for free and use their services to get up to 3 free quotes for your job from local bathroom tradespeople recommended by real customers just like you and with reviews.
These tradespeople are often the very same bathroom tradespeople that work as self employed subcontractors to bathroom companies – you are literally cutting out the middle man and saving hundreds of pounds on your home improvement jobs. How do I get guarantees that the bathroom job will be carried out to my satisfaction we hear you cry. At least if I go to a proper company who do bathroom jobs I will get a guarantee on the bathroom workmanship you may be thinking.
Well, whilst Top Tradespeople cannot guarantee your bathroom fitting job for you what we can do is give you an opportunity to read the reviews of the bathroom tradespeople that are registered on the site and want to quote for your job and also give you an opportunity to give a review of the bathroom tradesmen that you choose to carry out your bathroom job.
The tradespeople who want to quote on your job will know that you are going to review them so they also know by default that if they get a good review in turn future clients who go to get quotes from them for bathroom jobs will be able to look at all the previous reviews from people just like you that they have carried out bathroom jobs for. If the reviews are good, naturally they will win more of the quotes that they do for customers. If the reviews are poor they are going to get far fewer of the bathroom jobs that they quote for.
It won’t be long before they aren’t getting any of the bathroom jobs that they go after. A good review for your bathroom tradesperson is like money in the bank as naturally a good tradesperson with good reviews will get more of the jobs that they put in quotes for. A poor tradesperson will very likely get none of the bathroom jobs that they go for. A poor review is a warning from you to not touch this bathroom tradesperson. Posting a job is easy. Simply post your bathroom fitters job, get free quotes, pick the best and review them for all to see.
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