How Much Does It Cost To Remove/Drop a Radiator?



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Cost to Remove/Drop a Radiator


job
description
labour
1Swing by, drain and remove the rad. When the wallpaper’s on, pop back, return the rad, fill and re-balance it. 1 man half a day
£125

“Labour” at £175 a day (tradesman) £100 (labourer), includes incidental fixings etc. and tipping charges. “Materials” if mentioned, are larger things (a boiler) and stuff only you can choose (tiles etc).  Also VAT must be added all round.

Information Sheet on Removing then Replacing Radiator


One thing is dead certain, the decorator won’t do it!

Unfortunately though, if he does give you a written quotation he won’t bring the subject up either. This is because if he does, he will have to do something about it. It will require him to liaise with a plumber, this means organisation, phone calls, payments, possible leakage problems and who takes the blame (the plumber is technically his subcontractor, so he, the decorator, would be liable).

No, it’s all too complicated and if he tells you to organise it yourself, you will say… “Surely, you must know a plumber, you do this all the time don’t you”?

So you see we have a “Catch 27” scenario and unfortunately, radiators do need to be removed because no one can paint all the way behind a radiator, let alone wallpaper behind one.

So ask him straight. Is he going to organise it? He will have to say yes or his credibility is shot (and make sure he states the fact in his quote). If he doesn’t do it when he’s written that he will, then knock £400 off his bill because that’s what another decorator will charge you to turn up, remove the radiator and all the new paper from that wall and re paper.

(You don’t want a patch do you? You tried to get it done properly, why should you suffer)? To hell with £400. Knock off £750 for all the extra disruption!

So get a plumber in. If a problem arises and considering the nature of radiator valves, particularly when they are old, it very well might, you can expect TO PAY!

(Maybe the decorator was right to stick his head in the sand in the first place)!

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