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Update guys: our stairs have been installed today. £600 for cash. I am very happy with the result. Couple of little screw holes to fill & sand before paint and a tad more glue on one or 2 spindles but a good day overall.

Depends on your definition. The 2 runs of steps are pre formed. Everything else is is a well number kit form No. My wife and i will be doing that. Happy enough to do so . Fitting of internal doors will be my son and i. He is not a chippy but very competent working with wood. We did consider doing this ourselves but bottled out. Skirtings and Architraves will be me.

In one way i am glad that the consensus so far is that £3k is too much. On the other hand i still need to find someone that can/will do it for closer to £1.5k. Bit of a moot point otherwise. North herts by the way, the rates around here are really high even though work is slowing down apparently

As per my other recent thread here, i got let down by my staircase fitter. So i asked around for alternative fitters and got a price today of £3k inc VAT. Thats to install only,what you see here which is already delivered and waiting in my dining room. To those of you that know about 'chippy stuff' does this look remotely reasonable. I have been advised 2 or perhaps 3 days work.

My staircase fitter was due to start this week. He has cried off for at least a month. I need an alternative and am struggling. Of course i run the risk of anyone available at short notice being suspect. But this cant always be true. I hope. If anyone can recommend a tradesperson near north herts familiar with David Smith staircases i would be very grateful. Yes i have vontacted them directly.

In the same way that buying a car with 20k on the clock, on balance, is going to be a more reliable option than a car with 120k on the clock. Why is that a difficult concept to understand? Yes i know we can probably all trot out stories of expensive cars going bang after 100 yards from new.

3/4 acre of sloping in 2 directions at once, ex small pig holding & orchard. So basically 100 years worth of pig poop. At about 1 metre depth there is blue clay. So it depends whether my landscaping would reach into this or not.

Good luck. their prices & service are really keen, hope you get as good a deal as i just did

I have a phone number 01491 313191 for the sales department. I also have a mobile number from my invoice but i wont put that up here. Message me if you think this will help. I have to say that the price model they were using, considering they are a new subsidiary of CVC , is a mystery. Perhaps they decided it was not correct.

I'll check what my invoice says when i get home later. But as the others have said, it did a week ago.

'Check out Air-Haus.com for the price on a Brink 450 for comparison.' Totally agree, i just took delivery from these guys a week ago. Excellent price.

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Its doesn't remotely look like it could become a bungalow.

I agree actually when you are dealing with equipment at that level. But a cheap retail humidity sensor is not in the 'calibrated device' arena. Lesson learned for me.

No. I bought it brand new a couple of weeks ago for this task alone. Its from Pro Tiler tools. Calibration should not be necessary on a new unit. I'm glad i looked to an alternative device for comparison.