How Much Does It Cost To Replace Spindles?



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Cost To Replace Spindles





Job
Description
Labour
1If you get a bloke in to refit one piece, he will charge you about £25 (unless you are a little old lady and he sort of knows you, in which case you can “little-old-lady-him” into doing it for free).
£25
2If the builder has to mess about getting a joinery company involved, collecting the new one when it’s ready then fitting it, including the price of the new piece.
£125
3To remove all the existing ones and reposition them a bit wider will take him about half a day but there may be a bit of re painting for you to do.
£100
4To remove them all and fit new ones (including £75 for the spindles) that’s 1 man 1 day
 £275


“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 Replacing a Baluster or Spindle


It’s called common usage, when the correct word is superseded by another, which very often, is completely incorrect. A spindle is to be found in the sort of contraption that fairy tale heroines used to prick their fingers on. Obviously I’m old, stuck in the past, passed by as it were, by very life itself. I don’t know much about spinning flax into gold but the correct word for that bit of the banister is baluster, because it forms part of the balustrade and that’s a fact, or my name’s not Rumplestiltskin!

While we’re on a roll, there’s the vanitry unit (that’s the correct word as well, it’s not a “vanity” unit at all), there's the Register Office, not the'registry'…

Don’t even get me on how people pronounce the letter “H”! There’s no bloomin’ “H” sound at the beginning! It’s “Aitch”!

Oh dear, I forgot where I was there. Right, If you have the old one and it’s intact get some wood glue and fix it back yourself with a clamp and a bit of patience… it ain’t rocket science!

If it’s broken you will need a new one. You might get lucky and find a matching replacement but I wouldn’t count on it. If not, you might settle for as near as dammit but you will spend the next year cursing yourself every time you go upstairs.

If it’s “turned” (shaped on a lathe) or worse still carved in some way, (fluted for instance), your chippie can organise for a new one to be made. (He might even be able to do it himself). This will require the services of a local joinery company who will charge you of course.

When it’s done, fitting is a matter of half an hour at most, then you can paint it if necessary.

If you can’t get one made, a solution is either to fit a completely new matching set or remove all the existing ones and re fix them with wider spaces between them. The current regulations however, require balusters to be spaced such that a 100mm sphere cannot pass between them.

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