How Much Does It Cost To Fit Wall Panelling?



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Cost to Fit Wall Panelling

“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.




Job

Description
Cost
1Lets assume the room is empty. This will take 2 men 2 days. and the materials will be £200.
£575

Plus materials etc. for both these jobs.
£230
2Let’s assume all the furniture and carpets have to come out and be replaced afterwards. The 2 chaps will do this but the carpet will need to be cut down and re laid by professional fitters. Let’s call it 3  days, including the fitters wages.
£875
3Whose painting it? If it’s the chippie, using acrylic paint he can apply three coats in one day, so including the price of the paint……..
£220


Information Sheet on Fitting/Putting up Wall Panelling

In the days before damp proof courses, (and today if you don’t have a DPC), damp will rise to a height of about a metre before it stops. Wall panelling was originally used to cover this.
We assume you are panelling up to about dado height, the room is “normal” size and there is a door, window and chimney breast. The panelling itself comprises vertical tongue and groove boards about 100 mm wide with a moulding on the top and a new skirting all round. The original skirt will be removed as the work proceeds.

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