Estimate for teak replacement?

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peter2407

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Just been quoted £9k for replacement of the teak deck on my 36 foot boat. This is a partial teak deck which covers: lazarette locker cover, ditto for port and stbd lockers, garage/coach roof and the anchor locker, so not the bits of deck one would walk on. I guesstimate the this would 3 sq ft for each of the cock pit lockers, 1 sq ft for the anchor locker and say 12 sq ft for the garage/coach roof, so 22 sq ft, but rounded up to 30 sq ft for contingency. Any one any ideas on cost for teak and the labour? TIA.
 
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Has the contractor not, at least, provided the price of the labour and materials as separate items?

Unless he has plucked a figure out of the air he must have costed these items, so he should be able to give you some more detail.
 
Yes, c. £6k for the timber inc taking a template and cutting up based on the current layout, £2.8k for labour and £300 for materials. Labour at £40 ph equates to 70 hours of take up and put down time, if I say £1k for the teak (an over guesstimation i think) that means £5k for cutting which again at £40 ph is equivalent to 125 hours. This isnt an intricate template, generally the current strips are equal in length and equal in width, with the exception of the "surrounds" where there some fairly standard 45 degree mitres and a bevelled edge. I am minded to either do it myself and/or bring my home chippy (who is really a cabinet maker/set designer type) in for the job. What I wanted to know, from them what has done it before, is - is this guy extracting the urine cos it affects whether I use him for other things in the future - he will apply a finders fee, which I am fine with as he is acting as an agent for this, but is the piss being taken?
 
Not far out. Machined 6mm decking strips are around £350-400 persqm and you need just under 10. Adhesive and caulking around £500 plus cleaning, masking tape, sanding discs. £2800 for labour is low of that includes stripping, particularly if it is screwed down. If you have not done the job yourself or the chippy you employ, it will take longer than an experienced person.

However if all your panels are flat and no sprung (curved) planks, then the most economical way to replace them is to get preformed panels made up to your templates and stick them down yourself. Two local suppliers www.kjhowells.com in Poole and Moody Decking in Swanwick do this. Howells are particularly good in my experience and a trip to Poole to see their work would be time well spent.
 
Tranona said:
Not far out. Machined 6mm decking strips are around £350-400 persqm and you need just under 10.
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Is there not around 11 sq ft to a sqm? In which case the OP would need just under 3 sqm? In which case £6000 seems very, very expensive?
Or maybe I'm misreading something?
 
peter2407 said:
Yes, c. £6k for the timber inc taking a template and cutting up based on the current layout, £2.8k for labour and £300 for materials.
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If it's only around 3 square metres, as you said, then that's a totally ridiculous price. Have you maybe miscalculated the area? Has he misunderstood how much of the deck you want covering? Has he simply miscalculated his quote?
 
Why are you relying on a single quote?
Get a couple more from other contractors and compare.
That's what you would do if you wanted work done on your house, isn't it?
 
Just been in to Howells in Poole (the proper one not the black sheep of the family one ..) - 6 or 9 mm teak is £278 per sq m. Think this is the way I will go.
 
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