How much would you pay for..

[redflagdog]

someone to demo a small basement bathroom. This includes removing a small metal shower stall, cap the water lines, remove the wall tiles and cement backing with wire mesh, breaking up the concrete floor and digging down about 14 - 20 inches to relocate plumbing (the relocation of plumbing is not included in this estimate), remove and take away all debris, then backfill and repair cement floor. The bathroom is 5 feet by 7 feet. I'm estimating it to be around 24 hours of work. Thanks for you input.

[Mr Nobody]

More like 5-8 hours for a pro with tools. $150-200? Just throwing that number out. Don't have personal experience. I've done most of that myself in the past. Hardest part is figuring out how to dump the trash.

[synaptech]

someone to demo a small basement bathroom. This includes removing a small metal shower stall, cap the water lines, remove the wall tiles and cement backing with wire mesh, breaking up the concrete floor and digging down about 14 - 20 inches to relocate plumbing (the relocation of plumbing is not included in this estimate), remove and take away all debris, then backfill and repair cement floor. The bathroom is 5 feet by 7 feet. I'm estimating it to be around 24 hours of work. Thanks for you input.

for the entire basement or the bathroom? Seems like you could save yourself a lot of money doing the demolition yourself. It's not hard to destroy things -- pretty difficult to build them.

As noted above -- disposal will really get you on this. It's cheaper for the home owner to do the dumping. As for 24 hours, you're meaning 3-4 days work?

[redflagdog]

for the entire basement or the bathroom? Seems like you could save yourself a lot of money doing the demolition yourself. It's not hard to destroy things -- pretty difficult to build them.

As noted above -- disposal will really get you on this. It's cheaper for the home owner to do the dumping. As for 24 hours, you're meaning 3-4 days work?

Just the bathroom.. The floor is going to require a jackhammer and a good one at that. The concrete pad is over 9 inches thick. I'm guessing it will be a solid 3 days of work to get it at a point where I can think about putting tile back down on the floor

[mcplar]

3 days until you can put tiles down??? I would let the concrete cure for at least a week before doing any work.

I also recommend doing the walls/tiles yourself, then it's only a 1 day (maybe 2) job on the floor.

[redflagdog]

3 days until you can put tiles down??? I would let the concrete cure for at least a week before doing any work.

I also recommend doing the walls/tiles yourself, then it's only a 1 day (maybe 2) job on the floor.

I don't intend on putting down tile right away. If it's two days of labour
would say 800$ be fair.

[synaptech]

I'm not sure $800 will cover the dumping fees.

~26 cubic feet of concrete + 14 to 35 cubic feet of soil

If this link is right: http://www.onlineconversion.com/forum/forum_1130199020.htm

Then the concrete alone will be Concrete, Gravel 150 pounds/cubic foot, 3900 lbs. Then add dirt ect. OK $800 might cover the disposal, but not disposal and labour.

edit - just trying to dig up the costs I had for dumping. I do recall that mine was mixed waste though, which made it more expensive. Maybe pure concrete would be cheaper -- something to consider.