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Yeah that's a good idea. Better than going back to the guy and going, "Erm, your quote seems mad expensive?". But he did talk a lot about what good shape ours were in generally, how they've never been sanded or messed about with.
Next door neighbour but one used him and theirs were in a state, so god knows how much he paid.
Starting to think all my neighbours are ballers or something...
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For what it's worth, I think we paid around £35m2 for the reclaimed boards in our place. They'd removed nails and cut ends, but the boards were different widths. I ended up ripping them all down to size myself and will sand/finish once we've sorted some other bits.
We had a quote from another place that was ~£80m2 for 'finished' boards (cut to width but not sanded). It may have been more for tongue and groove, but I can't find the email.
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Next door neighbour but one used him and theirs were in a state, so god knows how much he paid.
Starting to think all my neighbours are ballers or something...
I reckon most people can't face / do a quick time / materials / value calculation so just go along with whatever shit is put in front of them to save themselves the hassle of getting more quotes.
I've been guilty of this at least once
Whatever you do, don't just use the neighbours recommendation without getting other quotes because that's surefire way of paying over the odds. They increase their price every other client or whatever and are always 'experimenting' with what people will pay.
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Howard
Ask for a breakdown?
I assume that sourcing and preparing old boards to match the rest of your floor is going to make up a good chunk of that.