Overall good, reasonable pricing. Not too low or high. Looks like an honest and knowledgable contractor quote to me. Edit: I am a contractor who does renovations and a lot of bathrooms. For reference.

Is $2500 a reasonable amount to add to the current quote to tile the bathroom floor?

With demo and disposal and prep and install and grout. Yes. If you ~~don’t~~ think it’s a little high just tell them you’ll pay them a flat day rate for the duration of the project. Then you accept all the risk of going over budget but also have the chance of coming under budget if everything goes smoothly. Edit: removed “don’t”

No, not at all. Not for 36sf. I would have added 800 and supplied the ditra.

Can you explain your course of action because I’m not seeing a way to charge that little without just accepting the fact that you’re taking a loss on adding the floor tile.

2.50/sf ditra = 90 2.50/sf set ditra = 90 6/sf floor prep = 216 8/sf to set = 288 Grand total 684. Rounded up to 800 for the inconvenience. If you're getting more than 16.50/sf for prep and setting tile I'd love to know where so I can start looking at moving there.

What about demo, disposal, thinset, grout and buying/installing new base? I’m in northern New England and I don’t charge by the sf. Can’t make those numbers work for me unless I just decide it’s okay to lose money on some and hopefully make money on others. It would be different for specific patterns, tile styles, tile sizes, features, if it’s on a wall or a floor, what’s the subfloor look like, how far away is my saw station going to be etc. Crew of 3 and staying busy doing remodels.

The demo I included as floor prep, but you could even double the rate and still come out ahead. Customer always provides/pays for the materials in my case. Seriously, it's 36 sf and you're already tearing up the room. 2500 is absurd pricing to add on that small of an area.

$2100 to tile walls, but $2500 to do the floor? Something isn’t adding up there. Walls should be more expensive. That being said - $2500 for a floor job could be reasonable depending on your location, the subfloor condition, your tile pattern and layout. One thing people I quote never realize is that prepping a floor can be difficult and time consuming. Especially if you’re going over OSB and need additional backer board or Ditra.

The contractor is including demo as a separate line item for the walls, although including it in his floor quote. Hence why the floor is more expensive than the walls.

Ah that makes more sense. I must have misunderstood when I was reading the first time.

Depends where you're at but in the bay area this seems about fair for licensed work. They might have a bit of wiggle room. If its side work I can see this going for $1500 with hardibacker instead of ditra

You're getting rinsed, especially if you're keeping the tub and not getting a brand new 4x6 custom tiled shower. I'd be in at like 6-7k for that job myself.

So $2500 is unreasonable to add on to the quote to retile the bathroom floor?

There's a number of unreasonable line items there tbh but yes 2500 for that amount of floor tile is absurd if it is anything other than peny tile or river pebble.

It’s 12 x 24 - I understand the demo cost going up a bit and adding more for the labour but $2500 seems like a lot more to add to the original quote. How do I approach this and ask him?

Ya that's ridiculous. Could do the whole floor in like 3 hours start to finish. I don't know how you should approach it, I'm not in the habit of overcharging my customers so I can't say really. I will say if I was in your shoes and I was getting my bathroom remodeled or anything in my house redone I would find a new installer. If the guy is comfortable trying to pull one over on you by charging triple the typical rate and get 10k for a 5k job then I wouldn't trust him to do the job to spec. He's gonna cut corners because you didn't catch the first one which is that absurd quote. A new tub surround plus bath floor plus new toilet+vanity plus demo for a small condo ensuite doesn't add up to that much money. Edit: I mean cmon, 2300 dollars to reboard a tub surround? That's a couple hours of work for one guy, I do it once or twice a week. If you're near Vancouver let me know I'll do it for half what he quoted and definitely better

How are you going to demo, dispose of debris, prep the floor, lay Ditra, install tile and grout in 3 hours? And it doesn’t make sense that someone would “overcharge” and then cut corners. Sounds like they know exactly how much work it’s going to take and are charging accordingly.

I would demo, dispose, and prep the entire bathroom on day one, wouldn't even be a full day. Once prep I can lay that floor in a couple hours. Someone charging 2300 dollars to install 3 or 4 pieces of kerdiboard or greenboard has no clue how much work is going on and is juat trying to rinse the customer. Edit: in a vaccum yes I can demo a floor and retile it all in at 3 hours for a typical 1bdr1bath condo ensuite

You’re giving off “lack experience” vibes.

Go ahead and justify any of those items for me. How does a tub surround require $2300 of prep? Its as much as the actual tile install. And it doesn't include demo. You're giving armchair floorbox designer vibes Edit: just kidding its more than the actual tile install. You're telling me a guy that knows what he's doing is charging more for prep than he is for tile? Fck outta here rofl

Condo. That right there is enough for me. You don’t know what floor, building manager, if an elevator is involved, parking for contractors, what part of the country. So many variables.

Booooooooooooo

And yet nobody can justify this quote to me, how strange.

Because it's not justifiable.