Advice on a quote (not DIY but topic is familiar)

[John]

My daughter's bloke has had a quote for installing a Mira Sport Electric shower in an all electric house. See below:

"Quote for installing an electric shower (the Mira sport one) was £900 ish including installing the new taps on the bath and a shower screen but not a new bath panel or the tiling. If we needed a new bath (he couldn't guarantee not damaging the bath and also we wondered about replacing it at the same time) it would be a bit more. "

Any thoughts on this? The cabling would go straight up the wall from a CU above the front door and then into the loft - across the rafters to the shower

[fictitiousemail]

Why should he damage the bath? . If he has to stand in it while fitting the shower then place old sheets,blankets,anyhting in the bath and a sheet to cover the rest of it. I take it the shower is being sited on a wall ( false?) at the end of the bath ...are the pipes behind this wall? £900 sounds a lot for fitting a shower and screen .Is he supplying the shower ...How much is it ? £164 ?

[John]

being wanted. The water pipe could be tapped off the feed to the adjacent WC.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "John" saying something like:

Sounds like too much even if he's supplying the shower.

[robgraham]

A day's work at =A3200 leaves =A3700 for materials - something's not right!