Tiling Price Base Rate - how much do tilers charge? - Tile Advice

[Dumbo]

I push to prep all mine. As above it makes tiling a dream when done yourself. Don't know how dry liners struggle with getting a wall flat and plumb round a window

I like the acquired skill of plasterers where they get a flat surface and make it uneven and especially a bell flange at the bottom of the wall

 

[One Day]

Some of us are tilers not bathroom fitters, I don't prep any walls.

Tilers should be able to prep ALL substrates in my opinion.
Tilers who can't (not won't - I mean can't) are less able.

A hotel I am working at has a tiler in who turns out a reasonable, not great job.
He got caught spot-fixing floor tiles onto ufh cables. Asked why, he said he knows it needs leveling but I don't do leveling.

 

[Ttt1601]

I'm currently changing my business up, to be aiming at bathroom fitting, with a plumber in the pocket for that side of things, have truely had enough of coming into appalling prep work, all site work is being phased out, I'll be pushing for high class domestic bathrooms, and try to drag my home town forth from the dark ages of 250 x 500 being "big" tiles . Its going to be hard work getting the first few caught on round here but no one Lee is doing it so I figure its worth a go. But even if the large formats don't take off, I want all my jobs start to finish now, me running it and never having to hear "the tiler will get over it" so fingers crossed on a year I maybe be back to enjoying work again

 

[Flintstone]

Impish, that's all well and good and I understand where your coming from but it depends on what jobs you are doing, I'm sure a lot of tilers, myself included do jobs for all manner of contacts as well as my own jobs and normally you walk into a room that has been prepared by the fitter, or skimmed by the plasterer or whatever. Ripping bathrooms out is something I seriously dislike

 

[Dumbo]

I'm currently changing my business up, to be aiming at bathroom fitting, with a plumber in the pocket for that side of things, have truely had enough of coming into appalling prep work, all site work is being phased out, I'll be pushing for high class domestic bathrooms, and try to drag my home town forth from the dark ages of 250 x 500 being "big" tiles . Its going to be hard work getting the first few caught on round here but no one Lee is doing it so I figure its worth a go. But even if the large formats don't take off, I want all my jobs start to finish now, me running it and never having to hear "the tiler will get over it" so fingers crossed on a year I maybe be back to enjoying work again

Jim Clarke is doing complete bathroom installations

 

[Dumbo]

I have said in the past I would love to carry less tools on my van and the only tools to carry are tiling tools but sadly it ain't so

 

[Ttt1601]

Jcrtiling your just up the road from me you get much large format work up there? I do a bit in Salisbury not a huge amount but always seems to be decent quialty when I do

 

[Dumbo]

Do mostly 600x300 and 600x600 few floor boards 1200 long . And did some 800 x 500 and 1 msq before crimbo looked at some 900 x300 last nite . Mostly do high end bathroom work duravit ,hans Grohe etc but some of them still cry about the price

 

[Tile Shop]

Jim Clarke? Thought he died at Hockenheim in '68???

 

[Ttt1601]

They always cry about the price lol, but the fact your getting some big stuff in gives me hope I can push some here, Andover is always a bit behind so hopefully can get it going a bit here soon

 

[Dumbo]

Jim Clarke? Thought he died at Hockenheim in '68???

Thats a conspiracy he needed to get out of his contract with Graham Chapman because he wanted to go tiling in andover

 

[Dumbo]

They always cry about the price lol, but the fact your getting some big stuff in gives me hope I can push some here, Andover is always a bit behind so hopefully can get it going a bit here soon

People go into Tile shops and get sold what they get sold if they go in a shop that pushes a lot of large format that's what they will probably buy .

 

[Dumbo]

Jim Clarke is now living the dream

 

[One Day]

Impish, that's all well and good and I understand where your coming from but it depends on what jobs you are doing, I'm sure a lot of tilers, myself included do jobs for all manner of contacts as well as my own jobs and normally you walk into a room that has been prepared by the fitter, or skimmed by the plasterer or whatever. Ripping bathrooms out is something I seriously dislike

I hate ripping out too! But I equally hate having to tile onto other trade's prep.
That's why I'm so "stuck-up" about what I'll tile onto. I suppose I'm fortunate really that I can dictate to a large degree how I want things done - my way.

 

[Flintstone]

If the jobs allow that level of prep that's great but a lot of the time, the budget doesn't stretch to all new walls