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

[Dumbo]

Hi All
I'm in the southwest. I agree pricing is difficult. I generally charge £20 m2 for walls, ceramic or porcelain and £25 for the floors, I don't charge extra for porcelain. I do £30 m2 for natural stone on walls and £35 for floors. mosaics £45 m2, victorian tiling £65 m2. I always add a square meter for window reveals or niche. kitchen splash back's I normally do on a day rate £135 a day. I don't charge for cutting holes, installing tile trim or siliconing. Every job is different, no parking and 120 stairs to climb with all the kit, or outside parking and the tiling job on the ground floor, some you win some you lose.

I do floors cheaper than walls . It's just they are easier and I get more done.

 

[Spare Tool]

Every individual job in every town is different..just lost a floor I priced up at £20pm for 35 m which is cheap, 600x600's, could have done it in three days proper graft, but I thought £450 at day rate ridiculously cheap (£13pm) so went in at £700...
"too expensive, my sons going to do it" good luck with that

 

[mma]

Every individual job in every town is different..just lost a floor I priced up at £20pm for 35 m which is cheap, 600x600's, could have done it in three days proper graft, but I thought £450 at day rate ridiculously cheap (£13pm) so went in at £700...
"too expensive, my sons going to do it" good luck with that

Some people don't know what they are looking at, it'll end up looking like a split faced job!

 

[Dumbo]

Ask the naked tiler where he lives.

He says he works away . Apparently he goes to Liverpool they reckon there is is a local tiler under charging

 

[Flintstone]

I think we're all under charging if £600 a day is his wages!

 

[Just Rizzle]

just been reading through this thread and wunder how some of you guys put bread on the table.
alot of u are saying day rate 120/day and 25/mtr square so the average work you do in a day is 5 mtrs a day.
today and yesterday tiled a bathroom 35 sq mtrs the tiles are v/b 900 x 450 my price for this work is
a 240
b 875
c 40% the cost of the tiles

 

[Flintstone]

A 35m bathroom is two days? Are they 24 hour days?

 

[Time's Ran Out]

No @RayTheTiler has a big trowel!

 

[Dumbo]

just been reading through this thread and wunder how some of you guys put bread on the table.
alot of u are saying day rate 120/day and 25/mtr square so the average work you do in a day is 5 mtrs a day.
today and yesterday tiled a bathroom 35 sq mtrs the tiles are v/b 900 x 450 my price for this work is
a 240
b 875
c 40% the cost of the tiles

Call me stupid but does
A = day rate
B= cost for 25sqm
C= cost for vb job

 

[Just Rizzle]

Call me stupid but does
A = day rate
B= cost for 25sqm
C= cost for vb job

Try the maths

 

[Just Rizzle]

A 35m bathroom is two days? Are they 24 hour days?

9/5

 

[One Day]

Anyone knocking out a bathroom in 2 days is either rushing it, or making me look very slow and making it hard to charge what I charge!

 

[Flintstone]

I just can't get my head round it, id have 1 day grouting, cleaning up and siliconing up. Have you got a labourer? I can't see how it's physically possible.

 

[Just Rizzle]

No @RayTheTiler has a big trowel!

I have used a12mm 500 mm double hander bought from tile trader also have a 20 mm and 8 mm one and yes all the lady clients I work for say I'm quick
The tile used are villeroy and bosh 900 x 450 so 2.5/Mtr squared onto wedi board walls all plumb and mechanicl fixed which we did on Monday also floor tiled so joint half bonded and follow up walls

 

[Flintstone]

How the hell do you load up a 500 trowel for a wall?