Square metres

[Bri]

A customer asked me recently, 'how many m2 do you think you have fitted since you started tiling?' I tried to work it out and came to the conclusion that it was somewhere in the region of about 5000 m2 ( roughly 1000 per year on average since tiling full time). So, any ideas how many m2 you've done? Ball park figures welcome!


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[Ajax123]

not tiling, screeding, but somewhere in the region of 1million m2 for me this year

[Bubblecraft]

About 20 bathrooms @ approx 26m2 each, about 15 kitchens @ approx 10m2 each, studies, halls & external approx 150m2 all in, mind I don't tile full time so about - 820m2 in 2 year...bloody hell!

[Phil Hobson]

I lost count about 1970, but if I had a pound for every M2 I had fixed, I would be a multi millionaire.

[garythetiler]

an average site tiler does 60m2 a week so I guess between 2500-2750m2 a year would be a resaonable estimate, times that by number of years tiling and you wont be far away

[Mike]

not tiling, screeding, but somewhere in the region of 1million m2 for me this year

do you not have sore knees after all that alan?

[tommyzooom]

an average site tiler does 60m2 a week so I guess between 2500-2750m2 a year would be a resaonable estimate, times that by number of years tiling and you wont be far away

Going by that I wouuld say around 60,000 (or nearly 15 acres!!!!!!!)

[Bubblecraft]

I lost count about 1970, but if I had a pound for every M2 I had fixed, I would be a multi millionaire.

So you charge less than a pound a m2 then. Think I'll subcontract you to do my tiling for me lol

[deanotile]

Based on 8m per day 5 days per week 350 days per year for 26 years 364000m2

[Gall.B]

about 70k for me, maybe more.

[deanotile]

Based on 8m per day 5 days per week 350 days per year for 26 years 364000m2

got my sums wrong its more like 54000 based on 8m2 per day

[hillhead]

Count up your m2 then average multiply by your average rate, then look at your bank statement and........ Cry.
I'm not calculating mine, lol.

[Ajax123]

do you not have sore knees after all that alan?

I dont get on my knees anymore All Gyvlon so pumped screed. To be fair I dont lay it very much these days I just persuade everyone else to do so......

[Mike]

I dont get on my knees anymore All Gyvlon so pumped screed. To be fair I dont lay it very much these days I just persuade everyone else to do so......

i gathered that alan,it's a case of you get paid for what you know, not what you do

[Stewart]

I've got a end of year statement for the last twenty years that has the exact m2 for each year and I've installed well over 50'000 square metres. The one thing I have noticed looking over them is how I've made much more money for installing far less square metres of tiles as I've got older and wiser!


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[kendo1]

This year I've done 28 bathrooms at about 30sqm on average, two kitchens an entrance hall and a utility, so about 900sqm, but I'm a bathroom fitter rather than a tiler. The first bathroom of the year is pretty big, floor area is about 12sqm and the ceiling is at 3.8m

[nybor62]

all i know is its loads ,so my back and knees tell me,

[wayne]

Must have laid roughly 1200 Sqm since start of nov. knees and back aren't too clever now though

[Ajax123]

I just realised how little I get per m2. I am now going to cry gently..........

[John Benton]

Get your prices put up Ajax123...NY resolution....Like my old dad used to say - A man who works for nowt will always be busy..

[ROBSON MCGREGOR]

JB, im always busy but i defo dont work for nowt,

I should charge more for our workmanship but we just wouldnt get it round here.

Not a gripe mate its just reality where i live n work.

[John Benton]

I know its difficult to get the balance right, and justifying a higher price can be difficult. Being able to deliver your promises to a customer is paramount if your prices are higher than your competitors. When we first started this recession we had a lot of trouble pricing because so many tradesmen were coming off sites who only tiled 2 sides of a bath and a splashback. Cheap prices, poor materials, no dust sheets down etc. When we asked customers if the other tilers could give references, a lot of them had never even worked in a private residence! I have a feeling they have been 'found out' now.

[ROBSON MCGREGOR]

The majority of my work is "On site" but i know for a fact that i will leave a far better job than any other so called tilers in my area.

I dont advertise, i work through word of mouth & i havent been stuck for work for over 7 years.

I work on the ethos that i leave a job that i am happy to leave in my own house & i am not happy until my client is!!

I understand that there are "Tilers" coming off site to do shoddy work, you get what you pay for.

I have seen them come & go & i keep will too!!

[John Benton]

Robson, when I started working for myself my wife said to me 'Just imagine me looking over your shoulder on every job' and believe me she is a perfectionist. It's stood me in good stead.

[Bri]

Robson, when I started working for myself my wife said to me 'Just imagine me looking over your shoulder on every job' and believe me she is a perfectionist. It's stood me in good stead.

Very wise words, I like it! If I had my wife looking over my shoulder every day my work area would have to be immaculately clean, the words 'dirt' and 'untidy' are not in her vocabulary!

[Bri]

Robson, when I started working for myself my wife said to me 'Just imagine me looking over your shoulder on every job' and believe me she is a perfectionist. It's stood me in good stead.

Very wise words, I like it! If I had my wife looking over my shoulder every day my work area would have to be immaculately clean, the words 'dirt' and 'untidy' are not in her vocabulary!

[ROBSON MCGREGOR]

I dont need my mrs to look over my shoulder.

I have OCD, my mrs is not a patch on me, im the best i can be.

[Bri]

Ooh I've got a double post! That's never happened to me before! Bad start to the new year!

[ROBSON MCGREGOR]

Bri, it was worth the double post mate!!

[the diving tile]

About 150000m of that approx 10000m of that laid in sand and cement all in thirty years on every type of job.