Am I overpricing?

[NW tiler]

Quoted for a bathroom last night, the guy nearly choked on his tea when I gave him the price. When I get calls from the paper I rarely get the job, when it's recommendations, I always get them.

Anyway, the job last night was a three piece bathroom plus a shower cubicle. Only the bath and the shower base would be installed. The plasterer was there skimming the walls so nice smooth walls.

The customer wanted tiling approx 1.1m up the wall and all around the shower cubicle. A few holes needed drilling for shower, radiator and toilet pipes etc, and cuts around the bath. No window as the tiling would come just under it. Total metreage was 11. Customer wanted metal trim.

The floor was approx 5m2, again only cutting aroung the bath and shower base. Also the toilet waste pipe.

All tiling would be straight set, size of tiles not decided but not "big" tiles.

I thought I could do the wall tiling in two days, grouting included, and do the floor in one day, maybe run over by half a day.

Priced the whole job at £450 including adhesive and grout, working on £120 per day.

Does this sound excessive? Should I be tiling faster and therefore quoting cheaper?

Any comments appreciated.

[tileform]

i'm starting a bathroom next week - full suite with shower cubicle, 22m walls (450x250) and 11m floor (330x330)
Charging customer £1200 + materials

She had quotes ranging from 1500 to 3000 so i thought i was cheap at that price!!

[brundlefly]

Hi

from the description i would say
1 day tiling the walls
1 day grout wall and tile floor

floor depends on any prep work, ply, ditra, lastic mat, and so on
if you using timebr flex or tile on wood addy then i would grout floor next day 2 hours

2 days possible few hours 3rd day

the prices thrown about by a lot of tilers i know range from
150 - 200 per day

[TilingLogistics]

[quote=NW tiler;75080]Quoted for a bathroom last night, the guy nearly choked on his tea when I gave him the price. When I get calls from the paper I rarely get the job, when it's recommendations, I always get them.

Anyway, the job last night was a three piece bathroom plus a shower cubicle. Only the bath and the shower base would be installed. The plasterer was there skimming the walls so nice smooth walls.

The customer wanted tiling approx 1.1m up the wall and all around the shower cubicle. A few holes needed drilling for shower, radiator and toilet pipes etc, and cuts around the bath. No window as the tiling would come just under it. Total metreage was 11. Customer wanted metal trim.

The floor was approx 5m2, again only cutting aroung the bath and shower base. Also the toilet waste pipe.

All tiling would be straight set, size of tiles not decided but not "big" tiles.

I think your quote was reasonable. However, there are some customers it will never be cheap enough for

Kev

[NW tiler]

bundlefly

From your estimate you'd say I was a day over tiling and therefore pricing too much?

The floor was a mixture of old tiles and cement screed. Was going to clean the tiles, bond and tile over.

[Captain Slow]

I'd say that you were in the right ballpark. The way I look at it, is I price a job at a rate that I think is fair. If the customer wants it cheaper, they are usually too tight to pay for a quality job, therefore, I don't want the job anyway!

You're not going to win every quote so be prepared to let the jobs where the customer is not prepared to pay a fair rate go to the "jobbers", that way they'll be too busy to win the good paying jobs .

[brundlefly]

ahh all extra work, then i would allow 3 days
even at the lower end of 150 a day thats 450

sometimes unless you do it for free some customers will never be happy with the price, ive had them sit down and reach for the oxygen mask

[MICK the Tiler]

Down here a bathroom like the one you described I would price at $1100au roughly 520-550quid so you are right on the money with the price

Did you ask the client what he/she would think a fair price would be?

Don't be a slave to other peoples thoughts you are the master of your own buisness dealings.

In the past I've quoted double and managed to jag a few now and then, just puts a nice bit of sugar on top for me.

Never be ashamed of what you charge, strive to keep higher prices as this helps everyone coming into the trade.

[EWJ@ATS]

Nothing Wrong With That Price. Some People Want Things For Nothing.

[NW tiler]

Cheers Mick, what's the work like down under? Wouldn't mind giving it a go abroad, would have to talk the misses into first.

[MICK the Tiler]

Not bad down here at the mom, I'm kinda stuck doing insurance work for the next 3-4weeks though, so nothing too glamorous going down quite boring repair work actually. hopeing things on the private work front will kick off again, waiting on a start on 3 of them all referals.

[Sir Ramic]

Based on the time that you are estimating it will take then you are (IMO) cheap. based on M2 then i would say slightly over what i could do it for but i dont think you are over pricing if that includes all materials (adhesive and grouts)