cost of tiling

Tom_Jones

missk_ensington wrote:

Carole - Is west Yorkshire near Todmorden? Thats near where I live and I got my bathroom tiled for £100 (7m2) and £52 on tiles. I went into the local pub at 5pm and looked for men in overalls. This is the same way that I got my huge kitchen fitted for £400 including electrics and gas, my bathroom suite fitted for £200 and a CORGI reg engineer to replace my back boiler and start from scratch with condensing combi and he cvharged me? £80 a day for 3 days work! Joe bloggs out of ther yellow pages was quoting £600-700 for labour only! My mate in the pub £240!

If there's no one in the pub, there's usually someone who knows someone.... word of mouth is the best way I find to get work men!

Don't fib missk_ensington you just like going into pubs looking for guys in mucky overalls don't ya

missk_ensington

TomJones- thats always the added perk! I'm newly single and when I get chatted up my blokes my first question is 'Are you a tiler, kitchen fitter, plumber, electrician...?'

I'm in a lucky position I live next door to the local pub!

v0n

davsidipp wrote:

80 pounds a sqmtre is a joke. i live in london and had quotes up to 45 per sqm and that was from a bathroom designer, it cost me 18 per sqmt in the end and the chap did a nice job. at 80 per sqmtre i suppose they have gold grout for that money!

You are looking at it from wrong perspective. There is a difference between quote for tiling narrow strip between worktop and cabbots and doing wall to wall butchery. I personally quote even £8-10 per sqm (depending on grout needed) for bigger jobs - 50+ sqm done in large tiles for example. But job big or small, adhesive drying time per sqm is identical and you still have wait before you can make that grout look good. Keep that in mind and add transport costs and it turns out that if you expect odd 2.5 sqm jobbie done @ £18 per sqm you basically expect a tiler to earn about £700-800 a month.

across

is £35 per sqmt ok thats our rough quote? i need about 6sqmt and then the cost of the tiles isnt cheap what do you think?

davsidipp

von for a non skilled person 250pounds a day for a tiler is a joke it is tricks on how to cut tiles and how quick you are at laying them which comes with time. we had 14sqmtre of tiles put on a wall and it took our chap 1 and a half days to do the job and he supplied the grout and adhev. and this was not a botched job as he gave us photos of jobs he had done.the only way i would pay more for tiling would be for mosaic or natural stone but not 80per sqmtre!

v0n

davsidipp wrote:

von for a non skilled person 250pounds a day for a tiler is a joke

That would suggest you live somewhere up north?

I hear you - £200 or £250 can be perceived as a lot of money. But imagine you are the tiler and you are to spend a day doing that 2.5 sqm of kitchen wall. Pick some semi decent looking tiles, add grout, adhesive, transport, out of £80 psqm you will take home roughly £120 pre tax which is exactly what any trade, be it plumber, sparkie, you name it, aspire to earn nowadays - at least equivalent to ~28k office job.

If you feel offended by such pay - all I can say is - personally I crossed my paths with all kinds of tradesmen: I met a guy this year, here in Kent, that calls £30 for first 1/2 hour and £20 for further 1/2 hour shows of his craftsmanship in kitchens and bathrooms. He used to deal exclusively with plumbing, now switched to additional "finishing and decor" services and kept his price list exactly the same. To me, that's insane, but clearly somehow he manages to attract customers and his income is presumably sustainable.
I also met quite a few Poles hired by sub-contracting firms and regardless of contract value they would often only earn £40 quid a day. Offered £80 weekend "cash in hand" job they would do marvels on walls, even if their language skills were a little patchy...

davsidipp

the only good thing that comes with contracters employing poles for building work is a lot of greedy builders are feeling a bit put out tough but i do think 40 quid a day is a joke and i would not work for that. and as for paying plummers and sparks 200per day have already done that and thought that was a fair price.i understand charging more for small jobs as you have to go back next day to grout but come on 80 persq mtre.i suppose if you live in battersea and fulham you would be prepared to pay that but not in the south east.

v0n

davsidipp wrote:

as for paying plummers and sparks 200per day have already done that and thought that was a fair price.

And yet you wouldn't pay a tiler £200 all inclusive for a day of his work (2.5 sqm @ £80 is exactly that)? I understand.

davsidipp

no i would not . for a plummer corgi reg and spark part p reg as well as being time served skilled i feel justified paying 200 per day.

Lady_K

I had a quote for tiling 48 tiles, 4 rows of 12 tiles 6inch square with no cutting at all needed. They said it would take a day and it was £100 they were getting the white grout and adhesive I was getting the tiles. I thought it was extortionate price and will do it myself. Thats not a days work noit even half a day it will take about an hour if that. I think he was just trying to take me for a mug as I'm a woman on my own