Day Rate

[tysfoot]

Just wondering what you other guys charge yourself as a typical day rate.

Im new to tiling (6 months or so) ive got my speed right up and i also work part time and also im not reistered untill after xmas so i dont have to worry to much about tax (as yet)

I try and earn £70 - £80 a day but when im self employed and working full time asa tiler i will be working between £100 - £120 a day


Does this seem the going rate ?

Ive got a little poll goin on it would be interesting to what other people on here earn and want to earn

 

[Perry]

Tysfoot how are mate hope everything ok i have found some people are better value at £200 a day than some that charge £50 a day it depends on what you can achieve have some guys that can lay 35 mtrs a day on a solid bed and that couldn't lay 5 mtrs a day

 

[tysfoot]

i should have gone higher than £130 for the poll, if anyone can edit it, just correct it accordinly

 

[Matthew77]

Hi tysfoot

I've not started trading as a tiler yet,but plan to in the new year. So i'm interested to hear what peoples thoughts on day rates are generally.
I was speaking to the boss of the contracting firm i work for today about how much i should be looking at charging for a day rate and he suggested that i should be aiming at between £125 - £140 to start with.He also said that alot of tilers will charge around the £180 a day mark:speechless:

 

[tysfoot]

thats more money than i expected, like you am new to this game and i need to sort my pricing out. quoted a splashback and atwo walls of a bathroom for my first job 3 months ago, quoted £230. rang me up last week to see if i could do it totally out of the blue but as im more experienced the rate i gave was way to low but as its xmas and i need the dough i done it. its took me 3 full days to complete. now i would nearly double that.


Its all experience including pricing up the job so if you do a few cheap ones like i have just put it down to experience.

Im finding pricing kitchen splashbacks very hard to price, any suggestions on splashback pricing tips would be very helpfull ?

Bathrooms are easiler as i just charge between £20 - £25 ms which is right, isnt it ?

 

[Perry]

try somthing like this 50 turning up fee 20 for half window 10 for each socket + 25 mtr so 4 mts + 6 plugs 1 i/2 window = 230 used to work somthing like that on kitchens Regards Pete

 

[CLAYS TILES]

i used to work on £20 - £25 m2 plus mats, but people didn't want to pay it, so wot i did i rang a few tilers with made up area's & asked how much they charged a m2, they all varied between £15-£25m2,plus mats!
when i did my course they told us to work on £120 - £150 day rate or 20-25 m2. till we get better established then the rates goes up!:huh2:

 

[tysfoot]

thats good advice pjc. worked out your quote system and for the kitchen that i dont i should have charged £215 so on this job i finished ive underchared by bout £150. s**t happens

 

[Fekin]

It's always tricky pricing up when you are new, as when your new, your basically slower at working, so you generally price up the first job you get to quote on, think it'll take you a day and a half for the splashback, quote £225 for your day and a half, then jop ends up taking 3 days, :lol:

You come away with mixed feeling, pleased that you have your first job under your belt, but a bit miffed cos you only got £75 per long day.

It happens to a lot of people, but once the speed comes up, you end up doing it in a long day, maybe a morning too, making it very worth while.

General rule of thumb, you'll end up doing the first few jobs for not too much money with the time it takes you, then the speed comes and you knock off 2 days or so from what it takes to do a whole bathroom and you end up with good money.

Just stick in there, and get the first few out of the way without bothering too much about the money.

 

[GazTech]

Wise words Adam mate....eventually the walk becomes a run....trust me.....Gaz