1m square rectified polished porcelain

[chris.tiling]

Hi...help required please working out a price. I have 170 sq. m of the above to tile on a pumped screed. Dont need to sand floor, only brush and prime it, so no worries with prep. tiles probably wont score / snap cut so will need to wet cut them all, thus adding probably a day onto the job. Open plan house with one main room and two smaller ones to cut into. Using lash clips to ensure perfect finish.
My usual price on rectified polished porc would be between 30 - 35 p.sq.m.
What would be the going rate for fixing such large tiles...also any ideas how long it would take two of us to do the job (both good tilers, just never used such a big tile before)
Cheers in advance for your help

 

[DHTiling]

Probs won't scribe cut..? .. why ?


Is your price labour only. ?

 

[chris.tiling]

Got access to a cutter big enough from a local independent tile shop - a Siri cutter- Shop owner says he is unsure if it will cut dead straight on tiles (12-13mm thick) and thinks it may wander near one edge, hence above comment.
Good point and not necessarily re labour only - I can show materials separately as i have a price for them already. Would prefer an all in figure to show them (otherwise they can see what we are making !!)

 

[DHTiling]

I was just wondering if ya price was inclusive of addy etc..

A Sigma would cut them but as Siri.. pass neevr used one..

 

[Peter]

Used a Siri 900 before and was very capable.

Bound to be a tiler locally who would lend you a big sigma for a few days.

 

[chris.tiling]

cheers...but any ideas on price?

 

[Lee@emctiles]

Chris, not here to Q your pricing or anything, but £35/£40 for laying a m2 by m2 tile (1 tile per m2) sounds a lot, I'm guessing your not going to price it at that rate.

Maybe it's a location thing, you'd be pushed to get anything near that here in Derbyshire.

 

[chris.tiling]

Hi Lee...the going rate according to a couple of local tilers that I rang today is between £40 and £50 per metre for such a tile (one even said £50 as a minimum). So guess location is a lot to do with it.

 

[Tony73]

to me £40 per sq.m is a good rate, labour only You said two tillers will work. So no labourer to mix adhesive and back butter tiles?

 

[widler]

Never in a million years would I get or any other tiler get that m2 for tiling around my way.
£50 a m2 for laying 1mx1m tiles,on a 100m2 floor,you would be earning a fortune,I'd get lynched,hung drawn and 1/4 and me head lobbed off around here if I even mentioned that kind of money.
£30 at most including addy and grout,if we are lucky and I mean really lucky.
Had one tile shop ring me and ask about floors,he said,his words " people are saying £20m2 for it,not a chance I be paying that,they be earning £150 a day"
I put the phone down

 

[Qwerty]

I reckon your price is bang on for down our way Chris