50m floor

[Martyn Leeds]

even at £20 p/m Labour Only is a good whack, divide that by 3 days and its a good rate. Even by 4 days is still a good rate

 

[One Day]

Porcelanosa used to do fixers a favour, in as much as they would tell customers that the cost of fixing a large floor would be roughly equal to the cost of the tiles.
If a customer paid say 30/sqm for tiles, why charge 10/sqm for fixing? Tile shop would only reduce their profit slightly for quantity, yet here we have a situation where due to quantity, the poor old tiler is expected to drop right down to day rate rather than make a tidy profit.
If all tilers stood firm on this, we'd all benefit!
Trouble is too many tilers and too much pressure to win a job.

 

[Italy]

if it is just for this job.
localtiler is right, if it has always done pay per diem wage this client and although short days, he has always paid full day, it seems fair to continue like this. to Max lengthens work. (Do the job quietly)

 

[John Benton]

My plumber just had a similar problem, his customer had seen a £100 tap and that's the one he was going to get, plumber quotes £45 for changing tap and customer accepts. Plumber turns up to do job and customer saw another tap that cost only £35 and now wants a reduction in fitting costs pro rata with cost of tap. One word, idiot!

 

[Flintstone]

I think my best option is to do as said, just take my time with it and not bust my balls. I think another tiles who is also a friend is going to give a hand for a day or so as I only have a 3 day maybe 4 day slot, will have to go to greasy Vera's for breakfast and lunch and for a cuppa every hour!

 

[peteablard]

People are on here all the time moaning about being undercut when they've priced jobs up. It's no wonder if people are prepared to do jobs like this on day rate.

 

[JMC tiling]

My plumber just had a similar problem, his customer had seen a £100 tap and that's the one he was going to get, plumber quotes £45 for changing tap and customer accepts. Plumber turns up to do job and customer saw another tap that cost only £35 and now wants a reduction in fitting costs pro rata with cost of tap. One word, idiot!

£45 to change a tap is cheap as anyway ha ha! some people are unreal

 

[Flintstone]

People are on here all the time moaning about being undercut when they've priced jobs up. It's no wonder if people are prepared to do jobs like this on day rate.

Why don't you read the posts and you would see the situation

 

[peteablard]

Why don't you read the posts and you would see the situation

I have read all the posts. At the end of the day if you don't value your own time then no one else will. If you do jobs cheap to start with then it's hard to ask for more at a later date, I understand that. It doesn't bother me if you do it for £50 a day, I was just giving my opinion like everyone else

 

[Flintstone]

I'm not doing this job

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I'm not doing this job

And that is because ....

 

[One Day]

And that is because ....

Andy is doing it on day rate.

 

[Spare Tool]

Andy is doing it on day rate.

Haha... if it meant not biting the hand that fed me on a regular basis then yeah I probably would

 

[Flintstone]

And that is because ....

Because it clashed with another job

 

[WetSaw]

Nice way to avoid an awkward situation!

 

[Dumbo]

I had a 350sqm floor on anhydrite.
I agonised over the price because the total looked so large but in the end went in at 25/m + materials and promised a perfect job.
Glad I did because it took longer than it should have done.
Issues around scheduling, other trades in the way, floor not as flat as should be...
I did ok in the end, but not as ok as it "should" have been....

Nothing is ever as it should be .

 

[Dumbo]

It's a funny one as I only do work for him on a slightly reduced day rate, often small jobs kitchens etc which I use to fill in gaps in the schedule so I can't suddenly ask for more on this one particular job!

If you work for him on a reduced day rate and you know you are not going to rip him off . Why do you need to know how fast . There is always somebody super quick who will reply to this . Not that this is super fast but once met a bloke who said any tiler should be able to do 15m a day like him . But after talking a little longer I figured he was doing 12 hour days.