£8 Per Metre

[dave l and l]

can i borrow your private jet for my next holiday. thats great prices .

 

[Tony73]

i only got private push bike :lol:. But prices are true. It's expensive living in London :mad2: so have to keap prices high. Plus client expects top quality, so rates can't be low. But there is exeptions, tiling main contractors bathroom at the moment, so will do for only £20.00 per sq.m. (was even thinking to do it for free)

 

[dave l and l]

ah well maybe get the private jet one day,
yeah living in london is very expensive so prices have got to reflect that especially if you are good at your job.i do the odd thing for free, but if its a bathroom you need to charge, even if its only a couple of hundred,
right i am going to glasgow to find this idiot that works for 6 per m2 and start subcontracting him out to people i dont like

 

[garybadger]

Some of the prices getting quoted nowadays is a scandal.
I know off a company in Glasgow, that's went round every commercial job(contractor) and said that whatever price they are given for tiling, they guarantee to beat it. Crazy.
£6m2 without being discriminating, they would have to be Polish. Couple of Polish labourers going round sites in Edinburgh, saying they will work for £20 a shift...
Seriously, how you meant to live on they prices?
Totally agree with the sign writing on vans as well. Van yesterday in Edinburgh, was all brick work, paving, fencing, turf work, Kitchens, Plastering decorating, full bathroom re-fits, wet floors and tiling???
Now surely even that is stretching it for a handyman?

 

[Dan]

That sort of signwriting does my tree in.

I can see a bathroom fitter having "Bathroom Fitting, Tiling, Kitchen Fitting" and related things like that. But when you see "Paving, Roofing, Tiling, Gardening" and bigger lists of mixed trades, especially on one van and not a team, then you know he's going to be a bit of a jack of all trades master of non.

 

[Tony73]

hard times now, so some tradesman push rates down.

 

[Dan]

People should stick to their guns for as long as they can still.

I hear many bigger contractors are seeing 20-odd tenders going in though when they're quoting for the work so I can understand it from some angle when they need to save money in other areas.

But it gets to a point when the tiling ends up shoddy and that's reputation damaged for the contractor so there has to be a happy medium somewhere down the line.

 

[Tony73]

yeh Dan , doing my best to keap rates . Have few good friends in tiling, we keap same rates per sq.m etc. not easy

 

[Pebbs]

Tony I got to say something here, firstly yes it expensive living down here, but trust me, if you don't move with the market rates, then the main contractor will pull another company in from 'up north' make no mistake. There's two reasons for this, first they know they put some of these 'southerners' to shame, work every hour god sends because they want to make their money fast and get on the next train home. I do not price fix with other contractors, I price a decent rate for decent workmanship, not charge silly rates. I would be laughed of site if I ever asked for £120.00m2 for mosaic, and never get any repeat work.

I don't like the notion that London is a city paved with gold, because its not. There are plenty of good hard working tilers out there who are struggling out there to earn a decent wage, even down here. You are extremely fortunate to earn that type of m2 rate, but don't be rubbing peoples noses in it.

Lynn

 

[Peter]

120pm on mosaic means I will have earned about £3000 between now and home time this afternoon :lol:

 

[Tony73]

Tony I got to say something here, firstly yes it expensive living down here, but trust me, if you don't move with the market rates, then the main contractor will pull another company in from 'up north' make no mistake. There's two reasons for this, first they know they put some of these 'southerners' to shame, work every hour god sends because they want to make their money fast and get on the next train home. I do not price fix with other contractors, I price a decent rate for decent workmanship, not charge silly rates. I would be laughed of site if I ever asked for £120.00m2 for mosaic, and never get any repeat work.

I don't like the notion that London is a city paved with gold, because its not. There are plenty of good hard working tilers out there who are struggling out there to earn a decent wage, even down here. You are extremely fortunate to earn that type of m2 rate, but don't be rubbing peoples noses in it.

Lynn

well first i have benn working with this contractor for about 9 years. second: it is not just ordinary mosaic( up to £300 per sq.m to buy) and if you make mistake, it can cost you alot. CATALOGHI IT
and also conntractor drop 15% on top of my invoice. so what ever i charge he's got 15%. And ones again i don't charge £120 per sq.m for everything. Understand what you saying, been in this bussines for long . Well more than 10 years. I just want to say i charge fair for quality ( at least my client is happy) :hurray: And i'm not saying i would not do lower rates.

 

[Tony73]

120pm on mosaic means I will have earned about £3000 between now and home time this afternoon :lol:

should i copy invoices? :lol: I'm just telling true. From now, not talking about rates

 

[Perry]

went to give a guy some advise a few weeks ago someone wanted to charge him 220 per mtr on 20 mtrs inc 10 mts of backerboard

 

[Peter]

should i copy invoices? :lol: I'm just telling true. From now, not talking about rates

Not disputing the prices mate, my sister lives in London so have a fair idea of the eye wateringly high cost of living, just saying that it's a great rate and if it was me, I'd use my Enzo as my work van. :lol:

 

[Tony73]

well i have got big familyz: lepard geco( lizard) rabit, 4 cats and dog :lol:

 

[Daveshadowman]

I just got under cut on a biggish job the builder phoned me back two days after agreeing £20 m fix only said he had two lads who would do it for £7 m could I match this told him to jog on

 

[dave l and l]

that price is ridiculous. i would be inclined to turn up on site and see what there work was like than i would let them know how much they undercut you so it might annoy them that they could have got

 

[White Room]

£7-8 a m2, thats mad:mad2:

 

[northstar]

it does seem to be getting worse

 

[Peter]

Oh dear,

Had a call this evening and a lady was wanting a 3m WC floor done for Thursday and was in a bit of a panic. Told her I could probably squeeze it in tomorrow afternoon as I will be finished fairly early. Prompted me for a price on the phone and as all adhesive etc was there. Told her it was a bit hard to say without seeing the job, to which she said "How much are you talking, £20, £30, £40?". Said it'd probably be about 70 quid and she announced that she's going to give it a go herself. I thought that was a bargain for the short notice urgent job personally. Some headcases about.

 

[Ian]

£70 is a bargain! I'd be nearer £100 especially if there was a basin and toilet to cut around.

 

[John Benton]

£70 is a bargain! I'd be nearer £100 especially if there was a basin and toilet to cut around.

What's she cutting round the toilet and ped with? A pair of scissors? Laughable.

 

[White Room]

£100 bare minimum, charity starts at home.

 

[Andy Allen]

i had one a couple of months ago, 8m2 kitchen floor, 30mile round trip, and her budget was £60...:lol:......she rang me back cos the phone went dead when she told me her budget...lol..

 

[John Benton]

i had one a couple of months ago, 8m2 kitchen floor, 30mile round trip, and her budget was £60...:lol:......she rang me back cos the phone went dead when she told me her budget...lol..

Thats just less than £8 a metre Andy, no wonder you turned it down :smilewinkgrin: