am i pricing too much?????

[CJ CERAMICS]

a customer wants me to tile their hallway 10m2
with black and white quartz tiles which they are buying for £70.00sm
the shop selling them are retailing them at £110.00sm but if they do not require a receipt (this is a fairly big company with over 20 branches nationwide) they can have them at £70.00.

the hallway floor needs levelling.

to level floor fix tiles and supply materials i quoted £380.00. which i thought was reasonable(not charging to apply slc just cost of materials +10%

customer thought that this was too much?

what do you think?
cheers
chris

 

[Deleted member 9966]

a customer wants me to tile their hallway 10m2
with black and white quartz tiles which they are buying for £70.00sm
the shop selling them are retailing them at £110.00sm but if they do not require a receipt (this is a fairly big company with over 20 branches nationwide) they can have them at £70.00.

the hallway floor needs levelling.

to level floor fix tiles and supply materials i quoted £380.00. which i thought was reasonable(not charging to apply slc just cost of materials +10%

customer thought that this was too much?

what do you think?
cheers
chris

chris

I don't usually get involved in the pricing forum, but to be honest, £380 seems a pretty good price to me. If the customer wants to pay £700 for the tiles and then let some bodger fix them at a fraction of the cost, then I think you should walk away.

I'd pay you £380 to come and tile my bathroom

GRR

 

[Alan.P]

Too cheap in my book mate, some people :mad2:

 

[Alan.P]

I'd pay you £380 to come and tile my bathroom

GRR

Ahem, still waiting on a pm with some measurements

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Ahem, still waiting on a pm with some measurements

sorry Alan, thought I'd sent it.... will do so now :lol:

 

[CJ CERAMICS]

Too cheap in my book mate, some people :mad2:

thanks alan
normally i would have charged more but with business the way it is at the moment i thought i would go with a price that would atleast earn me some money this month but ?????
not sure what people want at the moment?
went to look at a job yesterday splash back area was 4.2 m2
customer had one quote for £80.00?
wish he had said this before i wasted petrol.
chris

 

[Deleted member 9966]

thanks alan
normally i would have charged more but with business the way it is at the moment i thought i would go with a price that would atleast earn me some money this month but ?????
not sure what people want at the moment?
chris

something for nothing :mad2: the best things in life are free, everything else you have to pay for, simples.

 

[CJ CERAMICS]

something for nothing :mad2: the best things in life are free, everything else you have to pay for, simples.

i wish somebody would give me something for nothing liz but hey ho may have to go and look for a 9-5 job if this carries on.

 

[Deleted member 9966]

i wish somebody would give me something for nothing liz but hey ho may have to go and look for a 9-5 job if this carries on.

there's a bathroom and en-suite to re-tile in Stoke-on-Trent if you're interested :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Alan.P]

there's a bathroom and en-suite to re-tile in Stoke-on-Trent if you're interested :smilewinkgrin:

Fair point, you are close CJ

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Fair point, you are close CJ

Wigan aint that close :yikes: hang on, just checked, around 50 miles, about an hours drive. closer than I thought

 

[chris.tiling]

I think you priced it fairly.

I know the problem...have priced up 12 jobs in the past two weeks and got just one of them...the last one!

Went to one job only to get there and be told "I have booked someone now - thanks!" Again - why couldnt they phone to say!!!:incazzato:

 

[Alan.P]

Wigan aint that close :yikes: hang on, just checked, around 50 miles, about an hours drive. closer than I thought

Distance ain't a thing, in jobs gone by I used to average 2000 miles a week and then work on top of that, that's two thousand, not a typo So you see what I mean when I say, willing to travel

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Distance ain't a thing, in jobs gone by I used to average 2000 miles a week and then work on top of that, that's two thousand, not a typo So you see what I mean when I say, willing to travel

yeah but I bet they were big, well paid jobs though Alan. no point trekking the entire length of the country for a splashback :yikes:

but thinking about it guys, are you having to travel further than normal to get quotes and work?

 

[davy_G]

yeah but I bet they were big, well paid jobs though Alan. no point trekking the entire length of the country for a splashback :yikes:

but thinking about it guys, are you having to travel further than normal to get quotes and work?

Nope, im not. My thinking is if its close to home i dont have big travel costs or time wasted travelling, hense I can do it cheeper. The synic would say I can make more, but I can pass some of that to the customer, making sure I am the 'tiler' in my home patch.