am i pricing too much?????

[Alan.P]

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:

You would have thought that, wouldn't you, not the case on most parts I've seen me do 14 hour round trip to Barnstaple and back ( 700 miles ) and been on site for 10 minutes :yikes: that sort of thing happened often enough

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

yes but i travel all over and build in subsistence/ accomadation and still get work???

 

[mags]

I reckon your too cheap id be expecting £35min a M2 for that stuff plus extras.

you have to seal quartz against staining so all in at the price you quoted id be inclined to walk away from it, IF i had enough work :mad2:

 

[dhsanta65]

Think your price was more than fair after all as you say the punter paid £700 for the tiles then expect you to work for next to nothing. I think customers forget you still have to pay your tax, fuel & material cost out of the quotes that we give them.

 

[Colour Republic]

It's always hard to give advice without seeing it but for arguements sake lets say at 10sqm the hall is 2m wide, 5m long, 4 doors off and a staircase and it needs leveling

I'd be coming in at maybe around £550 + materials. I take you got the discount on the tiles? if you did then you've already saved them £340. What more do people want!

sometimes it's cheaper to stay at home, say you have a problem and it takes longer than you thought or maybe a few months down the line you have to go back and do a repair for free.

£380 is cheap in my book, no matter where you live in the country. I think these people are trying it on, nobody who is watching the pennys chooses a £110sqm tile, maybe they think you should help pay for them.

 

[beanz]

I'm still pretty new to the game, but i would be expecting about £40 per metre for the tiling alone around this area. I say let them get someone cheaper, as it's probably gonna be someone that hasn't got a clue what they're doing. Hopefully you'll get the call to come sort it out! :lol:

 

[Hawkofeagles]

I'm in a simular position as beanz in that i'm pretty new to this game but in my area, Dorset i'd be expecting £30 m2 for tiling. So as others have said I think you ought to walk away and wait for the fall out...

 

[poynton phil]

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

Must have done some proper hours in your old job, its nearly 290 mile a day 7 days a week

 

[doug boardley]

£380 seems a fair price imo not ott or to cheap, it's what I'd probably charge anyway

 

[Matt]

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

Wow, that is someone stealing from their company

Good deal for the customer though :lol:

 

[doug boardley]

yes matt, methinks tiles were going outta the back door

 

[Matt]

yes matt, methinks tiles were going outta the back door

Yup. It is staff like that, that make customers say to me. "How much for cash" Wink wink, nudge nudge

 

[Saltire69]

CJ, when i do a estimate i give my labour price 1st, and then the mats price at a discounted rate and tell them how much there saving on the mats. For me thats normally about 40-50% there saving, and make sure u tell them this. Think some customers don't understand the cost of decent mats.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Yup. It is staff like that, that make customers say to me. "How much for cash" Wink wink, nudge nudge

...a nods as good as wink to a blind bat! (my wife says I've got this wrong)
To the reply:
I wondered how long before someone picked up on the worrying part of this thread - back door sales for cash!
Prehaps it will be this customer who will post a thread complaining that they spent £1000-00 on tiles and their 'tiler' - who charged less than CJ -has left their job a disaster.

Timeless John.

 

[Matt]

...a nods as good as wink to a blind bat! (my wife says I've got this wrong)
To the reply:
I wondered how long before someone picked up on the worrying part of this thread - back door sales for cash!
Prehaps it will be this customer who will post a thread complaining that they spent £1000-00 on tiles and their 'tiler' - who charged less than CJ -has left their job a disaster.

Timeless John.

The other thing that worries me, is that if anything goes wrong with the tiles supplied. They can't exactly strowl into the shop asking for replacements etc. No proof it came from that shop.