Brazilian slate quote

[Scott]

Did you come recommended to them and have they seen you work?

If you have a 'foot in the door' already id be sticking with as much as i could get.

 

[Alberta Stone]

If you are putting down ditra at least $1/sq ft and stone at $7.50/sq ft.
Cleaning and sealing $1 to $2/sq ft.
so there is about 10 sq feet/m2 and all in is about $10/sq ft so that is $100/m2, what's up with all you guys just giving it away?
You want to be poor?
Or are things that bad over there that you have to give beer prices for champagne?

 

[Martyn Leeds]

Kev, I use Beava Wondermat, STS are doing it at £165 + vat for a 30m roll (if you got their xmas vouchers you'll also get 3 bags of any benfer too)... I got some the other week.

 

[The D]

If you are putting down ditra at least $1/sq ft and stone at $7.50/sq ft.
Cleaning and sealing $1 to $2/sq ft.
so there is about 10 sq feet/m2 and all in is about $10/sq ft so that is $100/m2, what's up with all you guys just giving it away?
You want to be poor?
Or are things that bad over there that you have to give beer prices for champagne?

i would not say i work for beer money but £65.00 per m2 is a good price but it all depends on the cost of living. from where I'm sitting £40.00 per m2 is a good rate.

 

[Alberta Stone]

i would not say i work for beer money but £65.00 per m2 is a good price but it all depends on the cost of living. from where I'm sitting £40.00 per m2 is a good rate.

Working for stores as a sub-contractor in the past Our company was regularly getting $7.50/sq.ft with any specialty work like pencil or chair rail at a lin.ft. price, baseboards and toekicks, the same and so on.
They would supply all the grout and thin-set as well so this is merely the labor component.
If we were quoting the job then typical going rates were the same as the stores were quoting and that was $12 to $15 per sq ft, stone and tile were additional.
Even at these rates we were not getting ahead very fast as the cost of living is fairly high.
Cultured stone is $10/sq ft, just labor.

so 65 pounds per m2 is $6.50/ sq ft, which is not bad, but seems a bit out of step with inflation, yah think?
Isn't fuel, and all the costs of living going up as well?
Why should income be frozen at decades old rates?
That just puts people into low-cost housing projects.

Why should a person be content with wages comparable to a standard labor job when doing high end finishing work?

 

[Brinkley]

well if you can tile 20m2 per day and your asking for £1200 customers wont pay simples

 

[doug boardley]

as said, it's all the peripherals with natural stone that bump the price up, it'd probs take me twice as long to do a slate floor than a porc one.,

 

[Brinkley]

ok whack down 60m2 in 3 days 1 day sealing and 1 day grouting could you charge 3200 for a one man op for 5 days work .would the customer pay that?? Probably find a better quote i think unless you are highly reccommended

 

[doug boardley]

at the end of the day, it's Kev's call, but I know from experience what I'd be charging.

 

[Brinkley]

me too about 2k

 

[Alberta Stone]

ok whack down 60m2 in 3 days 1 day sealing and 1 day grouting could you charge 3200 for a one man op for 5 days work .would the customer pay that?? Probably find a better quote i think unless you are highly reccommended

And you can "whack down" 600 sq ft in 3 days?
Well that is great, but I never work with stone that quick and haven't yet met a fellow that did unless they had more than one mason and a few helpers going and they want to be paid as well.
So a 600 sq ft job would be priced at $7.50 which would be $4500.
I can see it if you have a wide open area, but most places I have seen never are like that, there are tons of cuts and all kinds of walls and rooms.

 

[Brinkley]

im talking about a square room alberta not a hallway soz if it was mislead

 

[DHTiling]

well if you can tile 20m2 per day and your asking for £1200 customers wont pay simples

Maybe you need to get better customers..

Others are entitled to their opinions as well and if they charge more than you , then so be it.. don't mock others for earning a proper wage for stone tiling.. if you are happy with your wage then that is what counts isn't it..?..

We are hear to make a living not make friends with customers..

 

[Alberta Stone]

We are hear to make a living not make friends with customers..

That is the point of the exercise after all.
For myself, if I was happy with a general laborer wage I would have stuck with that.
It is good to advance one's skills and also see an advancement in financial reward, but each to their own.
I like seeing more than $10,000 coming in in a month and never had a customer complain that they were over charged for what they received.
Always give top service and then some and do quality work and then this justifies the price tag.

 

[Brinkley]

i totally agree dave .
but if iearnt £1200.00 per day iwouldnt be complaining .