Day work meterage

[demi34]

9-13 sqm a day if you want to make good days money.Today finished bathroom 500x 200 ceramic tiles 23 sqm,started at 8 o'clock and finished at 3 o'clock.

 

[Joseph Kover]

Oh boi 🙂
In England this question make not much sense unfortunately.
Two options really, you either drop the quality for the sake of progress or you not working as pay for progress. Sorry, but both doesn't work. You can pull off acceptable quality and double your progress but in my opinion it doesn't worth on the long run. The longer you have to do you get used to not aim for better quality work. Also you won't be able to raise price and get better money end of the day. In the last 5 years in London people rather pay littlebit more for quality work and avoid cheap job. Which is great result and its really a progress in construction buisiness which kick out the cowboy category finally

On the side note
If you do a 25msq bathroom for private customers, they not necessarily appreciate the fact as you done in a day as they question that you not rush their home and do bad job and get out quickly.
On the construction site they like to pay daily rate and squeeze out msq and do not care how you pull it off

Question to the progressive folks here:
How you do preparation including if you do a 20msq bathroom in a day?
Fixing wall, fixing floor, waterproofing etc?
3cm off walls, big curve etc, raising floor grout same day? No way.

 

[Kevbos]

This is exactly why I asked question .I have been tiling 20 years and think I am quite good at tiling .if I ask for 35 to 40 pounds a metre to supply adhesive and grout and tile .customers are usually fine until they see how quick I can tile .then it breaks their hearts .but am I not allowed to be good at my job .with years of learning best ways and methods .

 

[Joseph Kover]

This is exactly why I asked question .I have been tiling 20 years and think I am quite good at tiling .if I ask for 35 to 40 pounds a metre to supply adhesive and grout and tile .customers are usually fine until they see how quick I can tile .then it breaks their hearts .but am I not allowed to be good at my job .with years of learning best ways and methods .

I don't know mate, It depends what you re working on, and what quality you represent. I don't think you can really calculate average for all cases.
I can do 30msq floor no problem but won't rush to finish a day. I rather still would do in 2 or even 3, I am still at my money.taking time on prep well worth it. I am responsible guy, and want to sleep well, no tiles falling on anyone head while sitting in the bath 🙂

 

[Kevbos]

I do work alot of tilers won't touch or can do .I find asking what each customer wants and can afford is best way to approach each job .

 

[Kyle Knowles]

I do work alot of tilers won't touch or can do .I find asking what each customer wants and can afford is best way to approach each job .

I see in ur profile pic u have a original style floor I'd love to do one of them but I've never had the chance and also I would need a mentor to teach me before I attempted to take one on on alone

 

[Kevbos]

Lol not original style .you would see lips and curved tiles if I tiled their product

 

[Joseph Kover]

Everyone works by their own preferences and working method. This is why these type of questions has as many preferred answer as many commenter.

 

[Kevbos]

Victorian tiling is hard but isn't if your patient and thorough. The prep is alot of the work .get floors flat perfectly before tiling

 

[Joseph Kover]

Victorian tiling is hard but isn't if your patient and thorough. The prep is alot of the work .get floors flat perfectly before tiling

Exactly, this is what I meant. You have to calculate the preps, but it takes time so one day clean tiling is not a preference for msq/day you see.