help with pricing hallway !!

[2020Tiling]

Hi ! i still haven't mastered the art of pricing yet so would like to no wot price you guys get for the following job ! don't know if you remember but i done a job a while back wall and floor in a bathroom which under priced and under estimated the time it would take etc and basically it worked out i done the whole job and took me 3 long days for £70 :yikes: customer was over the moon ( obviously ) so has got me back to price up his hallway ..... the job is 11mtrs floor area to be over boarded with 9mm ply as its a chipboard floor , tiles are ceramic , its a hallway running to a small WC. WC walls are to be tiled half height with the same tile ( walls are flat rad WC and basin already taken out ) walls 7mtrs. price is to include ply etc... would appreciate your help on this one as i don't want to under price again :mad2: thanks..

 

[DHTiling]

why 9mm ply on chipboard..?

 

[enduro]

Is it a floating floor do you know?

 

[2020Tiling]

not a floating floor ! dave would you tile directly onto chipboard ?

 

[DHTiling]

not a floating floor ! dave would you tile directly onto chipboard ?

No.. but neither would i tile to 9mm ply.. imo it isn't stable enough and infact i no longer tile to any thickness ply..

I use cement boards instead..

 

[White Room]

If you price this correctly your customer may ask why is there such a difference in price from the bathroom.........

Hope you told her you lost hand over fist.

 

[united]

What price do you have in your head at the moment?

 

[2020Tiling]

No.. but neither would i tile to 9mm ply.. imo it isn't stable enough and infact i no longer tile to any thickness ply..

I use cement boards instead..

Totaly agree with you Dave , i no exactly where your coming from m8 ! but to be fair the floor is solid with 0 deflection and ceramic tiles are going down so i though over boarding with ply would be fine ? to be honest I've stopped using cement board due to the cancer info that is clearly printed on the boards ! ( i still want to be tiling in 20 years not 6ft under ) plus there a nightmare to cut etc... :8:

 

[2020Tiling]

What price do you have in your head at the moment?

havent worked it out yet m8 ! iam still unsure .

 

[kilty55]

why not use 6mm cvement boards,for that job i would be looking for about 180 mats to 200 mats,and 500 labour based on what youve said, how long do you think it will take you?

 

[2020Tiling]

If you price this correctly your customer may ask why is there such a difference in price from the bathroom.........

Hope you told her you lost hand over fist.

fair point !! i think he did get the impression that id made a BIG pricing error as he gave me a extra £30. but i didn't dare say to him that it should be more like a extra £300 , as it was my fault and i learnt a lot on that job !!

 

[united]

off the top of my head I would say about £650 inc mats and that is my very bottom end price

 

[2020Tiling]

why not use 6mm cvement boards,for that job i would be looking for about 180 mats to 200 mats,and 500 labour based on what youve said, how long do you think it will take you?

probably take me 3 days .... £700 all in is roughly wot i got .. , think i would be happy with that as long as i did it in a max 3 days

 

[paul flight]

why not tell him your day rate + materials and you think it will take you 3 days that way you cant lose and to keep cost down for him you could do cost + 10% for materials . be open with him about how you lost out on the last work you did and that you should have priced it at lot more. oh and over board with 12mm wpb ply screwed at 200 centers for floor

 

[Thespanishtiler]

£779.00 to include hb boarding of floor and all tiling inc of all materials and labour