How much do tilers charge? What's the price per Square Meter?

[Dan]

Okay so I'm going to start the ball rolling. I'd like the forum to be handy for all, including those looking for tilers, or even DIY, to see what they're up against compared to a professionally carried-out job.

So let's get this ball rolling.

Let's try and come up with a base rate for tiling work done, in every area in the country. We can generalise a bit while we start off, but perhaps we can edit and re-edit the prices per area, and add more areas that have unique pricing for whatever reason, over time. And publish this publicly when we're happy with it. So traders can see when they're undercutting, and customers hopefully see when they're under paying.

So I'll start this off really generally with a England price, Scotland, Wales, N.Ireland (Ireland too separate in Euros perhaps? as we do have Irish on here), then of course London (central then outskirts maybe?).

I'll also need a bit of a list of what might be priced differently compared to other tiles or whatever.

ALL PRICES PER SQUARE METER - OR LINEAR METER

England
Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

Scotland​

Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

Wales​

Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

Northern Ireland​

Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

Republic of Ireland​

Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

Central London​

Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

London Outskirts​

Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

(Please add other areas to this list if you're from there and it's way off the average)

Can people please copy and paste their own area in this, and give a bit of a guide. We can get an average then, and edit the bits to make it actually useful.

Then we can frown upon those who go below it and praise those who go above it (no frowning or praising allowed).​

 

[Dumbo]

Try the maths

As I said call me stupid or are you being evasive

 

[mma]

Some Tilers my way doing a bathroom in a day, x2 Tilers x1 labourer. Haven't seen their work but I know they are busy.

 

[One Day]

Thanks if you prep the job right the tiling is the easy bit.

And that, gentlemen is the key! Proper prep. Customers sometimes get stressed with the amount of prep i do on a job. But as I've always said; a good tilers job is 70% prep.

 

[Flintstone]

Some of us are tilers not bathroom fitters, I don't prep any walls.

 

[hmtiling]

I push to prep all mine. As above it makes tiling a dream when done yourself. Don't know how dry liners struggle with getting a wall flat and plumb round a window

 

[Dumbo]

I push to prep all mine. As above it makes tiling a dream when done yourself. Don't know how dry liners struggle with getting a wall flat and plumb round a window

I like the acquired skill of plasterers where they get a flat surface and make it uneven and especially a bell flange at the bottom of the wall

 

[One Day]

Some of us are tilers not bathroom fitters, I don't prep any walls.

Tilers should be able to prep ALL substrates in my opinion.
Tilers who can't (not won't - I mean can't) are less able.

A hotel I am working at has a tiler in who turns out a reasonable, not great job.
He got caught spot-fixing floor tiles onto ufh cables. Asked why, he said he knows it needs leveling but I don't do leveling. 😵😵😵

 

[Ttt1601]

I'm currently changing my business up, to be aiming at bathroom fitting, with a plumber in the pocket for that side of things, have truely had enough of coming into appalling prep work, all site work is being phased out, I'll be pushing for high class domestic bathrooms, and try to drag my home town forth from the dark ages of 250 x 500 being "big" tiles 😡. Its going to be hard work getting the first few caught on round here but no one Lee is doing it so I figure its worth a go. But even if the large formats don't take off, I want all my jobs start to finish now, me running it and never having to hear "the tiler will get over it" 😡😡 so fingers crossed on a year I maybe be back to enjoying work again

 

[Flintstone]

Impish, that's all well and good and I understand where your coming from but it depends on what jobs you are doing, I'm sure a lot of tilers, myself included do jobs for all manner of contacts as well as my own jobs and normally you walk into a room that has been prepared by the fitter, or skimmed by the plasterer or whatever. Ripping bathrooms out is something I seriously dislike

 

[Dumbo]

I'm currently changing my business up, to be aiming at bathroom fitting, with a plumber in the pocket for that side of things, have truely had enough of coming into appalling prep work, all site work is being phased out, I'll be pushing for high class domestic bathrooms, and try to drag my home town forth from the dark ages of 250 x 500 being "big" tiles 😡. Its going to be hard work getting the first few caught on round here but no one Lee is doing it so I figure its worth a go. But even if the large formats don't take off, I want all my jobs start to finish now, me running it and never having to hear "the tiler will get over it" 😡😡 so fingers crossed on a year I maybe be back to enjoying work again

Jim Clarke is doing complete bathroom installations