How's the work going fellow tilers ?

[hillhead]

Hello folk, how's the work level going for you all?It's been up and down here for a while but thankfully i'm well booked now for at least 2 months or more if i get the nod on a couple.It's not easy pricing against crazy prices too, i'v seen from £10 m2 to £24 m2 lately and i wasn't on the £10 !!Let's hope it turns around for all who need it.

 

[doug boardley]

very quiet at the mo jo ( lol @ mojo), but my customers know that it's hols time, so will be away for a large chunk of kids' hols, but got plenty booked in for after summer hols

 

[Sean Kelly]

Hillhead, up and down in West London too. However, more ups than downs. I had this week booked off to sort out an issue I have (long story). On Monday I decided that I could not continue with this issue. Then the phone rang and I had 2 days work. Whist on the job I got a text for a days work in Somerset. On the way home another text for a days work in London! - crazy, but good. Possibility of 30sqm of marble next week. The work is coming in dribs and drabs. Very difficult to make plans, especially as the kids are off school and I need to visit Lego Land and Thorpe park etc! Cheers Sean

 

[Daz]

Still crazy busy, but could do without customers messing me around with start dates. Pricing seems to be variable but thankfully I'm getting plenty of recommends that mean I can maintain my desired pricing.

Good luck to all.

Daz

 

[hillhead]

Good to hear Doug, i was getting worried for a while myself but upturn on for me.
Wife want's a holiday too so late August is being talked about.
Happy caravaning Doug.

 

[Stewart]

I'm a bit snowed under at the mo and playing catch up. I've got 2 confirmed days off in the next 10 weeks. I'm booked up into October, with loads sitting waiting to be quoted for.

 

[hillhead]

And who said Scotland was quiet eh? lol

 

[user123]

I'm busy, too, it's just me who's too slow... can't find a proper smiley for that! Something like this maybe:

 

[hillhead]

I think we all feel too slow at times Gisela,:8:

 

[Stewart]

And who said Scotland was quiet eh? lol

I'm fortunate enough to be central to the most affluent areas of central Scotland......

 

[doug boardley]

I'm busy, too, it's just me who's too slow... can't find a proper smiley for that! Something like this maybe:

will this one do G?

 

[user123]

will this one do G?

Not bad, not bad... :lol:

 

[Gall.B]

Been quite busy finished at 11PM tonight crazy finishes the last 2 weeks, wifes going ape shes off for 6 weeks and has hardly seen me

Prices are up and down but is good to be working

 

[Spud]

not too bad here Joe, going back on my own soon and have booked in my first job for mid August hopefully I will run on from there

 

[Thespanishtiler]

Now fully booked to christmas, next slot is new year 2012 :hurray:

 

[Rob Z]

We're about to start a large remodel job which will keep us busy for at least two months. I was about to :incazzato: because the customer kept asking me to reprice the job with subsitutions for every conceivable part of the job. GRRRRR, but at least we landed this one, and I hope they'll be good customers.

 

[strummerman]

still very busy for me

 

[GC-Terrazzo]

Busy up untill xmass got a nice big 14000m2 tesco job all to myself then a few more after this one.

 

[enduro]

Bit quite next week tiling, but got a few floors to clean and spend some time with the kids.

 

[lcjohno]

Just ticking over for me, only ever booked 2-3 weeks in advance but just happy to be working. Pricing is a bit crazy though, some guys seem to work for nothing!

 

[Peter]

Been nice and steady for the last few months. July fortnight is a killer in NI with builders and merchants being closed and slow to start up again but thankfully have had plenty of work away from the builders to keep me going and fortunate enough to be fairly snowed under.

A lot of local tilers are pricing at 10m2, but cross 12-14m2 for straight forward stuff and you're pricing yourself out of the market.

 

[Fred]

Booked up 5 weeks and the phone don't stop ringing, and all private work.

 

[borgie]

We are very busy at the moment, got a big supermarket on the go, very low price but big areas. also just started fixing some very big and flexible 3mx1mx3.5mm tiles, and it looks like we are going to be using them a lot more as we are getting asked to quote for them almost every week. starting some shower blocks on monday, 200m of walling , got to be done by the end of the week. nice:8:

 

[jay]

We are very busy at the moment, got a big supermarket on the go, very low price but big areas. also just started fixing some very big and flexible 3mx1mx3.5mm tiles, and it looks like we are going to be using them a lot more as we are getting asked to quote for them almost every week. starting some shower blocks on monday, 200m of walling , got to be done by the end of the week. nice:8:

sounds interesting what are the thin tiles like to lay

 

[borgie]

sounds interesting what are the thin tiles like to lay

they are not the easiest tiles to fix. we have been trained by the manufacturer. big areas are quite easy, but small areas can be a nightmare, trying to get a 2.4x1m tile, with adhesive on the back, through small doorways into rooms with ceilings in. there is no room for error. the prep has to be more than bang on, 2mm in 2m. most of the cuts are done with a glass cutter.