mosaic pricing

[dave l and l]

150 per day is more than fair for the hours you worked on it
you should maybe have mentioned price before start. sometimes people get an iidea of price in mind

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Sorry if it sound a shock to you neil ! but £700 tops if you were working for me ,i think you have taken to long on the job and you are looking for your customer to pick-up the tab mate,pre recession you might have got away with it !! not now !! same for any -of you guys that think you can get-away with top-prices now !! get real :hurray:

 

[macten]

£700 labour only with regular tiles is the price in the midlands for that kind of meterage right now in a recession.

 

[Bubblecraft]

Nice job you've done. If it were me, I'd be £32pm2 fixing only, £38pm2 supplying & I'm central Scotland.
£912 labour only on tiling. Did you do the prep work as well? That of course would be an additional cost.
Was the choice yours to do 12 hour shifts? If not, you could add a cost for unsocialable hours.

 

[bigneil]

Sorry if it sound a shock to you neil ! but £700 tops if you were working for me ,i think you have taken to long on the job and you are looking for your customer to pick-up the tab mate,pre recession you might have got away with it !! not now !! same for any -of you guys that think you can get-away with top-prices now !! get real :hurray:

. .. £700 all in, which would be less the £180 in materials and fuel, leaving £520 taxable income... 520-20% = £500 profit. that would be selling myself short.

but if you mean £700 in profit after tax, for 7 days of hard labour, then that sounds fair.

 

[bigneil]

Was the choice yours to do 12 hour shifts?

NO ! contractor called me after day 3 and said it had to be done by the weekend ... I didn't work 12 hour days for the first 3.... actual hours on the job would be about 68 hours .

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[Diamond Pool Finishers]

. .. £700 all in, which would be less the £180 in materials and fuel, leaving £520 taxable income... 520-20% = £500 profit. that would be selling myself short.

but if you mean £700 in profit after tax, for 7 days of hard labour, then that sounds fair.

Lets put it like this neil everything you get over £700 would be a bonus , you know how far you could push your guy ,so good luck with getting more ,keep us posted on what you charge please neil
if ever i'am around your woods working ,and i need some help ,i did a pool over in forfar just up the road from you ,then i would give you a shout ,but not at your prices lol rrr:

 

[jonnyc]

well i am glad i have seen this work. it looks like good quality to me .
i dont really know what to say about how much this job is worth , but i would gladly pay far more than anything bandied around here. much more .
but then the difference is that maybe i could charge much more down south than up your way.
forget where you live though, i am really interested in this type of work as i am being asked to quote for not just stone in high end pool complexes but this type of mosaic in changing /jacuzzi areas .
check out deano tile mosaic no7 . this is in and i need to be part of this

 

[Bubblecraft]

NO ! contractor called me after day 3 and said it had to be done by the weekend ... I didn't work 12 hour days for the first 3.... actual hours on the job would be about 68 hours .

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It's your call then!

 

[Ian]

I think £40 per m plus materials and expenses is a fair price, the job looks very well finished and the quality should be reflected in the price IMO.

 

[DHTiling]

Recession , what recession .?..

Neil, you will always get guys who will work for virtually nothing , IMO mate if that was the price for the job above , then it was a good job for a fair price for tricky job...

I never get into pricing issues on here as in giving my prices out.. i charge what i think i am worth , so if you think Neil your price was fair then go for it again.. don't sell yourself short.. just because a tiler is cheap does not mean they will win work... trust me on that.

 

[Turkish tiler]

£150 + materials fair day rate plus some days you have worked 12hr

 

[dave l and l]

150 per day plus fuel and materialsl or 35 m2 plus fuel and materials,
you have made a lovely job so dont leave yourself short

 

[gamma38]

Same as Dave for me, good job fair price. I hate the mentality both with customers and trades alike where everyone drives prices down using the recession as an excuse. I would never drop my prices to buy work, but I do vary my prices to suit the job.

 

[Pebbs]

I know its late, but my life these days seems to be a never ending story of crap. I looked at the workmanship, the cuts the details, everything else I can gleam from the photos, and the hours you've put in, then I opened up a costing sheet, to see where I would come in at, without all my overheads and retentions and all the crap I have to build in. Iv'e come out at £1275.00, and that is reflected because you also worked the weekend.

Thats labour only, without the materials, so list those as a separate item. I think that is a very fair price for the standard of workmanship you did. Well done its a lovely job.

Lynn