pricing up for bathrooms, help.

[Matthew77]

Hi all

I have a bathroom i need to price up but i'm having a few problems with working out my price as so far all my work has been done on day rate, I have done some work for the customer already (When i worked for someone else & now i'm self employed) & she was happy with the work so she's after a rough idea of the cost. The work is for labour only. the tiles are 300 by 200 and will be layed in landscape, brick fashion.

I've got a rough idea of how long it will take me to tile the wall areas, but I'd like some advice on pricing up for tiling the boxing, cutting around wall mounted toilets & sinks, window reveals & bath panels . I have seen somewhere on this site advice on prices for cutting out for plug sockets in kitchens, but not on bathroom furniture.

thanks in davance

Matthew

 

[tiler tom]

If you have done work before then you know how much she is expecting to pay on a dayrate. Now look at the room and ask yourself how long it is going to take to tile. Two days , three days, 2hours for that boxing, 3 for the panel and so on. Tally it all up x your day rate rounded up and thats your price. You can then judge by what has been paid before if it is fair. :yes:

 

[brian c]

charge what you feel the job is worth m8,you should have a price m2 anyway and a day rate so you sound as if you will be on the right track

 

[Matthew77]

thanks, will just have a guess on the boxing and window reveals same with the toilet and sink, hopefully won't be too far out.

 

[White Room]

And if you find it's taken longer than you thought and your've lost money, It's one big learning curve, believe me your'll soon learn.

 

[tiler tom]

Whitebeam is right about learning the hard way by losing out it is all about experience. Boxing and reveals are a pain. It might seem like a small area to tile but it is all cutting and trim which is usually metal and ends up taking longer than you thought so over estimate if anything.
We have had pricing on the forum before asking the question do you charge per socket in a kitchen and so on, it is not practical. You have to look at the whole job ask yourself how long it is going to take and go from there. Remember a kitchen with a load of sockets with a small tile can take as long as some bathrooms.

Hope this helps Mathew

 

[Saltire69]

Should try and get toilet and sink moved m8. Gives a far better finish and saves time with cuts.