Site Work Rate.

[Mr Tiler]

Probably cutting in the room next door as well Deano, not too far to walk

Id be cutting in the room next door on most privates too mate lol

 

[Mr Tiler]

Thanks for that Deano, I looked at yr pics last night and thought that was good going for brown floor tiles and a few brown wall tiles........then I zoomed in and saw the beige tiles too!! (was looking at it on a mobile).

Maybe you could charge tilers a few £££ to watch you tile. 'A day with Deano'. Very impressive.

Maybe start a new 'Quickest job of the month' comp?

I wouldn't even make £100 a day sadly. When I did site work a few years ago I actually got locked in on site for 2 hours. I did not realize everyone else had gone home. The security man was nowhere to be seen, but he eventually appeared.

A standard plot for me is around 13-14 m2 fixed and recently been able to grout up most if not all same day, as ali said maybe its how you have approached your career mate

 

[The D]

Job today 25m floor started 7.00 finished tiling 11.30 grouted by 12.30 bish bash bosh

 

[Andy Allen]

I did 15 years on site......lovely in the summer. ....bloody grim in the winter....
Can't beat it for building up your speed though...

 

[Sean Kelly]

A standard plot for me is around 13-14 m2 fixed and recently been able to grout up most if not all same day, as ali said maybe its how you have approached your career mate

Good to know Mr T. Well done, as I know you have not been tiling all that long.

Thinking about it, there is a lot of time wasting (not intentionally) on residential jobs. When the customer keeps talking, when you have to sheet up in the morning and tidy up at night, when the sparky wants to drill holes in the ceiling and the chippy wants to stick on the architrave etc etc.

I did a job a few months ago when the customer was on holiday and there was no other trade on site. It's surprising what can be done when there are no interruptions.

I can see now how £16 psm is not a bad price.

 

[Mr Tiler]

Mate im usually fixing over the plumber while the sparky is above me fixing the downlights lol. Yeh it takes longer on private jobs i think we base our private jobs on an average of about 3 days but the same amount of m2 cAn be atcheived in one day on site. Ive laboured on plenty of private work and done a load of my own jobs to date now too sean. Bieng on site helps like you say mate it helps you be fast.

 

[Mr Tiler]

I did 15 years on site......lovely in the summer. ....bloody grim in the winter....
Can't beat it for building up your speed though...

In the summer i wish i was one of the ground workers lol, winter is bad for the first really cold week or 2 then you adapt to dunkin your hand in a bucket of ice when grouting lol

 

[Andy Allen]

That's why site work is great for getting you quicker at tiling...
You Can't wait to get out of the bloody place in winter..

 

[Mr Tiler]

That's why site work is great for getting you quicker at tiling...
You Can't wait to get out of the bloody place in winter..

Only thing that pulls me towards private jobs is that sweet holmley smell of bacon on the go, and then actualcy bieng offerd one... But majority of the time you are just left dribbling with your crappy sandwich in your hand unless its someone you know then you can shout the odds lol

 

[Simon benn Leeds]

Site work is generally a lot easier due to having areas clear and being well prepared, i.e new walls, flat floors and more overall meterage, this is why it's normally reflective in the rates. Plus I normally bung the site labourer to load the tiles out in every room and get rid of my waste!.

 

[Mr Tiler]

Site work is generally a lot easier due to having areas clear and being well prepared, i.e new walls, flat floors and more overall meterage, this is why it's normally reflective in the rates. Plus I normally bung the site labourer to load the tiles out in every room and get rid of my waste!.

Wow wish i had it that wayvlol

 

[MTiler]

Site work is generally a lot easier due to having areas clear and being well prepared, i.e new walls, flat floors and more overall meterage, this is why it's normally reflective in the rates. Plus I normally bung the site labourer to load the tiles out in every room and get rid of my waste!.

Thats so funny. ' areas clear and being well prepared, ie new walls, flat floors' best joke Ive heard all year pmsl.

 

[John Benton]

Site work is generally a lot easier due to having areas clear and being well prepared, i.e new walls, flat floors and more overall meterage, this is why it's normally reflective in the rates. Plus I normally bung the site labourer to load the tiles out in every room and get rid of my waste!.

I just went past a site local to me last Monday and saw my plasterer there. He doesn't work on new build but subbys for a company who snags on new build. He was doing a ceiling for me on Wednesday and I asked him what he was doing there, bearing in mind nobody has even moved into these houses yet. He said some of the plastering is so bad he's already having to go round sanding walls and ceilings and this is in £300-400k houses. I know these are being painted and not tiled but I wouldn't want to be spending that much on a house. These are things you can see, imagine the stuff you can't see!!!!

 

[Mr Tiler]

I just went past a site local to me last Monday and saw my plasterer there. He doesn't work on new build but subbys for a company who snags on new build. He was doing a ceiling for me on Wednesday and I asked him what he was doing there, bearing in mind nobody has even moved into these houses yet. He said some of the plastering is so bad he's already having to go round sanding walls and ceilings and this is in £300-400k houses. I know these are being painted and not tiled but I wouldn't want to be spending that much on a house. These are things you can see, imagine the stuff you can't see!!!!

that is the same situation on the sites i have worked on

 

[gamma38]

New builds are a joke. The overall standard is shocking. I have redone quite a few new builds after only a couple of years use. Water ingress, shoddy workmanship etc. Price work on sites leads to one thing only, standards dropping as people just do things too quick. I'm not knocking people who can tile quick as these are few and far between. But generally speaking not all quick tilers can tile either. It's a numbers game that's no good for anyone.