Tiling Rates Per Square Meter - How much does tiling cost?

[Daniel Beard]

Jobs with natural stone products simply require more time to lay and finish, all the cuts have to be done on wet cutter , they also need cleaning and sealing . In general thicker material involves more fitting time due to slower cutting process.

Thanks for the reply Andreas. And do per m2 prices include adhesive and grout etc or is that on top? One other thing, prep work, removing old tiles,laying self levelling compound etc if on a floor, I notice people tend to charge day rate for this. Let's just say its one day in prep work for example, am I right in thinking it would be charge at let's just say 150 for that day, then charge the rest of the job at the m2 rate as normal? For instance, 150 prep, 10m2 at 30 per m2, 300 + 150 so 450 all in?

 

[Paul Giovanni Raimondi]

I’m in Italy. My builder, who only does a good, not great job charges €22/m(2) for porc on new well finished floor. 60x60. You can find cheaper, ad low as €17/ m. Plus VAT in theory but not much tax paid out here.

 

[mike t]

in our area it's £30 -£45 depending on the tiles and complexity of thejob. then upwards from there on more specialist stuff

 

[Tile Marble Granite]

This is a £36 per SM

 

[Bond]

Day work base rate £25 per hour, run of the mill wall tiling, base rate of £35 sq m. Floors , £40 -50 sq m. Additional prep work and extras whilst on price work, charged at £30 p.h.

 

[Pauly tiler]

Look at that prep

 

[Spare Tool]

Thanks for the reply Andreas. And do per m2 prices include adhesive and grout etc or is that on top? One other thing, prep work, removing old tiles,laying self levelling compound etc if on a floor, I notice people tend to charge day rate for this. Let's just say its one day in prep work for example, am I right in thinking it would be charge at let's just say 150 for that day, then charge the rest of the job at the m2 rate as normal? For instance, 150 prep, 10m2 at 30 per m2, 300 + 150 so 450 all in?

...and then you open a can of worms you never saw coming...expect the unexpected, any prep has to be on dayrate, tbh as tilings my hobby I like my dayrate most of the time but damm if you prep properly the moneys there to be earned on M rates....

 

[Leader]

Ok well for me this has been my first year in tiling self employed , so their has been many times where i have shot myself in the foot and not charged enough (my fault still learning the pro and cons) But as a rule now its around £30/40 a square meter if its natural stone then its £50 a square meter and day rate which is rare for me i charge around the £160. But to be honest a lot of jobs i tend to price up now i give them a overal figure as their can be many other mitigating circumstances to completing a job and actually making some money out of it. .......Which im still trying to do

 

[Daniel Beard]

...and then you open a can of worms you never saw coming...expect the unexpected, any prep has to be on dayrate, tbh as tilings my hobby I like my dayrate most of the time but damm if you prep properly the moneys there to be earned on M rates....

Cheers Andy. Seeing all the different views on it makes it sound slightly complicated to me. Although I'm sure once you know what your doing it really isn't. This is all new to me. Coming from a mechanics background so totally different to what I'm used to.

 

[Spare Tool]

These day rate figures are in no way relation to the metre rates getting batted about..