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

[LM]

The problem in northern Ireland though is men from the west north west are still willing to work for £80 a day and some of them are very good

I know the type of guys you’re talking about.
For a start they aren’t filling their own vans with fuel and driving to where this type of work is and as you well know they’ve at least another source of income which also cancels out a few of the expenses that the rest of us have to pay. It would cost them at least £40-50 a day in fuel.
I’ve seen quite a bit of the type of work they leave and for the most part it’s average, it’d be ok for someone who doesn’t know any better. It’s lashed in and often with bad prep and disregard to expansion etc. The standard is par for the course for commercial subbies who don’t have to think about the job and just do as they’re told and clock up meterage.
I personally am not interested in competing with those types of guys and the above mentioned job is a very different ball game to what the £80 a day men are familiar with.
We’re comparing prices for a legit tiler with all his own gear and transport arriving to do a job that will be prepped and tiled to last a lifetime.
Those type of guys you mention do have a place in our industry but that type of work and scenario is like comparing apples and oranges , they’re both fruit.

 

[Balloo]

I know the type of guys you’re talking about.
For a start they aren’t filling their own vans with fuel and driving to where this type of work is and as you well know they’ve at least another source of income which also cancels out a few of the expenses that the rest of us have to pay. It would cost them at least £40-50 a day in fuel.
I’ve seen quite a bit of the type of work they leave and for the most part it’s average, it’d be ok for someone who doesn’t know any better. It’s lashed in and often with bad prep and disregard to expansion etc. The standard is par for the course for commercial subbies who don’t have to think about the job and just do as they’re told and clock up meterage.
I personally am not interested in competing with those types of guys and the above mentioned job is a very different ball game to what the £80 a day men are familiar with.
We’re comparing prices for a legit tiler with all his own gear and transport arriving to do a job that will be prepped and tiled to last a lifetime.
Those type of guys you mention do have a place in our industry but that type of work and scenario is like comparing apples and oranges , they’re both fruit.

Have you worked with any? ,
I do understand what is your point but I've seen guys that do very high quality work and will never leave there boss because they fear they may never get any work outside their circle

 

[LM]

Have you worked with any? ,
I do understand what is your point but I've seen guys that do very high quality work and will never leave there boss because they fear they may never get any work outside their circle

Not directly with them but in the same buildings at the same time, new shopping centres etc. They just have to get in the van in the morning, they’re lifted and laid for the large part. As I said it’s courses for horses but the job and scenario in question is very different than from the £80 a day work you refer to imo.

 

[Flintstone]

I'd be more than you guys for that job.its Not simple work that.

 

[Andy Rhodes]

Have you worked with any? ,
I do understand what is your point but I've seen guys that do very high quality work and will never leave there boss because they fear they may never get any work outside their circle

I don't think they fear they may never got work outside their circle ,they may believe that I'm on regular weekly money & I've cut my cloth to suit,I'm not faffing around once a year with is my tax correct & finally I get paid holidays to some people call it convenient or being comfortable each to their own

 

[Tiler Durden]

Price work is calculated at £250 per day for tiling. Same as the other trades I do. I supply materials on every job though so if you take into account the money made on the materials, the average day rate is between £300 to £350. Tiling takes up about half of my time on any job.

 

[aytiling]

It’s definitely a two man job with tiles that thickness and depending on layout I wouldn’t be too far from where your at also, £2-2.5k labour only.

And that's where I was. £30 a metre, and if I recall rightly you then said you wouldn't have done it for that price. Or was I misunderstanding.
Anyway he never got back to me so he must have got someone at £20.

 

[LM]

And that's where I was. £30 a metre, and if I recall rightly you then said you wouldn't have done it for that price. Or was I misunderstanding.
Anyway he never got back to me so he must have got someone at £20.

You have misunderstood. I was making the point that even over here I wouldn’t work for the £20mtr on that job yhat your customer was expecting

 

[PC Tile]

Hi,,,anyone got rough price for diamond mosaics on sheet,,,5 back walls in showers,each 3m.sq.cuts top bottom and sides,,Cambridge area,,,cheers

 

[Chane Morris]

Id like to know current rates for herringbone floor tiling labour only will do been tiling a long time but most big floors are via other companies paying day rates and now im out on me own . I have a good idea but would like to know what others are charging

 

[Chelly]

Prices from wickes (minimum 5m2)
Removal of tiles £18 per m2
Install ceramic wall tiles £40 per m2
Install ceramic floor tiles £45 per m2 (prices include adhesive, grout and plastic trim)
Supply and Install plywood for floor £31 per m2
Additional tanking for wetrooms wall/floor £21m2

 

[Dan]

Hi,,,anyone got rough price for diamond mosaics on sheet,,,5 back walls in showers,each 3m.sq.cuts top bottom and sides,,Cambridge area,,,cheers

Hi, please post your job in the find a tiler forum. Near the bottom of the homepage.

Id like to know current rates for herringbone floor tiling labour only will do been tiling a long time but most big floors are via other companies paying day rates and now im out on me own . I have a good idea but would like to know what others are charging

You would perhaps need to go on a day rate. If the tiles aren't huge planks it's not that more difficult on a floor. Maybe 1.5x your normal floor rates.

 

[Flintstone]

All depends on how complicated the area is with herringbone really .

 

[Dumbo]

Id like to know current rates for herringbone floor tiling labour only will do been tiling a long time but most big floors are via other companies paying day rates and now im out on me own . I have a good idea but would like to know what others are charging

Last herring bone floor I did with 1200 x 250 tiles or something like that definite 1200 .
£40 psm , 80 Sqm floor.

 

[Spare Tool]

I was under the impression this thread was a dayrate/m rate averages not for pricing individual jobs?