what would you charge?

[geordie2013]

Doing first kitchen splash back tomorrow. 4 square meters think iv under charged at £100. What would anyone else be charging. Also where would i be using Silicon. Thanx

 

[scrubmuncher]

Your first job, sounds fine. You will feel confident at that! Once got a few under your belt, if your gunna be on longer than 5or so hours dont charge less than a daily rate, you can set that what you want. You may be a bit faffy and maybe try too hard on the first few and that may slow you down a bit, so dont go off your speed for a while yet, you can be knocking them out alot quicker in time/confidence when not as much is buzzing around your head.
Pricing is basically your meterage or your time. I you have time to get to another job that day, no need to charge as much, probably more likely to get the job. 25p/m sounds about right really, at the mo anyway although you prob wont get finished in the morning so maybe you could have upped it a bit.
Just look at what it entails, if your gunna be making enough money in that day, be happy, if not, look at where your a bit slower, and work with it in your next job. If the job is straight forward, fine go at 25 p/m if not, take that into account for future reference and decide where you want to add on.

Good luck mate!

 

[grumpygrouter]

Bit vague on your job description there Geordie! How many sockets to cut around, what size/type of tile, and what is the substrate like.

Only reason I asked was because my first paying job was a kitchen splashback of around 6m2 split into two separate areas. Didn't take into account that the tiles were basically a 100mm square floor mosaic, 15 or so sockets/switches cabinet mouldings to cut around. Because they were mosaic-ish the was a lot more grouting to do etc etc. so effectively under priced the job a bit!

If it is a straight 4m2 with bog standard 200mm ceramics and not too many cuts (any windows?) for your first job, £100 may be OK but don't expect to finish it on the first day!! maybe better at looking at your day rate as opposed to and hourly rate. Being your first job, better to under price and do a good job no matter how long it takes than to expect to do it in a day and blow it big style because you have rushed it. Bad reutations spread a LOT faster than good ones.

Best of luck, hope it goes well for you.

Grumpy

 

[GatesheadCol]

My first job was similar Geordie and I qoted £120. Just remember that you will be going back a day or 2 later to do the grouting.

Done a 2nd job of similar size for £150. Done the tiling in 5 hours, and went back 2 days later to grout. All in all about 8 hours work. Fair enough for me. Only you know if you are earning enough mate

 

[GazTech]

Geordie,I reckon you will be fine at £100....start off small and build yourself up...the customer will be happy and so should you...Gaz

 

[DHTiling]

have to agree the the topps guy on this one..........dave..

 

[penno]

If you think you have undercharged it has happened and now there is nothing that can be done about it, don't dwell on it mate. First job i did a few months ago i well under charged. large en suite bathroom. Large tiles on the walls, floor to ceiling, everyone needed back buttering, un polished travetine mosaic border running through the middle and to top it all off did the floor aswell. Charged £280 inc materials. Took me 5 days to finish it, think i under charged by about £600. Kept playing on my mind and drove me crazy, wife just told me to forget it, i got the experience of working in a punters house and i have learnt a lesson on my first job. She was right of course
Bonus is though i got a call off that customer yesterday to do another job for him, told him i had well underpriced last time so obviously he may well be paying more for whatever work is needed this time, he was more than happy with that and also gave me his fathers address as he wants a large kitchen floor pricing up

 

[cct]

I,m busy doing a kitchen floor at the min ,Ive had to screed the floor with slc but obviouslyI haven't done it correctly as I'm having a nightmare gettin the tile level.Any tips please?

 

[scrubmuncher]

Penno is right, we all underprice but we also get the lucky breaks when things just fall into place and you've done 2 days work in a day. All you can do is get on with it, try to think of the annual income and not the weekly. You'll make it up, then lose it again, then make it up and so on. Main point now is to not get greedy and try and make it up on the next job, chances you'll outprice it and get nothing.
Hope all goes well

 

[Fekin]

Im starting a kitchen splashback and chimney insert tomorrow, around 3 sqm and I charging £227 inc mats, 10x10 tiles.

 

[tilinga2z]

Thats what I like to see a bold tiler it is about time that people realised what we do. Good price I hope you get it...guys the more we stick together the more we make.... we are skilled and need paying just like anybody else. Square meterage is not the way to go I could do 4 m2 of terrible format with a couple of windows with trim and you expect me to do going rate 20-30 quid per m2 excuse my french but ******** we need to stick together some jobs are much harder. Sorry just pisses me off sometimes ,lol ok I will get off my soap box now...