53m floor

[Spare Tool]

So by that rationale, a tyre shop who needs 10 tyres fitted a day @£7.50
To make his overheads who in fact is actually doing 20 and makes twice his money @£150.
Does he then cut his price by 50% cos he only needs £75 a day?
And then works twice as hard for the same money!
Doubt it, do you? Haha

No he just packs up and goes fishing at lunchtime 🙂
Unfair analogy really, what's a tire bay or any other retail outlet got to do with domestic tiling. I often tell my customers when they wince when I say ill do it on dayrate instead of a price that it will nearly always work out better value for them in the end. I get quite a lot of floors, but also quite a lot of splashbacks, I'm happy earning my dayrate for everything...oh and probably earn another £40 a day in materials on a decent floor 😉

 

[J Sid]

So does going in at £140 a day makes me less of a professional then? If anything that means ill take my time and get it spot on instead of thinking..sh#t its Monday lunchtime already and all ive done is prime the floor and ain't earnt a penny yet.

far to cheap Andy, and us so call professionals don't think like that 😉 I'm doing 200 Mt at the moment, day to clean, prime and set out and another day loading out 7 pallets of stone before I start earning🙁 all aloud for in my meter price

 

[Italy]

So does going in at £140 a day makes me less of a professional then? If anything that means ill take my time and get it spot on instead of thinking..sh#t its Monday lunchtime already and all ive done is prime the floor and ain't earnt a penny yet.

So does going in at £140 a day makes me less of a professional then?

I think yes. I agree with marc, small jobs, not constant, imply much waste of time.
but I do not know, in the uk, the geographical areas prices. I could be wrong. 😉

 

[Old Mod]

I think yes. I agree with marc, small jobs, not constant, imply much waste of time.
but I do not know, in the uk, the geographical areas prices. I could be wrong. 😉

Yes prices vary around uk Antonio, but principles remain the same.
Do you not think that is true?

 

[Italy]

Yes prices vary around uk Antonio, but principles remain the same.
Do you not think that is true?

sure, here south Italy €, center Italy €€, northern Italy €€€.
but if andy okay, pleased him, everyone happy.

 

[Spare Tool]

far to cheap Andy, and us so call professionals don't think like that 😉 I'm doing 200 Mt at the moment, day to clean, prime and set out and another day loading out 7 pallets of stone before I start earning🙁 all aloud for in my meter price

"I'm too cheap" ...bit much coming from someone that works seven days a week 😉

 

[Spare Tool]

This is all about personal circumstances, I am happy earning my day rate every day, it's all I need to earn in a week so will continue to do it 🙂

 

[Flintstone]

I'm the same Andy I don't need to earn piles of money, but there's principles and no point been a busy fool some times!

 

[J Sid]

"I'm too cheap" ...bit much coming from someone that works seven days a week 😉

many, many pound notes need to pay for expensive wife, house and garden project. 🙁
but your right, with be upping my prices soon 😉

 

[Time's Ran Out]

That's not really the point tho Andy personally speaking. Doing that job for £700 he could get all day long from a cowboy/chancer or however you want to put it. The point is you're a professional and for that there should be a minimum charge, for a minimum standard of finish.
Just my opinion tho.

That's a bit insulting to many professional tilers out there who are not fortunate to be working in areas of no skilled tradesmen like the south! It's the typical north/south flat cap attitude that so many don't get, but in certain areas, like Newcastle, we have 15 major tile distributors/sheds in a 10 mile radius and a major tile training centre. So you would expect the competition for work is keen. It has NOTHING to do with a minimum standard of finish, it is just simply economics.
We did a Norman Tebbit a few years ago ( got on our bikes to find work) and now do a bit of work down there, so I'am aware of the regional variation in wages. But these threads that promote - how big is my wedge - is as bad as - how much is my house worth!
Earn a wage your happy with and stay ahead - be happy in what you do.