How much do tilers charge? What's the price per Square Meter?

[Dan]

Okay so I'm going to start the ball rolling. I'd like the forum to be handy for all, including those looking for tilers, or even DIY, to see what they're up against compared to a professionally carried-out job.

So let's get this ball rolling.

Let's try and come up with a base rate for tiling work done, in every area in the country. We can generalise a bit while we start off, but perhaps we can edit and re-edit the prices per area, and add more areas that have unique pricing for whatever reason, over time. And publish this publicly when we're happy with it. So traders can see when they're undercutting, and customers hopefully see when they're under paying.

So I'll start this off really generally with a England price, Scotland, Wales, N.Ireland (Ireland too separate in Euros perhaps? as we do have Irish on here), then of course London (central then outskirts maybe?).

I'll also need a bit of a list of what might be priced differently compared to other tiles or whatever.

ALL PRICES PER SQUARE METER - OR LINEAR METER

England
Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

Scotland​

Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

Wales​

Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

Northern Ireland​

Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

Republic of Ireland​

Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

Central London​

Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

London Outskirts​

Ceramic Floors:
Ceramic Walls:
Porcelain up to X size (help me with the size):
Porcelain above X size:
Stone or Slate etc:
Border tiles (not embossed) per L/M:
Border tiles (embossed) per L/M:
Uncoupling or anti-crack matting per L/M:
Price per plug socket (do we need to go that in depth from the start?):
Price per window or door (can we generalise this to opening and get the same point across? / do we need this?):

(Please add other areas to this list if you're from there and it's way off the average)

Can people please copy and paste their own area in this, and give a bit of a guide. We can get an average then, and edit the bits to make it actually useful.

Then we can frown upon those who go below it and praise those who go above it (no frowning or praising allowed).​

 

[LM]

He's tiling onto properly prepared walls, so no farting about, what's the problem with doing 15-18 mts a day on walls like that. Gift in my book!

 

[LM]

Nice job Ray!

 

[Just Rizzle]

Looks more like 20m to me !

22mtrs done last November villeroy and bosh blue fading through to white. Bath is a bette custom made 1609x795 retail cost £2200

 

[LM]

Just a question! When you talk about a days work are we saying a days proper graft no arsing about, tea breaks allowed but short and proper? Or are we talking a rather sort of lathargic stroll around the job with all the time in the world for a chat an all the brews you can get? Efficiency is what I'm getting at here!

 

[Just Rizzle]

He's tiling onto properly prepared walls, so no farting about, what's the problem with doing 15-18 mts a day on walls like that. Gift in my book!

Thanks if you prep the job right the tiling is the easy bit.
The walls were ripped back to brick then plumbed using wedi boards 1200x2400 and again fixed using 8mm 500mm double handed trowel addy used tile master ultimate

 

[Just Rizzle]

Just a question! When you talk about a days work are we saying a days proper graft no arsing about, tea breaks allowed but short and proper? Or are we talking a rather sort of lathargic stroll around the job with all the time in the world for a chat an all the brews you can get? Efficiency is what I'm getting at here!

I start at 8 get all tools ready for the day spend a time battening all round and marking my datum lines for my joints etc then I cut my tiles for the internal cuts thenmake my first Mix usually a full bag of rapid spread the whole wall and go for it back buttering as I go. At a bout 12 take a full hour and even have a kip then back on it till 4or5 then home for tea🙂

 

[Just Rizzle]

If you don't believe me then why have I just give Hmrc on Tuesday nearly 11 k in tax🙁

 

[Just Rizzle]

Did this job in 5days a few years ago 2 days prep ditra matting and leveller 3days to tile and grout not a straight tile and every tile could only fit in one place it was basically a 7mt x5mtr olyps jigsaw

 

[Dumbo]

Try the maths

As I said call me stupid or are you being evasive

 

[mma]

Some Tilers my way doing a bathroom in a day, x2 Tilers x1 labourer. Haven't seen their work but I know they are busy.

 

[One Day]

Thanks if you prep the job right the tiling is the easy bit.

And that, gentlemen is the key! Proper prep. Customers sometimes get stressed with the amount of prep i do on a job. But as I've always said; a good tilers job is 70% prep.

 

[Flintstone]

Some of us are tilers not bathroom fitters, I don't prep any walls.

 

[hmtiling]

I push to prep all mine. As above it makes tiling a dream when done yourself. Don't know how dry liners struggle with getting a wall flat and plumb round a window

 

[Dumbo]

I push to prep all mine. As above it makes tiling a dream when done yourself. Don't know how dry liners struggle with getting a wall flat and plumb round a window

I like the acquired skill of plasterers where they get a flat surface and make it uneven and especially a bell flange at the bottom of the wall

 

[One Day]

Some of us are tilers not bathroom fitters, I don't prep any walls.

Tilers should be able to prep ALL substrates in my opinion.
Tilers who can't (not won't - I mean can't) are less able.

A hotel I am working at has a tiler in who turns out a reasonable, not great job.
He got caught spot-fixing floor tiles onto ufh cables. Asked why, he said he knows it needs leveling but I don't do leveling. 😵😵😵

 

[Ttt1601]

I'm currently changing my business up, to be aiming at bathroom fitting, with a plumber in the pocket for that side of things, have truely had enough of coming into appalling prep work, all site work is being phased out, I'll be pushing for high class domestic bathrooms, and try to drag my home town forth from the dark ages of 250 x 500 being "big" tiles 😡. Its going to be hard work getting the first few caught on round here but no one Lee is doing it so I figure its worth a go. But even if the large formats don't take off, I want all my jobs start to finish now, me running it and never having to hear "the tiler will get over it" 😡😡 so fingers crossed on a year I maybe be back to enjoying work again

 

[Flintstone]

Impish, that's all well and good and I understand where your coming from but it depends on what jobs you are doing, I'm sure a lot of tilers, myself included do jobs for all manner of contacts as well as my own jobs and normally you walk into a room that has been prepared by the fitter, or skimmed by the plasterer or whatever. Ripping bathrooms out is something I seriously dislike

 

[Dumbo]

I'm currently changing my business up, to be aiming at bathroom fitting, with a plumber in the pocket for that side of things, have truely had enough of coming into appalling prep work, all site work is being phased out, I'll be pushing for high class domestic bathrooms, and try to drag my home town forth from the dark ages of 250 x 500 being "big" tiles 😡. Its going to be hard work getting the first few caught on round here but no one Lee is doing it so I figure its worth a go. But even if the large formats don't take off, I want all my jobs start to finish now, me running it and never having to hear "the tiler will get over it" 😡😡 so fingers crossed on a year I maybe be back to enjoying work again

Jim Clarke is doing complete bathroom installations

 

[Dumbo]

I have said in the past I would love to carry less tools on my van and the only tools to carry are tiling tools but sadly it ain't so

 

[Ttt1601]

Jcrtiling your just up the road from me you get much large format work up there? I do a bit in Salisbury not a huge amount but always seems to be decent quialty when I do

 

[Dumbo]

Do mostly 600x300 and 600x600 few floor boards 1200 long . And did some 800 x 500 and 1 msq before crimbo looked at some 900 x300 last nite . Mostly do high end bathroom work duravit ,hans Grohe etc but some of them still cry about the price

 

[Tile Shop]

Jim Clarke? Thought he died at Hockenheim in '68???

 

[Ttt1601]

They always cry about the price lol, but the fact your getting some big stuff in gives me hope I can push some here, Andover is always a bit behind so hopefully can get it going a bit here soon

 

[Dumbo]

Jim Clarke? Thought he died at Hockenheim in '68???

Thats a conspiracy he needed to get out of his contract with Graham Chapman because he wanted to go tiling in andover

 

[Dumbo]

They always cry about the price lol, but the fact your getting some big stuff in gives me hope I can push some here, Andover is always a bit behind so hopefully can get it going a bit here soon

People go into Tile shops and get sold what they get sold if they go in a shop that pushes a lot of large format that's what they will probably buy .

 

[Dumbo]

Jim Clarke is now living the dream

 

[One Day]

Impish, that's all well and good and I understand where your coming from but it depends on what jobs you are doing, I'm sure a lot of tilers, myself included do jobs for all manner of contacts as well as my own jobs and normally you walk into a room that has been prepared by the fitter, or skimmed by the plasterer or whatever. Ripping bathrooms out is something I seriously dislike

I hate ripping out too! But I equally hate having to tile onto other trade's prep.
That's why I'm so "stuck-up" about what I'll tile onto. I suppose I'm fortunate really that I can dictate to a large degree how I want things done - my way.

 

[Flintstone]

If the jobs allow that level of prep that's great but a lot of the time, the budget doesn't stretch to all new walls

 

[One Day]

It does if they want a perfect job! 😉

(I'm just teasing - i'll stop now!) 😛

 

[Blunt Tool]

Little story first, A big ships engine costing millions breaks down and won't start again, they try everything then call out an engineer with 40 years experience. After inspecting engine for 5 minutes, he takes out a small hammer and taps it once and the engine springs back into life! A few weeks later the owners get a bill from the engineer for ten thousand pounds! The owners phone him and tell him to send in an itemised bill as they can't figure out why it cost so much? The itemised bill turns up a few days later....
Hammer £10.00
Knowing where to tap £9990.00
Know your worth and never sell yourself cheap!

If a customer spends hundreds or nowadays usually thousands on tiles and they still want to haggle with you over pounds and pence walk away!

 

[Just Rizzle]

Jim Clarke? Thought he died at Hockenheim in '68???

runs a garage in leeming bar n yorks