porcelain floor how much

[DS Tiling]

How much LABOUR ONLY to lay 60m requiring 70m purchased of Porcelain 600 x 300 brickbond in a Kitchen, sunroom, utility room, hall and shower room all joined and running off an open plan hallway/kitchen. Tiling is speced to go over UTH matting using a PTB with large format type trowel. Substrate has been strengthened and matting will be laid, resistance checks required throughout install but no other involvement with UTH. Grout has to be 2 part and silicon joints inserted in door thresholds etc. No preformed expansion joints required. No sealing required. Tiles to be laid into recesses for washing machine, fridge, range oven and tumble drier as well as all the usual cuts round end panels etc. Radiators valves are removed and each pipe tile has to be cored out rather than slotted about 10 holes in all. I have already priced it but interested how others would have quoted. Looking for ballpark as it is hard to give a price without seeing job.

Thanks

 

[wetdec]

800 is too short an answer so say 900

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[Holohana]

£25 pm2?

Id be happy walking away with that anyway given no material outlay needed.

 

[wetdec]

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Dave thats sly u pulled your post cos you had a thick moment !!!

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[Holohana]

800 is too short an answer so say 900

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Really, only £15pm2?

On reflection my £25 may be a bit to steep but £15, no way. £20pm2 min!

 

[grumpygrouter]

800 is too short an answer so say 900

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I would be looking for nearly double that!

Grumpy

 

[DS Tiling]

The UTH will prolong the job in my experience by a fair bit as it slows troweling down, can throw the levels up and down as it will not completely cover the floor area and will require a skimming over to fill the grids. Thanks for the replies so far.

 

[Burnsy]

Probably would try and get 10m done per day - nice and steady pace - 6 days laying, 1 day grouting / finishing touches, £150 a day - 7 days £1050 ish give or take £50.

what you priced it at?

 

[DS Tiling]

I doubt I would get that down in a day as the UTH is not running over the whole area and the levels aren't great in some places so it will be slower than over a level scread by quite a bit for me at least. Quite a bit of cutting required in some places especially in long Kitchen leading through doorway into utility and also going down seperate corridor into shower room. I reckon more like 7 metres a day on average maybe 10 on the good runs and less around the kitchen. A bit akward as I had already done 3 bathrooms/shower rooms for him at a decent price so I priced floor at £1300. I thought that was very cheap and would normally have went for around £1800.

 

[Grace'sDad]

I got caught out with a range cooker. We have one at home but it has a roller at the back and is easy to move even though it weighs a ton.

I offered to tile under one and couldn't move it! - No roller. It cost me £20 to get a "mate" to help shift it.

(Don't make the same mistake)

 

[floydyboy]

i would have gone in at about 1400 to 1600 0n that area mate so u r about right

 

[DS Tiling]

OK thanks to all who replied much appreciated

 

[DHTiling]

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Dave thats sly u pulled your post cos you had a thick moment !!!

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SSSHHHHHH...posted it then realised straight away.......:lol:

 

[strongboes]

Hi

I would go in at around £1350 personally but I would seriously advise you to level floor first, even more so with the brickbond. Not seeing it obvs but it could take you twice aslong as you expect if the levels cause you problems.

 

[Fekin]

Sounds like loads of doors to cut around so I'd probably either say I was too busy or throw £1800 at them, and if they took it then fine.

 

[penno]

I doubt I would get that down in a day as the UTH is not running over the whole area and the levels aren't great in some places so it will be slower than over a level scread by quite a bit for me at least. Quite a bit of cutting required in some places especially in long Kitchen leading through doorway into utility and also going down seperate corridor into shower room. I reckon more like 7 metres a day on average maybe 10 on the good runs and less around the kitchen. A bit akward as I had already done 3 bathrooms/shower rooms for him at a decent price so I priced floor at £1300. I thought that was very cheap and would normally have went for around £1800.

To knock £550 off your price because you have done work for him before is way too much.
That is almost a third of a discount, far too cheap.

 

[Fekin]

That is a lot off, I'd be giving them a bag of addy free :lol:

 

[TilingLogistics]

I must be missing something here because I would not have tiled that floor for under £2500 when I was fixing. 60-70M2 of 600 x 300 Porcelain laid brick bond multi room layout???


Kev

 

[wayne]

i think £40 sqm is a bit steep considering there is no mats to supply. i would have charged £25-£28 sqm

 

[grumpygrouter]

i think £40 sqm is a bit steep considering there is no mats to supply. i would have charged £25-£28 sqm

It is all to do with supply and demand really. If the man's rep was good enough that he had work booked solid all the time because he was vary good, he could charge that amount of money as he has willng buyers waiting.

If on the other hand he was chasing work by quoting those prices then he would have been too expensive.

Out of interest, my own sqm rate excludes materials.

Grumpy

 

[Tilestiles]

Would have been around £1500 for me excluding mats. Would want minimum £25 per m2 for fixing porcelain

 

[Branty]

About £1800 plus mats.

 

[DS Tiling]

Thanks all. The job was priced at £1300 as it was repeat work and I know the person and was trying to do it on the cheap for them. Normally I would have priced it £1800+. Just wanted to confirm that I had in fact saved them some money.

 

[IvegotsTILE]

£1800 plus mats.