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

[Dan]

Tiling Rates Per Square Meter / Per Day – How much do tilers charge?

I know this is a hard one to answer. But just as an approximate guide for those searching for how much a tiler costs, and landing on websites such as my builder who seem to be selling tilers for pennies, how much you been charging either day rate or per meter generally?
Perhaps if you could split your work between your fancy stuff, and your bread-winning stuff over the past year or so, then do that so we can see the difference.

And then perhaps price per floors and per walls? If different at all.
Just wanted to get the facts straight for those searching, as £150 per day or £20 per meter isn’t what I’d expect to pay anymore. It’s not the 90’s lol

Tilers replied to our thread here.
How Much Do Tilers Charge?
Is it per square meter or per job or per day rate?

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

It appears to be a bit of a post code lottery perhaps. So we thought we'd get a bit of a thread going to see what others charge and why.


How much do Tilers Charge?

 

[Griffaz]

Hello, anyone in here doing work on McDonalds refurbs/new build? What are the going prices ?

 

[Dan]

Hello, anyone in here doing work on McDonalds refurbs/new build? What are the going prices ?

We can't really discuss pricing for individual jobs like that there are often too many variables.

Also, we wouldn't want customers assuming that's the going rate. McDs are going to pay about the least I'd have thought.

 

[finlay]

Probably Big Mac fries and a milkshake a sq metre

 

[Dumbo]

I really don't get this .do we discuss prices or don't we .

 

[J Sid]

In general terms, yes I think
One of jobs, I think not

That's my take on it

 

[Boggs]

I’d definitely do it for a Big Tasty.

With bacon...

 

[Unused Account 1]

Ironically I've had a couple of issues today. I've had steady work from a company in York for the last 6 years. Solid, decent work. I charged them £30/m and £150/day for prep work etc. They also provide materials. On the cheaper side for York but it was steady work and paid every Monday. Had a fall out couple of weeks back so I'm back pricing jobs. I lost 3 bathrooms this morning due to somebody being cheaper. And the job I've been doing the last couple of weeks (for a plumber/friend I know) he thought I was expensive. I charged him £25/m and £125/day. It was an 80m floor (1200 x 600) plus a couple of days prep. Hand sanded the floor, 2 coats of Primer, layed durabase. He expected £25/m for everything!!
He'll be getting to see this thread tomorrow

They all try it on mate

 

[Joy2019]

Hope it's alright to ask this. I'm not actually a tiler yet but hoping to get into the trade soon. Can someone explain to me why the differences in prices, I.e 30 per m2 for ceramic but 40 per m2 for natural stone or marble etc? And say 30 m2 for 10mm thick (example thickness) but 35 m2 over 10mm thick? Do these m2 prices include adhesive and grout etc?

I assume you didn't do an apprenticeship or worked your way up learning the trade?
Personally I worked around 3 year's being a do this do that for a old school proper tiler learning the trade then done my 3 year appreciatship then another few years at not full rate, then had enough experience to know how what and why and don't now neex to ask, but that was before 2 week qualifications come out and you tube tilers.

 

[High Peak Tiling]

I have never priced per m2. Never even considered it.
Each customer gets a quote which separates Materials from Labour. Labour generally works out at:
Prep work - £130 a day
Tiling work - £140/150 a day
Grouting work - £130/140 a day.

 

[Dumbo]

I have never priced per m2. Never even considered it.
Each customer gets a quote which separates Materials from Labour. Labour generally works out at:
Prep work - £130 a day
Tiling work - £140/150 a day
Grouting work - £130/140 a day.

Why do you price different things at different day rates . If I was a brain surgeon and someone wanted me to cut their lawn it would be a very expensive mowing session because that's my worth

 

[High Peak Tiling]

From reading this thread I don’t think I will be charging different prices anymore.
It is something I have always done, on a old post on here I was involved in a few people did the same.. inc a set price to lay UCM etc.

 

[widler]

Stone £110 per m2 installation, plus bullnose fabrication, plus materials
Ceramics £80 per m2, plus materials
Prep work, waterproofing, Dittra matting etc. extra charges
I would say, you gotta know the trade from head to toe to get these prices. Loads of tilers out there claim to be the best but cannot deliver a top notch job
I have been in business for about 22 years now, whenever the customer ask me why I charge so much as on MyBuilder website claims the average national price is £20 to£40 per m2, I tell them ******* to have them deliver my jobs, won't happen

Take a look at these pictures below, it took me two months to deliver this bathroom, all by myself. From taking the entire bathroom apart to joist, floor, walls , waterproofing, limestone installation and fabrication.




I hope this helps the forum
More pictures on my website

www.customtilemarblegranite.com

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You are either the slowest tiler on earth or you are earning a absulute fortune.
Ive no idea where you are, but you chargethem prices in lancashire, you will be sat at home playing doctors and nurses with your wife or husband

 

[Dan]

I really don't get this .do we discuss prices or don't we .

When I'm asking and we are collating info that we could perhaps do every few years and see trends change, sure.

When a customer is going to hold their local tiler to the cheapest quote they have had online or on social media or whatever, hell no.

There's a massive difference in the two types of price.

 

[Dumbo]

I still don't get this, please correct me if I'm wrong but this is in a public area . Then when someone says how much, they get told we don't discuss , which is exactly what were doing so shouldn't it be in the arms.
As I said correct me if I'm wrong .

 

[Italy]

I still don't get this, please correct me if I'm wrong but this is in a public area . Then when someone says how much, they get told we don't discuss , which is exactly what were doing so shouldn't it be in the arms.
As I said correct me if I'm wrong .

for me this thread must be in the arms

 

[Dan]

I still don't get this, please correct me if I'm wrong but this is in a public area . Then when someone says how much, they get told we don't discuss , which is exactly what were doing so shouldn't it be in the arms.
As I said correct me if I'm wrong .

I did it's above you.

We (I) will ask this every few years to see if we can find a trend and what that is.

I'll also be using it to show customers what their pricing is like (and to show them not to get a cheap tiler in).

It's a small part of a bigger bunch of things. And it needs to be public.

 

[Daniel Beard]

I assume you didn't do an apprenticeship or worked your way up learning the trade?
Personally I worked around 3 year's being a do this do that for a old school proper tiler learning the trade then done my 3 year appreciatship then another few years at not full rate, then had enough experience to know how what and why and don't now neex to ask, but that was before 2 week qualifications come out and you tube tilers.

As I said, I'm not a tiler at all, I'm a car mechanic by trade. But am looking to change careers and the idea of tiling really interests me. I was just trying to get a ruff idea of what potential earnings could be.

 

[Deleted member 53336]

As I said, I'm not a tiler at all, I'm a car mechanic by trade. But am looking to change careers and the idea of tiling really interests me. I was just trying to get a ruff idea of what potential earnings could be.

Average wage for tilers according to total jobs is around £32,00 per year. Another price online is; rates per square metre can vary between £20 and £40 per square metre. However, tilers can also charge by the day rate if they’ll be there for more than six hours or so, which can come to between £150 and £200 per day. so six hours a day, is now a days work haha. Greed, greed, greed. The times we live in hey.
I think as plasters nowadays and many other trades a fair days pay for a fair days wage is a no no. They will charge as much as they can no matter what and if the charge can be increased in any way at all, they will do it. Our society has become a dog eat dog society. On here, there seem to be some decent guys who are not willing to exploit people, they have integrity but most don't deserve the time of day, unless you charge of course for your time.
For these reasons above and shoddy work that has been done in the past by so called professionals, I no longer will have any tradesman doing work for me. I will do it myself and to a good standard but I admit is much slower.
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[Dumbo]

If I'm on a job for six hours what am I meant to do for the next two ,

 

[Boggs]

If I'm on a job for six hours what am I meant to do for the next two ,

May I suggest you spend it wisely, for instance, imparting your knowledge on those that need help with their projects because they are too tight to pay for it to be done by one of us rip of tradesmen.

Anyway I’m off for a swim in my pool, followed by a drive in the Lambo. 😂

 

[Dumbo]

May I suggest you spend it wisely, for instance, imparting your knowledge on those that need help with their projects because they are too tight to pay for it to be done by one of us rip of tradesmen.

Anyway I’m off for a swim in my pool, followed by a drive in the Lambo. 😂

I won't take mine out in this weather , I drive my other one at the weekends in the winter which I keep at my villa in Tuscany

 

[Boggs]

I won't take mine out in this weather , I drive my other one at the weekends in the winter which I keep at my villa in Tuscany

Tuscany?! you peasant... 😂

 

[Dumbo]

If I'm on a job for six hours what am I meant to do for the next two ,

Also I come out to take a look at the work= time , prepare a quote = time , go and pick up materials to do the work =time .
But hey ripped you of a days money for 6hrs
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Tuscany?! you peasant... 😂

It's all I could afford without selling my chalet in verbier .

 

[Boggs]

And normally at 7pm because your not back from work until then...

 

[Deleted member 53336]

May I suggest you spend it wisely, for instance, imparting your knowledge on those that need help with their projects because they are too tight to pay for it to be done by one of us rip of tradesmen.

Anyway I’m off for a swim in my pool, followed by a drive in the Lambo. 😂

Not too tight to pay, just not willing to pay over the odds for work that in some cases I can do better myself. Another thing, when I started out in engineering if we worked 4,6 or 8 hours that's what we charged the customer. In fact sometimes we would do a little more than we charged to help customers out. Information was always given freely to people we could help and sometimes, just to give a bit back for our good lifestyles, we would help others actually with work, if we had free time, no charge. People now are just too ungrateful full stop.
What made our country strong was helping others out if we could, not screwing them over, which is pretty much standard nowadays. I served my time training properly for years and having pride in my work and gratitude, not just to earn as much as I can by any means. It's because of this take, take as much as I can mentality of people today, why our society is falling apart. Should not of read about prices on here. Rant over.
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If I'm on a job for six hours what am I meant to do for the next two ,

Not charge the customer for it, that's for sure. It's called a little give and take. Not take, take. Just take some time and think about it, you are ripping the customer off, full stop.

 

[Dumbo]

Not too tight to pay, just not willing to pay over the odds for work that in some cases I can do better myself. Another thing, when I started out in engineering if we worked 4,6 or 8 hours that's what we charged the customer. In fact sometimes we would do a little more than we charged to help customers out. Information was always given freely to people we could help and sometimes, just to give a bit back for our good lifestyles, we would help others actually with work, if we had free time, no charge. People now are just too ungrateful full stop.
What made our country strong was helping others out if we could, not screwing them over, which is pretty much standard nowadays. I served my time training properly for years and having pride in my work and gratitude, not just to earn as much as I can by any means. It's because of this take, take as much as I can mentality of people today, why our society is falling apart. Should not of read about prices on here. Rant over.
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Not charge the customer for it, that's for sure. It's called a little give and take. Not take, take. Just take some time and think about it, you are ripping the customer off, full stop.

Understand this I send all my customers a written they know exactly what they are paying for and have the chance to say no , I do not stand over my customer and give them a price and ask with menace when they would like me to start the work, so how is that ripping anybody off .

 

[Tony_C]

@OnThe Up I'm curious to know if your free advice and helpful nature was happening after you had finished your days work and spent another couple hours having sat in traffic to do a quote that you provide for free with free advice, getting home at 8pm, using your own fuel, out on the road for which you also pay business insurance for, a higher rate of tax having the van, liability insurance and no paid holidays/sick days. Or was it done from the comfort of an office where you still got paid by the company you worked for regardless if the remaining hours were being billed directly to who the firm you were doing contract work for?

I'd also like to point out the person you said is ripping people off is the person that gave you his advice. For free.

 

[Tile Marble Granite]

You are either the slowest tiler on earth or you are earning a absulute fortune.
Ive no idea where you are, but you chargethem prices in lancashire, you will be sat at home playing doctors and nurses with your wife or husband

It's called custom work, see the last 5 pictures. Some of you might say you buy these products in store and just install them . Not quite accurate. I carefully design them, fabricate and install them myself. A lot of work. To deliver this kind of job takes time. Do not confuse a McDonalds job with custom work. See the first picture, I get hired to fix these kind of jobs and sure the hell I fix them. More pictures on my website.

 

[bsc ceramics]

most of the builders, plumbers etc don't even ask me for a price they just give me
the address and ask me to get on with it. suppose that could mean I'm to cheap? 🙄

 

[Dumbo]

Not too tight to pay, just not willing to pay over the odds for work that in some cases I can do better myself. Another thing, when I started out in engineering if we worked 4,6 or 8 hours that's what we charged the customer. In fact sometimes we would do a little more than we charged to help customers out. Information was always given freely to people we could help and sometimes, just to give a bit back for our good lifestyles, we would help others actually with work, if we had free time, no charge. People now are just too ungrateful full stop.
What made our country strong was helping others out if we could, not screwing them over, which is pretty much standard nowadays. I served my time training properly for years and having pride in my work and gratitude, not just to earn as much as I can by any means. It's because of this take, take as much as I can mentality of people today, why our society is falling apart. Should not of read about prices on here. Rant over.
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Not charge the customer for it, that's for sure. It's called a little give and take. Not take, take. Just take some time and think about it, you are ripping the customer off, full stop.

I had to wait for some levelling to dry today I suppose I needed to clock of for that as well

 

[bsc ceramics]

Its not how long your on a job its what you do when your there 😉