wastage allowance confusion.............

[tilermandan]

Heres hoping you guys can help me with a small querie. For ages now I have been pricing large areas of wall tiles on a rate but am unsure as to when I supply and fix the tiles do I need to allow or try to work in the wastage allowance so that I am not paying for the wastage allowance I throw in the skip. When I measure on completion do I add it then? Sorry if this is not very well explained but am a little confused. What does everyone else do in these situations? Thanks in advance.

 

[DHTiling]

+10% to measure...

 

[tilermandan]

thanks Dave so its not worth trying to work it in then or am I complicating things for myself? If I try andadd it on and as per usual my measurements get checked by qs and he spots it whats the best way to handle it? sos for all the questions.:mad2:

 

[DHTiling]

Is this site work..?

 

[united]

I allow 10% for a straight set job and 20% for diamond.

If I measure up I add the wastage amount and tell the customer the amount of tiles needed so they know how many to get or how many I'm getting... Does that make sense?

 

[shogun rua]

thanks Dave so its not worth trying to work it in then or am I complicating things for myself? If I try andadd it on and as per usual my measurements get checked by qs and he spots it whats the best way to handle it? sos for all the questions.:mad2:

Just say you might have a bit of the tile you cant use after you cut hence the 10% waste:smilewinkgrin:

Remember you dont add the 10% in your quote

as long as you make sure you have 10% more tiles than your measured :hurray:

 

[tilermandan]

Yea Dave its site work mate.

 

[The D]

on site you only book the tiles on the wall not the wastage

 

[tilermandan]

thanks deanotile so in effect we pay for the 10% wastage then? do you try and gain it back some how?

 

[diamondtiling]

thanks deanotile so in effect we pay for the 10% wastage then? do you try and gain it back some how?

Are you supplying the tiles?