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Run a Tiling Business That Does Not Run YouFor tiling business owners in Australia and New Zealand who are tired of pricing by the metre and hoping.

This is the hub for tiling business owners in Australia and New Zealand. Not apprentices, not homeowners pricing a bathroom. You screed, you set out, you lay, you grout, and then you run the business at night. Everything here is about making that business pay.

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A painted scene of a tiler kneeling on a part tiled floor setting levelling clips into the joints, his toolbox open beside him

The week this is about

Running A Tiling Business Looks Like This.

Quoted per m2, paid for half the hours

The quote covered the floor and the walls. It said nothing about two days of screed, a set out around a bowed nib wall, or the day you lost waiting on the plumber to finish the rough in. You wore all of it.

The leak that comes back three years later

A shower you tiled in a rental starts weeping into the hallway skirting. The owner rings you, not the waterproofer. You are the name on the invoice, so you are the one standing in a stranger's bathroom on a Saturday with a moisture meter.

Squeezed between the waterproofer and the plumber

The site schedule has you starting Monday. The membrane is not cured, the floor waste sits proud, and the builder still wants the bathroom done by Friday. You either work in someone else's mess or you go home unpaid.

Another year of this and you are still the best tiler on the job, the cheapest quote in the folder, and the one who cannot take a week off without the money stopping.

A trade business owner working alone at the kitchen table late at night, laptop open and paperwork spread across the table, work boots and tool bag by the door

How we help

Seven Ways We Help Tilers.

Every one of these is a way tiling business owners get out from under the business and start running it properly. Start wherever it hurts most.

Training

Tiler Business Training

Structured training that turns what tilers know on the tools into a business that runs properly.

Coaching

Tiler Business Coaching

Greg Allan in your corner, holding tilers to the plan. By application.

Systems

Tiler Business Systems

The documented process that lets the work happen properly when tilers are not standing there.

The free app

Tiler Business App

Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for tilers with an active ABN.

Marketing and leads

Tiler Business Marketing

How tilers get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.

Pricing and profit

Tiler Business Pricing

The number tilers should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.

Hiring and team

Tiler Business Hiring

How tilers build a crew that does it right without being watched.

A trade business owner watching his child play sport on a Saturday morning, coffee in hand and phone face down — Nights and weekends back

A trade business owner and his partner in the kitchen looking at a tablet showing the numbers going up — Work that actually pays

A trade business owner shaking hands with a new apprentice in the work yard — A good hire who stays

A trade business owner standing calmly in the yard while his crew load two utes behind him — Out of the middle of everything

Worth knowing

Two Things Every Tiler Running A Business Should Know.

In Queensland a wall and floor tiling licence is required once the work is worth more than $3,300, while in New South Wales the threshold for tiling work is $5,000.

Source: QBCC and NSW Government licence requirements

Waterproofing failures sit inside the QBCC's top ten defect complaints, and in Queensland waterproofing is treated as structural, so liability runs six years and six months.

Source: Queensland Building and Construction Commission (QBCC)

Why you get me

I built the coaching company everyone else runs. Then I took it apart.

Most coaching companies work the same way. You enquire, you get a salesperson. You sign up, you get a coach who has never run a trade business.

I know, because I built one. I grew the Academy to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches. It ran without me.

And I hated it. The bigger it got, the further I was from the owners I started it for.

What gets me up in the morning is getting under the hood of a trade business and helping the owner hit their goals in the least time possible.

So I restructured the whole thing.

When you enquire, you speak to me. If you are accepted into the Academy, you work with me. Directly.

And with agentic AI, the results come sooner than most owners can imagine.

Places are limited. I only take on owners who are committed and ready to do the work.

Greg Allan mid-explanation with his hands open, talking to a trade business owner across a desk

Who you will be talking to

I built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with more than 1,950+ five-star reviews.

A general manager runs it day to day. I live in Byron Bay.

I have trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.

What AI actually changes

The old way. The new way.

Illustration: a trade business owner standing over three office staff buried in paperwork at night. — The old way
More customers meant more people doing your computer work, and you paying for all of it.

Illustration: a tradesman shaking hands with a homeowner in her driveway, his phone showing jobs quoted and invoiced. — The new way
You stay with your customers and your team. Agents run the office your way.

The old way

Grow, then hire people to do the computer work.

Every new customer brought more quoting, invoicing, chasing, scheduling and reporting.

So you hired people to do it. Office staff, bookkeepers, admin.

None of it is billable, and every hire costs wages, sick leave and another person to manage.

Profit and time only grew as fast as you could add people.

The new way

Keep the human work. Give everything else to agents.

Your people do what only people can do: looking after customers and leading the team.

Everything else goes to agents that do it your way, instantly, any time it is needed.

No sick leave. No capacity problems. They scale as far as the business does.

So the only people you add are the ones facing your customers and your team.

A human-centred business that runs on systems you build in minutes. Nobody still running the old way can compete with it.

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Questions

Tilers Ask Us These.

Do I need a licence to run a tiling business in every state?

No, it depends where you contract. Queensland needs a QBCC wall and floor tiling licence above $3,300 and New South Wales above $5,000. Victoria exempts single trade tilers from VBA registration, Western Australia does not treat tiling as a licensed trade, and South Australia uses a building work contractor's licence. Our Learning Hub training helps you get the business side right once the licence is sorted.

Can I do the waterproofing myself or do I need a separate licence?

In Queensland waterproofing is its own QBCC licence class. A wall and floor tiling licence covers waterproofing only where it is incidental to the tiling. New Zealand is tightening too, with internal wet area waterproofing becoming restricted building work under a new licensed building practitioner class from 2026. Know your scope before you quote, and price that risk properly, which is what our Profitable Pricing Masterclass covers.

How long am I liable if a tiled shower leaks years later?

Longer than most tilers think. In Queensland waterproofing is treated as structural work, so statutory cover runs six years and six months, well past the twelve month defect liability period in your contract. Waterproofing failures already sit in the QBCC's top ten defect complaints. Our systems training in the Learning Hub gets your photos, sign offs and membrane records filed so you can prove what you did.

Should I price tiling by the square metre or by the day?

Use both. A square metre rate works when the substrate is right and the set out is simple. Small bathrooms, mosaics, large format tiles and anything with a fall or a hob eat labour that a flat rate hides, so those need a day rate or a loading. Either way the number starts from your cost per hour, which is what the Profitable Pricing Masterclass teaches you to build.

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A painted scene of a trade business owner home before dark, sitting on the tray of his ute while his son runs to meet him

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