Tiler Business HiringYou cannot take on more work, because there is only one pair of hands that does it right.
Hiring for tiling business owners in Australia and New Zealand. What the Building and Construction Award means for your wages bill, whether an apprentice or a qualified tiler is the right first hire, and how to keep them once they can set out on their own.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Tiling Business?
Every wall still has to be set out by you
You can hand over a floor. You cannot hand over the set out, the falls or the wet area, so you are still on every job. Growth stops at whatever one tiler can physically lay in a week.
Scared an apprentice costs more than they make
First year, they are slow, they break tiles and they need watching. You have heard the award rates and the training obligations, and you have no idea whether the wage subsidies actually cover any of it. So you keep doing it all yourself.
Paying tilers on an ABN and hoping it is fine
It is easier to pay a bloke on his own ABN than to run wages, super and workers compensation. You have also heard the words sham contracting, and you know that if the arrangement is really employment, the bill lands on you.
Stay a one man tiling business and your income has a hard ceiling, set by how many square metres your own knees can lay before they give out.
Hiring and team
Here Is What We Do About It.
Hiring, team and leadership training in the Learning Hub covers the whole thing: which hire to make first, what the award actually requires, how to induct someone onto a tiling job, and how to hand over a set out without losing quality. Tradie Teams and Freedom Fighter 1:1 keep you honest while you do it.
Free tool, no sign-up
Apprentice cost calculator
Wages and on-costs are the easy part. This adds the weeks they are at trade school, the on-site hours that never reach an invoice, and the supervision time that pulls a qualified tradesperson off their own work, then gives you what one billable apprentice hour actually costs. It runs in your browser and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Work out the real costHow it works
Three Steps, Starting Tonight.
Hire before you are desperate
Every bad hire in this industry happens in the same week: the week you were already too busy. The training covers hiring on a plan instead of on a panic.
Give them a system to follow
People do not fail because they are lazy. They fail because nobody wrote down what good looks like. That is why systems and hiring are the same problem.
Lead them, then get off the tools
The coaching goes into the bit that is genuinely hard: running a team when you were trained as a tradesperson, and letting go of work you can do faster yourself.
What changes
What Tiling Business Hiring Actually Changes.
Three things tiling business owners walk away able to do.
Decide between an apprentice and a qualified tiler using your own numbers
Pay correctly under the Building and Construction Award, allowances included
Hand over a full bathroom knowing it comes back to standard
Questions
Tiler Business Hiring, Answered.
What award covers tilers and what do I have to pay?
Can I pay a tiler on an ABN instead of putting them on wages?
Are there incentives for taking on a tiling apprentice?
Tilers
The Other Ways We Help Tilers.
Tiler Business Training
Structured training that turns what tilers know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingTiler Business Coaching
A coach who has run a trade business, in your corner, holding tilers to the plan.
SystemsTiler Business Systems
The documented process that lets the work happen properly when tilers are not standing there.
The free appTiler Business App
Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for tilers with an active ABN.
Marketing and leadsTiler Business Marketing
How tilers get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitTiler Business Pricing
The number tilers should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Talk It Through First.
The Crew, daily Q&A, starter courses and your AI Coaching Call. Free with an active ABN. No card, no trial clock.
Turning over $10k a month or more? Thirty minutes, one on one, on what AI would actually do in your business, which part to build first, and how fast the Pathway gets you there.