Trades TilersHiring and team

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. 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.

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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

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.

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

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. Greg works through the big hiring calls with you directly. And the hires have changed: agents can now do the quoting, invoicing and chasing your way, so the people you add are the ones facing your customers and leading your crew.

The Academy waitlist

The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.

Learning Hub

The full lesson library inside the Tradies App, self paced, $199/month.

Business Foundations

Weekly live sessions hosted by Greg Allan, where you bring your own numbers.

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 cost

How it works

Three Steps, Starting Tonight.

Step 1

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.

Step 2

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.

Step 3

Lead them, then get off the tools

Greg works 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.

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

Why Greg

You speak to the owner who has already done it.

Greg built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with 1,950+ five-star reviews. A general manager runs it.

He has trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.

He grew a coaching company to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches, then cut it back so every owner deals with him directly.

Most coaching companies hand you to a salesperson, then to a coach who has never run a trade business. Here you get the owner.

Read how Greg built a trade business that runs without him

What changes for you

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 the computer work, and more wages nobody invoices.

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. The office stops landing on you.

The old way

More jobs. More paperwork. Less of the owner left.

Most trade businesses grow the same way.

More jobs means more quoting, invoicing, chasing and scheduling.

None of it gets paid for.

So the owner does it at night, after a full day on site.

Or hires an office person to do it.

The office grows. The wages grow. The margin does not.

And the owner is still the one everything waits on.

Where we take you

More work. More profit. More of you left.

The phone rings with the jobs you want, at the price you set.

You grow when you're ready, never faster than the business can carry.

Every job is priced to make money, so the busy months show up in the bank.

The best tradies in your area want to work for you, and they stay.

The chasing, the paperwork and the 9pm admin stop landing on you.

The business runs the day. You pick which parts of it you're in.

Bigger, without the headaches. Getting bigger stops meaning getting busier.

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

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

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Questions

Tiler Business Hiring, Answered.

What award covers tilers and what do I have to pay?

Tile layers are covered by the Building and Construction General On-site Award, MA000020. It sets minimum rates by classification, apprentice percentages by year, and a set of allowances that catch employers out. Fair Work publishes the current pay guide each year. Our hiring training shows you how to build that cost into your rate before you hire.

Can I pay a tiler on an ABN instead of putting them on wages?

Only if the arrangement is genuinely a contract, not employment wearing an ABN. Sham contracting is a live issue across construction, and the penalties and back pay land on the business, not the worker. Get the test right before you decide. The hiring training and Greg will work through your specific situation with you.

Are there incentives for taking on a tiling apprentice?

Yes. business.gov.au lists apprenticeship wage subsidies and hiring incentives, and the housing sector Key Apprenticeship Program pays employers up to $10,000. That changes the maths on a first year apprentice considerably. Our training helps you work out whether the apprentice pays for themselves once the incentive and their output are both counted.

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