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. 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
More customers meant more people doing your computer work, and you paying for all of it.
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.
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
Greg Allan in your corner, holding tilers to the plan. By application.
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.
Have a Chat With Greg About Your Business.
An hour with Greg, one on one, about anything in your trade business. By application: if his diary is full, you join his waitlist and he invites you. He only takes owners who are committed.