TradesTilersPricing and profit

Tiler Business PricingYour rate per square metre was set years ago by what the tiler down the road charges.

Pricing for tiling business owners in Australia and New Zealand. How to build a rate per square metre from your own costs, price the work that eats labour, and stop carrying screeds, waste and waiting time you never charged for.

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The week this is about

Sound Like Your Tiling Business?

Your m2 rate came from a mate, not your costs

You picked a square metre rate because it was near what everyone else charges. It has never been tested against your award labour cost, your ute, your insurance, your quoting hours, or the weeks the rain kills the site.

Large format tiles eating a day you never quoted

Big porcelain needs two people, a levelling system, back buttering and a substrate flat enough to hold tolerance. You quoted it at the same rate as standard ceramic, so the extra day came straight out of your margin.

Breakage, wastage and cuts you absorbed again

The pattern needed more cuts, a box arrived chipped, and two large sheets cracked on the saw. None of it was in the quote as a wastage allowance, so you covered the tiles, the freight and the extra day of labour.

Underprice by a little on every square metre and you do not notice for years, you just work harder every season and wonder where it all went.

Pricing and profit

Here Is What We Do About It.

The Profitable Pricing Masterclass shows you how to build a tiling charge out rate from your real costs: award labour under MA000020, overheads, the hours you never bill, and a margin that survives a bad job. The Profit & Freedom Masterclass takes it further, into what the business has to earn for you to stop.

The Tradies App

Free with an active ABN in Australia and New Zealand. No card, no trial clock.

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

Charge-out rate calculator

Put in what labour costs you, how many hours you can actually invoice and what the business spends, and it builds the rate that covers all of it and leaves a margin. It runs in your browser and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

Work out your rate

How it works

Three Steps, Starting Tonight.

Step 1

Work out what an hour really costs you

Not the wage. The wage plus the ute, the insurance, the phone, the unbilled hours and the time you spend quoting. Most owners have never put that number on paper.

Step 2

Price off the number, not off the last bloke

The Profitable Pricing Masterclass takes you through building a rate that carries your overheads and a margin, so you stop pricing against whoever is cheapest this month.

Step 3

Hold the price and watch what happens

The Profit and Freedom Masterclass covers the part nobody warns you about: what to do when someone pushes back, and why losing the wrong job is a win.

What changes

What Tiling Business Pricing Actually Changes.

Three things tiling business owners walk away able to do.

Calculate a square metre rate that covers labour, overheads and real margin

Load the price for large format, mosaics, falls, hobs and awkward set outs

Put a wastage and breakage allowance in every quote as a line item

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Questions

Tiler Business Pricing, Answered.

How much should a tiling business charge per square metre?
There is no single right number, and copying the cost guides your customers read is how tilers end up broke. Your rate comes from your labour cost under the Building and Construction General On-site Award MA000020, your overheads, your genuinely billable hours and the margin you need. The Profitable Pricing Masterclass walks you through the maths.
How do I charge for screeds and falls without losing the job?
Quote them separately, as their own line with their own rate. Prep is where tiling jobs bleed, and burying it in a square metre rate makes you look expensive on the tiles and generous on the labour. Separate lines also make variations easy to defend later, which pricing training and coaching drill into you.
What wastage allowance should I put in a tiling quote?
Enough to cover cuts, pattern, breakage and a damaged box, and it belongs in the quote as a visible line rather than absorbed. The right figure depends on the tile size, the layout and the room, which is exactly the judgement pricing training and your coach help you set for your own jobs.

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Training

Tiler Business Training

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

Coaching

Tiler Business Coaching

A coach who has run a trade business, in your corner, holding tilers to the plan.

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.

Hiring and team

Tiler Business Hiring

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

Everything for tilers

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The Crew, daily Q&A, starter courses and your complimentary coaching session. Free with an active ABN. No card, no trial clock.

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