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. 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.
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.
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 rateHow it works
Three Steps, Starting Tonight.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What changes for you
The old way. The new way.
More customers meant more people doing the computer work, and more wages nobody invoices.
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 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
Questions
Tiler Business Pricing, Answered.
How much should a tiling business charge per square metre?
How do I charge for screeds and falls without losing the job?
What wastage allowance should I put in a tiling quote?
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 Coach
Greg Allan in your corner, holding tilers to the plan. By application.
SystemsTiler Business Systems
Systems tilers build on their own data, so the work runs properly without them standing there.
SoftwareTiler Business Software
Software tilers build on their own data, instead of renting tools built for every trade at once.
Business appsTiler Business Apps
The simple screens tilers build for their crew and customers, on their own data.
AIAI for Tiling Businesses
AI agents that do the office work for tilers, their way, so people stay on customers and the crew.
Marketing and leadsTiler Business Marketing
How tilers get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Hiring and teamTiler Business Hiring
How tilers build a crew that does it right without being watched.
Join the Waitlist to Work With Greg.
The Crew, daily Q&A and starter courses. Free for trade business owners. No card, no trial clock.
The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.