Minimum Labor Charge For Tile

Rich

What is your minimum labor charge for labor only on a 25 to 30 sq. ft. bath ?
Returning next day to grout.

jproffer

IF you can actually find someone to come out for 25-30 sq. ft. (big IF), then there's still a little more to it than you are saying...Strip off whatever is there that doesn't need to be(old flooring, any plywood less than 1/2"...all hafta go)...add whatever isn't there that DOES need to be(reaching minimum subfloor requirements, backer or membrane), and that's assuming that the framing is good enough for tile.

But I'll still give it a shot...if you do the tear out so I can see what I have when I get there, I'll build up (up to one layer of ply + one layer of backer), plus tile, grout, sealed twice for $800. Is that high? Yes it is. If you had 100 sq. ft. it would probably be about the same, but ya gotta understand...a man/woman has to take half a day at least to prep and tile, and a couple hours (which would be charged as half a day) to grout. Now that price is in MY area, according to MY overhead, and the amount of profit I want to make in a days time. If you can find someone that does side jobs who has no insurance or overhead to speak of, it might be cheaper...and it might not depending on the quality of job he does.

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Sounds like T&M. How much is your time worth? We go $60 first half hour $60 an hr after that. I think that's cheap. My truck dealers charges $85 and I have to bring it to him. But it will be determined by your location.

ee3

also where are you NY city or Miami ??

Teetorbilt

also where are you NY city or Miami ??

Same thing to most people.

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Bill_Vincent

For something like that, it goes to a minimum daily rate instead of a square foot price, and my minimum daily price is 450.00 .

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Mike Finley

Somewhere between $350-$500 13"x13" ceramic or porcelain tile, in grid pattern with any grout color other than white. Toilet to be removed and replaced? Moldings reused or replaced? What pattern? What size tile? Is there tear out? What is the access? Wouldn't do it for just labor, they always buy the tile through us. Wouldn't just do this job if it was just 30 square feet of tile but I might sub it out and mark it up even more in order to do that.

I know guys who will do this job for $250 all day long.

Rich

Thanks for the replies. I did all the prep work. When the tile guy showed up it was ready for him. No toilet. Underlayment secured. He tiled in a diaganal pattern.
12 x 12 tiles. Did a great,fast job. Came back today to grout. Done
$300 Good Deal !!

Glasshousebltr

I bid one like that a couple months ago, out and in, I supply rock only. they thought 650 was too high and I went home.

Bob

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Just did a kit backsplash, 23 sq ft and standard 4x4 ceramic-$425, but it's winter and slow

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Bill_Vincent

This one, when finished, is going to cost the homeowner 1000.00. There's one wall that's not shown here-- where the stove will be, but it's basically the same as the wall that IS shown-- but about 6' long:

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Mike Finley

As it should! That's a lot of work. What are you going to use as plate covers?

go dart

bill that looks great but no protection for the counter? potential DISASTER

Floorwizard

I have seen plate covers that were painted with a sponge, using same colors in granite.
Fun DIY work.

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747

R&D thats a nice looking countertop and backsplash in the pic on top of your page. I really think when doing granite people should spend the extra money to have a matching back splash.

R&D Tile

Acually, I hate that look.

I think nothing looks better than a tumbled stone or custom tile job over a solid surface top, Granite, etc.

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747

I do like the tile look in the first pic and i like the tile in the last pic. I was in a tile showroom and the guy told me the decorative tiles is where your going to drop the money. The field tile isn't so bad.

Bill_Vincent

As for the counter, When doing this kind of work, the worst that happens to the counter is that I get a little thinset on it, and any time that happens, I wipe it up immediately. Keep in mind, when working with all those small pieces like that, if I were to spread the wall, the thinset would skin over in no time. Each and every piece gets buttered. If you look at the second pic, you'll see clean painted drywall right next to where I've tiled already, and NO WAY to fit a trowel in there. At one point, I counted-- within a square foot area just at the right corner of the window sill (once it was finished), there were 16 assorted pieces of stone. This is very slow going work, and in all the custom backsplashes that I've done, I've yet to be going fast enough where ANYTHING tragic as even come close to happening.

As for the switch covers, he's going to paint them for now, but later on they'll get "switched" ( ) out for granite plates custom made.

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