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Tiling job card
A tiler's day rate is £150 to £350 a day; wall tiling labour runs £20 to £50 per m²; floor tiling labour runs £15 to £50 per m². Source: Checkatrade and MyJobQuote cost guides. Enter the room, the square metres and the tiles, and the job card works out the days of labour, the tiles to buy, a labour price band, the questions to ask before anyone starts, and tilers near you who take that work on. Nothing is sent anywhere: the card stays on your device until you send it with an enquiry.
Your job card
What a tiler sees when you send an enquiry from their profile.
Tilers near you who take this on
How the days are worked out
Walls go up at about 12 m² a day and floors at about 10 m² a day for one tiler. Lifting old tiles or flooring first adds half a day for every 10 m². Herringbone and diagonal layouts take about 1.3 times as long because of the cutting, and mosaic about 1.5 times. The total is rounded up to the half day. Drying times for tanking, levelling compound or a new screed come on top, and a tiler will say how long theirs need.
How many tiles to buy
Buy the area plus an allowance for cuts and breakages, more for layouts with more cutting:
| Layout | Add for cuts and breakages |
|---|---|
| Straight grid or brick bond | 10% |
| Herringbone or diagonal | 15% |
| Mosaic sheets | 12% |
Buy them in one go from one batch: a second order can be a slightly different shade. The tile calculator turns the area into tiles, boxes, adhesive and grout.
What tilers charge for labour
The band the job card gives is labour only. It multiplies your square metres by these rates, or uses the day rate where no rate per m² is held. Tiles, adhesive, grout and trims are bought on top, by you or by the tiler. The output it assumes, 12 m² of wall or 10 m² of floor a day, is the middle of Checkatrade's figures.
| Work | Labour | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Tiler's day rate | £150 to £350 a day | Checkatrade tiling cost guide; MyJobQuote floor, bathroom and wall tiling cost guides, checked October 2026 |
| Wall tiling labour | £20 to £50 per m² | Checkatrade tiling cost guide; MyJobQuote bathroom tiling labour (bathroom tiling cost guide), checked October 2026 |
| Floor tiling labour | £15 to £50 per m² | MyJobQuote floor tiling cost guide; Checkatrade tiling cost guide, checked October 2026 |
| Removing old tiles | £13 per m² | Checkatrade cost to remove a ceramic tile floor, checked October 2026 |
| London, extra per day | £50 to £100 a day | MyJobQuote floor and wall tiling cost guides, checked October 2026 |
Whole-job prices
For comparison, what the same sources give for whole jobs. Some include tiles or materials, as each source says, so they are not labour rates.
| Work | Typical price | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Tanking a shower area | £100 to £250 for the job | MyJobQuote floor tiling cost guide, checked October 2026 |
| Regrouting | £15 per m² | Checkatrade regrouting cost guide, checked October 2026 |
| Tiling a bathroom, walls and floor | £800 to £2,050 for the job | Checkatrade tiling cost guide; MyJobQuote bathroom tiling cost guide, checked October 2026 |
| Tiling a kitchen splashback | £120 to £600 for the job | MyJobQuote wall tiling cost guide, checked October 2026 |
Four things the job card points out
Old floors and finishes. Old vinyl and thermoplastic floor tiles, their black bitumen adhesive, and textured finishes such as Artex put up before 2000 may contain asbestos. Have it tested before anyone lifts it; the HSE explains how. The job card says so when the building may be from before 2000 and old flooring is to come up.
Electric underfloor heating. The tiler lays the heating mat; an electrician connects it, fits the thermostat and adds RCD protection. In England the work must meet Part P of the Building Regulations, and it is notifiable when it needs a new circuit or sits close to a bath or shower. Find an electrician.
Tanking. Tiles and grout are not waterproof. A wet room, a shower, and the walls round a bath with a shower over it need a waterproof layer behind the tiles. Ask which system the tiler uses; BS 5385-4 covers tiling in wet areas.
Timber floors. Floorboards and ply move, and tiles laid straight on them crack. A timber floor has to be made rigid first, usually by overboarding it with 15 mm exterior ply or backer board.