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monkey12 | 21:15 Thu 27th Jan 2005 | Home & Garden
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Ive asked a local firm to quote me a price for tiling roughly 10 square metres of floor(Bathroom and Kitchen). I am supplying all the natural slate tiles, preping the area, toilet and sink, and see no great hurdles as far as difficult angles. The price i have been given is �500! Iss this over priced? Should i just do it my self and hire a cutter?
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Sounds like there taking the pith.Do it yourself or search around for a better quote.
I paid �600 a year ago for 24 square metres and 10 square metres of wall tiling including all of the preparation and parts (excluding tiles)

Sounds exhorbitent to me. Don't know what size the slates are but about �1.50 at max. That sort of area is not going to involve too much work. �150 max in my opinion.

It's not difficult to DIY it - not the easieast things to cut but I have done it rather haphazzardly with an angle gringer - wearing goggles, gloves & mask of course. Buy a few spare slates and it's easy.

As an average for prepared surfaces tilers charge between �20.00 - �25.00 per metre. However some jobs can be much more time consuming than others. I have just been quoted �550 labour for 28 sq metres.

a word of advise, if you have no experience of tiling, and are attempting your first job using slate forget it, leave it to a pro, you say your tiling ten mtrs of floor in two differrent rooms that = a lot of cutting work, cutting slate is a slow messy process not like cutting ceramics, you'll proberbly end up with a very large headache and a less than pro finish, if you finish!, 500 is not a bad price for slate to be laid in two confined area's, go and get more quotes id be suprised if you got a much better price from a skilled tiler
i am a pro tiler and you have been quoted well over the top.
10 sm of slate �30 sm max �300 to lay plus materials your looking at �390 to �400 max

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