Area, format, and how much you hate mosaics.
Floors and walls by the square metre, trims and edges by the metre, and a rate that knows a 600 × 600 lays faster than a penny round.
Quoting today: you give it an area, a length or a countWhat Stringline does about each one.
- The bathroom was 9 m² on the plan and 14 m² of actual work. Measure it on site rather than off the plan: areas, lengths and counts, each priced off your own rate.
- You allowed 10% waste on a herringbone. Once. Put it in the price book once, as its own line or inside the rate, and it's on every quote after that whether you thought about it or not.
- The grout, the trims and the second trip to the supplier are in the price. Somewhere. Materials are their own items, at your cost with your margin on them, and the charges you add to every quote go on by themselves.
What you measure, and what falls out.
Tap the dimensions in on site. Stringline works the quantities out from what you measured, so your pricing stays accurate.
Your rates. Minutes for one of a thing, times what your labour costs.
A rate is how long a piece of work takes you for one square metre, one metre or one of them, and what your labour costs. Multiply it by what you measured, add the materials and your margin, and that is the item on the quote. These examples are made up; yours won't be.
- Floor, 600 × 600
- 30 min / m²
- Wall, 300 × 600
- 40 min / m²
- Mosaic
- 75 min / m²
- Trim and edging
- 8.0 min / lm
Then your crew's hours check it. Every hour is against the work that priced it, so when a rate is costing you more than you charge for it, Stringline tells you and offers to put it up. You approve it, and every quote after that uses the new rate.
The ones tilers ask us.
Mosaics take three times as long as a 600 square.
Two rates, both by the square metre, at the minutes each actually takes you. Pick the one that matches as you measure, and the fiddly work is costed instead of absorbed.
Waterproofing and prep?
Its own rate by the square metre, with its materials in the rate. Keep it separate from the tiling and you can see what the prep was worth when you look back at the job.
The customer is supplying the tiles.
Leave the tile off the rate and price the labour. The quote then says exactly what you are charging for, which is a good conversation to have before they go shopping.
What tilers get today.
Tilers quote on the general measure-up: an area, a length or a count, each priced off your own rate, with the trade's usual price book categories suggested.
- Areas, lengths and counts measured on site, each priced off your own rate
- A tiling price book, set up with your categories, in minutes and what your labour costs
- A proposal the customer accepts online, and follow-ups that stop once the quote is answered
- Quote to job without retyping, crew on a board, clock-on from the van
- Deposit, progress and final invoices off the quote, with overdue reminders
- Rates that tell you when the clock disagrees with the book
- Before and after photos on the job, from the phone
- Materials ordered from the quote and emailed to your supplier, closed off by their invoice
- Card payments on your invoices, and invoices into Xero with the payments coming back
- Quote templates, and a price book read out of your old quotes
- A wishlist board, where you put up what you need and vote on what others have asked for
Something missing? Every account has a wishlist board, where you can put up what you need and vote on what others have asked for.