robbie20

Any chance any of you may know approximately how much a tiler would charge to tile an outside wall per sq mtr.

Thanks for any help with this.

uk_grenada

Thats a dumb question. It depends upon whether the substrate is good and on the tile size. Ask them to say how much given you wish to use these x tiles and given the current walls condition.

Its also not good to tile a wall unless you know the DPC is in good nick, or you will be redoing it soon,

robbie20

Thank you for your extremely rude reply

uk_grenada

Youre welcome, in future please be clear, if you dont want honest answers, please do say so, you apparently only want nice answers not truthful ones.

The only constant is a cost per hours labour, problem is you cant know currently what work is needed... Its also sad but true, actual tiling is pretty easy, its just you cant do it properly unless the terra is firma.

Alternatively ‘you are a clever fellow, it will cost you x euros per square metre, but there may be further costs if we discover issues while we work, and our guarantee only extends till we leave the vicinity of your property.’

robbie20

you're. you seem to have forgotten the apostrophe

uk_grenada

Hang on, let me get the microtone out, it’s better for splitting hairs.

RichardHenshall

DPCs seem to be in short supply in the Algarve but that doesn't seem to discourage the Portuguese from tiling.

bexxx

Hi Robbie, I agree that was an extremely rude and totally unnecessary response. As a tiler in the UK your labour costs are indeed worked out per square metre, as different tiles take different amounts of time. Preparation of substrate would be worked out at a day rate and this would be added to the sq metrerage and the material costs. Cost of the tiles goes on and that's your price. It might be different in Portugal of course!

Also.... If "actual tiling" is easy I wonder why people are happy to pay so much for it!

uk_grenada

bexxx

That sounds lovely! Obviously not as good as tiles though (says the tiler)!

robbie20

What I did for now is just get a good painter, (hard to come by ) and have the wall that was a problem re-rendered and treated and painted again.

I will at some point have it tiled though so it looks more interesting and hopefully last longer than the painting, which is why I suppose lots of the Portuguese have their walls tiled.

BillBullock

I don't think that "lots of Portuguese have their walls tiled" on the outside. Very few houses are like that in the Algarve compared with the other options. I also suspect that these houses have been tiled on the outside to hide a multitude of sins, like poor rendering and damp.

EMR

Many older properties in the Algarve certainly have tiled external walls, whole or in part a sign of prosperity.

robbie20

Reply to EMR, Thank you for your comments. I know this is certainly true of the old Portuguese houses still owned by many Portuguese. The small street where my house is, most of the properties do in fact have tiled external walls.

uk_grenada