Tile Fitting Rate per Sq Ft

What a fitting rate usually covers

• Laying tiles on a prepared base, with levelling and spacing
• Cutting at edges, corners and around fixtures
• Basic grouting with cement grout

Usually charged extra

• Breaking and disposing of the old floor, per sq ft
• Levelling screed where the slab is out of level
• Skirting, charged per running foot
• Epoxy grout, diagonal or herringbone layouts, and very large formats
• Material shifting above ground floor without a lift

How this estimate is calculated

Every figure on this page comes from the same formula. Rates are stored as configurable low–high bands per flooring type, overridden by city-level bands where we have them, then scaled by the quality level you pick.

effective_area = floor_area x (1 + wastage% / 100)
material_cost  = effective_area x material_rate
labour_cost    = floor_area x labour_rate
adhesive_cost  = floor_area x adhesive_rate
grout_cost     = floor_area x grout_rate
other_cost     = floor_area x other_rate
total_cost     = material + labour + adhesive + grout + other

Areas entered in square metres are converted using 1 sq m = 10.7639 sq ft. The low total uses every low rate and the high total uses every high rate, so the displayed range is deliberately wide — real quotations usually land somewhere in the middle.

Rates are configurable estimates maintained in our own database, not scraped live market prices, and we do not publish supplier names, reviews or ratings we cannot verify. Rate configuration last reviewed: September 2026.