Tilers
What belongs on a tiling invoice
Four things that decide whether a tiling invoice gets paid or gets a phone call. The generator further down opens with the lines already in it.
Price by the square metre and state the metres. It is the one number the customer can check, and being checkable is what makes the rest of the invoice trustworthy.
Preparation — levelling, tanking, backer board — is separate work and frequently more than the tiling. A bathroom that needed tanking and one that did not are different jobs at the same tiled area.
Cuts, mitres and small-format tiles change the labour and not the area. If the job was mosaic or herringbone, say so on the line; the metres alone will look expensive.
Customer-supplied tiles arrive short, and it is always discovered on the last wall. Note the quantity you received on the first invoice or the delay becomes yours.
State what happens to the spare tiles. Customers assume the offcuts and the unopened box are theirs, and they are right, but they will not remember agreeing it. One line saying you left four spare in the loft is worth having.
Say where the tiles came from and who paid for them. A tiler who supplied the tiles carries the risk on breakage and shortfall; a tiler who fitted the customer’s carries none of it, and the price should differ. The line is also what settles who replaces the box that arrived cracked.
The lines below are real work at plausible quantities, and deliberately carry no prices. A price is a local fact about a local market, and a made-up one would be worse than none.