Measure in square metres

Price the surfaces you will tile, in square metres (m²). Docket prints the quantity as a number, so write “sq m” in the description or a floor can be read as a lump sum.

• Each surface on its own line. A floor, a shower wall, and a splashback are different areas.
• The tile. A large-format tile is not a mosaic, and client-supplied tiles are install only. Say which.
• Skirting tiles and a niche, in linear metres or their own area. Do not bury them in “the bathroom”.
• A measure after the room is stripped beats a measure from a photo. If you have not been, say the areas are provisional.

Waste allowance

Order more tile than the net area you will lay. Cuts, a broken tile, and staying in one dye batch all use the spare. Write the percentage on the quote. The sample allows 10% on a straight lay. A diagonal, a herringbone, or a small room full of cuts needs more. Say whether spare full boxes stay with the client.

Prep and waterproofing

The price is for the surface you measured, in the condition you saw. A flat fibre-cement wall is not a floor that still has tiles on it, and it is not a screed that needs a bag of leveller.

• Removal, grinding, patching, and floor levelling as their own lines, or written as excluded. The sample assumes the old tiles are gone and the floor is flat enough to patch.
• The membrane, in square metres, before the tiles. Name the wet area. A shower is not the whole bathroom unless you are waterproofing both.
• Domestic wet areas are usually waterproofed to AS 3740. That standard is the method reference. It is not a licence, and this page does not set the method out.
• Plumbing, a puddle flange, electrical, and the shower screen. If another trade does them, say the price excludes them.
• Silicone at the junctions, trims, and movement joints. Give them a line so they are not an argument at the end.

Licence

Wall and floor tiling can be licensed building work once the job passes a threshold, and waterproofing a wet area can be a different licence class. Both depend on the state or territory, and the thresholds change. Check the building authority where the job is. Do not write that a tiling licence covers the membrane unless the licence you hold does.

Some clients ask for a public liability certificate. Whether you need insurance, and for how much, is a question for your insurer. This page does not set that.

Write yours in Docket

Copy the lines into your own quote, with your prices and your exclusions. Docket writes the quote and the PDF. Choose Convert to invoice and the same lines become the invoice. The document stays in this browser.

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