The bathroom
Start from a common job, then replace every figure with your takeoff. Picking a bench or glass type never overwrites a rate you already typed.
Your crew rates
A $38/h setter loaded at 32% is $50.16. Quoting the raw wage on a published per-square-foot special is how a curbless walk-in that looked fine turns into a week-long loss after the first linear drain.
Hand the customer a proposal
The price above is for you. This is the page you print or save as a PDF and give to the homeowner — your details, their details, the scope, the deposit split, and a line for them to sign. Your business details are saved on this device so you only type them once; the customer’s details are never saved.
Everything on the printed page is text you typed or a number this calculator worked out. It contains no warranty, lien, or cancellation wording — those depend on your jurisdiction and your contract, and this tool is not the place to invent them.
Your bid
- Tile / billed with waste
- Wet-area extras
- Crew hours
- Loaded labor
- Materials + fees
- Travel + equipment
- Overhead
- Total cost
- Profit at this price
- Price per tile sq ft
- Effective hourly rate
- Walk-away price
A bid link carries your own rates — wage, burden, overhead, and target margin — so the page reopens exactly as you left it. Send it to yourself or your crew. The numbers ride after the #, which is never sent to a server, so copying a link uploads nothing. The customer should get the price, not the link.
Same shower, who bought the tile
The $45 / SF “just set what I bought at the store” special. Zeroing the tile invoice is not a free set — unpacking their boxes still takes hours, and a short order is a second trip. Should I install customer-supplied tile?
| Who supplies | Hours | Your bid | At $45 / SF |
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Same shop, four bathrooms
Matching the brochure alcove’s price per square foot of tile on a 5x5 curbless walk-in is how the first linear drain eats the field margin. Should I match an alcove price on a curbless walk-in?
| Bathroom | Hours | Your bid | $ / tile SF | Match alcove $ / SF |
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Same shower, when you can work
The “can you start Saturday? We only have one shower” special. A weekday they leave is the bid you already have. Only-bath-still-in-use is the same wage on a slower set. After-hours is time-and-a-half plus a second evening trip because you cannot leave mud overnight. Should I tile a walk-in shower after hours?
| Access | Hours | Your bid | At their number |
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Where the hours go
Where the cost goes
Transparent arithmetic from your own inputs. Starting hours and material rates are common ballpark figures, not an industry standard, a waterproofing warranty, or a building-code determination — replace them with your own takeoff.
Common questions
Why does a curbless shower cost so much more than a standard framed one?
Curbless floors need the subfloor recessed or built up to create a barrier-free slope to the drain, which is a different framing and waterproofing detail than a standard curbed pan — that extra work, plus a linear drain if selected, adds hours a curbed shower never needs. Toggle curbless off to see how much of your bid that detail actually accounts for.
The customer already bought the tile — does that mean labor is cheap?
No. Zeroing the tile invoice is not a free set: unpacking, sorting, and setting owner-supplied tile still takes the same hours, and a short order or dye-lot mismatch becomes your second trip and a retail fill-in the customer expects you to cover, not a cost you caused. Price the labor the same way regardless of who bought the material.
Does relocating the valve or adding a bench get priced automatically from the square footage?
No, they're separate toggles because they don't scale with tile area — a valve relocate is plumbing work behind the wall, and a masonry bench is its own framed and waterproofed structure, both add fixed hours on top of whatever the wall and floor tile square footage already costs.
Does this verify my waterproofing method meets code?
No. It prices the scope you describe from your own hour and material rates; it is not an industry standard, a waterproofing warranty, or a building-code determination. Confirm your waterproofing assembly and any inspection requirements with your local building department.