Tiling Your Extension: Costs, Trade Accounts, and Getting It Right First Time
PremiumLarge-format porcelain floor tiling costs [Unknown price: tiling-all-in-per-m2]/m² all-in. But buying tiles via your tiler's trade account can save nearly £1,000 on a typical extension floor. Here's how.
Do this first:
Ask your tiler if they have a trade account before you order a single tile. That one question saved nearly a thousand pounds on a real UK extension project. The tiles were ordered through the tiler's trade account at 20% below retail. On an 81m² floor, that gap was the difference between a [Unknown price: example-tiling-tiles-retail] tile bill and a [Unknown price: example-tiling-tiles-trade] one.
Tiling is one of the most visible finishing trades in your extension. A completed floor of large-format porcelain on a freshly screeded slab is the moment the space stops looking like a construction site. But the cost is substantial, the timing is rigid, and the technical requirements are tighter than most homeowners realise. Corners cut here are literally underfoot for the life of the building.
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