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Tiling in the UK typically costs £25–£60 per m² for walls and £30–£80 per m² for floors in labour, with most tilers charging a day rate of roughly £180–£280. Including adhesive and grout but not the tiles themselves, all-in labour often lands around £80–£130 per m². Tiling a bathroom commonly runs £600–£1,200 in labour over 2–4 days, and a kitchen floor of 10–15 m² is often £400–£900 in labour. The tiles are a separate cost, typically £15–£120 per m² depending on quality. The honest answer is always a range, because it depends on your room size, tile type, layout and how much preparation the surface needs.
Most tiling guidance is published by firms that fit it, so the numbers tend to be optimistic and the awkward bits glossed over. The pages below give typical cost ranges, explain what a bathroom and a kitchen floor really come to, set out how long the work takes, and walk through how a wall is tiled — before you take a single quote.