--- title: "Cost to tile a bathroom UK 2026: per m² rates and the sum for a 2.2 × 1.9 m bathroom" description: "Tiling a 2.2 × 1.9 m bathroom: £444 to £651 of labour at published rates. Three UK cost guides, each with the day read." url: https://buildbatch.co.uk/costs/tiling-a-bathroom/ --- # Cost to tile a bathroom Tiling a 2.2 × 1.9 m bathroom comes to £444 to £651 of labour at published rates (14.79 m² tiled). Labour only, Fantastic Services, MyJobQuote and Pricing Penguin publish £20 to £58 per m². No partner shop prices the tiles. Three cost guides publish figures for this job (Fantastic Services, MyJobQuote and Pricing Penguin). Every figure is theirs, in the tables below with the day it was read and the date their page gave where it gave one: not an average, and not a quote. Built with AI tools; not yet checked by a tradesperson. ## The sum for a 2.2 × 1.9 m bathroom Tiling the walls and flooring of a 2.2 × 1.9 m room, to the ceiling round the bath or shower and up to 1.2 m elsewhere, 1 door, 1 window, in 300 × 600 mm tiles: - Wall tiles: **76 tiles** - Wall tile adhesive: **4 × 20 kg** - Wall tile grout: **1 × 5 kg** - Floor tiles: **10 tiles** Worked out with example figures, not a product's, for the tiles, and typical figures for the adhesive and grout: 15% for cuts. ### The materials No partner shop prices wall tiles, floor tiles, wall tile adhesive, wall tile grout, tile trim for the edges and corners and tile spacers or levelling clips, so no price is given for them: the planner asks the price you see. Tools and safety kit are left out: a tradesperson brings their own. ### The labour £444 to £651 in labour, from Wall tiling: the range most of the 4 published labour-only figures per m² share: at least 3 of them cover every rate from £30 to £45 per m² (Fantastic Services, MyJobQuote and Pricing Penguin), for 11.8 m²; plus Floor tiling: the range most of the 4 published labour-only figures per m² share: at least 3 of them cover every rate from £30 to £40 per m² (Fantastic Services and Pricing Penguin), for 2.99 m². Published figures and arithmetic, not a quote: the room, its preparation, the region and the tradesperson all move the price. A shop's price is shown to its last day and then taken off. [Work it out for your room](https://buildbatch.co.uk/tile-calculator/) ## Got a quote for this room? Type it, and the sizes if your room is not a 2.2 × 1.9 m bathroom: one sentence of arithmetic, set beside the figures above. The quote stays on this page: it is in no address and no count. The sizes you type go into the link to the full check, after “#”, which no server sees. [Check it line by line against the published rates, with this room](https://buildbatch.co.uk/quote-check/#v=1&job=both&walls=tiles&ceiling=none&trim=none&units=m&length=2.2&width=1.9&height=2.4&door=0.686x1.981&window=0.6x0.9&bath=1.7x0.55x0.7&surface=sound&subfloor=unsure&ground=unsure&fitting=unsure&floor=quick&floor.covering=tile&floor.underlay=unsure&floor.tilew=600&floor.tileh=600&walltiles=quick&walltiles.height=1.2&walltiles.tilew=300&walltiles.tileh=600&walltiles.fullrun=3.1&end=26) ## How much will a tiler charge to tile a bathroom? £444 to £651 of labour for a 2.2 × 1.9 m bathroom at published rates (11.8 m² wall, 2.99 m² floor). No partner shop prices the tiles. These are published figures and arithmetic, not a quote. ## How much does tiling cost per m²? £20 to £58 per m² labour only (Fantastic Services, MyJobQuote and Pricing Penguin). Each figure is its publisher's, in the table below with the day it was read. ## Every published figure Each bar runs from the lowest to the highest figure in its row, on a line from nothing to the highest figure of that kind in the table. A pale bar is a figure left out of the ranges: its page is more than 18 months old, or it is far from the others. ### Wall tiling Labour only, £20 to £58 per m². **Wall tiling: published rates, one a row** | Published by | Figure | Where it sits among the others | Covers | VAT | Page dated | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Fantastic Services](https://www.fantasticservices.com/cost-guides/handyman/tilers/)UK outside London and South East | £30 to £45 per m² | | Labour only | VAT included | Not datedread 3 Oct 2026 | Labour; figures include VAT where applicable. | | [Fantastic Services](https://www.fantasticservices.com/cost-guides/handyman/tilers/)London and South East | £38 to £58 per m² | | Labour only | VAT included | Not datedread 3 Oct 2026 | Labour; figures include VAT where applicable. | | [MyJobQuote](https://www.myjobquote.co.uk/costs/tiling-a-bathroom) | £20 to £40 per m² | | Labour only | VAT not stated | 7 Sept 2026read 3 Oct 2026 | Labour only; tiles separate. Bathroom walls; dearer in London, the page says. | | [Pricing Penguin](https://www.pricingpenguin.co.uk/cost-guides/tiling) | £25 to £50 per m² | | Labour only | VAT not stated | Not datedread 3 Oct 2026 | Labour; tiles separate. Standard ceramic; London adds 25% to 35%, the page says ("updated September 2026"). | ### Floor tiling Labour only, £15 to £60 per m². **Floor tiling: published rates, one a row** | Published by | Figure | Where it sits among the others | Covers | VAT | Page dated | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Fantastic Services](https://www.fantasticservices.com/cost-guides/handyman/tilers/)UK outside London and South East | £25 to £40 per m² | | Labour only | VAT included | Not datedread 3 Oct 2026 | Labour; figures include VAT where applicable. | | [Fantastic Services](https://www.fantasticservices.com/cost-guides/handyman/tilers/)London and South East | £30 to £52 per m² | | Labour only | VAT included | Not datedread 3 Oct 2026 | Labour; figures include VAT where applicable. | | [MyJobQuote](https://www.myjobquote.co.uk/costs/tiling-a-floor) | £15 to £25 per m² | | Labour only | VAT not stated | 20 Jul 2026read 3 Oct 2026 | Labour only. From a tiler laying 8 to 12 m² a day at £150 to £200. | | [Pricing Penguin](https://www.pricingpenguin.co.uk/cost-guides/tiling) | £30 to £60 per m² | | Labour only | VAT not stated | Not datedread 3 Oct 2026 | Labour; tiles separate. Standard floor tiling ("updated September 2026"). | How the figures are read and kept, and every other job's: [UK labour costs](https://buildbatch.co.uk/labour-costs/).