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Set-Up > Pay Rates > Tilers' Pay Rates - Fixed
🧾 What it does
This feature displays the Roof Costing-Rates dialog box, allowing you to set or change various quote rates and job cost rates for tiling work. These rates are applied on a per square basis or per unit length and remain consistent regardless of roof pitch or storey number.
🔧 Rate settings
Field | Description |
Hip cover length | Determines the number of hip tiles required. Independent of the tile you selected. Not used if you've supplied a hip tile length when defining the tile using Set-Up > Tile |
Ridge cover length | Determines the number of ridge tiles required. Independent of the tile you selected. Not used if you've supplied a ridge tile length when defining the tile using Material > Tiles |
Underlay/Sarking roll size | Determines the number of rolls of underlay required |
Batten length | Length of battens per m² of roof. Used when performing estimates using the area method |
Default no of units | Default number of housing units for this job |
Cartage per 100 tiles | Determines total delivery cost (see note below about display in summaries) |
2nd storey excess | Extra value for second storey work |
Installers percentage | Extra percentage to apply to the installers pay |
🔧 Quote rates
Field | Description |
Underlay/Sarking quote rate | Rate to quote underlay/sarking |
Fall protection quote | Rate to quote fall protection |
Batten 50×25 quote | Rate to quote 50×25 battens |
Batten 50×38 quote | Rate to quote 50×38 battens |
Batten 50×50 quote | Rate to quote 50×50 battens |
Batten 75×50 quote | Rate to quote 75×50 battens |
Batten User quote | Rate to quote the user defined batten |
🔧 Cost rates
Field | Description |
Underlay/Sarking cost rate | Cost of the underlay/sarking |
Fall protection cost | Cost of the fall protection |
Batten 50×25 cost | Cost of 50×25 battens |
Batten 50×38 cost | Cost of 50×38 battens |
Batten 50×50 cost | Cost of 50×50 battens |
Batten 75×50 cost | Cost of 75×50 battens |
Batten User cost | Cost of the user defined batten |
🔧 Waste and finishing
Field | Description |
Waste per course | Number of tiles to add per course when using the coursing method |
Waste – area method | Number of extra pieces based on total length of hips and valleys |
Sealant | Rate per metre to add sealant to the trim. Define ridge, gable and valley finishes as "Seal" to add sealant value to the Reporting dialog box |
Flexible pointing | Rate per metre for flexible pointing |
⚠️ Important notes about cartage
The cartage per 100 tiles will not appear in the Supply+Install dialog if the value is set to 0.
If a value is included, it will appear and the value is determined by the number of tiles ordered. If a value is set, it will only appear in the material list summary if you have estimated for tile.
This will be added to the material list specifically for tile cartage, even if a value is also set for delivery under Areas (refer to Set-Up > Areas where you can set delivery to not show). If you have both set, then both values will be displayed in the Supply+Install/SupplyOnly summaries. Typically you will have one or the other, but not both.