A quote app for tilers who'd rather be laying tiles

Where tiling money quietly disappears

Most tilers don't lose money on the quoted metres. They lose it on the stuff that turns up after the quote:

• The substrate lies to you. You quoted off a walkthrough, then the old tiles come up and the screed is out 15 mm across the room. You level it — of course you do, you can't lay on that — but by the time you invoice, the self-leveller and the half day are a “discussion” instead of a line item.
• The waterproofing isn't to standard. You strip a shower and the membrane behind it is a joke. You redo it properly, mention it to the owner over the fence, and it never gets written down. That's real material and real hours given away.
• Customer-supplied tiles come up short. Twelve boxes turn out to be eleven, or a run is a different batch, or a pallet arrives chipped. The extra trip, the relay, the wait — someone pays for it, and if it isn't documented, it's you.

Each of those is a variation. Each takes about ten seconds to say and, historically, about zero seconds to write down. That gap is the money.

Say it with grout on your hands — in English, Chinese or both

A lot of Australian tiling crews run in two languages, and site notes come out however they come out. Timmy takes English, Chinese or mixed input, and the customer-facing document comes out in professional English either way (see bilingual job notes):

Your prices stay yours: you said $450 and $380, so the draft says $450 and $380. Prices come from the user and stay editable. Timmy structures the work and wording; it does not invent amounts.

Quoting new tiling jobs the same way

The same voice-in, draft-out flow works for the original quote. Walk the job, get back in the ute, and talk it through: areas, prep, waterproofing, supply-and-lay versus lay-only, grout and trim, your metre rates or lump sums. Timmy structures it into a quote draft with scope lines a homeowner can actually read — “supply and lay 600 × 600 porcelain to floor, approx. 14 m²” instead of shorthand off a cement bag.

Quote-time detail is also your variation insurance. A quote that says “lay-only to existing level substrate, tiles supplied by owner” makes the later conversation — about the screed, or the missing box of tiles — a variation instead of an argument. More on structure in how to write a professional trade quote.

What Timmy asks when a tiling note is missing details

When an important detail is missing (a price, a customer, a scope item), Timmy asks rather than making it up. For tiling notes, that tends to look like:

• No price on the niche? Timmy holds the scope line and asks for the amount — it never invents a number.
• “The bathroom job” could be two customers? It asks which job before attaching the variation, so the Chen variation doesn't land on the Wang quote.
• Supply unclear? If the note doesn't say who's supplying the tiles, adhesive or trim, it asks rather than assuming — the single biggest source of tiling quote disputes.

Is it a fit for your tiling business?

TradieCue is built for solo tradies and small owner-operated trade businesses (roughly 1–5 people) in australia. If you're a solo tiler or run a small crew and the admin lands on you at night, it fits well: the quote or variation gets drafted at the moment you'd otherwise just say “yeah, no worries”. If you're after full job management — scheduling, timesheets, GPS on the vans — that's not what this is. It's the drafting layer: rough words in, customer-ready quote, variation or payment follow-up out, with you approving every document before it moves. iPhone only for now.

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