On May 15, 4:35 pm, "** Frank **" wrote:
"Richard J Kinch" wrote in . 97.131...

BobR writes:

You will not work as fast as the professional

All I can say is, having done a decent DIY job on several rooms, with all
the right tools, that I could only average 2 sq ft per hour, all told from
start to finish and grouting and clean-up. So 220 sq ft would be weeks of
work, at least for this perfectionist, but it may be for you, too.

Depending on what your time and knees are worth, you may want to price the
commercial installation.

Sometimes its not the money but the joy and the pain of doing it yourself,
hence your 2sf/hour. Using your numbers, he will be on the floor for almost
three 40 hour working weeks! :-)

The worst part of tile work for me is not the time or even the
pain...it is the total inability to accept my own work. I just
completed doing the floor, walls, and shower in our master bathroom.
Everyone who has seen it thinks it is beautiful but all I can see is
every little fault. It is ever bit as good as the vast majority of
prefessionaly done jobs but I don't see ti that way. Every little
blimish seems to have my spotlight on it.