Invoice app for tilers in London
Square-metre pricing, materials breakdowns, VAT calculated — all by voice note, all through WhatsApp.
£29.99/mo · 7 days free · no card needed
Start Free on WhatsAppA real London tiler’s voice note:
"Mrs Davies, Chelsea London, bathroom splashback, six square metres, tiles materials two-twenty."
What tilers in London actually have to log on a job
- m² + wastage built into the quote — Voice-note the room dims; Holdfort adds 10% wastage and prices tiles, adhesive, grout, trim.
- BS 5385 substrate prep — Tanking, ditra-mat, primer each as their own line — bathrooms especially.
- Natural stone vs ceramic — Two pricing models, switch per job; sealing labour separate.
- Wet-room / underfloor heating compatibility — Spec recorded with the invoice for the customer’s records.
- Trade-account receipts — Topps / CTD / Tile Mountain receipts auto-categorised with VAT split.
What tilers in London actually deal with
Thames Water (most of the capital) or Affinity Water (north-west outskirts)
ULEZ — every day, every postcode. If your van is non-compliant, that’s £12.50 per working day on top of fuel.
32 London boroughs plus the City — Building Control is handled borough-by-borough, and Part P notifications vary by borough route.
Victorian terraces, ex-council flats, Georgian conversions, modern new-builds around Docklands and Stratford. Old lead pipework still common in pre-1970 stock.
Serving Chelsea, Hackney, Clapham, Islington, Camden and the rest of Greater London. Parking restrictions (red routes, controlled parking zones, school streets) and the congestion charge zone make a 20-minute job a two-hour billing situation.
London callout rates run £75–£120 vs £45–£80 for the rest of the UK. Materials cost the same but travel time and congestion eat the margin. Holdfort doesn’t set your prices — your rates are yours — but it stops you from losing track of what’s owed, what’s paid, and what’s been expensed along the way. All through WhatsApp. No app to install, no portal to log into.
Questions from London tilers
Yes. Voice-note "3.2 by 2.1 metre bathroom floor, 60 by 60 porcelain"; Holdfort adds 10% wastage by default, prices boxes, adhesive and grout, and outputs an itemised quote.
Yes — tanking, primer and ditra-mat each get their own line per BS 5385 best practice, so the customer sees the full spec and you’re protected if anything fails later.
Not as a separate line, but you can log them as receipts (photo the email or Dart Charge notice) and they’re captured as deductible vehicle expenses at tax time. Every charged day reduces your tax bill.
Yes — set your scheme (NICEIC, NAPIT, ELECSA, Stroma) once. Each invoice prints the scheme and your notification reference, which is what boroughs like Southwark and Lambeth ask for on Building Control self-certification.
They voice-note the invoice from inside the van before moving. Sixty seconds, invoice sent, and they’re out of the red route before the warden comes. It’s the main reason central-London trades signed up first.
Yes — quarterly-ready breakdowns and sole-trader categories. Required for self-employed earners over the MTD threshold from April 2026. See the MTD guide.
£29.99 per month, all in. 7 days free, no card needed to start. Founding-member price locked for life.
London tiler? Finish the job. Voice note the rest.
7 days free. 30 seconds to set up. Just WhatsApp.
Start Free on WhatsAppHold the fort. We’ve got the paperwork.