Wall, floor & mosaic tiling · Ascot, Berkshire
One trade. Mastered, not squeezed in around the others.
Heritage Tiling Services is a family-run tiling firm working across Ascot, Windsor, Virginia Water and the surrounding areas. Natural stone, porcelain, ceramic and marble — walls, floors, mosaics, wet rooms and pools, set out and fixed by tilers rather than by a multi-trade outfit fitting the tiling in at the end of the week.
One trade
Tiling only — not a multi-trade outfit
5.0★
Rated on Google
Family-run
Ascot, Berkshire
Mitred
Edges mitred rather than trimmed where the detail deserves it
Family-run · Ascot, Berkshire
We are not a “multi trade”. We are specialists in the tiling field.
Tiling is the last trade into a room and the only one anybody looks at afterwards. That is an uncomfortable place to be if tiling is the third thing on your van — which is why this is the only thing on ours. Heritage Tiling Services is family-run, based in Ascot, and takes on wall, floor and mosaic work in natural stone, porcelain, ceramic and marble across Berkshire and the Windsor side of Surrey.
Being a small family business is the point rather than a limitation. You talk to the person who will be doing the work, the same person prices it, and the same person is there on the last day cutting the awkward piece behind the cistern. Nothing about the room gets handed to a subcontractor who has never seen the drawing, and nothing gets rushed to make a Friday.
One trade, taken seriously
We do tiling and nothing else, and we keep reading up on the materials and formats arriving every year — large-format porcelain slabs, thin-bed stone, microcement-backed mosaics. A trade you practise every day is a trade where the awkward detail stops being a problem and starts being the interesting part of the job.
Every detail agreed before the first tile is fixed
Where the pattern centres, how the edges are finished, where the cuts land, how the niche lines through with the courses around it. These get decided with you and settled on paper, not improvised on the wall at four o'clock on a Thursday.
A price you know before we start
We come and look at the room, then price it properly — so you know exactly what to expect and exactly what it is going to cost. If something can genuinely only be priced once the floor comes up, we say that at the start rather than discovering it halfway through.
What we do
Walls, floors, mosaics, wet rooms and pools.
Wall tiling
Natural stone, porcelain, ceramic and marble, from mosaic sheets to large-format slabs.
Floor tile installation
Tiled floors laid on a base that has been levelled first, not tiled over and hoped about.
Mosaic tiling
The format with nowhere to hide — sheets, borders, feature panels and full mosaic rooms.
Wet room installation
Falls formed so the floor drains properly, and tanking so a grout line is never the last defence.
Tile interior design
Choosing the format, the bond, the grout and the edge details for the room you actually have.
Swimming pool tile installation
Permanently wet, chemically treated and always moving — pools are specified differently.
Recent projects
Finished tiling, photographed on the job.
Every photograph below is real work — no stock imagery, no showroom sets. The full gallery has the detail on each one: the bond, the material and the thing that made it awkward.
Marble mosaic shower wall
Herringbone marble mosaic · recessed niche
Walk-in shower, large-format porcelain
Large-format porcelain · linear-textured feature wall
Family bathroom with a glass screen
Large-format wall and floor porcelain · tiled niche
Green herringbone beside white metro
Herringbone feature panel · brick-bond metro
Patterned tiling around a bath
Patterned ceramic · splashback and bath surround
Grey porcelain with a tiled upstand
Large-format porcelain · window reveal detail
The bit people notice afterwards
Mitred edges. Falls that drain and still look level.
An external corner can be covered with a metal trim in a few seconds, or both tiles can be cut back to forty-five degrees so the glazed faces meet in a line with nothing between them. A wet-room floor can drain, or it can look level — making it do both is the whole skill. Neither shows up in a photograph taken from the doorway, and both are the first things anybody notices once they live in the room.
Rated 5.0 on Google
“He also mitred all the tile edges rather than using trims, which gives such a clean, high-end finish.”
We've now had Tom tile three bathrooms in our home, and I honestly can't recommend him highly enough.
Every line is perfectly straight, every cut is crisp, and the overall finish is flawless.
Our bathroom includes a wet room tray, and Tom's precision in tiling and forming the falls was exceptional — everything drains perfectly while still looking seamless and beautifully aligned.
The part nobody gets told at the tile shop
Same tile, different bond, completely different room.
Choosing a tile is the easy bit. How it gets set out is what you end up looking at every morning — and some tiles will only work in some patterns. Here are six of the bonds we lay most; the full guide walks through all of them, plus how much extra to order for each.
Straight stack bond
Grid · straight set
Every tile sits directly above and beside its neighbour, so the grout lines run in continuous straight lines in both directions.
Vertical stack bond
Stacked · column set
Rectangular tiles stood on end and stacked in columns rather than laid on their long edge.
Brick bond
Running bond · half-brick · offset
Each row is offset from the one below it, traditionally by half a tile.
Third bond
One-third offset
The same idea as brick bond, but offset by a third of a tile rather than a half.
Diagonal
Diamond set
Square tiles turned through 45 degrees.
Straight herringbone
Single herringbone
Rectangular tiles laid in interlocking Ls, running square to the walls.
How a job runs
Four stages, in the order they actually happen.
01
Look at the room, price the job
We come and see it. Substrate, floor build-up, how far out of square the walls are, whether there is a fall to form or a tray going in. Then a price for the whole job, with the tile schedule and the wastage allowance written down rather than guessed at.
02
Substrate, falls and tanking
Walls made flat, floors levelled, wet areas tanked and falls formed towards the drain before any tile appears. This is the half of the job nobody sees and the half that decides whether the room still looks right in ten years.
03
Set out dry, agreed with you
Centre lines found, bond confirmed, cuts balanced, niches and edge details settled. Five minutes of your time here changes the finished room more than any other decision on the job.
04
Fix, grout and finish the edges
Tiles fixed out of several boxes at once so shade variation spreads evenly, large formats levelled, grout chosen to suit the material, movement joints and internal corners siliconed rather than grouted — and external edges mitred where a trim would cheapen the finish.
Materials
Four materials, four different sets of rules.
Natural stone, porcelain, ceramic and marble all get fixed with a trowel and all behave completely differently once they are on the wall. Knowing which rules apply to the tile in your hallway is most of what you are paying a specialist for.
- Natural stone
- Porous, variable and worth shuffling dry before it is fixed so the tone balances across the wall. Seals on installation and wants re-sealing periodically.
- Porcelain
- The hardest-wearing of the four and the least fussy to live with — but the large formats need a flatter substrate and a levelling system, not a steadier hand.
- Ceramic
- Lighter, easier to cut and the natural home of metro, patterned and hand-glazed tiles. Softer glaze, so the setting-out has to be right first time.
- Marble
- Beautiful and chemically vulnerable. It etches on contact with anything acidic, so it is sealed on installation and has its own cleaning rules from day one.
Where we work
Ascot, Windsor, Virginia Water and the surrounding areas.
Ascot is home, so most weeks are spent inside a fairly tight radius — Ascot, Windsor and Virginia Water, with recent jobs over towards Winkfield and Bracknell. If you are just outside that, ring and ask rather than assume; for the right job the van travels.
- Ascot
- Windsor
- Virginia Water
- Winkfield
- Bracknell
Thinking about the tiling?
Ring or text the number below, or email a couple of photographs of the room and rough measurements. We come and look before we price it — that is the only way the number stays the same at the end.
We're on the tools most of the day — a text or a voicemail is never ignored, and photographs of the room get you a useful answer fastest.