What we do
Seven services, all of them tiling.
Wall, floor and mosaic tiling in natural stone, porcelain, ceramic and marble; wet rooms; swimming pools; and the design work that decides how all of it is set out. We are specialists in the tiling field rather than a multi-trade outfit, which is why the list below stops where it does.
01
Wall tiling
Walls are where tiling is judged, because they are at eye level and the courses have nowhere to hide. We tile in natural stone, porcelain, ceramic and marble, in whatever bond the room actually suits — stacked, brick, third, diagonal, herringbone or chevron. Every wall is read before it is tiled: where it bows, where it is out of plumb, where the cuts are going to land either side of the window. Large formats get a flatter background and a levelling system so no edge stands proud of its neighbour; mosaics get a background prepared to a standard the sheet cannot betray. External corners are mitred rather than trimmed wherever the detail deserves it.
- Natural stone, porcelain, ceramic and marble
- Mosaic sheets through to large-format porcelain slabs
- Levelling systems on big formats so edges sit flush
- Mitred external corners instead of metal or plastic trims
02
Floor tile installation
A tiled floor fails from underneath. If the base moves, the grout cracks in a straight line and no amount of re-grouting fixes it; if the base is not level, a large-format tile bridges the hollow and lippage shows up along every joint. So the floor gets prepared before it gets tiled — checked for movement, levelled where it needs it, primed for the material going on top, and set out from a drawn centre line so the pattern lands square to the room rather than to whichever wall happens to be straightest. Kitchens, halls, bathrooms, cloakrooms and conservatories, in stone, porcelain, ceramic or marble, plain or patterned.
- Substrate checked for movement and levelled before tiling
- Set out from a drawn centre line, not from the nearest wall
- Movement joints planned in rather than added afterwards
- Patterned, geometric and plain floors in stone, porcelain and ceramic
03
Mosaic tiling
Mosaic is the most revealing material in the trade. A sheet is flexible, so it takes on the shape of whatever it is stuck to: a wall that is two millimetres out shows up as a wave across a hundred tiny tiles. It also means the joints between sheets have to be invisible, which is a matter of getting every sheet square and evenly spaced before the adhesive grabs, not of grouting cleverly afterwards. We take on mosaic borders, feature panels, shower walls, niches and complete mosaic wet rooms, in glass, stone, marble and porcelain.
- Backgrounds prepared flat enough for the sheet to sit true
- Sheet joints kept invisible across the whole run
- Glass, stone, marble and porcelain mosaics
- Borders, feature panels, niches and full mosaic wet rooms
04
Wet room installation
A wet room is two problems wearing one coat. The first is waterproofing: a membrane taken across the whole wet zone and up every corner and junction, so if water ever gets past a grout line it meets a barrier instead of plasterboard. The second is the fall — the floor has to slope enough to drain and has to do it while the tile pattern still reads as straight and deliberate. Get the fall right and it looks seamless; get it wrong and either the water sits in a corner or the courses visibly run downhill. Trays, formers and traditionally formed screed falls, finished in large-format porcelain, stone or mosaic.
- Tanking taken across the full wet zone, corners and junctions
- Falls formed so the whole floor drains to the waste
- Trays, formers and traditionally screeded falls
- Finished in large format, stone or mosaic without losing the line
05
Tile interior design
This one happens to be a speciality, and it is offered at a genuinely competitive rate without compromising the finish, because it saves everybody money later. Most tiling regrets are design decisions rather than workmanship: a tile too long for the bond it was bought for, a grout colour that turns a calm wall into a grid, a herringbone in a room whose only long wall is interrupted by a door. We work out the format, the bond, the grout, the edge treatments and the setting-out for the space in front of us — and we say so plainly when the tile you have fallen for will not do what you want it to.
- Format, bond and grout colour chosen for the actual room
- Edge details and mitre-versus-trim decisions settled early
- Setting-out drawn before anything is ordered
- Honest advice when a chosen tile will not do what you want
06
Swimming pool tile installation
A pool is not a big bathroom. The surface is submerged permanently rather than occasionally, the water is chemically treated, and the shell moves with temperature and with the load of the water itself — so the adhesive, the grout and the movement joints are all specified for immersion rather than splash. Waterline bands, full mosaic linings, steps, coping details and plant-room surrounds all get thought about separately. There are a great many different kinds of project under this heading, which is exactly why every detail is discussed before anything starts, so you know what to expect and what it will cost.
- Materials specified for permanent immersion, not splash
- Waterline bands, full mosaic linings, steps and coping details
- Movement joints planned for a shell that expands and contracts
- Every detail discussed and priced before the job starts
07
Interior design & consultancy
Alongside the tiling we have an in-house heritage interior design specialist, who has been working with property since 2003 and has visited more than four thousand properties of every shape, size and age in that time. That is a different discipline from tiling and it is offered as a service in its own right: time spent building mood boards, drawing the room to scale, and working through the scheme with you rather than handing over a catalogue. It also means that when the tiling is part of a bigger plan, the tiling decisions get made inside that plan instead of despite it.
- In-house heritage interior design specialist
- Working with property since 2003; over 4,000 properties visited
- Mood boards and scale drawings for the whole room
- Tiling decisions made inside the scheme rather than after it
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.
Not sure which of those your job is?
Most jobs are a mix, and a few are none of them. Ring or text and describe the room — if it needs a plumber or an electrician first, we will say so rather than quote around it.
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.