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Bathrooms, kitchens and floors tiled across Erith and nearby.
Bathroom and kitchen tiling, floor tiling, wet rooms, and Victorian geometric hallway floors laid and restored across Erith — fixed written price, old tiles taken away.
Under a lot of Erith hallways there is a Victorian geometric floor still waiting. Lift the carpet and the underlay and you often find the original tiles, cracked in places and grey with adhesive, but entirely worth bringing back.
Original hall and path tiles lifted out from under carpet and bitumen, cleaned back without taking the glaze off, relaid on a compatible bed and sealed with a breathable sealer.
Cracked and missing tiles matched from reclaim or from the makers still producing the original Victorian patterns and sizes — not the modern equivalents, which do not fit.
Set out from the centre so the cuts fall evenly, and waterproofed where the water actually goes rather than just where it shows.
Splashbacks and full walls cut cleanly around sockets and switches, trims mitred rather than butted.
Kitchens, halls and utilities laid on a properly prepared floor so nothing rocks and nothing cracks.
Old grout raked out, fresh grout in, silicone renewed — a fraction of the cost of starting again.
Bad tiling shows for twenty years and from every angle — grout lines that wander, a cut that dies in a corner, a wall nobody set out properly before they started. The prep is the job: a flat sound wall, the run set out from the middle, and the cuts landing where nobody looks.
Send a photo of the room on WhatsApp with rough measurements — and the tile you like, if you have already picked one.
A fixed written price for the room — adhesive, grout, trims, cuts and taking the old tiles away, all in.
Set out properly, tiled, grouted and sealed — old tiles and rubble taken away, and the room left clean rather than dusty.
Public-liability insured, with references from regular customers you can check first.
The run is planned from the centre so cuts fall evenly and nothing awkward lands beside the door.
Stripping out, rubble and disposal are in the price. No rubble bags left in the hall for a fortnight.
One price for the room, agreed before we start. No day-rate creep and no "the wall was worse than we thought".
Bathrooms, kitchens and floors tiled across Erith and nearby.
The terraces running back from the river through Erith and up into Northumberland Heath were built with encaustic and geometric tiled floors in the hall and on the front path, and a great many of them are still there under sixty years of carpet, lino and bitumen. Bringing one back is one of the most satisfying jobs in tiling and one of the few that genuinely adds value to the house. It is also slow, careful work that has nothing in common with laying a modern floor. The old adhesive has to come off without taking the glaze with it, which means poulticing and patience rather than a grinder. Cracked and missing tiles have to be matched, and the Victorian sizes are not the ones sold today, so replacements come from reclaim or from the small number of makers still producing the original patterns. The bed underneath is usually lime mortar on hardcore, and it wants relaying in something compatible rather than a rigid modern adhesive that will crack the tiles it is supposed to hold. Finally the whole floor has to be sealed with a breathable sealer, because these floors have no damp proof membrane under them and never did — seal one with the wrong product and the moisture that has always passed through it gets trapped and the tiles blow. We do that work, and we also do everything modern alongside it: bathrooms and en-suites, kitchen splashbacks, floor tiling through kitchens and utilities, wet rooms tanked properly, and regrouting and resealing where the tiling is sound but the finish has gone. Fixed written price for the room, agreed before we start.
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More often than people expect. Lift the carpet and the underlay in an Erith terrace and the encaustic floor is usually still there under the old adhesive. Cracked and missing tiles can be matched, and the rest cleans back — it is slow, careful work rather than a lost cause.
Because these floors were laid straight onto hardcore with no damp proof membrane and never had one. Seal one with a modern non-breathable product and the moisture that has always passed through gets trapped underneath and the tiles blow. It has to be a breathable sealer.
Erith and nearby — Slade Green, Belvedere, Northumberland Heath, Barnehurst, Crayford, Bexleyheath, Welling, Abbey Wood and over toward Dartford.
No — most of our work is ordinary modern tiling: bathrooms, en-suites, kitchen splashbacks, floor tiling and wet rooms. The period work is a speciality alongside it, not instead of it.
Yes, fully public-liability insured, and happy to show you finished work nearby before you commit to anything.
Erith based, covering Slade Green, Belvedere, Northumberland Heath, Barnehurst, Crayford, Bexleyheath and Welling — round to look at the job this week.
Send us a photo of the room on WhatsApp and we'll see if we can quote you over the phone.