Bathroom tiling in Chasetown, Burntwood. Shower walls tanked, floors decoupled and tiles set out to the room rather than to the nearest corner.
Boarded, primed and taped behind the shower, carried up past the head.
Ply or membrane so seasonal movement does not end up as a cracked tile.
Small rooms show every decision, so the cuts go where they are least seen.
Wall to floor, wall to tray, and into the corners.
Window reveals and shower returns finished with trims or mitres rather than left rough.
Sheeted while we work, swept and wiped down at the end of each day.
Chasetown has a lot of solid, older housing, and its bathrooms are often the smallest room in the house carrying the most water. That combination is why preparation matters more here than anywhere else in the property.
Behind a shower there should be a board that can get wet without caring - tile backer, or a surface that has been primed and tanked with the joints taped. Plasterboard with a coat of paint on it is not a waterproof surface, and no amount of good tiling will make it one.
Floors in these houses are frequently suspended timber, which moves with the seasons. Tiles do not move at all, so something has to take that difference: a ply overlay screwed down properly, or an uncoupling membrane. Skip it and the first crack usually appears within a year, always in the same place.
Chasetown bathrooms are often small, and small rooms reward planning: a shower enclosure squeezed into the corner of a former box room leaves very little margin, and every cut is on show from the doorway. We measure the room properly first and agree the layout with you rather than deciding it with the adhesive already mixed.
The visible part is setting out - where the cuts fall, how the pattern meets the window reveal, whether the grout lines run through from wall to floor. In a small room those details are the whole job. Tiles that sound hollow when tapped, grout that keeps cracking in the same line, or a floor that flexes underfoot are worth looking at before they are tiled over.
Usually two to three days of tiling, then 24 hours after grouting and silicone.
Not for tiling - a flat, sound surface is enough, and tile backer board is often better than fresh plaster behind a shower.
Yes, and it is worth agreeing the order with your plumber so nothing gets tiled twice.
Larger tiles mean fewer grout lines and a bigger-looking room, but more waste on cuts. We will talk it through with the actual measurements.
Yes, back to a sound surface, with the walls made good ready to tile.
Chasetown, Chase Terrace, Boney Hay, Highfields and the rest of Burntwood.
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