From Chasetown to Boney Hay, a properly tiled bathroom transforms a Burntwood home, and stays watertight for years when it's done right.
Old plaster in the Chasetown terraces is dubbed out or boarded where it bows, so the tiles sit flat instead of following every hollow.
On the estate houses the shower area gets backer board or a full tanking membrane, because ordinary plasterboard softens once water reaches it.
Where tiles meet the bath or tray, flexible silicone takes the small movement that grout cannot, so the corner stays sealed.
Burntwood is mostly settled family homes across Chasetown, Chase Terrace and Boney Hay, and a fresh bathroom is one of the upgrades that pays you back every day. We tile the lot, walls, floors, showers and full wet rooms, and it all starts with proper prep: stripping the old, levelling the surface, and tanking the wet areas so water stays where it should.
The finish is in the detail. We set every tile from a true line, cut clean around the basin, toilet, pipes and any niche, and grout tight and even so there's nothing to catch mould later. Porcelain, ceramic or natural stone, on the walls and floor, sealed watertight with a neat silicone finish.
From a full refit to tanking and retiling a shower that's started leaking, across Burntwood, Chasetown and Hammerwich, you get a clear fixed price before we start and a bathroom that looks the part and stays dry.
The older terraces in Chasetown and Chase Terrace grew up around the pits and have solid walls that are rarely flat after a century of settling, while the estate houses around Boney Hay and Gorstey Ley have plasterboard walls and chipboard floors. Tiling either well starts with knowing which you have, because the preparation is completely different.
Whichever suits you. We can price the tiles in with the job, or fit something you have already chosen. Either way we will tell you before you buy whether the tile suits the surface it is going on - a heavy porcelain on a stud wall is a different fixing from a ceramic on blockwork.
Yes, and it is usually the right call. Stripping back lets us see the wall and level it properly. In the newer Burntwood housing the plasterboard behind old tiles often comes away with them, which is easy to make good but has to be allowed for.
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Most bathrooms take three to four days: stripping, preparation and tanking first, then tiling, then grouting once the adhesive has set. A shower wall that needs rebuilding behind the tiles adds a day or two.
Sometimes. If the leak is failed silicone or grout around the tray, resealing and regrouting may be enough. If water has already got behind the tiles and softened the wall, those tiles have to come off so the wall can be repaired and tanked.
A waterproof membrane applied to the wall and floor behind the tiles in wet areas. Tiles and grout let a little water through; the tanking is what stops it reaching the wall or the ceiling below.
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