Porcelain, ceramic and natural-stone floors laid dead level on a properly prepared base: kitchens, hallways, conservatories and utility rooms across Tamworth.
Floors are levelled, primed and made solid before any tile goes down: the difference between a floor that lasts and one that cracks.
Big porcelain slabs and natural stone laid flat with minimal lippage: the trickiest tiles to get right, done properly.
Tiled floors laid over and around underfloor heating so the heat comes through evenly.
Natural stone and porous tiles sealed, edges and thresholds finished neat.
Screwed down at close centres and overboarded with tile backer or ply, so the floor is rigid enough that tiles and grout do not crack along the joins.
Where a ground floor runs from the front door to the back kitchen, it is set out as one floor so the lines carry straight through the doorways.
Not directly: floorboards move. We overboard or level them first so the floor is rigid, then tile on top. That is what stops cracked tiles and grout later.
Yes: electric mat or wet systems. We lay the tile so the heat transfers evenly across the floor.
Porcelain, usually: it is hard, non-porous and copes with a busy kitchen. We will talk you through the options for your room.
Yes, once it is screwed down and overboarded. Chipboard on its own moves and swells if water reaches it, which is how tiles crack and grout falls out. Overboarding adds a little height, so the door clearance is checked before the job starts.
Usually after a check for level and damp. Most Tamworth ground floors are concrete slabs that only need a levelling compound in places, and that has to dry fully before tiling.
A kitchen or hallway is usually two days: one to prepare and level, one to tile, with grouting the following morning. Large-format tiles and natural stone take longer because they have to be laid flatter.
A floor lives or dies on what is under it. Lay a beautiful tile on a bouncy or uneven base and it cracks, lifts or rocks within a year. So we sort the subfloor first, level it, prime it, board it where needed, then lay the tile flat and true, whether that is small ceramic, large-format porcelain or natural stone.
Upstairs floors in a lot of Tamworth houses from the 1970s and 1980s are chipboard sheet rather than floorboards. Chipboard flexes, and swells if it ever gets wet, which makes it a poor base for tile on its own, so it is screwed down and overboarded before anything is laid. Downstairs is usually a concrete slab that only needs levelling.
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