Wall & floor tilers · Barry since 2010
Kitchens, bathrooms, heated floors, patios, and the Victorian hallways under Barry's carpets. Put in your wall or floor and the calculator counts the tiles, boxes and bags and prices the labour.
3 boxes (18 tiles) of 300 × 600 mm for 2.88 m² in stack bond, 1 bag of adhesive, labour £280.
Tiling
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Metro, zellige, glass or large-format porcelain behind the hob and the sink: set out so the cuts land evenly under the cupboards, trimmed at every edge, and grouted in a colour that will still look clean in a year.
A splashback, usually a day, from £280 including VAT, adhesive and grout; kitchen walls from £42 a square metre.
02
Bathroom walls and floors tiled over a tanked, level background: the shower area waterproofed before a tile goes on, niches built in, edges trimmed, and silicone at every change of plane.
Walls from £42 a square metre including VAT, adhesive, grout and tanking in the shower area; floors from £40.
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Kitchen, hall and bathroom floors on a levelled, decoupled base, with electric underfloor heating laid in the same job if you want it. Large-format porcelain, wood-effect planks, and the patterns on the patterns page.
Floors from £40 a square metre including VAT, levelling compound and adhesive; electric underfloor heating mats laid from £45 a square metre plus the electrician's connection.
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The geometric and encaustic hallway floors in Barry's Victorian terraces, cleaned, the loose tiles lifted and relaid, the missing ones matched from reclaimed stock or new reproductions, and sealed. Or a new Victorian-pattern floor laid from scratch.
Restoration by the day, £260 a day including VAT and materials; a typical hallway three to five days.
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20 mm outdoor porcelain laid on a full mortar bed with a slurry primer, the joints filled with a resin or cement grout, and the falls set so rain runs away from the house. The same tile inside and out, if you want it.
Outdoor porcelain laid from £68 a square metre including VAT, bedding mortar, primer and grout, on a prepared base; groundwork and sub-base quoted after the survey.
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Black and crumbling grout raked out and regrouted, cracked tiles cut out and replaced, loose tiles refixed, and silicone renewed. The jobs that make a tired bathroom look new for a fraction of the cost of retiling.
Regrouting walls £28 a square metre including VAT; repairs, cracked tiles replaced and silicone renewed by the day, £260; £280 minimum.
How we tile
We measure every wall and floor and tell you exactly how many boxes to order, with the wastage for your pattern, so you are not left one box short from a batch that has sold out.
Flexible adhesive on timber and heated floors, a decoupling membrane where boards move, rapid-set where a room must be back in use, and tanking under every shower.
Laser set-out, levelling clips on large tiles so the edges sit flat, and grout joints as tight as the tile is made for. You should be able to run a hand across a floor and feel nothing.
Wet cutting on a bench outside, an extractor on the dry cutter, sheets on the route, and the floor protected with board until the grout has cured.
Victorian hallways
Geometric and encaustic tiles laid a hundred and twenty years ago, hard as stone, usually under three layers of carpet and a layer of glued lino. We have saved more than two hundred: cleaned, the loose tiles relaid on a lime bed, the missing ones matched from six thousand reclaimed tiles in the shed, and sealed so it breathes.
Prices
from £42
Kitchen and bathroom walls, adhesive, grout and trims included; tanking in the shower area.
from £40
On a levelled or decoupled base; large formats with levelling clips.
from £280
Behind the hob and the sink, set out so the cuts are equal at both ends.
£260
Restoration: cleaned, relaid, matched and sealed. A typical hall three to five days.
£68
On a full mortar bed with a slurry primer and a fall; groundwork quoted.
£28
Raked out two thirds deep and regrouted; silicone renewed.
Customers
Our hallway was under three layers of carpet and a layer of lino glued down. Lowri said it could be saved and it was: four days, eleven tiles matched from her reclaimed stock, and you cannot tell which. People stop at the door to look at it.
Kitchen floor in 600 by 600 porcelain over electric underfloor heating, and the same tile in 20 mm on the patio outside the bifolds. The calculator said 12 boxes for the floor and we had two tiles left over. Not one lip between tiles anywhere.
Herringbone metro behind the range, which the kitchen fitter said would take two days. It took Jamie two, and the cuts at both ends are identical. He told us beforehand it would waste nearly a fifth of the tiles, so we ordered enough.
The sample room
Every tile we lay on a board, the grout cards, the six patterns laid out on the floor so you can stand on them, and the reclaimed Victorian tiles. Open Wednesday and Saturday mornings, or by appointment.
Labour from £38 a square metre for large wall tiles to £55 for small squares, including VAT, adhesive and grout, more for herringbone and other patterns. A splashback is from £280. The calculator prices the labour and counts the tiles, boxes and bags for your wall or floor.
The area plus the wastage for your pattern: about 10% for a straight lay, 12% for brick bond, 15% for diagonal or hexagon and 18% for herringbone. The calculator does the sums and rounds up to whole boxes; order them all from one batch.
Probably: most can be cleaned, relaid where loose and matched where missing. Send a photograph with the carpet pulled back at a corner and Lowri will tell you honestly.
Either way: choose your own, or we order at trade price and pass it on at cost. We check every box on delivery for batch and shade before a tile goes on the wall.
Electric mats, yes: laid, tested before and after, and encapsulated before the tiles go down. A registered electrician connects and certifies the circuit.
A splashback a day, a bathroom three to five days, a kitchen floor two or three with underfloor heating, a Victorian hallway restoration three to five. The calculator gives the days for your area.
The calculator turns your width and height into tiles, whole boxes, adhesive and grout bags, the labour and the days for your tile and pattern. The quote form takes two minutes; Lowri measures every wall and floor at a free survey and the written quote follows within three working days.
