Bathroom and ensuite tiling · Brisbane and surrounds
Bathroom and ensuite tiling in Brisbane
Floors, walls, shower recesses, niches and hobs — set out and waterproofed by the crew that tiles them. Falls are formed before the screed goes down, so the water goes where it should for the life of the room.
Where a bathroom is won or lost
A bathroom is the hardest room in a house to tile and the least forgiving to get wrong. Everything that fails in it — the smell in the wall cavity, the swollen skirting in the next room, the stain on the ceiling below — comes from water that was given somewhere to go other than the drain.
That is decided in the first two days on site, not the last. Falls are formed to the waste before the membrane goes on, corners and penetrations are detailed, hobs are wrapped, and the membrane is given time to cure. Only then does a tile get picked up. It is unglamorous work and nobody ever sees it, which is exactly why it gets skipped.
Setout you have to live with
The second half of a good bathroom is setout. Where the first full tile lands decides whether you get a sliver of a cut in the doorway, whether the niche sits centred behind the mixer, and whether the wall joints line through to the floor joints when you walk in.
That gets marked out and agreed before anything is fixed, because it cannot be argued with afterwards. Large-format stone-look, marble-look porcelain, subway, hexagon and octagon mosaic, patterned encaustic — all of it is in the gallery, all of it laid by this crew.
Renovation or new build
Both. On a renovation the old room comes out, the substrate is checked and made good, and anything soft or moving is dealt with before the new work starts — there is no point waterproofing over a floor that flexes. On a new build we work to the builder's program and to the wet-area standard, and we are used to being one trade in a sequence rather than the only one on site.
Scope
What is included.
Recent work
Bathroom and ensuite tiling we have laid.
Straight off our own jobs — nothing bought in, nothing rendered.
Questions
Bathroom and ensuite tiling — questions.
How long does a bathroom take to tile?
A standard bathroom is usually a handful of days on site once it starts — strip-out and prep, waterproofing with time to cure, then tiling, grouting and silicone. The variable is almost always tile availability, so locking selections in early is what keeps a job moving.
Do you waterproof the bathroom as well?
Yes, and we would rather do both. Waterproofing and tiling are one job, not two. When the same crew forms the falls, lays the membrane and then tiles over it, nothing falls through the gap between two trades — which is where most wet areas go wrong.
Can you tile a shower with large-format tiles?
Yes. Large-format porcelain and stone-look sheets are a big part of what we lay, in showers as well as on floors. They need a flatter substrate and more careful setout than a small tile, because a large tile shows every deviation in the wall behind it.
Do you supply the tiles?
Most clients choose and buy their own from a supplier they like, and we advise on quantities, setout and what will actually work in the space. If you would rather we handled it, we can point you to suppliers and take it from there.
More of what we do
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Coverage
Bathroom and ensuite tiling across Brisbane.
A mobile business rather than a shopfront — the van comes to the job, right across Brisbane and surrounds.
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Tell us what the job is and when suits. Measures and quotes cost nothing. You will talk to Ross, not a call centre.