Bathroom Tiling in Kimbolton
Bathroom tiling looks straightforward on YouTube and goes wrong fast in real life. Walls that aren't dead flat. Floors that aren't level. Adhesive that's wrong for the substrate. Grout joints that drift halfway up the wall. The difference between a tiling job that lasts twenty years and one that fails in two is almost entirely in the prep — and Kimbolton's period properties make that prep harder than most.
Kimbolton's housing stock is unusually historic, which means most tiling jobs we do here involve the kind of substrates that need careful handling. The Tudor and Georgian cottages on the High Street typically have lath-and-plaster walls or original lime render that needs a tile-backer board fitted before we even open a box. The inter-war and post-war properties have stud walls that need bracing where heavy floor tiles are going down. And the floors are rarely level enough to tile straight onto — we level them with self-levelling compound first.
For Kimbolton bathroom and kitchen tiling jobs we work with porcelain, ceramic, natural stone, and large-format tiles up to 1200mm. Listed properties along the High Street get particularly careful attention because original lime plaster behind the tiles still wants to breathe, so we choose adhesives and grouts that suit period buildings. Every finished job gets sealed at the joints so the limescale from the chalk supply doesn't eat into the grout in the first six months.
