Bathroom Tiling in St Ives
Bathroom tiling looks straightforward on YouTube and goes wrong fast in a real St Ives bathroom. The historic homes around Market Hill have walls that haven't been dead flat in 150 years, the post-war Westwood semis have floors that need levelling before any tile goes down, and even the modern Wheatfields builds need the right adhesive for plasterboard. 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.
St Ives's housing mix means we tile a real range of jobs. The Georgian and Victorian homes around Market Hill and the Old Riverport often have lath-and-plaster walls or original lime render that needs a tile-backer board fitted before we even open a box — and the floors are rarely level enough to tile straight onto. The post-war semis around Westwood and Hill Rise usually have stud walls that need bracing where heavy floor tiles are going down. And the newer estates on Wheatfields have plasterboard walls that need a primer or board upgrade before tiling can start.
In St Ives bathrooms we work with porcelain, ceramic, natural stone, and large-format tiles up to 1200mm. Splashbacks, shower surrounds, full retiles, kitchen floors, period hallways — if it can be tiled, we tile it. Every job gets sealed properly at the end so the limescale from our hard water doesn't eat into the grout.
