Bathroom Tiling in Cambourne
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.
Cambourne's housing stock is unusually consistent — almost everything is plasterboard walls and modern subfloors, which makes tiling more predictable than it is in towns with older housing. The newer Great Cambourne, Lower Cambourne, and Upper Cambourne homes need a primer or board upgrade before tiling can start, but the substrate is generally sound. Out in the surrounding villages of Bourn, Elsworth, Caxton, and Eltisley you get the older properties — lath-and-plaster walls or original lime render that needs a tile-backer board fitted before we even open a box, and floors that are rarely level enough to tile straight onto.
In Cambourne bathrooms we work with porcelain, ceramic, natural stone, and large-format tiles up to 1200mm. Splashbacks, shower surrounds, full retiles, kitchen floors, 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.
