Tiling Services in Melbourne

What tiling involves

Tiling is more than sticking tiles to a wall or floor. Before anything goes down, the existing surface is checked to make sure it's actually suitable — is it level, is it sound, does it need screeding or waterproofing first. Then comes the set-out: working out where the tiles will fall across the room so cuts land in sensible places rather than as an afterthought at the last wall.

From there it's installation, grouting, and finishing off the details that make a tiling job look properly done — edges, corners, and around fixtures like taps, drains and skirting.

Surface preparation comes first

Whatever's under the tiles matters as much as the tiles themselves.

Before tiling starts, we check the condition of the substrate — the surface the tiles will actually sit on. That might be an existing concrete slab, floorboards, villaboard, or an old tiled surface being tiled over. If it's uneven, cracked, or not structurally sound, that needs addressing before a single tile goes down, or the finished job won't sit flat and won't last.

In wet areas — bathrooms, laundries, and areas with showers or floor wastes — preparation may involve screeding to establish the required levels and falls, followed by waterproofing before tiling. On a straightforward dry-area job, preparation might just mean confirming the existing surface is clean, flat and ready to tile onto.

Wall tiling and floor tiling aren't the same job

Floor tiling has to deal with weight, foot traffic, and — in wet areas — the correct fall so water actually reaches the drain instead of pooling against a wall or door. Wall tiling is more about layout and finish: keeping cut tiles out of obvious sightlines, working cleanly around taps, niches and showerheads, and finishing edges so they don't look like an afterthought.

The set-out is worked out before installation starts, not adjusted on the fly, so the finished layout sits where it's meant to and the cuts end up somewhere sensible — behind a door, low on a wall, not staring you in the face when you walk in.