Tiler in Swanley

Swanley sits on the BR8 postcode where London gives way to Kent, and it splits fairly cleanly into two kinds of property.

What the housing means for tiling

The town itself is largely postwar, with a good deal of building from the 1950s onwards. Standard layouts, solid ground floors more often than suspended timber, and bathrooms and kitchens that are now well into their second or third refit. Solid floors are generally good news for tiling, since deflection is not a concern, though old screeds still need checking for soundness and level before anything goes down.

The villages around it, Hextable, Crockenhill and Swanley Village, have older and more varied property, including cottages and converted buildings where floors are rarely flat and walls are rarely square. That is where setting out earns its time.

There is also a lot of extension and conversion work in this area, more so than in the denser parts of South London, simply because the plots are bigger. An extension usually means a new floor running through into an existing room, which raises the question of where the movement joint goes and whether the two floors are at the same level. Both are much easier to resolve before the screed goes down than after.

What I do in Swanley

Bathrooms and wet rooms, kitchen floors and splashbacks, hallways, porches, extensions, conservatories and exterior areas. Ceramic, porcelain, natural stone and mosaic, plus repairs and regrouting.

Getting a quote

Free quotes with no obligation. If you are planning an extension it is worth talking early, because a few decisions at screed stage make the tiling considerably better.