Bathroom tiling in Hornchurch and Emerson Park. Walls and floors tiled properly, wet areas tanked before a tile goes up, grout and silicone finished clean.
The shower area is sealed with a tanking membrane before any tile goes up. In a Hornchurch semi the bathroom usually sits over a bedroom, so this is what keeps a leak out of the ceiling below.
Old plaster in these interwar houses is rarely flat, and tiles show every dip in it. The walls are made true and primed first, which on plaster this age is a job in itself.
The pattern is set out from the wall you see as you open the door, so full tiles face you and the cut pieces end up in the corners and behind the bath.
A bigger bathroom has more joints and more silicone to get right. Every line is grouted evenly and every corner gets one clean bead, not a second run laid over the first.
Recessed shower niches set out so full tiles frame them, with the edges finished cleanly rather than trimmed to whatever was left.
Hornchurch bathrooms are mostly in interwar semis with generous proportions by modern standards, and out at Emerson Park in rather grander houses than that. Both reward being tiled properly rather than quickly - there is more wall to look at, so a bad set-out has more room to show.
The larger Emerson Park and Ardleigh Green bathrooms often have high ceilings and big windows, so the setting out shows far more than in a small room. Tile lines are centred on the window and the bath, and the cuts are pushed into the corners you notice least.
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Every time. In the interwar Hornchurch semis the bathroom is usually above a bedroom, so an untanked shower does not just damage the bathroom - it comes through a ceiling. It is not a step we will leave out.
Walls and floor in a typical Hornchurch semi take two to three days. Add time at the start if old tiles have to come off and the plaster needs making good, which in houses this age it often does.
Yes, and across Hornchurch, Ardleigh Green, Elm Park and Upminster. Emerson Park houses tend to be larger with more tiling in them, which usually means a longer job rather than a different one.
Yes. The heating is laid and tested by whoever installs it, then covered with a levelling compound before tiling. The tile and adhesive are chosen to suit a heated floor, so nothing cracks as it warms up and cools down.