Tilers in Mansfield: Wall & Floor Tiling
Wall and floor tiling across Mansfield by tilers employed by Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens, not hired in for the week. Bathrooms and shower walls, kitchen floors and splashbacks, wet rooms tanked before a single tile goes on, and large-format porcelain laid flat on a floor we have prepared ourselves.
- Est. 30+ years' trade experience
- NVQ Level 3 Carpentry & Joinery
- Fully insured
- All trades in-house
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- Distance from us
- about nine miles — around twenty minutes by road
- Survey usually within
- a few days
- Travel charge
- None anywhere inside our 30-mile radius
- Trades on the job
- All ours — no subcontractors
How Do We Approach Wall and Floor Tiling in Mansfield?
Most of the tiling we do in Mansfield is part of a room we are already rebuilding — a bathroom at Berry Hill, a knocked-through kitchen at Forest Town — but we also tile as a job on its own: a shower wall that has started to leak into the room below, a kitchen floor that has cracked along the line of a joist, a hallway the owner wants back to something like the original. Whichever it is, the result depends less on the tile than on what is underneath it. A tile is only as flat as the wall it is stuck to and only as sound as the floor it sits on, and in Mansfield those two things change from one street to the next.
So we look before we price. At the survey we check whether the walls are plaster, plasterboard or old tiles over old plaster, whether the ground floor is suspended timber or solid concrete, and how much the bathroom floor gives when you stand in the middle of it. That decides the preparation — boarding, a levelling compound, an uncoupling membrane, tanking — and the fixed written quote includes it, rather than leaving it as an extra once the old tiles come off.
What Do Mansfield Walls and Floors Need Before Tiling?
The Victorian and Edwardian terraces in the town centre and along Nottingham Road, Chesterfield Road and Woodhouse Road mostly have suspended timber floors in the front rooms and a solid floor in the rear outrigger, often with the original quarry tiles still under two layers of vinyl. Tiling over boards that flex is the most common reason a Mansfield kitchen or hallway floor cracks, so on timber we screw the boards down, overlay with tile backer board and, under porcelain, add an uncoupling membrane. Where the old quarry tiles are sound and well bonded we can sometimes tile over them after priming; where they are loose or damp, they come up first.
The inter-war and post-war semis at Berry Hill, Bull Farm, Ravensdale and Forest Town usually have a concrete ground floor and timber joists upstairs, which makes the bathroom the floor to worry about. A floor over joists has to be stiff enough for the tile you choose: a 600 by 600mm porcelain tile tolerates far less movement than a small ceramic one, so we check the joists and overboard before settling on the adhesive. The walls in these bathrooms are often original plaster that has already been tiled over once or twice, and the honest answer is usually to strip back and board rather than add another layer.
The 1960s and 1970s houses at Ladybrook and Oak Tree, and the newer estates on the edges of town, more often have plasterboard stuck to the blockwork and chipboard flooring upstairs. Chipboard and water do not mix, so in a bathroom we overlay it with cement-based backer board before tiling, and in a shower area we tank the walls and the wall-to-floor junction whatever board is behind them.
What are we asked for most?
- Bathroom and shower-wall tiling in the Berry Hill, Bull Farm, Ravensdale and Forest Town semis, fixed to new boards rather than tired plaster
- Kitchen and hallway floors over suspended timber in the town-centre terraces, stiffened and overlaid before tiling
- Wet rooms and walk-in shower areas tanked as one system, with the floor formed to fall towards the drain
- Large-format porcelain on walls and floors at Ladybrook, Oak Tree and the newer estates, levelled with a clip system
- Kitchen splashbacks, utility rooms and porch floors, priced as standalone work
What Does Our Wall and Floor Tiling Include?
Every wall and floor tiling job Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens takes on covers all 10 parts of the work, from strip-out and first fix to making good and the final clean, carried out by one in-house team of seven trades. See the full list of what is included.
Do you take on tiling in Mansfield as a job on its own?
Yes: Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens tiles Mansfield bathrooms, shower walls, kitchen floors and splashbacks as standalone work, as well as inside a full renovation. Re-tiling the walls of one shower enclosure is typically one to two days including preparation; the walls and floor of a whole bathroom, three to five. Because our plasterers and plumbers are on the same team, a leaking shower wall can be stripped, re-boarded, tanked and re-tiled as one booking rather than three.
How is a wet room tanked before it is tiled?
Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens tanks every Mansfield wet room as a single system before tiling: a membrane across the floor and up the walls, with reinforcing tape and pre-formed pieces at every corner and pipe, sealed into the drain. On a timber floor we first fit a shower former between the joists so the fall to the drain is built into the floor, not trowelled up in adhesive. The tanking cures for the time its maker specifies before a tile goes on, because tiles and grout on their own are not waterproof.
Can large-format porcelain go on any floor?
Not without preparation, and Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens checks the floor before agreeing to lay 600 by 600mm or larger porcelain in a Mansfield home. Big tiles need a flatter, stiffer base than small ones; a hollow under one corner becomes a cracked tile or a lipped edge. On concrete we grind the high spots and pour a levelling compound where it is needed. On timber we stiffen, overboard and add an uncoupling membrane, then fix each tile on a full bed of flexible adhesive, back-buttered, with levelling clips so neighbouring edges sit flush.
Which British Standard do your tilers work to?
Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens tiles to the methods set out in BS 5385, the British Standard code of practice for wall and floor tiling. In practice that covers what decides whether tiling lasts: a properly prepared background, an adhesive matched to both the tile and the surface, full adhesive coverage rather than five dabs on the back, movement joints at the edges of the room and where materials change, and enough curing time between layers. It is also why we will not tile a floor that still bounces.
Does a Mansfield tiling job need building control?
Tiling on its own is not notifiable, so for most Mansfield tiling jobs there is nothing to tell Mansfield District Council. Barbers Bathrooms & Kitchens flags the exceptions at the survey. A wet room that moves the waste, a new electric shower circuit or a new extractor brings the drainage, electrical or ventilation parts of the Building Regulations into play, and the electrical work is certified by our own registered electrician. If a floor needs new or strengthened joists, building control is notified before we start.
What Else Might You Need?
Where Else Near Mansfield Do We Fit Tiling?
- Mansfield Woodhouse — about eight miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Sutton-in-Ashfield — about twelve miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Kirkby-in-Ashfield — about thirteen miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Rainworth — about twelve miles from Creswell, Nottinghamshire
- Shirebrook — about five miles from Creswell, Derbyshire
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