Bathroom & Wet Room Tiling
Bathrooms & Wet Rooms
The part of the bathroom you actually look at
The pipework, the boarding, the hours of first fix — all of it disappears behind the tiling. The tiling is what you look at every day. Mickey has tiled bathrooms for 25 years, from family bathrooms and en-suites to walk-in showers and wet rooms, for homeowners and for the trades who fit bathrooms for a living.
Planning a bathroom? Send the rough square metres of wall and floor and the tile you have in mind, and we can give you an estimate before anyone visits.
What we do
The tiling specialists on the job
We're the tilers on a bathroom rather than a bathroom-fitting firm. Plumbing companies who install bathrooms week in, week out bring us onto their own jobs for the tiling, because it's the part their customers judge everything else by.
If you've got a plumber or builder, we work around their first fix. If you're still planning, we'll advise on the tiling from the start. Walls and floors, bathrooms and en-suites, shower rooms, downstairs cloakrooms and wet rooms.
Wet rooms & walk-in showers
What actually makes a wet room work
Tile and grout are not what keep a wet room dry. Grout is porous; the waterproof layer is underneath, between the structure and the tile, and by the time a room is finished you cannot see whether it is there. A wet room stands or falls on that hidden build-up — which is exactly why it is worth asking any quote what is going in under the tile.
The floor is the other half. A level-access shower has to be shaped so every part of it runs to the outlet, and the tiling has to follow those falls exactly. Four planes of floor meet at the drain, which is why you see large tiles cut on the diagonal there. Those cuts are on show forever.
Not every walk-in shower needs the full wet-room build-up. A low-profile tray with the floor tiled up to it gives much of the same look with less underneath. Which suits your room depends on the floor you've got, so ask before you order anything.
The quiet work
Three things that decide how long a bathroom lasts
None of these appear in a showroom photograph, and every one of them matters more than the tile you choose.
- The substrate
- A bathroom fails from underneath. Timber floors move, plaster and plasterboard behave differently in a room that runs hot and wet twice a day, and rigid tile on a background that flexes cracks at the joints first. None of that preparation shows in a finished photograph, which is why it's worth asking about.
- Movement joints
- Where the floor meets the walls, in internal corners, and wherever the surface changes plane, a bathroom needs joints that flex rather than grout that cracks. Solid-grouting the lot looks identical on day one. The difference shows up a winter later, as a hairline crack tracing the corner of the shower.
- Grout and sealing
- Grout colour and joint width change how a room reads as much as the tile does. Porcelain needs no sealing; natural stone needs sealing and different care from day one. We'll tell you what the material you're considering actually asks of you before you commit.
Send us a photo of the room and rough measurements and we can give you an idea of cost before anyone visits.
Large-format tile
Big tiles show up every shortcut
Large-format tile is what designers specify and what most high-end bathrooms are finished in. The bigger the tile, the less a wall can hide. A background flat enough for a small tile will leave a long slab with one edge sitting proud of the next, and you'll catch it in the light every time you walk in.
Where the full tile lands, where the cut lands, whether the wall courses line up with the floor, whether the niche sits on a joint: all of it is decided before anything is fixed. Veined slabs are laid out dry and sequenced first so the pattern flows rather than jumps. That's where the time goes, and it's what a cheap quote leaves out.
The rooms
Family bathrooms, en-suites, cloakrooms and wet rooms
Most of our bathroom work is exactly what it sounds like: the family bathroom, the en-suite, the downstairs WC. The same setting out that carries a large-format wall also makes a two-metre cloakroom feel considered rather than clad — small rooms show every decision, because you are never more than an arm's length from any of them.
Whether it is a full bathroom, an en-suite or just the floor, we will tell you straight what the room needs.
Testimonials
What Clients Say About the Bathroom Work
“Nothing but five ⭐️ for me for Horners tilers. I work with in an industry where collaboration is a daily occurrence with multiple trades. Horners tilers are one or if not my favourite. Reliable, efficient, flexible and masters of there craft. I came with a problem and a plan and Horners delivered. From start to finish of 3 back to back major bathrooms they delivered the perfect bathrooms for people who had lost all faith in tradesmen along side my team. Quality tilers and quality blokes. Highly recommend. Thanks Horners.”
Questions
Bathroom tiling questions we get asked
Do you tile walls and floors, or just one?
Both, and either. Full bathrooms are the usual job — walls and floor together, set out so the two line up — but we also take on floors only or walls only, which is common when a plumber or builder has the rest of the room in hand.
Do you work directly for homeowners, or only through the trades?
Both. Homeowners come to us directly, and plumbers, builders and designers bring us onto their own projects for the tiling. Either way the same person sets out your bathroom.
Can you price a bathroom without visiting?
We can give you an estimate from the square metres of wall and floor and the size of tile you are considering. The price is confirmed once we have seen the room — bathrooms hide too much behind the suite for a firm number sight unseen.
Which areas do you cover?
Leeds and West Yorkshire, and across Yorkshire for the right job. Further afield depends on the work involved — ask, and we will give you a straight answer.
Contact Us
Get a price for your bathroom
Send us the rough square metres of wall and floor and the tile you have in mind, and we can give you an estimate before anyone visits. The price is confirmed once we have seen the room.
- 6 Snaithwood Mews, Rawdon, Leeds, LS19 6SE
- 07985 424 696
- mickeytiler@aol.com