Straight lines, and cuts in the right place
The semis along New Road and Upminster Road South were built with a small square bathroom over the hall, and ninety years on most of them still have exactly that room. What has usually changed is the tiling: often two or three times, each layer stuck on top of the last, until the walls are out of true and the tiles sit proud of the window reveal. The honest fix is to take it all off, make the wall flat and sound, waterproof where the shower actually throws water, and start again with the run set out from the centre. It is more work than tiling over, and it is the difference between a bathroom that still looks right in fifteen years and one that has a cracked grout line by Christmas. Down by the marshes and the older cottages around Rainham Village the substrate is softer and wants treating gently rather than hacked at, and at Beam Park it flips entirely: new walls, flat and true, large-format porcelain and tight tolerances. We do all of it: bathrooms and en-suites, kitchen splashbacks, floor tiling through kitchens and hallways, wet rooms tanked properly, and regrouting and resealing where the tiling is sound but the finish has gone. Fixed price for the room, agreed before we start.
