Kitchen splashback tiling in Rainham. Metro, mosaic, large-format and natural stone, cut around sockets and set out so the pattern runs true.
Rainham kitchens run small in the older stock and larger in the newer builds, and a splashback in each wants setting out differently. In the Wennington cottages the walls are properly uneven, which is where the time goes.
Planned so the pattern is symmetrical between the units and the cuts land at the ends, not in the middle of the run which in the smaller Rainham kitchens leaves very little room for error.
Neat cuts to the actual socket, not a gap covered by the faceplate. It is the detail people notice from a metre away and the sockets in the older stock are rarely where you would put them now.
Each behaves differently. Large format needs a flat wall, mosaic needs a steady hand on the grout, metro needs the brick bond planning on walls that in the Wennington cottages are properly uneven.
Grey grout on white metro reads completely differently to white. We will show you both before committing and grey copes with a working kitchen better than white does.
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Usually a day, sometimes two if it runs behind a hob and around a window. It is a small job, but it is at eye level, so it is not a job to rush.
Yes, and the material matters there. Natural stone and some porcelains mark with heat and grease, so we will steer you to something that survives cooking rather than just looking good on day one.
Yes, and it is normal in the older Rainham and Wennington stock. It means the wall gets prepared first rather than the tiles being forced to follow it - which is where the time goes on these houses, and why we look before quoting.