Hand-set tiling · Hemel Hempstead

Every tile, set by hand.

Zellige, encaustic and large-format tiling for bathrooms, kitchens and hallways across Hertfordshire. Three tilers, one van, no subcontractors.

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Zellige bathroom, BerkhamstedNine days, set tile by tile

Why handmade

A handmade tile is never quite flat, and that is the point.

Zellige is glazed by hand and cut by hand, so every piece catches the light differently. Laying it takes patience, a level eye and joints that follow the tile rather than the spirit level. That is the work we do, every day.

2009First job, a kitchen splashback in Boxmoor.

3Tilers on every job. No subcontractors, ever.

48hFrom first call to a fixed written quote.

What we tile

Bathrooms and wet rooms

Tanked, levelled and tiled floor to ceiling, with joints you can run a hand across.

Zellige · Metro · Mosaic

Kitchens and splashbacks

Handmade tile behind the hob and the tap, cut round sockets so the edges look drawn.

Zellige · Glazed brick

Floors and hallways

Encaustic, terracotta and Victorian geometric floors, laid new or carefully repaired.

Encaustic · Terracotta

Large-format and stone

Big slabs, thin joints, flat to a millimetre. Porcelain, limestone and marble.

Porcelain · Stone

Recent walls

Four rooms from this year. Every one was set, grouted and sealed by the same three pairs of hands.

A kitchen with a cobalt blue zellige splashback, oak shelf and brass tap — Kitchen · Harpenden

Close-up of handmade zellige tiles in emerald, cobalt, terracotta and ivory — Detail · glaze pooling

A Victorian hallway floor in terracotta, ivory and emerald geometric tile — Hallway floor · St Albans

A walk-in shower clad in emerald zellige with a cobalt niche — Wet room · Hemel Hempstead

From bare plaster to grout

The bathroom before tiling: bare plaster walls, a plastic-wrapped bath and stacked tile boxes

The same bathroom finished in emerald, cobalt and ivory zellige with a terracotta herringbone floor

BeforeAfter

01
Survey and quote
We visit, measure and check the walls, then send a fixed price within 48 hours.
02
Prep
Tanking, levelling and primer. Most of a good tile job is invisible, and it all happens here.
03
Set
Tile by tile from a datum line, back-buttering each piece so the glaze sits true.
04
Grout and hand back
Joints filled and tooled, silicone matched, the room left clean enough to use that night.

The glaze chart

Five glazes we set most. Every batch is fired by hand, so we always lay from a mixed box and never straight from one.

Marrakech greenDeep, pooled, never flat.

Fez blueCobalt that moves in the light.

Tetouan clayWarm terracotta, lightly crazed.

Meknes whiteSoft ivory, a little uneven.

Safi saffronSunny, for small accents.

Free, fixed-price quotes

Tell us about your wall.

Send a few details and a photo if you have one. A tiler, not a call centre, will reply within two working days.

01632 960149
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Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, St Albans, Harpenden, Watford and the villages between. Monday to Friday, 7.30 to 17.00.