Shower Tanking & Waterproofing in Fenton
Specialist wall and floor tiling — including large-format and stone.
Tiles and grout are not waterproof. They're the wearing surface. The waterproofing is the layer behind them, and it's the part nobody sees — which is exactly why it's the part most often skipped on a Fenton bathroom.
We tank as a separate, deliberate stage: board the substrate, tape and seal every internal corner and junction, collar the pipe penetrations, then two coats of membrane with the second at right angles to the first.
We've fitted bathroom & wet-zone tiling in Fenton long enough to know the houses inside out.
Our shower tanking & waterproofing process in Fenton
We work through it in this order, and you'll know what's happening each day:
- 1Step 1 in Fenton: tank wet zones with liquid or sheet membrane.
- 2Step 2 in Fenton: strip existing tile, check substrate and skim where needed.
- 3Hand-cut and diamond-cut every detail — inside corners, recesses, niches (planned per Fenton room).
- 4Grout with a colour matched to the tile, sponge clean as we go (planned per Fenton room).
- Mapei Keraflex Maxi S1 for large-format porcelain — specced for Fenton jobs.
- Porcelain (rectified, slip-rated where needed), used in Fenton installs.
Our tanking stages in {town}
What we commit to on every shower tanking & waterproofing job in Fenton:
- Tanking photographed at completion of both coats before tiling (standard on every Fenton shower tanking & waterproofing install).
- Every corner, junction and penetration taped or collared as a separate stage (standard on every Fenton shower tanking & waterproofing install).
- Specialists in 1200x600 large-format and 1500x750 slab tile on every install we run in Fenton.
- Tiled thousands of square metres across Staffordshire — proven across Fenton.
- Stone-care trained — sealing before and after grouting on every install we run in Fenton.
About Fenton
Locally, Fenton is part of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's area within Staffordshire, covering postcodes ST4. Fenton — the forgotten town — is a mix of tight terraces around the A50, ex-council semis at Mount Pleasant and pockets of new-build infill on cleared pottery land. It's reached easily via A50 and A5007, putting it inside our regular daily route.
Beyond Fenton — where else we work
Nearby places we cover within roughly a 15-minute drive of Fenton:
Service radius is approximate and based on our regular weekly routes.
Waterproofing questions from {town}
- Do I need tanking if I'm only tiling one wall in Fenton?
- If that wall takes direct shower spray, yes. Outside the wet zone in a normal Fenton bathroom, a sound boarded substrate is generally sufficient.
- Can you tank over plasterboard?
- Standard plasterboard isn't the right base for a wet zone. We replace it with a suitable tile backer board in the shower area, then tank that.
- What about the joint between wall and tray?
- That junction gets sealing tape bedded into the membrane before tiling, plus a silicone movement joint afterwards. Two lines of defence, not one.
- How long before you can tile?
- The membrane needs its full cure between coats and before tiling. On a Fenton job that normally means the tanking stage occupies its own day in the schedule.
- Do you tile over existing tiles in Fenton?
- Only where the substrate is sound — usually we strip back to plaster or board so the new tiles bed properly and we can tank wet zones first.
- Can you do large-format porcelain in a small Fenton bathroom?
- Yes — 600x600 and 1200x600 porcelain work well in Fenton bathrooms when the walls are skimmed flat and set out properly, making the room feel bigger.
Tank it properly before the tiles go on
Free Fenton survey of the substrate, plus photos of the tanked walls before tiling starts so you can see what you paid for.
- Specialists in large-format and natural stone
- Tile-only or supply-and-fit options in
Shower and wet-room tanking in Fenton — backer board, taped junctions, collared penetrations and a two-coat membrane before any tile.