Shower Tanking & Waterproofing in Hanley
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 Hanley 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 Hanley long enough to know the houses inside out.
Tanking shortcuts we find in {town}
Anyone tiling a wet area who wants it waterproof behind the tiles in Hanley hit a recurring set of issues with shower tanking & waterproofing:
Membrane rolled over standard plasterboard in a full wet zone — flagged regularly on Hanley jobs.
Internal corners painted rather than taped, so movement splits the membrane — flagged regularly on Hanley jobs.
Pipe penetrations left uncollared — the one place water always finds — flagged regularly on Hanley jobs.
On the Hanley side of our patch: coloured grout staining stone or rough porcelain.
Hanley: existing tiles drummy and lifting from a failed bed.
Hanley at a glance
Hanley (ST1) falls under Stoke-on-Trent City Council in Staffordshire. Hanley is the city centre — apartments above shops, conversions of former pottery buildings, plus tight rows of terraces in Shelton and Northwood. Main routes through are A500 and A53, which is why our vans pass close to Hanley most days.
Tank it properly before the tiles go on
Free Hanley survey of the substrate, plus photos of the tanked walls before tiling starts so you can see what you paid for.
- Hand-cut details, not snapped edges
- Free site survey before quoting in
Shower and wet-room tanking in Hanley — backer board, taped junctions, collared penetrations and a two-coat membrane before any tile.
Coverage around Hanley
Nearby places we cover within roughly a 15-minute drive of Hanley:
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 Hanley?
- If that wall takes direct shower spray, yes. Outside the wet zone in a normal Hanley 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 Hanley job that normally means the tanking stage occupies its own day in the schedule.
- Do you provide a fixed-price quote before starting?
- Always. After a free home visit in Hanley we send a fully itemised, fixed-price quotation — no surprises on invoice day.
- Are you fully insured for work in Hanley?
- Yes — we hold full public liability cover and every job in Hanley comes with a written workmanship guarantee.