Shower Tanking & Waterproofing in Sneyd Green
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 Sneyd Green 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.
Most of our bathroom & wet-zone tiling jobs in Sneyd Green begin with a slow walk round the house, not a quote on the doorstep.
Tanking shortcuts we find in {town}
Anyone tiling a wet area who wants it waterproof behind the tiles in Sneyd Green hit a recurring set of issues with shower tanking & waterproofing:
Membrane rolled over standard plasterboard in a full wet zone — flagged regularly on Sneyd Green jobs.
Internal corners painted rather than taped, so movement splits the membrane — flagged regularly on Sneyd Green jobs.
Pipe penetrations left uncollared — the one place water always finds — flagged regularly on Sneyd Green jobs.
Sneyd Green: coloured grout staining stone or rough porcelain.
In Sneyd Green we regularly find floors not level, causing lippage between large-format tiles.
Where Sneyd Green sits on our patch
Sneyd Green sits in Staffordshire, served by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, with postcodes ST1, ST6. Sneyd Green is largely 1930s semi-detached housing along Hanley Road and Milton Road, with bungalows toward Eaves Lane and pockets of newer infill. It's reached easily via A53 and A500, putting it inside our regular daily route.
Our regular Staffordshire routes
Beyond Sneyd Green, we're regularly working in:
Service radius is approximate and based on our regular weekly routes.
Other services in Sneyd Green
Waterproofing questions from {town}
- Do I need tanking if I'm only tiling one wall in Sneyd Green?
- If that wall takes direct shower spray, yes. Outside the wet zone in a normal Sneyd Green 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 Sneyd Green job that normally means the tanking stage occupies its own day in the schedule.
- Are you fully insured for work in Sneyd Green?
- Yes — we hold full public liability cover and every job in Sneyd Green comes with a written workmanship guarantee.
- Do you tile over existing tiles in Sneyd Green?
- 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.
Tank it properly before the tiles go on
Free Sneyd Green survey of the substrate, plus photos of the tanked walls before tiling starts so you can see what you paid for.
- Tile-only or supply-and-fit options in
- Hand-cut details, not snapped edges
- Specialists in large-format and natural stone
Shower and wet-room tanking in Sneyd Green — backer board, taped junctions, collared penetrations and a two-coat membrane before any tile.