Tiled Shower Tray Installation in Burslem
Specialist wall and floor tiling — including large-format and stone.
A tiled shower tray looks better than a resin one, and lasts longer — but only when the substrate, tanking and falls are all right. Get the fall wrong and you get standing water; get the tanking wrong and you get a slow leak into the ceiling below.
We form the tray with pre-fall boards, tank with a manufacturer's kit (not paint-on layered up), and set the linear drain at 12mm below finished tile so water clears in under 3 seconds.
Burslem is one of the areas we work in most weeks — so bathroom & wet-zone tiling jobs here come with a working knowledge of the street layouts.
Tiled Shower Tray Installation FAQs — Burslem
- Are tiled trays worth the extra cost in Burslem?
- For a design-forward bathroom, yes — no acrylic surround, no seam, and the tile runs into the floor uninterrupted. Cost premium is £600–£1,100 over a resin tray for a typical Burslem shower.
- What size fall is correct?
- 1:60 to 1:80 towards a linear drain, or 1:40 to a point gully. We set with a laser and check with water on the day the tray is formed on Burslem jobs.
- Which tanking system do you use?
- Sheet-membrane systems (kerdi-style) with taped joints — not paint-on that relies on the fitter's technique. Guaranteed by both the manufacturer and us on every Burslem install.
- How long does the tray add to the job?
- About 2 extra days — one to form and tank, one for the tanking to cure before the tile goes down. Worth it for a 20-year finish.
- Do you tidy up at the end of each day?
- Yes — dust sheets stay down, the room is hoovered daily and we leave your Burslem home liveable while the work runs.
- Can you do large-format porcelain in a small Burslem bathroom?
- Yes — 600x600 and 1200x600 porcelain work well in Burslem bathrooms when the walls are skimmed flat and set out properly, making the room feel bigger.
Our tiled shower tray installation process in Burslem
This is the order we'll work in once we're on site:
- 1Stage 1 on site at Burslem: strip existing tile, check substrate and skim where needed.
- 2Day 2 for a Burslem job — grout with a colour matched to the tile, sponge clean as we go.
- 3Stage 3 on site at Burslem: silicone all internal corners as a movement joint.
- 4Day 4 for a Burslem job — tank wet zones with liquid or sheet membrane.
- Natural stone (marble, travertine — sealed before grouting) — specced for Burslem jobs.
- Glass mosaic banding and feature strips for Burslem bathrooms.
Where tiled trays fail in {town}
Homeowners wanting a formed, tiled-in shower floor in Burslem hit a recurring set of issues with tiled shower tray installation:
Trays formed on flat substrate with mortar 'falls' packed on top — flagged regularly on Burslem jobs.
Paint-on tanking layered without primer or mesh at joints — flagged regularly on Burslem jobs.
Linear drains set too high — water pools before it clears — flagged regularly on Burslem jobs.
Burslem: existing tiles drummy and lifting from a failed bed.
Movement joints missing where the floor meets the wall, particularly in Burslem properties of this age.
What we build into every {town} tiled tray
What we commit to on every tiled shower tray installation job in Burslem:
- Pre-fall boards used on every formed tray, no mortar-only falls (standard on every Burslem tiled shower tray installation install).
- Membrane tanking with taped joints on every wet-zone install (standard on every Burslem tiled shower tray installation install).
- Tiled thousands of square metres across Staffordshire, every Burslem job.
- Specialists in 1200x600 large-format and 1500x750 slab tile, every Burslem job.
- Stone-care trained — sealing before and after grouting, every Burslem job.
Where Burslem sits on our patch
Burslem (ST6) falls under Stoke-on-Trent City Council in Staffordshire. Burslem — the Mother Town — is rows of late-Victorian terraces around former bottle kilns, with some converted pottery flats and pockets of post-war semis at Middleport. Quick to reach off A500 and A50 — useful when we're surveying several jobs in a morning.
Get a tiled shower tray fitted in Burslem
Formed falls, membrane tanking, linear drain set. Call 01782 901390.
- Tile-only or supply-and-fit options in
- Free site survey before quoting in
Tiled shower trays across Burslem — formed with pre-fall boards, tanked with membranes, drained in seconds.