Tiled Shower Tray Installation in Hanley
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.
Hanley 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.
Our tiled shower tray installation process in Hanley
We work through it in this order, and you'll know what's happening each day:
- 1Step 1 in Hanley: grout with a colour matched to the tile, sponge clean as we go.
- 2Set out the room dry to avoid awkward cuts in eye lines (planned per Hanley room).
- 3Silicone all internal corners as a movement joint (planned per Hanley room).
- 4Stage 4 on site at Hanley: tank wet zones with liquid or sheet membrane.
- Schlüter trims for clean external edges — specced for Hanley jobs.
- Porcelain (rectified, slip-rated where needed) for Hanley bathrooms.
Get a tiled shower tray fitted in Hanley
Formed falls, membrane tanking, linear drain set. Call 01782 901390.
- Free site survey before quoting in
- Hand-cut details, not snapped edges
Tiled shower trays across Hanley — formed with pre-fall boards, tanked with membranes, drained in seconds.
Coverage around Hanley
Our vans cover a tight radius — Hanley sits centrally, with frequent jobs in:
Service radius is approximate and based on our regular weekly routes.
What we build into every {town} tiled tray
What we commit to on every tiled shower tray installation job in Hanley:
- Pre-fall boards used on every formed tray, no mortar-only falls (standard on every Hanley tiled shower tray installation install).
- Membrane tanking with taped joints on every wet-zone install (standard on every Hanley tiled shower tray installation install).
- Stone-care trained — sealing before and after grouting, every Hanley job.
- Tiled thousands of square metres across Staffordshire — proven across Hanley.
- Specialists in 1200x600 large-format and 1500x750 slab tile, every Hanley job.
Where tiled trays fail in {town}
Homeowners wanting a formed, tiled-in shower floor in Hanley 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 Hanley jobs.
Paint-on tanking layered without primer or mesh at joints — flagged regularly on Hanley jobs.
Linear drains set too high — water pools before it clears — flagged regularly on Hanley jobs.
Existing tiles drummy and lifting from a failed bed — common on Hanley surveys.
Wrong adhesive on porcelain leaving slow cure and edge cracks, particularly in Hanley properties of this age.
Tiled Shower Tray Installation FAQs — Hanley
- Are tiled trays worth the extra cost in Hanley?
- 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 Hanley 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 Hanley 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 Hanley 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.
- How quickly can you start a job in Hanley?
- Lead time is usually two to five weeks from a confirmed quote, depending on the spec and our current schedule across the Staffordshire side.
- Do you tile over existing tiles in Hanley?
- 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.