Skip to main content

Posts

Kitchen tile ideas

Splashbacks, full room tiling, floors, feature walls and more, there's so many tiles, so many styles and so many different looks you can achieve. We have put together a few of our favourites to show you what's in style. Even straight forward metro/subway tiles have evolded to offer many styles colours and designs, from bevelled edges to fully textured and that's before we get to the huge choice of sizes and colours. Whilst tiles are common in bathrooms and becoming more popular in other areas of the home below are 5 of our favourite tiling looks to transform your kitchen.  1. Metro/subway Metro tiles are also known as subway tiles and have been around for years. Initially designed for use by contractors building subways, these small sized tiles were highly versatile, ideal for the curved ceilings and walls in the London underground and similar subways. They have now evolved to offer hundreds of colours, sizes and more and is probably the most used tile today, especially in
Recent posts

Laminate vs Tiles vs LVP

Choosing your new flooring can present you with a huge array of options. There's alot of choice, firstly carpet or hard floor? Here we are looking at just a few of the hard floor choices. To help you decide how to complete your next project. Laminate Laminate is one of the cheapest options when looking at hard flooring, its available in a wide variety of colours and styles, varies thicknesses, and available to suit most budgets. It's relatively easy to fit for a competent DIYer and a straight forward job for tradesperson. There's alot of suppliers and costs can start from as little £6 per square metre. There are some extras that will boost the project cost, good quality underlay, scotia edging strips and door bars will add to the materials costs. Depending on the sub floor (surface your laying the laminate on) it may require some attention, loose floorboards should be fixed, if concrete a level surface is a must. In some areas of the house you may require a moisture barrier

Tips for hiring the right tradesperson

It’s a tricky task to find a tradesperson. You want someone who, for a fair price will get the job done to a high standard.  There’s so much uncertainty, now more than ever with the current global situation. Are you even allowed to hire a tradesperson at the moment?  Take a look at our tips and you’ll find a reliable tradesperson in no time.  Thinking about COVID 19 You can still hire tradespeople to work in your home (at the time of writing) during the pandemic. However it’s a good idea to check what measures they have in place to protect you and themselves. They should wear correct PPE and keep social distances at all times.  If your shielding consider if it’s the best time to have work carried out. If you have coronavirus symptoms you should not allow anybody to enter your property. Finding a tradesperson There’s multiple sites dedicated to advertising tradespeople, sites such as Trustatrader  and Ratedpeople . However you should always carry out your own checks and trust you

Our first post!

 Introducing Us! Hi and thanks for looking at our new blog. We are a small family run business, offering painting, decorating and tiling as well as some other home maintenance projects ranging from fitting doors, laminate flooring and skirting boards to loft boarding, fencing and more. We have decided to start a blog to document some of the things we get up to and to share a behind the scenes look at how and why we do things. We plan to provide tips, tricks and interesting links to other things related to property maintenance as well.  We aren't 100% sure which way the blog will go and obviously want to provide information that's both informative and interesting. We are open to suggestions of what you would like to see, welcome feedback and look forward to tailoring posts to suit things you want to read.  With that we will call it a day and again thank you for taking the time to read our posts, if you'd like to take a look at our other social pages and get in touch feel fre