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Green mosaic bar front, brass rail and black and white floor under brick slip arches at The Bear Free House, Littlehampton

Chichester tilers.
It's all in the prep.

Domestic and commercial tiling and brick slips, across West Sussex, Hampshire and Brighton.

The Bear Free House, Littlehampton. Over 100m² of brick slips, arches and a mosaic bar front.

What we lay

Bathrooms to beach toilet blocks. A page on each, with our own photos and what we have learnt doing it.

Recent work, with the numbers

Brick slip reception with herringbone flooring at the JSG Group head office
JSG Group, Harris House. Over 100m² of brick slips

A high end result expected on our domestic projects, finished at the pace expected on our commercial projects.

Terrazzo effect service area running into a timber herringbone floor in a coffee shop
Coffee shop service area. 600x600, tiled 5pm to 11pm
Porcelain terrace with bullnosed steps beside a brick house
Porcelain terrace. 110m² of 600x900
Green glazed tile counter at The Boardwalk Cafe
The Boardwalk Cafe, Chichester. 70m² primed and levelled first
Sauna area and tiled floor at The Wellness Yard
The Wellness Yard, Fareham. A full sauna and 3 ice baths

See all the projects

Most of the job is what you never see

Know your product, know your prep, learn the process. It saves you money later, and it is why the tiles stay where we put them.

Floors levelled flat

The Boardwalk Cafe, Chichester: 70m² primed and levelled. The area had multiple height issues, and it finished flat.

Levelling compound poured flat across The Boardwalk floor

Wet areas tanked before a tile

Tile, adhesive and grout do not make a shower watertight. So we build with a full Jackoboard tray and tanking system first.

Jackoboard tray and grey tanking on a shower wall

Matting where the floor needs it

Decoupling mat takes up sideways stress between floor and tile. A floor that bounces needs stiffening first.

Orange decoupling matting across an empty room

Sealed and grouted in the right order

Our terracotta floor: semi-rapid adhesive, boiled linseed oil, antique ageing wax, then sealed again after grouting.

More about floor prep

Set out your room

Put in your room and a tile, and we will draw where the cuts land. It is the same sum we do on site before the first tile goes down.

Long side runs
Pattern

Whole tileCut tileCentre lines

Floor area
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Tiles in the layout
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Smallest cut
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To order, covering every piece
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The awkward bits

Steel stairs with tiles cut, rounded, polished and mitred. Curves, fans, scallops, Southsea fireplaces. If it looks hard, send us a photo.

Steel staircase with polished, mitred tile treads
Green scallop mosaic shower
Patterned floor cut to a curve
Large format tile around a double-sided fireplace, Southsea
Checkerboard Victorian mosaic floor in a wet room

Metres and days

196m²
of 600x300 through care home shower rooms and staff toilets, in 11 days.
45m²
in 2 accessible toilets at West Wittering Beach, in 2 days.
30m²
in a Costa refurb in Poole, in a day.
124m²
across 9 new-build flats, in 2 weeks.
120m²
through an HMO, in 4 days.
80m²
of shop floor, over 3 evenings outside trading hours.
Long washroom with a white trough basin at West Wittering Beach
West Wittering Beach. Over 300m²
Natural limestone flag floor in a kitchen extension, Climping
Sam is very good at what he does, clearly loves what he does and it reflects in all that he does. If I could rate Sam 20 out of 10 I would!
Kitchen customer, Climping

Who turns up

Sam Tayman and Harvey Berry sitting on the back of the Tayman Tiling van
Sam and HarveySam has been tiling since about 2008. Harvey Berry tiles with him full time.
Sam, in a Tayman Tiling hi-vis, setting out with a green laser on a floor
Laser firstSet-out comes before tile, every time.
Two tilers in hi-vis on hop-ups tiling a white room
Trusted subcontractorsA small core team, with people we know on the bigger programmes. Danielle keeps the office moving.

Send us a plan, some photos or just the room size. We will come and measure up, with the sample books.

Sam Tayman in hi-vis beside the Tayman Tiling van