Sunday 2 February 2014

The New Kitchen: Part 3 - Never Did That Masel

I was very happy with my work installing the kitchen, however I knew that my tiling abilities weren't fantastic and I was worried that my efforts would look a bit iffy.  So, a quick phone call to one of the best tillers in the town and hey presto a fantastic job!

We choose brick style tiles which have tapered edges.  We found them on sale in Homebase at a very reasonable £12 per square metre.  Thanks to Nicky at NB Tiling for firstly sorting out the walls and then doing such a brilliant job with the tiles.

In fact, Nicky done such a great job with the wall tiles we asked him to do the floor tiles too.  Again, we found the tiles we wanted in Homebase at a very reasonable £20 per square metre.  The photo doesn't show the tiles to well.  They're textured slate style porcelain tiles and are a lot darker than they look in this photo.  I laid plywood on the floor to give a sound surface to tile on and this was fixed in place with 25mm annular ring nails in a 4" nailing pattern, in fact I think I ended up with more nails than wood in my floor.
 
So, not quite Dae It Yersel, mer like made a phone call masel.  Anyway, it's still looking fantastic thanks to Nicky.