Tips, guides, and updates from the team — read what's new before you book your next service.
Can You Tile Over Existing Tiles? Six Checks for the Floor, Walls and Shower — An overlay holds only where every old tile is still bonded, and in a shower it keeps whatever membrane lies underneath, leaks included. Six checks for floors, walls and showers, and where the 12 to 16 mm a floor gains runs into doors and drains.
Tile, Glass or Stone Slab: Which Kitchen Backsplash Belongs Behind the Hob — One maker's warranty leaves heat cracks in its quartz with the owner and covers thermal-shock cracks in its sintered stone. That clause, your hob's manual and the state of the old tiles decide which material goes where.
Dead or Dormant? Resetting a Villa Garden While the Planting Window Is Open — Bermuda patches knit while October is still warm, and ryegrass wants the cooler soil of late November, so the two lawn jobs fall weeks apart. Field tests for what the summer killed, and the dates that give replacements time to root.