Tiling & floor
installation in Perth — the craft people photograph
Wall and floor tiling with the details done properly: large-format porcelain, mitred edges, epoxy grout, straight setouts and drainage falls that actually drain. Labour from $95/m² — Pete's crew, the same tilers our bathrooms get bragged about for.
Tiling is 90% preparation, 10% grout colour arguments
Beautiful tilework is boring underneath: flat substrate, correct adhesive coverage, a setout planned before the first tile moves. The stuff you actually see — straight lines, tight mitres, grout that stays the colour you picked — is just preparation made visible.
Pete's crew does our wet areas and our feature walls: 1200 mm porcelain, herringbone, mitred outside corners, linear drains. If it's fiddly, they've argued about the right way to do it already — you get the consensus. For full wet-area rebuilds see the bathroom scope.
What's actually included
The same list goes into your contract, line for line. If it's not here, it gets quoted separately — not invoiced quietly later.
Grinding, patching, priming — tile on a flat wall, not a hopeful one. Most 'bad tiling' is bad walls.
IncludedCourses planned so cuts land in corners, not centremost on your feature wall. Agreed on the wall in pencil first.
Included600×600 up to 1200×600 with suction frames, levelling clips and full-bed coverage — no hollow corners.
Included45° mitres cut in-house for external corners and niches — no plastic edge trims in a bathroom you're paying for.
IncludedShower floors graded to the waste — verified with a level and a bucket of water, not crossed fingers.
IncludedEpoxy grout in showers standard — colour-matched silicone at every junction and perimeter.
Included
What it costs
Guide rates for standard-spec work. Your fixed number comes after the free measure.
- Up to 600×600 formats
- Straight/offset patterns
- Standard grout included
- 1200×600 and up
- Levelling system + frames
- Feature walls, niches
- Herringbone, mosaics, mitres
- Epoxy grout throughout
- Linear drains, curbless entries
* Labour-only rates — we supply at trade pricing or install what you've bought. Wet-area tiling is quoted with waterproofing from the bathroom scope, not standalone.
How the job runs
Same playbook as every Apex job — measured, scheduled, reported every Friday. The about page covers the company side.
Photos of every stage land on your phone each Friday, including the hidden work before walls close.
- Wall/floor auditStraight-edge and moisture check first. If the substrate's out, we fix the substrate — tiles don't forgive.
- Setout in pencilCourses and cuts agreed on the actual wall with you present — the time to move a grout line is before adhesive, not after.
- Lay with systemsFull-bed coverage, levelling clips, suction frames on large format. Adhesive matched to tile and substrate — not whatever's in the ute.
- Edges & groutMitres polished, grout matched, silicone colour-matched at every junction. The finish people actually touch.
- Seal & documentSeal where it needs sealing, grout and adhesive datasheets in your handover pack for future repairs.
What we put in, and why
Adhesive by the book
C2S1-rated adhesives matched to porcelain, substrate and location — including the flexible grade large-format tile actually requires. The bag gets photographed into your job file because we're that crew.
Epoxy vs cement grout
Cement grout in showers stains and re-grouts every few years. Epoxy costs more, goes in harder, and essentially never discolours. In wet zones we don't quote the alternative — it's false economy.
Mitres vs trims, settled
Mitred edges look infinitely better and chip slightly easier. Aluminium trims are tougher and look like trims. We'll cut mitres anywhere you want them — and say honestly where a trim is the smarter call (laundry, rental, kids).
Asked before this job starts
Different scope, different worries — these are the ones clients put to us first.
Straight lines or it doesn't leave.
Send photos of the space and the tile you're dreaming about — we'll tell you if it fits the room before anyone quotes.
- Free measure — laser, moisture readings, honest verdict
- Itemised fixed quote inside a week
- Good for 30 days, zero pressure
