Kitchen Tiling & Splashbacks in Stone

Kitchens in Stone village homes tend to be working rooms — rear extensions on post-war semis, or original back-of-house layouts that have been updated over the years but still carry the proportions of an earlier era of house design. A splashback behind the hob, a new floor, or a tiled upstand behind the sink can transform how one of these rooms looks and feels without a full kitchen replacement.

The challenge is doing it to a standard that holds over time — which means the right adhesive for the heat exposure behind a hob, a floor tile that performs under daily use and is not going to chip or craze within a year, and a layout that is properly centred rather than ending with a sliver of tile at the most visible point. Gee has tiled kitchens in homes like these across Greenhithe, Stone, and the surrounding DA9 area for the better part of a decade.

He brings the same approach whether the job is a splashback in a modest stone village kitchen or a full floor tile in a larger property: assess the sub-floor or wall surface properly, plan the layout before any tile is cut, and do the prep work that cheaper tilers skip because it adds time to the job. "He is very honest and will advise you what will work and what will not work in your space," wrote one local customer.

That holds true for kitchen work specifically, where the practical requirements — heat resistance behind hobs, slip rating on kitchen floors, the movement in older suspended floors — are more demanding than they appear from a design perspective alone.