Tile & Backsplash Installation in Brooklyn
A backsplash is a one-day job that makes a kitchen look renovated. A tiled bathroom is a week and it's the difference between a room you tolerate and a room you like.
Free quotes · No trip fee · Mon–Sat, 8am–6pm
What we take on
- Kitchen backsplashes — subway, zellige, mosaic, slab
- Bathroom walls, tub surrounds and shower niches
- Tile floors in kitchens, baths and entries
- Replacing cracked tiles and regrouting a tired bathroom
- Removing old tile down to the substrate
- Waterproofing before anything goes on a shower wall
Waterproofing is invisible and it is the whole job
Tile is not waterproof. Grout is not waterproof. The membrane behind them is what keeps water out of the wall, and it is the part you will never see again after day two.
In a wet area we build on cement board or a foam board system with the seams sealed and a liquid or sheet membrane over it. Tile set straight onto drywall in a shower will hold for a couple of years and then quietly rot the wall behind it — and in an apartment building, that becomes your downstairs neighbor's ceiling and your liability.
Layout before adhesive
Where the first tile lands determines whether you end up with a sliver cut in the most visible corner of the room. We dry-lay, find the center lines, and plan the cuts so the awkward ones land where cabinets, trim or the eye won't catch them.
This takes an hour up front and it's the difference between tile that looks installed and tile that looks designed. On a backsplash we'll walk the layout with you before anything is permanent.
Handmade tile behaves differently
Zellige, handmade subway and reclaimed tile vary in thickness and edge, and that's the point of them — but they can't be set with a standard trowel pass and a spacer. They need back-buttering, a wider grout joint and more patience.
If that's what you've bought, say so when you call. It's a different day's work and a different price, and we'd rather quote it right than rush it.
Quoted flat, before we start
We quote the whole job before a tool comes out, and that number is the number you pay. If we open something up and find a problem nobody could have known about, you hear about it the same day — with options and a price — before we do anything about it.
While we’re there
Bathroom Renovation
Full bathroom gut and rebuild — waterproofed properly, tiled square, and finished in a room that's usually five feet wide.
Kitchen Remodeling
From new cabinets and counters to a full gut — kitchens rebuilt in prewar apartments and row houses, on a schedule you're told up front.
Flooring
Hardwood, engineered, laminate, vinyl plank and tile — laid flat over floors that are anything but.
Where we work
All of Brooklyn — every neighborhood, Greenpoint to Coney Island.
- Bay Ridge
- Park Slope
- Bensonhurst
- Sheepshead Bay
- Midwood
- Flatbush
- Marine Park
- Dyker Heights
- Canarsie
- Brooklyn Heights
- Bedford-Stuyvesant
- Crown Heights
- Brownsville
- East New York
- Bushwick
- Williamsburg
Let’s get it done.
Call, text, or send a photo. We’ll tell you what it costs and when we can be there — usually within 90 minutes.
(929) 500-4434