Cuts planned, not discovered
We work the setout out on paper first so cuts fall where a full tile would have been wasted, and so both edges of a room finish on a sensible width.
ECO Craft Tiling Group Pty Ltd is an Australian registered company working out of postcode 3029 in Victoria, tiling homes, renovations and commercial fit-outs across Melbourne's western suburbs.
Almost every tiling complaint traces back to one of three things: a substrate that was never made flat, a waterproofing membrane that was tiled over before it cured, or a setout decided by whoever started laying first. None of them are visible on handover day. All of them are expensive a year later.
So we quote the preparation as its own line. If a floor needs 15 mm of self-levelling compound to take a 900 mm tile, that is in the quote before you accept it, not raised as a variation halfway through. If a shower base needs re-forming to get the falls right, we say so at the measure.
It makes our quotes look longer than the one-line ones. It also means the number at the bottom is the number you pay.
Tiling generates offcuts, packaging, wash-out slurry and part-used bags. Most of it is decided by choices made before the first cut.
We work the setout out on paper first so cuts fall where a full tile would have been wasted, and so both edges of a room finish on a sensible width.
Adhesive and grout are mixed to the run being laid rather than the bag being open, so less goes off in the bucket and less goes down a drain.
Pallets and undamaged full boxes go back to the supplier where they take them, and clean cardboard and rigid plastic are separated on site rather than tipped into one skip.
One bathroom, one kitchen, one living-area floor. You get the setout explained before we start and the site left swept each day.
Volume and custom residential, tiled to the plan and the tile schedule, sequenced around waterproofing sign-off and the other trades.
Retail, hospitality, childcare and care facilities — including out-of-hours work where a floor has to be back in service the next morning.
Regrouting, resealing, replacing drummy or cracked tiles, and re-siliconing wet-area junctions that have failed.
Every quote, invoice and contract is issued in the registered company name below. Please use these details for your own records and for any accounts payable set-up.
Dimensions, the tile you have chosen and a photo of the current substrate are enough for us to start a quote.