Tile Setter · Milton
Tile & stone installation
in Milton
Bathrooms, showers, backsplashes, floors and heated tile. Grout & Grade Tile will waterproof and flood test before setting a single tile, and plan the layout before cutting.
Serving Milton
Licence 7A-74075 · 8 years in the trade · Same day where we can
About
About Grout & Grade Tile
Grout & Grade Tile will set tile that stays put, and most of that happens before the tile does: a flat substrate, a waterproofing membrane installed to the manufacturer's detail, a flood test held overnight, and a layout drawn so the awkward cuts land behind the door instead of beside the vanity. We cut wet to keep silica dust down, we let materials cure properly, and we leave you the spare box.
What we do
Tile & stone work in Milton
Bathrooms, showers, backsplashes, floors and heated tile. Grout & Grade Tile will waterproof and flood test before setting a single tile, and plan the layout before cutting.
Bathroom & shower tiling
Walls, floors, niches and benches tiled over a waterproofed assembly, sloped to the drain so water leaves instead of sitting in a corner.
Shower waterproofing
Membrane, banding and pre-slope installed and flood tested before a single tile goes on — the layer that decides whether a shower lasts twenty years.
Kitchen backsplashes
Subway, mosaic, slab and handmade tile set with the layout planned around the outlets and the range so the cuts land where nobody looks.
Floor tile & large format
Porcelain, ceramic and large format panels set flat with a levelling system, on a substrate stiff enough to keep them from cracking.
Heated floors
In-floor heating mats or cable laid, tested before and after the mortar, and connected by a licensed electrician on its own thermostat.
Natural stone & marble
Marble, slate, travertine and quartzite set with the right setting material and sealed, since stone stains in ways porcelain never will.
Regrouting, recaulking & repairs
Failing grout raked and replaced, changes of plane recaulked properly, and cracked or loose tiles swapped where the tile still exists.
Substrate prep & levelling
Self-levelling underlayment, backer board and uncoupling membrane, because most tile failures start below the tile and not in it.
Questions
Asked and answered
- Why do showers leak even when the tile looks fine?
- Because tile and grout are not waterproof. Water passes through grout by design; the membrane behind and below the tile is what keeps it out of your framing. Older showers built on tar paper and mud, or newer ones where the membrane was skipped to save a day, fail at the corners and the curb first. That is why we flood test before tiling and photograph it for you.
- Can you tile over my existing tile?
- Sometimes on floors, if what is there is solidly bonded, flat and the height increase does not create a problem at the doors, and with the right preparation. In showers, almost never — you would be tiling over an unknown waterproofing layer and building the next failure into it. We will tell you which situation you have, and going over is not always the cheaper route once thickness and doors are dealt with.
- How long will my bathroom be out of use?
- For a full shower or bathroom, plan on one to two weeks depending on size and the other trades. Tile is one part of it: demolition, substrate, waterproofing and its cure time, setting, then grout, then a day before the shower gets used. Rushing the cure is how a beautiful job fails in year two, so we build the wait into the schedule rather than skip it.
- Does grout need sealing, and does it stay clean?
- Cement grout benefits from sealing and needs it redone periodically. Many customers are better served by an epoxy or a high-performance grout, which resists staining and does not need sealing, at a higher material and labour cost. Natural stone is the opposite question — the stone itself often needs sealing more than the grout does.
- How much extra tile should I buy?
- Order about ten to fifteen percent over the measured area, more for large format, herringbone or diagonal layouts where waste is higher. Also keep a box after the job. Tile runs vary between production batches, and matching a discontinued tile years later for one cracked piece is usually impossible.
- Is heated floor worth it?
- In a bathroom, it is the upgrade people mention most often afterward. The material cost is modest against the tile job, the running cost is small on a thermostat with a floor sensor, and the only real chance to install it is while the floor is open. It needs its own circuit and a licensed electrician for the connection, which we coordinate.
Service area
Where we work
- Milton
Hours
- Monday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Tuesday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Wednesday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Thursday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Friday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Saturday
- 8 am – 1 pm
- Sunday
- Closed
Book online
Pick a time that suits you
Choose a slot and we will confirm it. No account, no waiting on hold.
Contact
Tell us about the job
Name and phone number are all we need to start.
- Phone
- (905) 555-0106
- Address
- Milton
- Reply
- Same day where we can