The questions people ask before they ask for a quote, answered for the island rather than in general: what a renovation costs and why, how long it takes, what waterproofing actually is, whether microcement is a good idea, when to take the bath out, and how to run the whole thing from another country.
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Hotel and multiple bathrooms
The same guest bathroom, twenty or two hundred times, in the window between seasons. The sample room...
Hotel and multiple bathrooms
Two to five bathrooms in one house, done together rather than one a year: one design, one plumbing p...
Planning a bathroom renovation
Tiling over the problem, moving the toilet for no reason, a level floor promised before the slab was...
Owning from abroad
The house is empty, which is ideal for the work and impossible for supervising it. How owners who ar...
Planning a bathroom renovation
Tiles are not waterproof and grout is not either. What actually keeps a bathroom dry, where it goes,...
Tiles, stone and surfaces
Fewer joints and calmer walls, at the cost of a flatter wall, a tiler who handles slabs, a way up th...
Tiles, stone and surfaces
The thing itself against the thing that imitates it: what real stone gives that porcelain cannot, wh...
Tiles, stone and surfaces
Two finishes that both work in a wet room on the island when done properly and both fail when not. T...
Tiles, stone and surfaces
One seamless surface, no grout, a modern Mediterranean look - and a material that lives or dies by t...
