01 / Walls & floors
Walls and floors
Full rooms or a single wall. The substrate gets checked for flat and sound before anything goes on it — that’s where lippage and cracked tiles come from.
Dagnall · Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire
Tiling that’s set out before it’s laid.
Walls and floors, kitchens and bathrooms, feature walls and brick slips — in ceramic, porcelain and natural stone. Every room is measured and set out first, so the full tiles land where you look and the cuts go where you don’t.
CeramicPorcelainNatural stoneBrick slips
Pick a bond and a material — this is the first conversation we have on site
Based in DagnallHP4 1QX
Listed on CheckatradeCall or request a callback
Finished jobs on Instagram@visioninteriors_tile_and_stone
Priced after seeing the roomNo guesswork
What we tile
All tiling works carried out.
One trade, done properly — from a single splashback to a full floor. If it gets tiled, it gets set out, prepped and finished the same way.
02 / Kitchens & bathrooms
Kitchens and bathrooms
Splashbacks, full-height walls, floors and shower areas — worked around units, worktops, trims and sanitaryware so the cuts land out of sight.
03 / Feature walls
Feature walls and brick slips
Chimney breasts, media walls, hallways and fireplaces. Brick slips cut, bonded and pointed by hand for a real brick face on a flat wall.
04 / Natural stone
Natural stone
Marble, travertine, limestone and slate. Dry-laid first to blend the shading, and sealed before grouting so the stone doesn’t take the grout colour up.
Materials
Ceramic, porcelain and natural stone.
They look similar in a showroom and behave nothing alike on site. Here’s the short version of what goes where — the long version happens when we see the room.
Ceramic
Ceramic
Softer body, cuts cleanly, lighter on a wall. The sensible choice for splashbacks and bathroom walls.
- Best on walls
- Wide choice, lower cost
- Not for heavy floor traffic
Porcelain
Porcelain
Dense and low-porosity. Hard wearing, happy in wet areas, and what most large-format tiles are made from.
- Floors and wet areas
- Needs a flat bed and a solid fix
- Diamond blade, slower cutting
Natural stone
Natural stone
Marble, travertine, limestone, slate. No two pieces match, which is the point — and the reason it gets laid out dry first.
- Dry-laid to blend shade and veining
- Sealed before grouting
- Re-sealing keeps it looking right
Brick slips
Brick slips
Real brick faces, roughly 20–25mm deep. Bonded to the wall, then pointed by hand so it reads as brickwork, not tile.
- Corners mitred or wrapped
- Pointed, brushed and left to cure
- Adds very little depth to a room
How a job runs
Five stages, in this order, every time.
Most tiling problems are prep problems. This is the order that stops them.
01
Look at the room
Measure up, check the walls and floor are flat and sound, and talk through tile, bond, grout colour and trims. If the substrate needs work, you hear it now — not halfway through.
02
Price it
A written price covering the tiling labour, and the materials too if we’re supplying them. Prep, removal and disposal are listed separately so you can see what you’re paying for.
03
Prep
Old coverings off, surfaces levelled, boarded or primed as needed, and wet areas tanked before a single tile is fixed. Dust sheeted and protected as we go.
04
Set out
Centre lines marked, cuts balanced at both ends, and full tiles kept where the eye lands — entrances, shower walls, the run you see from the door. Nothing goes down until this is agreed.
05
Lay, grout, finish
Tiles fixed and levelled, left to set, then grouted, siliconed and trimmed. Floor cleaned off, waste taken away, room handed back usable.
The work
Recent work.
Bathrooms, kitchens, hallways and fireplaces — photographed as they were handed over, with nothing staged and nothing borrowed.
Judge a tiler on the details.
Anyone can make a photo look good. These are the four things worth looking at closely — on our work, or on anyone else’s.
- 01Joints that stay the sameEvery grout line the same width, top to bottom, wall to floor — and lining through where two surfaces meet.
- 02Cuts in the right placesThin slivers at the edges are a setting-out failure. Cuts belong in corners, under units and behind doors.
- 03Edges finished properlyMitred corners or the right trim — never a raw glazed edge left showing on an external corner.
- 04Flat, with no lippageRun a hand across it. You shouldn’t feel one tile standing proud of the next, especially on large format.
Finished jobs
Every job we finish goes on Instagram.
Kitchens, bathrooms, feature walls and brick slips — photographed as they were handed over. It’s the fastest way to see the standard and the kind of work we take on.
@visioninteriors_tile_and_stone
Who you’ll be dealing with
You’ll be dealing with Mark.
He runs Vision Tile & Stone. He’ll be the one looking at your room, talking you through the tile, the bond and the grout colour, and giving you the price — and he’s the one who’ll be laying it.
Areas covered
Working out of Dagnall, across Herts and Bucks.
Most jobs are within about half an hour of the village. If you’re just outside it, ask anyway — it’s usually a yes.
DagnallHP4 1QX · Base
Berkhamsted
Leighton Buzzard
Tring
Dunstable
Hemel Hempstead
Aylesbury
Whipsnade
Ivinghoe
Edlesborough
Eaton Bray
Studham
Markyate
Harpenden
St Albans
Luton
Chesham
Milton Keynes
Get a price
Send the room, get a price.
Fill this in and it opens a WhatsApp message with the details already written — add a couple of photos of the room and send it. Nothing is sent until you press send.
Phone
07530 905746Where we are
26 Main Road South
Dagnall, Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire HP4 1QX
Before you call
The questions we get asked most.
Do you supply the tiles, or do I buy them?
Either works. Plenty of people enjoy choosing their own and buy direct from a tile shop — just tell us what you’ve picked so we can check it suits the room. If you’d rather we sorted it, say so when you ask for a price.
How much extra tile should I order?
About 10% on top for a straight stack or brick bond. Allow nearer 15% for herringbone, diagonal or anything with lots of cuts — and buy it all in one go so the batch shade matches. Keep the spares: they’re the easiest repair you’ll ever have.
Will you take the old tiles off?
Yes. Removal, making good and taking the waste away are priced as separate lines so you can see the cost rather than find it buried in a total.
How long will my room take?
It depends far more on prep and tile format than on floor area — a small bathroom with walls to board and a wet area to tank takes longer than a big flat floor. You get a day count with the price, not a vague “few days”.
Can you tile over underfloor heating?
Yes — it’s one of the best things to tile over. It needs the right flexible adhesive, often a decoupling membrane, and the heating left off until everything has fully cured before it’s brought up slowly.
What grout colour should I pick?
Match the tile and the pattern disappears into one surface; contrast it and every joint is on show — which only flatters a job that’s set out well. On floors, avoid bright white: pick a shade that still looks right in two years. We’ll show you options against your actual tile before grouting.
Do you do small jobs?
Yes. A splashback or a single feature wall still deserves setting out properly. Get in touch and we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s worth a visit or better bundled with other work.
Does natural stone need sealing?
Yes, and it matters when. Porous stone like travertine, limestone and marble is sealed before grouting, otherwise the grout stains the face of the stone permanently. It then wants re-sealing periodically depending on where it is and how hard it’s used.