Home and commercial, 2025 and 2026
Shower floors and washrooms, packed to the drains
Shower pans and washroom floors in dry pack, packed tight around the drains and handed over for the waterproofing.
The part nobody sees once the tile is down
Projects, 2018 to 2026
The part nobody sees once the tile is down, photographed before it disappears: from the crew's phones. Cropped, colour and exposure corrected, nothing added or painted out.
On the job, 2025 to 2026
Shower pans and pre-slopes
On the job, 2018 to 2026
Dry pack floor levelling
Home and commercial, 2019 to 2026
Screeds over in-floor heating
Heating tubes laid by the heating contractor, then the dry pack screed over them, set out with a laser.
Home, 2018 to 2023
Floors in houses and condos
A panelled living room, basements, a garage and a condo above the lake: screeds laid for the finish floor.
Commercial, 2019 to 2026
Commercial floors, set out with a laser
An atrium, open floors and change-room corridors: laser lines on the walls, gauge sticks and screed bays.
On the job, 2019 to 2024
Pool decks and terraces
Commercial, September 2024
Commercial indoor pool deck
The deck of a commercial indoor pool in dry pack: screed rails, a laser line on the wall, the strip along the pool finished first, then the bays.
Home, September 2023
Backyard pool floor
A dry pack bed on the floor of a backyard pool, screeded in bays with a straightedge and worked back toward the steps.
Home and commercial, 2019 to 2024
Pool floors, decks and a spa
Beds on pool floors and around indoor pools and a spa, laid ahead of the tile and stone.
Home, 2022 and 2023
Terraces and a pavilion
A raised terrace and a timber pavilion: beds screeded between rails, ready for the finish.
On the job, 2019 to 2023
Scratch coat
Home, 2019 and 2023
Scratch coat over wood subfloors
Metal lath fastened across the plywood subfloor, then mortar trowelled into it: a flat, solid base for the tile.
On the job, 2020 to 2025
Interior demolition
Home, September 2025
Basement back to the foundation walls
Drywall, framing and ceiling out, photographed over two days, the furniture wrapped in plastic, the floor scraped back to the concrete.
Commercial, September 2024
Restaurant floor, tile to slab
Ceramic tile set on the slab across a restaurant dining room, broken out and the old thinset scraped back to the concrete.
Home, 2020 to 2025
Tile and parquet floors lifted
Old tile, parquet and the mortar under them taken up in homes. In lived-in houses, walls and stairs go behind plastic first.
Home, 2020 and 2021
Rooms to the studs
Plaster, lath and drywall out to the framing, ready for new wiring, insulation and walls.