Tile Installation in Summerville, SC
Porcelain floors, laundry and mudroom tile, showers and backsplashes on both sides of the county line. Joints that stay even, floors that stay flat.
- 5+ Years Tiling
- 100+ Projects
- Licensed in SC
- Written Pricing
Summerville is trading vinyl plank for porcelain
The most common request in Nexton and Cane Bay Plantation has nothing to do with bathrooms. It is the floor. Luxury vinyl plank went into thousands of these houses because it was fast and cheap, and five years on the seams have opened and the main level reads as temporary.
Porcelain solves that permanently, and plank formats now look closer to white oak than the vinyl ever did. Laundry rooms and mudrooms are the other frequent call. Those are where a family drops wet cleats and sandy towels, and tile is the only floor that does not care.
Closer to the Flowertown streets the work turns into restoration thinking: heart pine subfloors, an added-on bathroom sitting an inch low, a hex mosaic suited to the age of the house. If the project has grown, our page on bathroom remodeling in Summerville covers it.
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What We Tile in Summerville
Shower walls, floors, benches and niches set over a waterproofed assembly. Guest and primary baths in Nexton, White Gables, Legend Oaks and Cane Bay Plantation.
Wood-look planks and 24 by 48 formats set in place of tired vinyl. The slab gets flattened first, because large tile punishes a surface that waves.
The cheapest way to stop a builder kitchen looking like every other one on the street. Layout planned around outlets, hood and window, then finished in a day or two.
Vinyl, adhesive residue, old ceramic and failing thinset come off before we start. Prep is quoted openly, because it is where the floor is genuinely decided.
Flat is a measurement, not an opinion.
Tile standards allow a specific deviation over ten feet, and plenty of Summerville slabs miss it. Nobody notices with vinyl plank, because vinyl bends. Porcelain does not bend. It sits proud at one corner, rocks underfoot, and eventually the grout cracks along that line.
So we run a straightedge over the floor before we quote and price the flattening openly. Self-leveling underlayment where the dip is broad, patch compound where it is local, crack isolation over slab joints that move.
Layout comes next. Plank porcelain looks wrong at a fifty percent offset and right at a third, so we run the pattern it was designed for. Dorchester County summers push humidity into laundry rooms hardest, which is why porcelain and a sealed grout belong there.
Four steps, zero surprises.
01 / On-Site Measure
We drive out to your Summerville address, measure square footage and check the floor for dips. That visit carries no fee.
02 / Scope and Fixed Price
One written document covers tile counts, materials, prep, labor and dates. What you sign is what you pay.
03 / Tear-Out and Installation
Old flooring comes up, the surface is flattened, then tile goes down in the planned pattern. Bath tile follows the 3 to 7 day range depending on size.
04 / Grout and Handover
Joints are grouted evenly, the haze washed off, and we review the field with you before the truck gets loaded. Warranty paperwork comes out then.
Durability is not a promise. It is built into every tile we lay.
Labor Covered for 12 Months
Every hour our crew spends setting tile in your Summerville house carries a full year of coverage. If something rings hollow or a joint opens, you call and we come back out.
Materials Warranty: 3 Years
The systems underneath carry three years: membrane, crack isolation, leveling compound and waterproofing. Done right, you will never think about them again.
Summerville is an easy run for us on either side of the county line, and a warranty visit costs nothing. Waterproofing always travels with an installation and is never quoted by itself.
Tile questions from Summerville homeowners
Square footage matters least. The bigger variables are what has to come off first, how far out of flat the surface is, and how many cuts your layout demands. Prep appears as a line you can read, not a surprise on day two.
Kitchen backsplashes are done in 1 to 2 days. A main-level porcelain floor depends on square footage and leveling, and the day count goes in the proposal. Bath and shower tile runs 3 days for a small room, 4 to 5 for a medium one and 6 to 7 for a large one.
For longevity, yes. Porcelain does not swell, scuff or lift at the seams, and Lowcountry humidity does nothing to it. Vinyl is quieter underfoot, so plenty of owners keep it in bedrooms and put porcelain where water and grit turn up.
Occasionally, and we rarely recommend it. The new floor inherits the bond of the old one, thresholds and appliance heights get complicated, and any hollow spot stays hidden. Taking it out lets us fix what is wrong and warranty the result.
Yes, on the Dorchester and the Berkeley sides both. Nexton, Cane Bay Plantation, White Gables, Legend Oaks and the older downtown blocks are regular stops. No mileage charge gets added.
Nearby service areas. We also install tile in Mount Pleasant, Johns Island and Daniel Island, and we handle bathroom remodeling in Summerville. For the full metro area, see tile installation in Charleston, SC.
Time to get the vinyl out of your Summerville house.
A free measure, a written number, and porcelain set on a floor that has been made properly flat.
Tile installation in Summerville and the greater Charleston area · Licensed & Insured in South Carolina