Tiler Gladesville

At Leerberg Tiling we specialise in the areas of bathroom tiling, floor and wall tiling, kitchen splashbacks, apartment and strata tiling, tile repairs and licensed waterproofing across Gladesville, Putney, Tennyson Point, Huntleys Point, Henley and the surrounding riverside suburbs. We are a family owned business with over 53 years in the tiling trade, fully licensed and insured, and we do all the work ourselves rather than sending subcontractors. The same team handles your job from the first measure through to the final grout line.

Gladesville is minutes from our West Ryde base. See our page on tiling across the Ryde district for nearby suburbs, or visit the Leerberg Tiling home page for everything we do.

Our Gladesville tiling services at a glance

Bathroom tiling and full wet area renovations
Post-war brick home bathroom renovations
Floor tiling on split-level and river-fall blocks
Apartment and unit wet area tiling
Kitchen splashbacks and floor tiling
Waterproofing to Australian Standards (AS 3740 and AS 4654)
Tile repairs, regrouting and resealing

Tiling in Gladesville: The Local Issues

Gladesville runs from the Victoria Road corridor down to the river, and that fall is the first thing that matters for tiling here.
The suburb sits where the shale plateau of the Ryde district gives way to Hawkesbury sandstone on the slopes toward the water, so blocks near Victoria Road sit on reactive shale clay while the streets falling toward Putney, Huntleys Point and the river run onto sandstone, with the split-level homes that come with it.
The second thing is the housing itself: Gladesville carries a heritage pocket of nineteenth-century cottages around Victoria Road and its side streets, a large stock of post-war brick homes including those built under Ryde Council’s own post-war housing scheme, and the walk-ups and newer unit blocks strung along the Victoria Road corridor.
Three kinds of building, two kinds of ground, one suburb, and a generic page that just swaps the name in cannot speak to any of it.
We know this mix well because Gladesville is minutes from our own base in West Ryde.
This is home-district work for us, not the far edge of a service map.

Post-War Brick Homes and Their Bathrooms

A large share of our Gladesville work is the post-war brick homes reaching renovation age.
The original bathrooms in these houses are usually the weak point: small, tiled decades ago, over waterproofing that would not pass today’s standards or was never there at all, and often showing it through drummy floors, failing grout and leaks into the hallway.
We strip these wet areas back to the substrate, confirm it is sound, rebuild the falls to the waste, and lay a continuous membrane to AS 3740 across the floor, up the shower walls and over hobs before any new tile goes on.
Done properly once, the new bathroom outlasts the old one by decades.

Floor Tiling on the River Fall

The streets falling from Victoria Road toward the water, and the peninsula pockets of Putney, Tennyson Point, Huntleys Point and Henley, bring split-level homes on sandstone where the job is set-out and levels.
We set floors out across the level changes, check each plane, and re-screed where needed so tiles sit flat rather than following a floor that steps and dips.
On suspended floors the preparation differs again, and we assess each before laying.
Closer to Victoria Road, on the shale clay, we use crack isolation and uncoupling membranes with proper movement joints so seasonal ground movement does not crack the floor.

Heritage Cottages and the Victoria Road Corridor

Gladesville’s older streets around Victoria Road hold a conservation pocket of nineteenth-century cottages, and we tile these with respect for the original fabric, matching and resetting original tiles where they can be saved.
Along the corridor itself, the walk-ups and newer unit blocks bring apartment work: tight, fully tiled unit bathrooms on concrete slabs where a waterproofing failure tracks into the unit below, and balconies needing an external membrane to AS 4654 with correct falls.
For leaks across common property we carry out compliant remedial work in with the owners corporation.

Kitchen, Wall and Repair Work

Kitchen splashback and floor tiling covers subway, herringbone, stone and custom layouts, cut neatly around fixtures and cabinetry.
We tile walls, laundries and feature areas to suit the home.
For repairs, cracked or drummy tiles, failing grout and leaking showers can often be sorted without redoing a whole room, and we match replacement tiles as closely as the originals allow, which matters in the post-war homes where the original tile ranges are long discontinued.

Recent Gladesville Projects

Recent work in the area includes stripping and re-waterproofing an original bathroom in a post-war brick home in Gladesville, retiling a split-level floor in a home falling toward Huntleys Point with levels corrected across the planes, and re-waterproofing a unit bathroom in a Victoria Road walk-up where a leak was tracking below.
All work is completed by our own licensed tradesmen, not subcontractors.

Areas We Service

Leerberg Tiling service Gladesville, Putney, Tennyson Point, Huntleys Point, Henley, Boronia Park and the surrounding riverside suburbs.
We work on post-war brick homes, heritage cottages, split-level and waterfront homes, units and commercial properties across the area.

Why Choose Leerberg Tiling Pty Ltd?

Family owned with over 53 years experience, based minutes away in West Ryde
Fully licensed and insured, all work warranted
No subcontractors, the same team start to finish
We know Gladesville’s post-war brick homes, river-fall blocks and unit corridor house by house
Waterproofing to standard, never skipped or rushed
Fixed written quotes measured on site, no hidden fees

Frequently Asked Questions

Are you local to Gladesville? Genuinely, yes. Our workshop is in West Ryde, minutes up the road, and we have worked this district for over five decades.

Do you renovate post-war bathrooms? Constantly, it is a large share of our Gladesville work. The original bathrooms in the post-war brick homes usually have failed or absent waterproofing, so we strip back, rebuild the falls and membrane to AS 3740 before retiling.

Why do homes toward the river have split-level floors? The ground changes from shale clay near Victoria Road to sandstone on the fall toward the water, so homes step down the slope. We set out and re-screed across the level changes so tiles sit flat.

Can you fix a leaking shower without removing all the tiles? Sometimes. If the membrane is sound and the issue is failed grout or silicone, we can re-grout and reseal. If the waterproofing has failed, which is common in the original post-war bathrooms, the tiles need to come up to redo it properly.