Tiler Ryde

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 Ryde, West Ryde, Meadowbank, Gladesville, Eastwood and the surrounding City of Ryde district. 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.

Our Ryde tiling services at a glance

Bathroom tiling and full wet area renovations
Post-war home bathroom renovations
Apartment and strata wet area tiling
Floor and wall tiling, including large format
Kitchen splashbacks and floor tiling
Waterproofing to Australian Standards (AS 3740 and AS 4654)
Tile repairs, regrouting and resealing

Tiling in Ryde: Our Home District

Ryde is not just another suburb we service.
Our workshop is on Forsyth Street in West Ryde, and this district has been our home base for the whole 53 years we have been in the trade.
When we tile in Ryde, West Ryde, Meadowbank, Denistone or Gladesville, we are working on the streets we drive every day, in the housing stock we know house by house.
No other page on this site can say that, and no competitor servicing Ryde from across town can either.
The district itself has a shape that matters for tiling.
The City of Ryde sits on the divide between the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers, a plateau of Wianamatta shale that weathers into reactive clay, with Hawkesbury sandstone breaking out on the slopes that fall to both rivers, toward Putney, Tennyson Point and Gladesville on one side and Meadowbank and Melrose Park on the other.
So a floor on the ridge top behaves differently to a floor on a river-fall block a few streets away, and we prepare each for the ground it is actually on.

Floors on Shale Clay and Sandstone Falls

On the plateau, the shale-derived clay swells and shrinks with the seasons, enough to crack tiles laid straight onto a moving slab.
On these floors we install crack isolation and uncoupling membranes, set proper expansion and movement joints, and check and re-screed levels before laying.
On the river-fall blocks the ground changes to sandstone and the homes change with it, stepping down slopes with split levels and suspended floors, where the job becomes set-out, levels and the right preparation for each plane.
Large format tiles show every dip and every bit of movement, so what happens under the tile is what makes the floor last.

Post-War Homes and Their Bathrooms

The district carries one of Sydney’s distinctive post-war housing stories.
After the war, Ryde Council ran its own housing scheme, and hundreds of brick homes went up across Meadowbank, Denistone West and Gladesville in just a few years, alongside the Federation and inter-war homes on the older streets of Ryde, West Ryde and Denistone.
Much of that post-war stock is now at renovation age, and the original bathrooms are the weak point: tiles at the end of their life over waterproofing that would not pass today’s standards, if it exists at all.
We strip these wet areas back, confirm the substrate, rebuild the falls to the waste, and lay a continuous membrane to AS 3740 before a single new tile goes on.
In the heritage conservation pockets, the West Ryde Federation streets, Putney village and the older Gladesville and Denistone streets, we work with respect for the original fabric.

Apartment and Strata Tiling

The other side of modern Ryde is apartments.
Meadowbank’s old industrial riverfront has been rebuilt as the Shepherds Bay high-rise precinct, and the station precincts at West Ryde and Top Ryde carry their own unit blocks, with Macquarie Park’s towers nearby.
The unit bathroom is a tight, fully tiled wet area on a concrete slab where a waterproofing failure tracks straight into the unit below, so we build the falls, lay a continuous membrane to AS 3740, and for balcony and wet area leaks across common property we carry out compliant remedial work in with the owners corporation and strata manager.

Areas We Cover

We tile right across the district, and several areas have their own page with the local detail that matters there:
Gladesville tiler — river-fall sandstone, post-war brick and the Victoria Road corridor
Hunters Hill tiler — heritage sandstone homes and stone work
We also work in Ryde, West Ryde, North Ryde, East Ryde, Meadowbank, Melrose Park, Denistone, Eastwood, Marsfield, Putney and Tennyson Point.
This is our home district, so if you are anywhere near it, we cover you.
For everything we do across Sydney, visit the Leerberg Tiling home page.

Why Choose Leerberg Tiling Pty Ltd?

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Are you actually local to Ryde? Yes, genuinely. Our workshop is on Forsyth Street, West Ryde, and the business has been based in the district for over five decades. This is our home turf, not an outer edge of a service area.

Why do tiled floors crack in Ryde? The plateau sits on Wianamatta shale that weathers into reactive clay, which swells and shrinks with the seasons and cracks tiles laid straight onto the slab. We use crack isolation membranes and movement joints to deal with it, and the sandstone river-fall blocks need different preparation again.

Do you renovate post-war bathrooms? Constantly. The district’s post-war brick homes are at renovation age, and the original bathrooms usually have failed or absent waterproofing. We strip back, rebuild the falls and membrane to AS 3740 before retiling.

Do you do apartment and strata tiling? Yes, across Shepherds Bay, Meadowbank, Top Ryde and the station precincts. We tile unit bathrooms and balconies and carry out compliant strata remediation, working in with owners corporations and building access.