Tiler St Peters

At Leerberg Tiling we specialise in the areas of bathroom tiling, floor and wall tiling, kitchen splashbacks, tile repairs and licensed waterproofing for homes, warehouse conversions and commercial spaces across St Peters, Sydenham and Tempe. 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.

For other suburbs nearby, see our page on tiling across the Inner West, or head back to Leerberg Tiling.

Our St Peters tiling services at a glance

Bathroom tiling and full wet area renovations
Floor and wall tiling, including large format and natural stone
Kitchen splashbacks and floor tiling
Waterproofing to Australian Standards (AS 3740 and AS 4654)
Floors over fill and reclaimed ground
Warehouse and industrial conversion tiling
Tile repairs, regrouting and resealing

Tiling in St Peters: The Local Issues

This pocket of the Inner West has a ground story unlike anywhere else, and it genuinely changes how a floor should be laid.
St Peters, Sydenham and Tempe were largely built on and around the old Gumbramorra Swamp, which was drained in the 1890s to industrialise the area, and on the former brick pits and clay quarries that fed Sydney’s brickworks for decades.
A lot of the low-lying land here is made ground, reclaimed swamp and filled quarry, rather than natural soil or rock.
That history sits directly under the floors we tile, and a page that just swaps in a suburb name has no way of knowing it.
Ground that is fill over old swamp behaves differently to both the sandstone of the peninsula and the shale clay further inland.
It can settle and move, drainage has always been an issue in these low streets, and the area carries an industrial legacy from its brickmaking and factory past.
We approach floors here with that in mind rather than treating them like any other slab.

Floor Tiling Over Fill and Reclaimed Ground

Floors are where the local ground matters most.
On the low-lying streets of St Peters, Sydenham and Tempe, where slabs sit over fill and former swamp, movement and settlement can crack tiles and split grout if the floor was laid straight down with no allowance for it.
We install crack isolation and uncoupling membranes between the substrate and the tile so ground movement underneath does not telegraph straight up, set proper expansion and perimeter movement joints, and check and re-screed levels before laying.
Large format tiles in particular show any dip or movement, so the preparation underneath them is what makes them last.
Where a floor has already cracked, we look at what the substrate is doing before relaying rather than just covering it over.

Bathroom Tiling and Waterproofing

The older workers’ cottages and Victorian terraces here, many built by the brickworks owners for their workers in the 1880s and 1890s, usually have wet areas that have been redone over the years with waterproofing that has since failed.
We strip back, confirm the substrate is sound, build the falls so water drains to the waste, and lay a continuous membrane to AS 3740 across the floor, up the shower walls and over hobs and junctions before any tile is set.
In a low-lying area with a long history of drainage trouble, getting water managed properly inside the wet area matters more, not less.

Warehouse and Industrial Conversions

St Peters and Sydenham carry one of the densest concentrations of old industrial buildings in the Inner West, and a lot of it is being converted to homes, studios and commercial space.
These conversions tile differently to a standard house.
Substrates are large concrete slabs, sometimes old industrial floors, with level changes between the original structure and new fit-outs and big open runs of floor where set-out and flatness are unforgiving.
We handle the preparation these spaces need and lay large format and stone to suit the raw, open look people want in them.

Kitchen and Splashback Tiling

Kitchen splashback tiling across St Peters and Sydenham covers subway tiles, herringbone, stone and custom layouts, cut neatly around power points, fixtures and cabinetry.
Kitchen floor tiling is available too, and we coordinate with builders and cabinetmakers where the floor needs to go down before the cabinetry.

Tile Repairs

Cracked or drummy tiles, failing grout and leaking showers can often be repaired without redoing a whole room.
We replace damaged tiles to match as closely as we can, renew grout and reseal so the surface stays watertight.
Given how much of this area sits on fill and reclaimed ground, cracked floor tiles are a common callout, and we assess whether a repair will hold or whether the substrate underneath needs addressing first.

Recent St Peters Projects

Recent work in the area includes relaying a cracked floor in a low-lying cottage where the slab over old fill had moved, using a crack isolation membrane before laying, re-waterproofing and retiling a leaking bathroom in an 1890s workers’ terrace, and laying large format floors through an open warehouse conversion near Sydenham.
All work is completed by our own licensed tradesmen, not subcontractors.

Areas We Service

Leerberg Tiling service St Peters, Sydenham, Tempe, Marrickville, Newtown, Erskineville and the surrounding Inner West.
We work on cottages, terraces, warehouse and industrial conversions, apartments and commercial properties across the area.

Why Choose Leerberg Tiling Pty Ltd?

Family owned with over 53 years experience
Fully licensed and insured, all work warranted
No subcontractors, the same team start to finish
Experienced with floors over fill and reclaimed ground, and with warehouse conversions
Waterproofing to standard, never skipped or rushed
Fixed written quotes measured on site, no hidden fees

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do floors crack in St Peters and Sydenham? Much of the low-lying land here is fill over the old drained Gumbramorra Swamp and former brick pits, so slabs can settle and move and crack tiles laid straight onto them. We use crack isolation membranes and movement joints to deal with it, and check what the substrate is doing before relaying a cracked floor.

Do you tile warehouse and industrial conversions? Yes, plenty of them around St Peters and Sydenham. These usually involve large slabs, level changes and big open floor runs, and we do the preparation those spaces need before laying.

Can you fix a leaking shower without removing all the tiles? Sometimes. If the membrane is still sound and the issue is failed grout or silicone, we can re-grout and reseal. If the waterproofing itself has failed, the tiles need to come up so we can redo it properly.

Do you remove the old tiles? Yes, demolition and removal of old tiles is part of the job where a wet area or floor is being redone.