Tiling, bathrooms and kitchens in Wellingborough

Wellingborough's older streets were shaped by the boot and shoe trade, with rows of Victorian terraces and villas within walking distance of the centre. In the 1960s and 70s the town expanded to take overspill from London, adding large estates whose bathrooms and kitchens are now well past their first refit.

Today much of the growth is to the east, where Stanton Cross is bringing a new generation of homes to the land beside the railway station. New homeowners are often keen to personalise plain bathrooms and kitchens with better tiling from the start, rather than living with builder-standard finishes for years.

The surrounding villages — Earls Barton with its famous Saxon church tower, Wollaston, Finedon, Great Doddington and Bozeat among them — mix stone cottages with modern housing. Each brings different surfaces to work with, which is why every job starts with a look at what's behind the old tiles.