The Tiling Guys

30/08/2026

HANDS UP WHO LIKES BEING SOLD TO 🙌.

Well I didn’t see any hands there so I’ll just say a few facts and a blatant promotion of what we do.

90% of people who have been told they need their bathroom replacing for on average £10,300 don’t.

A leak starts approximately 9 months before you actually see it but there are tell tale signs.

Most people treat black mould or yellowing grout like it’s dirt. It’s not, it’s bacteria 🦠 so no amount of Cillit Bang or Mr Muscle will shift it for good.

If you are selling your home the possible new owner will, in their mind, be taking on average £10,000 off the asking price if the bathroom looks tired.

A skip that will sit in your drive or on the street will cost you between £200-£500 and will at some point have a neighbours broken vacuum cleaner in it or somebody’s old mattress.

Re-fitting a bathroom can take as long as 6 weeks. We take on average 2 days to refurbish it.

We can save you upto 95% of the cost of a refit.

In the UK I have found (because it’s in my interest to do so) only 4 other companies that come close to what we do. All 4 are in the south and 2 of them won’t touch grout.

63% of the UK population don’t trust the trades.

27% of the UK public think a tradesman can start work within a few days.

See, no selling 😎, just hard facts 👊 so if you want to avoid any of the above then send Carol, our friendly Works Manager a quick WhatsApp to 07727661320 and title the message “I don’t want to pay through the nose and have my house turned into a building site for weeks”

Thanks for reading.
Mark. Director - The Tiling Guys/The Trade Guys Ltd.

23/08/2026

Tax.

We can’t get away from it. It’s like a tiger that has spotted you and keeps running and running. No mater how much you tire? That tiger keeps running until it gets you.

You can plead with the tiger. You can explain that you have have supported its cubs and all the other cubs around it but it doesn’t understand. It wants more.

That’s that analogy. Here’s what really happens.

What you do is pay more. You pay for ridiculous charges from HMRC for actually being a company. You pay for Intelligence Tax. Income tax. National insurance. Companies house tax and tax on everything you earn. It never stops and it’s surprising any company like mine can survive the outrageous amount it has to pay to stay alive.

On top of this I pay liability insurance. Van tax. Insurance. Road Tax. Tax on the vans I buy. The materials I have to get, yep, I pay tax on them. I pay for social media content. Accountants. Bookkeepers and I have to feed and cloth my family.

Tax is an animal that will kill us all. VAT is demanded at a £90K turnover which is pretty much any company. After that the government take another 20% on top of the 20% they already take so what do we do? We keep the company small. We don’t allow it to grow otherwise we go bust and that’s the end of that. Do the government care? No because they have taken everything and more because you can’t afford to trade anymore. These bastards have got every corner covered.

Government is f**ed in the head. Why not increase the VAT threshold to £1 million instead of £90K and see how society evolves into a much easier place to live in. You won’t because this is the rant from one small business owner, frustrated about all the f**ing obstacles you put in our way to earn a living yet you proudly promote it’s us that keep you going!! Utter wankers all of you.

23/08/2026

Van number three sign written with the new companies logo and colours. Pete Total sign solutions , you are a legend my friend.

The Tiling Guys is not rebranding. We will still be tiling, fixing leaking showers, restoring bad grout, replacing failed silicone, replacing broken tiles and all the other stuff we do. Because of popular demand we are expanding into other areas.

It’s scary, I don’t mind admitting that and it’s costing me £ thousands. Hopefully in the future it’ll pay off 🤞.

You can help by clicking the follow button for both companies and let the great people of the North West know about these Wirral based companies 🙏🏻.

The Tiling Guys
The Trade Guys


Thanks.
Mark.

22/08/2026

We have in our home at the moment and for the next 10 days both mid 20’s children and their corresponding other halves living with us. I have the utmost respect for anybody who has a busy home but we’re not used to it. Normally it’s just me & Mrs Tiling Guys. Now the fridge and oven are no go areas and we have no hiding space from the energy they all bring.

I decided to go see my elderly parents in Yorkshire to give everyone a bit of space, myself included. It was the most arduous journey I’ve ever made 🤯.

This was my view on the M62 five hours into my 70 mile trip. Nose to tail on Windy Hill because of a car fire near The Little House on the Prairie and it was getting messy.

All you could smell was burning clutch plates. Cars were starting to break down in carriageways. HGV drivers were running out of drivers time and parking up on the hard shoulder. In all my days I’ve never seen such chaos. I finally got to my mum & dad’s 7 hours after I’d set off, a journey that normally takes 1.5 hours.

So if you were caught up in that mess or any other then peace brother & sister. I feel your pain but we made it 🙏🏻.

Mark.

20/08/2026

About 4 years ago I was asked to re-grout a shower area in Neston. I’ll be honest, I didn’t want to do it as it’s a long, laborious, boring job but I agreed and did it.

When I had finished the couple who had hired me we’re overjoyed. They were hugging me and smiling from ear to ear and I quickly found out why they were so happy.

They were wanting to rent the house out however nobody was making an offer because of the bathroom. The owners priced up a new one and it came to over £10,000 which is pretty standard so they called me in.

Within a month the house was being rented out with what looked like a brand new bathroom but at the fraction of the cost.

They told some of their friends and word got out about me so I did more and more.

In the past 4 years we have rapidly expanded and specialised in bathroom repairs, shower leaks and refurbishments. It’s got so busy that we now own 3 vans, employ full time people and apprenticeships. We use an award winning booking system that keeps you in touch with us at all times and have a very recognised logo. It’s got to the point that if we never lay a tile again, the chances are we would never be out of work.

We have seen it all. Rotten walls. Leaking showers. Black silicone. Tiles falling down. You name it, we’ve seen it.

So next time somebody says “yeah mate, it needs to come down” then WhatsApp Carol, our Works Manager on 07727661320 and she will book you in for a free viewing. You honestly have nothing to lose.

Thanks for reading.
Mark.
Director - The Tiling Guys / The Trade Guys

The Tiling Guys
The Trade Guys
www.the tiling guys.com
Email [email protected]

14/08/2026

Anyone need outside taps fitting? Guess who does that 😎.

WhatsApp Carol on 07727661320 if you do. If it doesn’t rain then I can’t guarantee you will get any water out of them but at least they are there when it does 🌧️

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14/08/2026

When I was 16 I applied to the local WH Smith store in Halifax, my home town for a job. I didn’t get it but they wrote back to me, thanked me for my interest however there were no vacancies at that time but they will file my interest and be in touch as soon as there would be. This was in 1985 so they wrote to me, put in an envelope, stuck a stamp on it and posted it.

This young man is Leyton busy at work for The Trade Guys. He is the second apprentice we have and is proving to be quite the hidden gem.

At 16 Leyton passed his level 2 plumbing course. He has some tiling skills, has grade 2 maths and English and has great ambition. He is chatty, polite, intelligent, skilled and a pleasure to be around.

He sent his CV off to dozens of local companies and do you know how many replies he got? None. Zero. Zip. Yadda. All these skills he acquired so young, his raw ambition and his determination didn’t even warrant a “thanks but no thanks”. I got a letter for a job I didn’t really want telling me no but in this day and age where we can communicate at the press of a button not one person saw it fit to do so 🤦🏻‍♂️. How soul destroying is that??

I personally think it’s disgusting what society has turned into. My son in law who is 25 tells me most interviews are done over the net and vetted by AI. How the hell is that supposed to help? AI could cruelly reject the perfect candidate because they don’t have the full credits but accept somebody who does but is a total moron.

I’m a bit old school. I met Leyton at Costa in New Brighton and although he was clearly nervous (unsurprisingly) I saw through it, listened to him and decided to give him a chance. Aren’t I pleased I did because I can see a very positive future for him. AI would have got rid of him immediately because he was nervous and that would have been that.

Follow here www.facebook.com/thetradeguys to see how he progresses.

Thanks for reading

Mark. Director - The Trade Guys/The Tiling Guys
07727661320

We Repair. We Refresh. We Restore. 💪✨
From tired grout lines to worn bathrooms, we bring life back to your space without the stress of a full rip-out. Friendly, professional, and here to make your home feel new again.

14/08/2026

I’ve been so busy with setting up The Trade Guys that I forgot to show what minor miracles we’ve worked this week!!! Sorry about that.

Well first of all was a falling apart fireplace that is no longer falling apart. Now normally I plan the area and make the tiles fit that by cutting them. Couldn’t do that here as the tiles in question were bull nosed so couldn’t be cut so I had to make the tiles fit the space. No fancy lasers. No levelling system and I’ve not yet found a manufacturer that makes 3.3mm spacers so it was all hand/eye coordination, spirit level and a ruler here. Think it turned out okay.

Ian and who will be a superstar Leyton worked on a bathroom that was so badly bodged that carpet grips were used to fill the gap at the top of the tiling to the ceiling. Never seen that before 🤷🏻‍♂️.

They worked like crazy and converted a very much failing bathroom into something anyone would be proud of.

Now I’m not daft. The weather is perfect and it’s still summer but Christmas isn’t far away. We are also entering what’s known as “the silly season”. It starts the week before the kids go back to school 🥳 and runs right up to new year. This is when all trades are in most demand.

My point is DON’T WAIT. If you need any work carrying out then arrange it NOW because if you leave it another month then you may struggle to find anyone. All work, not just the stuff we do, ALL of it.

WhatsApp Carol on 07727661320 with the line “am I too late to….” and she will get back to you. Right now? No. In 3 weeks? Who can guess 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Thanks all for reading.
Mark. Director - The Tiling Guys/The Trade Guys.

14/08/2026

Hi everyone 🖐️. My name is Mark and I am the founder of Wirral based company “The Tiling Guys”

The company started 4 years ago with the idea to offer tiling services ( which I have been doing on and off since I was 17 ) however it has morphed into something else over the years.

I soon noticed after I’d started that there seemed to be a lack of trades that would take on smaller work and practically non who would entertain repairs, refurbishing or leak fixing.

I concentrated on these areas and the business exploded. I bought a second van, took on new employees and employed my wife Carol to handle the mass of incoming enquiries (she is priceless) and this allowed me to focus more on the company and client base.

As this grew we were consistently being asked if we do anything else? I had to keep saying no but it set my mind thinking 🤔. “Why couldn’t there be. Keep the same winning formula and give people what they want.”

For the past 12 months I have been working on this along with Wirral MET and Chamber of Commerce. I have employed leavers who have qualified in plumbing, electrics and construction. I will continue to work with everyone to help these new people enter the working world, give them the start they so rightly deserve and progress their careers in the very much needed trades.

Our focus is still small things. The sort of stuff others don’t turn up for. Leaking showers, blocked sinks, toilets not flushing, outdoor tap fitting. You get the picture.

So if you think we could help then WhatsApp Carol on 07727661320. She will take a few details then add you to our digital booking system. It couldn’t be easier 😎🥳.

I know this is a long post and I apologise for that. Believe me I’ve trimmed this down 😄 but thanks for getting this far.

Please click the follow button and tell all your friends and family. Look out for the new vans too. They look amazing 🥳.

Thanks.
Mark. Director - The Tiling Guys/The Trade Guys.

www.facebook.com/thetradeguys

11/08/2026

Work is gaining momentum ready for the launch of The Trade Guys. One of them was the new brand colours. It doesn’t seem like a lot but it really is and I for one thinks it’s pretty nifty 😎.

The same business ethics will be adopted as The Tiling Guys. We will concentrate on smaller work the generally gets ignored. We will have the same award winning booking system and we will always be respectful of your home.

If I could ask a few questions please 🙏🏻. Bit of a survey if you wish.

What do you think is missing from trades? What work do you struggle to find anybody for? How would you contact a tradesman? How could we all improve?

If you could take the time to answer any, all or anything else you would like to add, I’d be really appreciated ❤️.

Mark.
Director - The Tiling Guys/The Trade Guys.

Ps. Here’s the link to The Trade Guys Page. Please follow. It’ll give you more information and really help us launch 🙏🏻👌

https://www.facebook.com/share/18UBdCmhCM/?mibextid=wwXIfr