Taylor Wimpey house, no tiles at all in the kitchen

Marktheshark

Saves them £35 per m2 + vat each house.
You do the maths.

ognum

The best thing I have done in my kitchen is glass splash back, no grout to clean, goes from base to wall cupboards, looks good, easy to maintain.

Freecall

Marktheshark wrote: »

Saves them £35 per m2 + vat each house.
You do the maths.

Based on the size of the kitchens in some of the new houses I have seen, that would work out at almost a tenner then.

AdrianC

Marktheshark wrote: »

Saves them £35 per m2 + vat each house.
You do the maths.

There ain't no way T-W will be putting that kind of high quality tile into a generic new-build and, even if they did, they would not be paying anywhere close to retail.

Even at retail, it's easy to get a good choice of wall tiles for under a tenner a square metre, including VAT - less than a quarter of the price you suggest.

I'll bet that tiled splashbacks would have been given to the OP as an extra-cost option, which they may very well have been able to negotiate to an FOC inclusion, too.

dgtazzman

Last new build house, large national developer, no tiling in the kitchen, glass splash back behind the hob. I had the same problem with the paint behind the sink at first, but I repainted it with the Dulux range mixed for kitchens, which doesn't absorb anything splashed against it and wipes down easily as an interim solution till I got round to putting up a nice frosted glass splash back all round, but I sold the place before I got to that point.

House I am now buying, full wall tiling in the kitchen with tiles of my choosing included as standard, so it varies between developers.

Waterlily24

Our kitchen and bathrooms are fully tiled and the utility room is nearly fully tiled. Our choice I don't like emulsion or wallpaper in either.

fashionvictim

I asked about kitchen tiles as just done my options for TW new build. I just assumed like most things it was at extra cost but they couldn't even show me any to sell me, they only had bathroom tiles. The sales lady said tiled kitchen are out of fashion, seems I didn't get the memo !!! The hob has a stainless steel splash back As standard I believe?!

I think I will get coloured glass put in, as everything will be very white. I do cook!!

AdrianC

fashionvictim wrote: »

The sales lady said tiled kitchen are out of fashion, seems I didn't get the memo !!!

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lincroft1710

LittleMax wrote: »

Quite usual from all builders to just to have an upstand all round the worktops. Our builder also gave us a stainless steel splashback behind the hob.

When we had our new kitchen fitted 7 years ago, this is exactly what we did, only tiles are those on the floor.

PasturesNew

I think metro tiles look like public toilet walls from the 1950s/1960s.