Floor Tiling ACT - Cost and Substrate Guide

What Floor Tiling Costs in the ACT

The rate a tiler quotes for a floor is a function of two things, and only one of them is the tile. Format drives the labour, so standard format up to 450 millimetres runs $55 to $95 a square metre, 600 by 600 runs $75 to $125 and slab format above that runs $110 to $190. The second factor is the substrate, and it decides whether the quoted rate is the whole cost or the first part of it. A floor that is flat and stable needs nothing. A floor that is out by eight millimetres across three metres needs levelling at $28 to $60 a square metre before a large tile will sit without lipping.

Cut count rather than area is what makes small rooms expensive per square metre. A 60 square metre open living floor in 600 by 600 might take two days. A 12 square metre kitchen with an island, a pantry return, three doorways and a set of cabinet kickboards can take the same two days for a fifth of the area. When comparing quotes between a simple and a complex space, the square metre rate is the wrong unit.

Canberra substrates bring two specific problems. The first is reactive clay. AS 2870 classifies residential sites from class A, which is stable sand and rock, through S, M, H1, H2 and E for increasing clay reactivity, to P for problem sites, and much of the territory sits in the middle and upper part of that range. A reactive site lifts slightly in a wet winter and settles in a dry summer, and tile bonded rigidly across that has to release somewhere. Movement joints at $18 to $40 a lineal metre are the designed answer.

The second is timber. A large share of Canberra housing from the 1960s and 1970s has particleboard or plywood floors over bearers and joists, which are the beams and the smaller members above them that carry a floor, and those floors deflect underfoot. Tile bonded directly to a deflecting floor debonds or cracks whatever the adhesive. The correct sequence is to stiffen the floor, then install a decoupling membrane, then tile. Tiling work that skips the first step and relies on the membrane alone is relying on the wrong thing.

Floor Tiling Costs by Tile Format

Format is the first thing that moves a floor tiling rate, and it moves it because of how the tile behaves rather than because of what it costs to buy. Standard format up to about 450 millimetres runs $55 to $95 a square metre to lay. A 600 by 600 tile runs $75 to $125 because the substrate has to be flatter and the adhesive has to be back buttered. Slab format above 600 runs $110 to $190 because two people are handling each tile and a single error cannot be adjusted once the tile is down. Mosaic runs $130 to $240 despite being the smallest format, because every sheet has to be aligned with its neighbours by eye.

The second thing that moves it is cut count, and comparing rates between rooms is where that misleads people. Cuts are where the time goes, so a floor measured by its perimeter and its obstacles rather than its area gives a truer picture. An open living room has very few cuts per square metre. A kitchen with an island, a pantry return, three doorways and cabinet kickboards has a great many, and the rate reflects it. Expect a higher rate on the smaller room and do not read it as opportunism.

Substrate Flatness and Why It Decides the Rate

The flatness a floor needs is set by the tile format rather than by a universal standard, and that single relationship explains most preparation costs. A small tile bridges a dip. A large tile spans it and lips at the edge where the dip begins. Slab format spans it and will not bed at all. Format therefore dictates the preparation rather than the reverse.

The practical test takes five minutes and costs nothing. A long straight edge laid across the floor in several directions, with a torch behind it, shows where the floor dips and rises. Deviations of two or three millimetres over three metres are workable with standard format. The same deviation under a 600 by 600 tile produces a lipped edge that catches a bare foot and collects dirt along one side. Lippage is the defect most often argued about after a large format floor.

This is why a quote that carries no preparation allowance has made an assumption rather than an observation. A tiler who has not lifted a corner of the existing floor cannot know what is underneath it, and on a Canberra house from the 1960s or 1970s the probability of a flat, stable floor is not high. The right response is not a higher fixed price but a provisional figure with a rate attached. That is the only honest way to price something nobody has seen. It also lets you stop and reconsider if the news is bad enough.

Where preparation is needed, the options scale with the problem. Self levelling compound at $28 to $60 a square metre handles deviations up to about ten millimetres. A sand and cement screed at $35 to $75 handles more and can also build a fall where one is wanted. Grinding high spots is sometimes cheaper than filling low ones, and a tiler will say which applies once the floor is visible. Both options are legitimate and the floor decides which.

Concrete Slabs and Reactive Clay

Canberra sits on soils that move, and that fact reaches a tiled floor more directly than most people expect. AS 2870 classifies residential sites by how reactive the clay is, running from class A for stable sand and rock through S, M, H1, H2 and E for increasing reactivity to P for problem sites. A substantial part of the territory sits in the middle and upper part of that range. A classification report at $650 to $1,600 settles it rather than leaving it to guesswork.

A reactive site lifts as soil moisture increases through a wet winter and settles as it dries through summer. The slab goes with it. Tile bonded rigidly from wall to wall across a slab doing that has to put the movement somewhere, and the tile is the weakest element in the assembly, so the tile is what cracks. Grout and adhesive are both stronger in tension than glazed ceramic. Movement finds the weakest link every time.

The pattern is recognisable. A crack from seasonal movement runs in a line, crosses several tiles and continues through the grout joints as though they were not there, often carrying on across a doorway or up a wall. An impact crack radiates from a point and affects one or two tiles. Telling them apart before anybody quotes a repair saves a great deal of money, because only one of them is a tiling problem. The other is a house problem wearing a tiling disguise.

The designed answer is movement joints, and where cracking has already occurred a crack isolation membrane at $55 to $110 a square metre under the relaid area absorbs movement that would otherwise reach the tile. Where cracking appears in more than one room, the question has moved past the floor and a building inspection is the sensible next step. A floor problem in one room is a floor problem, and the same crack in three rooms is not.

Across the ACT the reactive sites are concentrated in the older inner Canberra suburbs and through Woden Valley, where the clay profile is deepest. Concreting services in the ACT and tiling work intersect here, because a Territory slab that has moved is a concreting question before it is a tiling one.

Timber Floors and Deflection

A great deal of Canberra housing built in the 1960s and 1970s has particleboard or plywood sheet flooring over timber bearers and joists, which are the beams and the smaller members above them that carry the floor, and those floors move underfoot. The movement is small and it is enough. Tile bonded directly to a floor that deflects will debond at the adhesive line or crack across the tile, and no adhesive on the market prevents it. Adhesive bonds surfaces, it does not stiffen structure. No product on a shelf substitutes for a solid floor.

The correct sequence has three steps and skipping the first is the common error. Stiffen the floor so it stops deflecting, which means adding noggings or sistering joists from below where there is access, or overlaying with a structural sheet from above where there is not. That runs $55 to $140 a square metre. Then install a decoupling membrane at $45 to $95 to absorb what small movement remains. Then tile.

Relying on the decoupling membrane alone, which is what a cheaper quote usually proposes, treats a structural problem as a surface one. A decoupling mat handles minor lateral movement and shrinkage. It cannot carry a floor that flexes when somebody walks across it. The mat will do its job and the floor will still move. Step one is the one that cannot be bought in a bag.

First floor bathrooms over timber framing in the newer districts bring the same issue in a different form, because the span is often longer and the tile is often large format. A floor that feels solid under bare feet can still deflect enough to lip a 600 millimetre tile at the joint. Where a tiler raises this before being asked, that is a good sign rather than an upsell. It also means they have seen the failure before.

The timber floored stock across the ACT is concentrated in the ex government housing of the 1950s to 1970s through the inner Canberra suburbs and Belconnen. A building inspection in the Territory is worth having where a floor moves in more than one room, and flooring services can advise whether stiffening from below is possible on a particular Canberra subfloor.

Levelling, Screeding and Decoupling

The three preparation products do different jobs and get confused with one another constantly, which is why quotes using them interchangeably are worth questioning. Self levelling compound is a flowable cement based material poured over a floor to find its own level, and it corrects deviations up to about ten millimetres at $28 to $60 a square metre. Beyond that depth a screed is the better tool.

A sand and cement screed, which is a bed of sand and cement laid to a set thickness, is placed and worked by hand, handles greater depths and is the only one of the three that can build a deliberate fall toward a waste. At $35 to $75 a square metre it costs more and does more. A screed also needs a longer cure before tile goes over it, which matters to a programme. Allow two or three days rather than one. A screed that is tiled too early will shrink under the floor.

A decoupling membrane is neither of those. It is a sheet or mat laid between the substrate and the tile whose purpose is to let the two move independently. At $45 to $95 a square metre it is the right answer to movement and the wrong answer to flatness, and a quote that proposes decoupling where levelling is needed has solved a different problem. Flatness and movement are separate faults with separate products. Diagnosing which one you have is the first job.

Movement Joints on an Indoor Floor

Indoor floors need movement joints and routinely do not get them, which is the single most common defect in residential tiling. A movement joint is a deliberate gap in the tile filled with flexible sealant rather than grout, and it exists so the floor can expand and contract without the tile carrying the strain. Everything in a tiled floor moves except the tile.

The positions are not arbitrary. A joint belongs at the perimeter where tile meets a wall, which is usually hidden behind a skirting. It belongs over any structural or control joint in the slab, carried straight through rather than tiled over. It belongs at any change of substrate, such as where a slab meets a timber floor or where a slab meets a different slab. And it belongs at intervals across a large field, which on an open plan Canberra living area running from a kitchen through to a sliding door almost always means one partway across.

They are invisible once the job is finished and nothing happens for two or three years, which is exactly why they get left out. At $18 to $40 a lineal metre during the lay they are among the cheapest items in the job. Retrofitted after cracking appears, at $45 to $95 a lineal metre, they cost more, involve cutting through finished tile and never look as good. The cut line is visible wherever it runs.

Internal corners and the junctions where tile meets a bath, a vanity or a wall are the same principle at a smaller scale, which is why those carry flexible sealant rather than grout. Grout in those positions is a defect rather than a finish, and it cracks within a couple of seasons.

Large and Slab Format Handling

Large format tile changed residential flooring and it changed what a tiler has to do to lay it. A 600 by 600 tile needs a flatter substrate, full adhesive coverage achieved by back buttering as well as notching, and levelling clips to hold adjacent tiles in plane while the adhesive sets. Clips are a consumable rather than a sign of a careful tiler.

Slab format above 600 millimetres adds a handling problem on top. The tiles are heavy, they are fragile until they are bedded, and they need two people for every one. Access becomes a genuine constraint rather than a detail, because a 1200 by 600 tile has to physically get through the door, round the corner and up the stair without being flexed. At $110 to $190 a square metre the rate reflects all of that.

Lippage is the failure mode that matters, and it is worth understanding before choosing a format. Lippage is a height difference between adjacent tile edges, and it shows up as a line that catches light, catches a bare foot and collects dirt along one side. The larger the tile, the less substrate deviation it takes to produce visible lippage, which is the whole reason large format quotes carry levelling allowances. Without one, the quote has assumed a floor nobody measured. Measuring takes a straight edge and five minutes.

Underfloor Heating Under Tile

In the coldest Australian capital, underfloor heating under tile sits closer to standard than to luxury, and the economics strongly favour installing it while the floor is already up. Electric mat systems run $110 to $210 a square metre installed with a thermostat at $220 to $450, so a small bathroom lands at roughly $660 to $1,710 plus the thermostat. Running cost is modest because tile holds the heat once it is warm.

The alternative is paying for the floor twice. Retrofitting heating later means lifting the tile, preparing the substrate again and relaying, which adds the demolition and the labour on top of the heating itself. Where there is any prospect of wanting it, the time to decide is before the tile goes down. Nobody regrets installing it and plenty regret not doing so. It is the clearest case for spending at the time of tiling.

Tile is the ideal surface for it, which is the other half of the case. Tile conducts heat well and stores it, so a tiled floor with heating under it warms evenly and holds the warmth, where a timber or carpeted floor insulates against the same system. In a Canberra bathroom at seven in the morning in July the difference is the entire point. A tiled bathroom floor without it is genuinely unpleasant in winter.

The electrical connection is licensed work and that part is not optional. A Certificate of Electrical Safety has to be lodged with Access Canberra within fourteen days of the work, and the form differs depending on whether the job was a repair or an alteration to wiring. Underfloor heating installation and the tiling need to be coordinated so the electrician is on site at the right stage rather than after the tile is down. Sequencing that wrongly means lifting tile to run a cable. Book the electrician into the programme rather than after it.

Underfloor heating is more common across the ACT than in any other Australian capital and the reason is the Territory climate rather than fashion. Underfloor heating installation in the ACT and bathroom renovation are frequently quoted together in Canberra for exactly that reason, because the floor is already coming up.

Slip Ratings Indoors

Slip resistance indoors is a smaller question than in a commercial building and it is not a trivial one, particularly in a bathroom or at an entry where Canberra rain and winter mud get tracked in. AS 4586 classifies the slip resistance of new pedestrian surface materials, and the classification is on the tile data sheet rather than discoverable by touch in a showroom. A dry sample tells you almost nothing about wet performance.

A shower floor is the highest risk surface in a house because it is a wet barefoot area, which is why mosaic is used there so often. The grout joint count itself provides grip, and a mosaic floor in a shower is a performance decision as much as an aesthetic one. The small format is doing structural work in that position.

An existing floor that turns out to be too slippery does not need replacing. Chemical slip treatment at $35 to $85 a square metre etches the surface microscopically and raises the wet coefficient of friction without visibly changing the tile. Compared with retiling, it is a straightforward decision. The treatment is also reversible in the sense that it can be redone.

Lifting the Existing Floor

Removal is priced by what is coming up rather than by area alone, and the adhesive underneath is usually the slow part. Carpet and underlay lift quickly at $18 to $30 a square metre including disposal. Floating timber or laminate comes up at $20 to $38. Sheet vinyl and vinyl tiles run $35 to $55 because the adhesive residue has to be removed mechanically rather than simply lifted.

Existing ceramic tile and its bed run $25 to $55 a square metre and the variable is bed thickness. A modern thin bed comes off relatively cleanly. A thick mortar bed from the 1960s or 1970s is slow, noisy and produces a great deal of waste, and it frequently takes some of the substrate with it, which then needs making good.

Waste is a real cost that gets understated. Tile and masonry waste is heavy and skip hire is priced by weight as well as volume, so a bin for a tiled floor costs more than a bin of the same size for carpet. Ask for the removal and the disposal as separate figures so the comparison between quotes is honest. Disposal is a weight charge rather than a volume one.

Asbestos Under Older Floor Coverings

Lifting a floor in a house built before about 1990 raises an asbestos question, and the source is usually not the one people expect. Vinyl floor tiles from that era, the bituminous backing on sheet vinyl and some floor adhesives all contain asbestos, and lifting them disturbs it. Sheet vinyl is the one most often overlooked, because it looks like ordinary flooring. Age is the indicator rather than appearance.

Budget $350 to $900 for testing according to how many samples are taken, with licensed removal at $85 to $180 a square metre. The sequence matters more than the figures. Testing before the quote is finalised means any removal is priced into the job. Testing after the first corner comes up means the work stops while a licensed removalist is engaged, and that delay is usually worse than the cost.

There is also a territory legacy with no counterpart anywhere else in the country. Somewhere above a thousand Canberra houses had loose fill amosite insulation blown into their ceilings between 1968 and the late 1970s, and fibres have been recorded since in roof voids, wall cavities, subfloor spaces and behind cornice lines. Subfloors matter for floor tiling specifically, because that is where a tiler goes to stiffen a timber floor. A listed property shows a reflective warning tag at the electricity meter box and at the switchboard, and the territory publishes guidance for owners and contractors at the ACT loose fill asbestos site.

Silica Controls on Floor Preparation

Floor preparation generates more silica dust than the tiling itself, and the controls apply to residential work rather than only to commercial sites. Grinding a slab, cutting out a movement joint, removing a mortar bed and cutting tile all release respirable crystalline silica. Exposure is limited to 0.05 milligrams per cubic metre as an eight hour time weighted average. That limit is low enough that a few minutes of dry grinding exceeds it.

Uncontrolled dry cutting of crystalline silica materials is prohibited under the Work Health and Safety Regulation, and that covers tile, stone, concrete, masonry, brick and mortar alike. The control hierarchy begins with eliminating the task, then continuous water flow, then wet suppression with a second control, then on tool extraction with a second control, with respiratory protection as the last layer rather than the first. A mask supplements the controls rather than replacing them.

On a floor job the practical version is a wet saw for cutting, extraction on any grinder, the room sealed off from the rest of the house and wet clean up rather than sweeping. Grinding a slab dry in a closed living room with no extraction is not a shortcut, it is the prohibited method. Since July 2023 the crystalline silica exposure prevention course has been a training requirement. Ask whether the person grinding your slab has completed it.

WorkSafe ACT is the Territory regulator and it applies these rules to residential work rather than only to commercial sites. Any Canberra household can ask what dust control is planned before a slab is ground. Cleaning services in the ACT are sometimes called in after a poorly controlled job, and that is a cost nobody should have to carry.

Set Out, Levels and Door Thresholds

Set out is the decision made before the first tile goes down and it cannot be revisited afterwards, which is why it deserves ten minutes of attention. Where the first course starts decides where the cut tiles end up, and the aim is to avoid a sliver at the most visible edge of the room. Start the wrong course and the sliver lands at the doorway.

Finished floor level is the other decision with consequences beyond the floor. Tile plus adhesive plus any levelling adds height, and that height has to be absorbed somewhere. Doors may need trimming. A threshold to carpet or timber in the next room needs a transition. Where a floor runs into an existing kitchen, the kickboards were set to the old level and may no longer fit.

The practical step is to agree the finished floor level and the starting course in writing or on a sketch before the job begins. It costs nothing, it takes a few minutes, and it prevents the most common source of disappointment on an otherwise sound floor. Nobody notices a good set out and everybody notices a bad one.

Warranty and Who Carries a Failure

Whether a failed floor is somebody else to put right depends on the size of the original job rather than on the severity of the defect, which surprises most people. The ACT statutory warranty under the Building Act, which is a guarantee the law attaches to the work regardless of what the contract says, applies to residential building work that required a building approval and cost $12,000 or more. Both conditions have to be met rather than either one.

Above that threshold the protection is substantial. Structural elements carry six years, expressly including weatherproofing, and non structural elements two, measured from the completion day. The work has to comply with the Act, be carried out in a proper and skilful way in accordance with the approved plans, use good and proper materials and be fit for purpose where the owner relied on the skill of the builder. Terms limiting any of that are void and the remaining period passes to a later purchaser.

A floor tiling job on its own usually sits below the threshold, so Australian Consumer Law guarantees apply instead. Under those, a service must be supplied with due care and skill and be reasonably fit for its purpose, and no contract term can set them aside. The ACCC publishes what the guarantees cover, and disputes go to the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal, which hears civil claims generally up to $25,000. Unit title disputes are heard there as well.

Because tiling is not a licensed occupation in the territory, the practical protection is the written scope and the records. Keep the quote, the invoice, the product data sheets and photographs of the substrate before tiling. Lippage and cracking arguments twelve months later turn on what the floor looked like before the tile went down. Take the photographs yourself if nobody offers them.

Licensing in the Territory is worth naming because it decides what can be verified. Access Canberra administers construction occupation licences across the ACT, and tiling and waterproofing are not licensed occupations. Licences cover builders and owner builders, electricians, plumbers, drainers and gasfitters, building surveyors and assessors, gas appliance workers, works assessors and plumbing plan certifiers. Where underfloor heating goes in, the electrician does hold a licence and that licence can be checked.

Timelines and Curing in a Canberra Winter

A floor tiling job is shorter than people expect and the curing after it is longer. A 60 square metre open floor in standard format is about two days to lay, a day before grouting and another before the floor takes full traffic. Add a day for levelling and its cure where preparation is needed, and another two or three for a screed, which cures more slowly. Rushing a screed cure is how a floor fails six months later.

Canberra extends every curing stage through the colder months and the reason is physical rather than organisational. Adhesives and levelling compounds have minimum application temperatures, commonly around five degrees, and an unheated room in a Canberra July sits below that for much of the morning. Canberra Airport records a July mean minimum of 0.1 degrees, so a cold slab stays cold well past sunrise. Surface temperature rather than air temperature is what matters.

The practical consequence is that winter floor work in an unheated room is slower rather than impossible, and that temporary heating is sometimes the cheapest way to hold a schedule. Where a room can be closed and heated for a few days, the cure times return to normal. A tiler who asks whether the house will be heated during the job is planning rather than stalling. An unheated house in July changes the schedule.

Canberra District Pricing and Housing Era

Floor tiling costs across the ACT track the era of the housing far more closely than the suburb, because the era decides the substrate. Access and parking move the figure slightly. Whether the floor is a thick mortar bed over a 1960s slab, a particleboard floor over joists or a modern slab moves it a great deal. Era predicts the substrate better than postcode does.

The pattern is consistent enough to plan around. The inner suburbs bring thick beds, timber floors and asbestos checks. The ex government stock of the 1950s to 1970s brings timber floors and the loose fill asbestos question. The 1980s and 1990s districts bring early thin bed work and slabs that are often reasonably flat. The newer districts bring large format tile, first floor bathrooms over timber framing and substrates that need the least correction.

Access moves the figure at the margins across the ACT. A single storey Tuggeranong or Gungahlin house with driveway access is the straightforward case. A Woden Valley or Weston Creek property on a steep block, or an inner Canberra house with no off street parking, adds time to every delivery and every waste movement. Rubbish removal across the Territory is usually quoted separately on those sites because tile and bed waste is priced by weight.

Grout, Sealing and Living With the Floor

Grout choice gets treated as a colour decision and it is partly a maintenance decision. Cement based grout is porous, so it absorbs liquid and shows marks, and on a floor the marks collect in the traffic lanes first. Epoxy grout at $28 to $65 a square metre installed is impervious and resists staining, and it costs more in labour because it has a short working time and demands a cleaner technique. Not every tiler offers it, so ask rather than assume.

Colour is where people most often regret a choice. A pale joint in a kitchen or an entry shows every mark within a year, while a mid tone hides ordinary soiling and still reads as a deliberate line between tiles. In a Canberra entry that collects winter mud, that decision is worth more than the tile selection. Mud shows on grout long before it shows on tile.

Sealing applies to the tile rather than the grout on natural stone, and it has to happen before grouting rather than after. Unsealed stone absorbs grout pigment and the staining is permanent. Porcelain and glazed ceramic need no sealing at all, and a tiler offering to seal a porcelain floor is offering something the tile does not need. Porcelain absorbs almost nothing, which is the point of it.

Grout sealing as a separate product is worth a short note because it is commonly sold and rarely transformative. A penetrating sealer on cement grout at $12 to $28 a square metre reduces absorption for a period and needs reapplication. It is a maintenance item rather than a fix, and choosing epoxy at the outset removes the need for it. Paying once for epoxy beats paying repeatedly for sealer.

What to Look for in Floor Tiling Quotes

A floor tiling quote that can be compared with another one separates the lay from everything around it. Labour with the format and the area. Tile supply with an allowance per square metre and the waste percentage named. Removal and disposal of the existing floor. Preparation as a provisional figure with a rate. Movement joint positions and count. And any heating, with the electrical work identified separately.

Preparation is the item to insist on as provisional rather than fixed, because neither you nor the tiler can see the substrate until the existing floor is up. A rate attached to an unknown protects both sides. A fixed sum covering it is either padded or will arrive later as a variation, and a quote that omits it entirely has assumed a flat, stable floor. On a 1970s Canberra house that is an optimistic assumption.

Because tiling is not licensed in the ACT there is no licence number to verify, which puts more weight on the other checks. Confirm the ABN, confirm public liability insurance directly with the insurer and the policy number rather than accepting a forwarded certificate, and confirm workers compensation where the business has employees. Ask for the quote in writing before anybody starts. A verbal scope cannot be checked against an invoice.

Getting the Best Value from Floor Tiling

The largest avoidable cost in floor tiling is doing the preparation twice, and the way to avoid it is to pay for the investigation once. Lifting a corner of the existing floor before the quote, or paying for a strip and assess stage, converts a guess into a scope. On a Canberra house of any age that is the difference between a quote that holds and a sequence of variations. Paying for the look first is the cheapest money in the job.

Decisions made at the right moment cost nothing and made late cost a great deal. Underfloor heating installed with the floor at $110 to $210 a square metre, against lifting and relaying later. Movement joints placed during the lay at $18 to $40 a lineal metre, against cutting them in afterwards at $45 to $95. Finished floor level agreed before the first tile, against trimming doors and refitting kickboards at the end.

Bundling is worth pricing where rooms adjoin. Tiling a kitchen, a hallway and a laundry in one visit costs less per square metre than three separate jobs, because setup, access and cutting station are shared. Where a bathroom renovation is planned within a year or two, doing the floors together is usually the cheaper route even if it means waiting a few months. One setup and one cutting station across two rooms is a real saving.

The last point is about when to do the work rather than how. A Canberra floor laid in an unheated room in July cures slowly and the working day is short, so the same job costs more in time between May and September. Where the schedule allows, October to November or March to April gives full days and reliable cure times. Handyman services across the ACT can deal with the door trimming and skirting make good that follows a new floor, and bundling that with the tiling avoids a second visit.