Custom Tile Installation in Glastonbury, CT
Custom tile installation in Glastonbury: large-format floors, feature walls, fireplace surrounds and mudrooms for the colonials and contemporaries of South Glastonbury, Glastonbury Center and Curtisville, and for the town's condominium communities.
Custom tile in Glastonbury
The Glastonbury nomination counts 81 frame structures and 14 brick or brick faced, and where a custom job is in one the masonry often sets the layout.
75% of Glastonbury's housing is detached, and where a custom job is in one of those houses the layout is usually drawn to the room.
The South Glastonbury district joined the National Register in 1984, and where a custom job sits in that village the pattern is matched to the room.
FEMA maps put about 9% of Glastonbury in flood zone AE, and where a custom job is on that ground the floor level usually comes into the drawing.
Glastonbury's Building Inspection office is at 2155 Main Street, and the town website has current permit filing information.
Custom tile work in Glastonbury is about 28 minutes from our base on Lincoln Street, and where a layout is unusual the room is usually measured twice.
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What Glastonbury Homeowners Say
Marek Pawulski
November 2026
Daniel did some tile work for me and I couldn’t be happier with how everything turned out. Absolutely amazing work and craftsmanship. He showed up on time, was very professional throughout the whole job, and did a fantastic job. You can tell he takes pride in his work and pays attention to the little details. Good, reliable contractors aren’t always easy to find, and Daniel is definitely one of them. The quality of the work was excellent, everything was done right, and he was worth every penny. I will definitely use him again and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him to anyone looking for quality tile work. Highly recommend! Daniel, thank you so much for getting the job done on short notice.
Response from the owner
Thank you so much for taking the time to share such a detailed review! It was a pleasure working with you, and I truly appreciate your kind words and trust. I’m glad you’re happy with the finished work and that I could get everything done on short notice. I look forward to working with you again!
Anne Hope
November 2026
Daniel does amazing work, Very professional, and great prices! I would highly recommend Daniel to anyone that is seeking great work and a great price!
Response from the owner
Thank you so much for the kind words and recommendation! We truly appreciate your support and are glad you were happy with our work, professionalism, and pricing!
Autumn
November 2026
Rated 5 stars, no written review.
Custom Tile · Glastonbury
Glastonbury: custom tile in houses built to be lived in for decades
Glastonbury's houses are large, owner-occupied, and mostly built from the 1970s onward (the Curtisville and South Glastonbury colonials, the newer homes near Glastonbury Center), with an older stock along Main Street and condominium communities that include the converted J.B. Williams Soap Factory. Custom requests here run to the whole-house scale.
A large-format porcelain floor through a kitchen, family room and mudroom; a full-height feature wall behind a fireplace or television; a stone entry; a mudroom with a dog-wash station; a basement bar with a mosaic backsplash. The common threads are flatness, layout and transitions: planning a single grout grid across three rooms, keeping the pattern aligned through doorways, and landing the tile at hardwood without a step. Glastonbury is about twenty-eight minutes from our base, and we schedule work there in full-day blocks.
Not sure how much of this your home needs? Start here: what tiling around a fireplace actually involves It takes five minutes and saves guessing.
In Glastonbury we install custom mosaic, zellige, hexagon, penny and hand-painted tile, on one-off patterns and feature surfaces, set by hand.
Glastonbury Housing at a Glance
Hartford County
- Homes
- 14,606
- Median year built
- 1976
- Built before 1960
- 25%
- Built 1980 or later
- 43%
- Single-family detached
- 75%
- In 2-4 unit buildings
- 6%
- In 5+ unit buildings
- 10%
- Owner-occupied
- 83%
- From our base
- ≈28 min
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates. ZIP codes 06033, 06073.
Glastonbury custom planning
Multi-room layouts
A continuous tile grid through several rooms is set out from the most visible line, usually the kitchen island or the front door, and checked at every doorway before setting begins.
Long spans in newer homes
Open-plan 1980s and 1990s floors often have long joist spans or I-joists. We check deflection against L/360 (L/720 for stone) and add a second plywood layer where a large format calls for it.
Condo conversions
In buildings like the Soap Factory the substrates can be original mill floors or gypsum toppings; we identify the base, prime and membrane it correctly, and follow the association's rules.
Permits in Glastonbury
Does this work need a permit?
Under the 2022 Connecticut State Building Code (§R105.2), tiling, cabinets, countertops and similar finish work that involves no structural change is exempt from a building permit. Plumbing changes such as a new valve or a moved drain, and any electrical work, are permitted separately by the licensed plumber or electrician who performs them. We tell you which items in your scope apply before work starts.
Where permits are filed
Hartford County
Town of Glastonbury, Building Inspection / Zoning
Town Hall, 2155 Main Street (3rd floor), Glastonbury, CT 06033
Tel. 860-652-7521
The Building Inspection office is at Town Hall, 2155 Main Street, 3rd floor. Check the town website for current filing methods and fees.
Official Glastonbury building department pageFrequently Asked Questions
Custom Tile Installation in Glastonbury: Questions
No. Daniel and his own crew do the tile work. We do not hand your job to a third-party installer, so the same people who set the tile are the ones in your house every day of the install, and you deal with one company from the estimate through the final clean-up.
Yes. The three rooms are measured as one plane, flattened with a self-leveling underlayment where needed, set on an uncoupling membrane, and laid out from one control line so the grout joints run true through every doorway. Movement joints are required over the control joints in the slab and at every change of plane, and the Tile Council of North America handbook puts interior movement joints at 20 to 25 feet in each direction. We run them at the doorways, where the joint hides in the grout pattern.
Yes, behind fireplaces, televisions, freestanding tubs and in stairwells. The wall is flattened first, the layout drawn for vein direction and seam placement, and the panels set with a medium-bed mortar and a leveling system. Around a fireplace we keep the manufacturer's clearances and use a heat-tolerant setting material.
A waterproofed, sloped floor area draining to a floor drain or a raised basin, tiled walls to a height that handles spray, a hand shower, and a slip-resistant porcelain floor throughout. The plumbing is permitted work for your plumber through the Town of Glastonbury's online system; we build the waterproofing and tile around it.
No. Tiling and similar finish work not involving structural changes or alterations is exempt under the 2022 Connecticut State Building Code. Glastonbury permits plumbing, electrical and HVAC work separately and online only (OpenGov), so any drain, sink or lighting in the project is filed by that trade. Structural stiffening of a floor would also be permitted work; we advise before it is done.
Still have questions? Call us at (860) 990-2332
Guides
Custom Tile Questions, Answered
The questions homeowners ask us before the estimate. Read them before you book anyone, then call us with your questions.
Custom work
Tiling Around a Fireplace
What the heat does to a tile joint, the clearance questions to ask before anyone starts, and the substrate detail that gets skipped.
Materials
Tile Material Comparison Guide: Porcelain, Ceramic, Stone & More
Where each material is the right call, where it is the wrong one, and what each one asks of the floor and the wall behind it.
Permits
Do I Need a Permit for a Bathroom Remodel in Connecticut?
What the state code exempts, what needs a trade permit, and why a tile job and a plumbing job are not the same job. Read this before you pull anything off a wall.
How we work
Our Tile Installation Process, Step by Step
The whole sequence, from the first visit to the last silicone joint. Substrate prep, waterproofing, layout, setting, grout. No steps skipped.
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