Tile in Tigard, OR
Tile showers are one of the things we specialise in, and they are the job in this trade where the difference between good and bad work is completely invisible on handover day. Anyone can set tile that looks straight. What determines whether a shower is still sound in fifteen years is the waterproofing system behind it, and that is the part we will talk to you about first. Installed by our own crew across Tigard.
Tile done right, the first time, in Tigard.
Homeowners across Tigard, OR call Norman's Floor Covering for tile because every job runs with our own crew, no subcontractors, no surprise charges, and one number to call from first sample to finished floor.
We install tile across Tigard and the surrounding area, including King City, Tualatin, Beaverton, Lake Oswego.
What's included
- Tile showers as a specialty, waterproofing system included
- Bathroom, entry and mudroom tile floors
- Proper slope to drain, set before any tile is laid
- Substrate and movement joints detailed correctly
- Full-service — we handle the whole job, not just the setting
- 10 year labor warranty, plus the manufacturer warranty on the material
Built for Tigard homes.
Tigard is a boom town that finished booming. It had 6,499 residents in 1970 and 54,539 by 2020, and the housing reads like a timeline of those decades — Main Street commercial buildings from the 1907 to 1910 railroad era, then wave after wave of subdivision. Bull Mountain, annexed by city voters in 2004, is the hillside end of it. Of the city's 22,829 housing units, 60.9 percent are owner-occupied, which is the profile of a place where people replace floors rather than patch them.
Most Tigard jobs we quote are second- or third-generation floors: original 1970s and 1980s subdivision homes where the builder carpet has long gone and someone's 1990s laminate is now cupping at the seams. Split-levels and daylight basements are common here, which means transitions and stair nosings are half the job — get those wrong and it is the part people trip on and look at every day. On Bull Mountain the lots are sloped and the houses are tall, so stairs, landings and matching trim carry a lot of the visual weight.
Closer to Main Street the housing is older and the subfloor deserves a look before anything is ordered.
Tile jobs near Tigard
What homeowners say
"I have dealt with Norman's for many years, always found them to be professional and fair. My last project was to install new tile and carpet prior to sale of my home. They recommended the perfect carpet to balance cost and quality."
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Tile in Tigard, questions
Do you cover Bull Mountain and the unincorporated pockets around Tigard?
Yes. Bull Mountain, Metzger and the areas around Washington Square are all inside our normal service range from the Newberg showroom. Sloped-lot houses usually mean stairs and multiple levels, and we quote those as their own line rather than burying them in a square-foot number.
Our house is from the late 1970s. What usually turns up under the carpet?
Plywood or particleboard underlayment, staples by the thousand, and sometimes a layer of sheet vinyl that was never taken up. None of it is unusual. We look before we quote so the number you get already accounts for removal and any underlayment that has to be replaced, instead of it becoming a change order on install day.
Do you repair an existing tile shower?
Generally not, and it is better to say so up front. We do not take on repair work for hard surface flooring, tile or countertops on projects we did not install. With a shower the reason is specific: the waterproofing is buried behind the tile, we cannot inspect it, and patching the visible part of a system that may already have failed does you no favours. If we built it, that is a different conversation.
Is grout waterproof?
No, and this is the most common misunderstanding about showers. Grout is a filler between tiles and it lets water through. Sealing it helps with staining and slows things down, but the thing actually keeping water out of your wall is the membrane and pan behind the tile. That is why we spend the time there rather than on the part you can see.
How long does a tile shower take?
Longer than people expect, because the sequence has waiting in it — the waterproofing has to cure before tile goes on, and the setting mortar has to cure before grouting. Rushing any of those stages is how failures start. We will give you a realistic schedule at the estimate, including the days when nothing appears to be happening.
Can I have a large-format tile on the shower floor?
On the walls, easily. On a shower floor it is more constrained, because the floor has to fall to the drain and a large rigid tile cannot follow a slope in two directions without help. Smaller formats or a mosaic conform to the fall naturally, which is why you see them on shower floors so often. We will show you what works with the pan we are building.
Flexible financing available
Every floor type we install in Tigard, OR
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TigardLuxury vinyl plank (LVP) in Tigard
Luxury vinyl plank installed throughout Newberg and the surrounding valley — waterproof, hard-wearing and warm underfoot.
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TigardLaminate in Tigard
Laminate flooring supplied and installed around Newberg — a hard, realistic surface that has come a long way since the 1990s.
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TigardCarpet in Tigard
Carpet supplied and installed across Newberg and the Willamette Valley, from bedroom re-carpets to whole houses.
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TigardFloor removal & demo in Tigard
Floor removal and demolition around Newberg — the old floor out, the subfloor assessed, and the mess taken away with it.
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TigardStairs & trim in Tigard
Stair and trim work across the valley's hillside towns — treads, risers, nosings and the transitions that finish a floor properly.
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TigardQuartz Counters in Tigard
Quartz countertops for Newberg kitchens and bathrooms — templated, fabricated and installed as part of a full-service job.
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