Showroom open Monday to Saturday, 9 to 5:30.
Every wall starts as a grid.
TEGEL is a tile shop and bathroom studio in Belfast. We stock 1,400 wall and floor tiles, draw the setting-out for every room we sell to, and send our own fitters to lay it.
One tile, three walls
Move every other row and the same tile changes character. The bond also decides how many tiles you cut.
Stack bond
Joints straight both ways. Calm, modern, kind to big squares.
Half bond
Every other row moved by half a tile: the brick pattern of metro walls.
Third bond
Rows moved by a third. The safe choice for long porcelain planks.
What a tile is made of
Six bodies, six behaviours. The table says where each can go; the showroom lets you stand on them.
Glazed ceramic
Hand-dipped and kiln-fired; colours no print can match.
Porcelain
Fired harder and denser, it barely drinks water. The workhorse.
Encaustic cement
Pattern pressed into coloured cement, not printed on top.
Terrazzo
Stone chips set in a cement base and ground flat.
Marble
Every tile its own veining. Honed for floors, polished for walls.
Terracotta
Fired clay, warm underfoot, darker with every oiling.
Four rooms, one grid
Bathrooms we drew, supplied and tiled this year. Each began as a setting-out plan on squared paper.
Stranmillis
Blue chevron in the shower, hexagon cement on the floor.
Holywood
A 1930s room kept whole; its floor re-laid in blue and white.
Lisburn Road
Slate-grey porcelain in third bond around one marble basin.
Cregagh
White metro in half bond, black grout, a floor of small squares.
Five samples, free
Pick up to five tiles. We post real cut pieces, ten centimetres across, the next working day. Lay them on your floor and look at them in your own light.
Five house glazes
Our own colours, dipped for us by a small pottery in Stoke-on-Trent. Every one comes as a square, a metro and a hexagon.
Cobalt
Deep blue that darkens where the glaze pools at the edge.
Saffron
A warm yellow that holds its colour in a north-facing room.
Signal
Pillar-box red with a gloss deep enough to show the brush.
Chalk
Not quite white, so grout of any colour reads as a line.
Ink
Blue-black gloss that turns a small room into a deep one.
Laid by our own fitters
Five fitters on the books and no subcontractors. They work from the same setting-out plan you saw in the showroom, so the cuts at both ends of a wall match.
Ruth Kerr
Floors and grout, eleven years with us.
Declan Moore
Wet rooms, screeds and level floors.
Tomasz Nowak
Large-format porcelain and stone.
Two years' guarantee on every wall and floor we lay.
From a floor plan to a finished wall
Five steps, in the order we work. You can stop after any of them and take the plan with you.
- 1
Bring the measurements
A sketch with wall lengths, windows and doors is enough. Or we measure for £40, refunded with your order.
- 2
We draw the setting-out
Where the first full tile sits, where the cuts fall and how many boxes it takes, on squared paper, in half an hour.
- 3
Samples go home
Up to five pieces, free. Look at them in your light, in the morning and in the evening.
- 4
You order once
Boxes by the square metre with a tenth spare for cuts. Unopened boxes come back within 60 days.
- 5
We lay it
Our fitters work from the same plan. Most bathrooms take four to six days, grout included.
Before you order
Ask a fitter
How many tiles do I need?
Measure each wall or floor, multiply, and add a tenth for cuts and breakages, or a seventh for diagonal and herringbone. Bring the numbers in and we check them against a setting-out plan.
Can I return what I don't use?
Unopened boxes, within 60 days, with the receipt. Tiles cut to order and clearance lines cannot come back.
Do you deliver to Great Britain?
Yes, in three working days on a pallet. Northern Ireland is next working day, and Belfast addresses can choose a two-hour slot.
Which tiles can go on a shower floor?
Anything rated R10 or higher for slip: most porcelain, terracotta and our matt cement tiles. Glossy wall tiles stay on the walls.
Do I have to use your fitters?
No. Plenty of builders buy from us, and so do people who tile their own. The setting-out plan comes with the order either way.
Which grout colour should I choose?
Matching grout hides the grid; contrasting grout draws it. Choose with the sample on your wall, not under shop lights.
Come and stand on them
Every tile we sell is laid on a wall or a floor in the showroom, next to a table of squared paper and a kettle.
Belfast BT1 0ZZDirections
- Mon–Fri
- 9:00–17:30
- Saturday
- 9:00–16:00
- Sunday
- Closed