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.

Free sampleVisit the showroom

A bathroom tiled floor to ceiling in red square tiles, with a long red basin and two taps
Signal 10×10, a bathroom in Holywood

One tile, three walls

Move every other row and the same tile changes character. The bond also decides how many tiles you cut.

  1. Stack bond

    Joints straight both ways. Calm, modern, kind to big squares.

  2. Half bond

    Every other row moved by half a tile: the brick pattern of metro walls.

  3. 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.

MaterialWallsFloorsWet roomsOutdoorsFrom, per m²
A basket of handmade glazed tiles in green, orange, white and patterned blue

Glazed ceramic

Hand-dipped and kiln-fired; colours no print can match.

YesNoYesNo£38
Close view of small white and grey porcelain mosaic squares

Porcelain

Fired harder and denser, it barely drinks water. The workhorse.

YesYesYesYes£29
Patterned cement tiles in blue, yellow, red and green laid edge to edge

Encaustic cement

Pattern pressed into coloured cement, not printed on top.

YesYesYesNo£96
A grey terrazzo surface flecked with white and black stone chips

Terrazzo

Stone chips set in a cement base and ground flat.

YesYesYesNo£84
White marble hexagon tiles with dark grout lines

Marble

Every tile its own veining. Honed for floors, polished for walls.

YesYesYesNo£110
Small terracotta-coloured tiles with a pressed square pattern

Terracotta

Fired clay, warm underfoot, darker with every oiling.

NoYesNoYes£45

Four rooms, one grid

Bathrooms we drew, supplied and tiled this year. Each began as a setting-out plan on squared paper.

  1. Stranmillis

    Blue chevron in the shower, hexagon cement on the floor.

  2. Holywood

    A 1930s room kept whole; its floor re-laid in blue and white.

  3. Lisburn Road

    Slate-grey porcelain in third bond around one marble basin.

  4. Cregagh

    White metro in half bond, black grout, a floor of small squares.

A shower with blue and white chevron wall tiles and a geometric cement-tile floor
A vintage bathroom with green walls, a pedestal basin, a round mirror and a patterned tiled floor
Dark slate-grey wall tiles behind a white marble shelf and a black basin
A shower tiled in white metro tiles with black grout and small square floor tiles
Shelves of tile samples in rows of greens, blues, greys and creams

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.

Choose up to five

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.

  • Small teal-blue square tiles reflecting a white cloud

    Cobalt

    Deep blue that darkens where the glaze pools at the edge.

  • Yellow glazed tiles with raised flowers and grey leaves

    Saffron

    A warm yellow that holds its colour in a north-facing room.

  • Narrow red tiles laid vertically behind a shelf with two pump bottles

    Signal

    Pillar-box red with a gloss deep enough to show the brush.

  • A wall of white bevelled tiles crossed by a zigzag of red tiles

    Chalk

    Not quite white, so grout of any colour reads as a line.

  • A kitchen splashback of black metro tiles above a dark worktop

    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.

How a job runs

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. 1

    Bring the measurements

    A sketch with wall lengths, windows and doors is enough. Or we measure for £40, refunded with your order.

  2. 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. 3

    Samples go home

    Up to five pieces, free. Look at them in your light, in the morning and in the evening.

  4. 4

    You order once

    Boxes by the square metre with a tenth spare for cuts. Unopened boxes come back within 60 days.

  5. 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

028 9000 0000

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.

A showroom wall of tile panels: metro, hexagon and herringbone in blues, greys, black and terracotta
Showroom1 Example Street
Belfast BT1 0ZZDirections
Mon–Fri
9:00–17:30
Saturday
9:00–16:00
Sunday
Closed
028 9000 0000hello@tegel.example