Tiling
That kitchen backsplash or flooring may have been sitting unfinished for longer than you would like to admit. Perhaps you received a contractor quote that made you close the laptop, or you tried watching online videos but still did not feel confident enough to start.
Tiling can look straightforward until you are standing in front of your own wall with unfamiliar tools, carefully selected tiles and questions about layout, cutting and grout lines.
At ASBC, our hands-on tiling workshops are designed to help homeowners and DIY enthusiasts take away some of that uncertainty. In a supervised workshop environment, you will work with real tools and materials while practising how to plan a layout, measure accurately, make tile cuts, apply adhesive, set tiles and complete the finishing touches.
From kitchen backsplashes to wall and floor tiling projects, our workshops give you the opportunity to build practical experience before approaching your own home-improvement projects.
Whether you are new to tiling or looking to expand your DIY confidence, you will gain a clearer understanding of the process, the tools involved and the techniques that can help you achieve a neat, well-finished result.
Learn to Fix, Build & Renovate — for Yourself.
Course Path
Kitchen Backsplash Tiling – Metro Style
Description: Build confidence tiling a kitchen backsplash using the popular metro-style subway tile pattern. This hands-on workshop introduces surface preparation, layout planning, adhesive application, tile cutting, spacing, grouting and finishing techniques in a supervised workshop environment.
Duration: 2 Days (Weekend or Weekday Option)
Kitchen Backsplash Tiling – Diamond Pattern
Description: Build confidence creating a decorative kitchen backsplash using a diamond-pattern tile layout. This hands-on workshop introduces layout planning, angled measuring, tile cutting, spacing, adhesive application, grouting and finishing techniques in a supervised workshop environment.
Duration: 2 Days (Weekend or Weekday Option)
Full Introduction to Tiling Kitchen Backsplash (Metro + Diamond)
Description: Turn a blank wall into a practical learning space as you explore two popular backsplash styles: classic metro-style subway tiles and decorative diamond-pattern layouts. This workshop takes you through the full process, from planning your layout and preparing the surface to finishing your tiles.
Duration: 4 Days (Weekday Intensive or Two Weekends)
Practical Tiling (Walls)
Description: This hands-on workshop introduces surface preparation, layout planning, adhesive application, tile setting, cutting around edges and features, grouting and finishing techniques in a supervised workshop environment.
Duration: 2 Days
Floor Tiling Workshop
Description: This is designed to help you understand how a tiled floor comes together. You will practise preparing the surface, planning the layout, setting tiles, keeping spacing consistent, making basic cuts and completing the final grouting and finishing steps.
Duration: 2 Days
Complete Tiling Experience (Walls + Floors)
Description: Bring wall and floor tiling together in one complete hands-on workshop. Practise preparing surfaces, planning layouts, setting tiles, cutting around edges and features, grouting and finishing in a realistic room-style setup.
Duration: 4 Days (or Two Weekends)
Why Our Wall Tiling Workshops Run Two Full Days
Tiling isn’t a task you can compress into a single afternoon and still see a real result — and we don’t try to. Adhesive needs time to set before you can grout over it, so a genuine tiling job naturally happens in two stages. Rather than rush that or skip it, we built the workshop around it, so you leave having practised the entire process a real job actually requires — not just the parts that fit in three hours.
Day One — Setting the Tile
Working across your own practice bay, you’ll set tile across three separate practice sections in sequence. The first section is where the learning curve shows — your lines may drift a little while you get a feel for the adhesive, the trowel, and keeping everything level. By the second section, your spacing and alignment noticeably tighten up, and you’ll carry that improvement into the third as the day wraps up.
Day Two — Grouting, Sealing & Finishing
Overnight, the adhesive fully cures — the same wait time a real installation requires. You’ll return to grout your first section hands-on, then move to the second as the morning continues. From there, the workshop moves into the finishing skills that actually make a tiling job look complete and hold up over time:
- Caulking: sealing the joints and edges, the same skill you’d use years later to strip and redo caulk around a bathroom once it discolors or mildews.
- Trim work: finishing the edges of the tiled area for a clean, complete look.
We close the day with proper workstation clean-up and teardown — and use it as a teaching moment of its own. If you ever need to remove and replace old tile at home, the very first steps are removing what’s there and preparing the surface properly before anything new goes on. Doing your own clean-up at the end gives you a practical sense of that process in reverse.
“By the end of two days, you won’t just have practised setting tile — you’ll have gone through the full sequence a real tiling project involves: prep, set, cure, grout, seal, and finish.”
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