Best tilers in the Perth Hills (2026)
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These are the best-rated wall and floor tilers working the Perth Hills and the foothills below them, from Kalamunda, Lesmurdie and Gooseberry Hill down through Forrestfield, High Wycombe and Maida Vale to Wattle Grove, and out along the Great Eastern Highway to Mundaring, Glen Forrest, Darlington and Swan View. They’re ranked on real Google reviews, not on who paid us. Every operator below is a working tile contractor with a verified local base and a real review record. The tile shops, the floor-removal and concrete-grinding contractors that turn up in tiling searches, and the metro operators padding hills results have all been cut. Below the list you’ll find what tiling actually costs around Perth in 2026, the two things that quietly blow a tiling quote out, the red flags that tell you to keep scrolling, and a quick checklist to run before anyone opens a bag of glue in your house.
Featured tilers
These spots are for hills tilers who want to stand out on this page. None are taken yet, so the full review-ranked list is right below. That ranking is earned off Google reviews and never for sale. Are you a tiler around Kalamunda, Forrestfield or Mundaring? Featured spots start at $50 a year.
Get a Featured spot ▸How we ranked these
- Google reviews do the ranking. We start with every tiler’s live Google star rating and the number of reviews behind it, pulled fresh from Google Maps across Kalamunda, Mundaring, Forrestfield and the foothills suburbs between.
- Volume matters as much as the score. We weight each rating by its review count, so a perfect score proven across 30 jobs sits clearly first and a 5.0 from five reviews sits third. The gaps between these three are small. Treat all of them as quotes worth getting rather than a ranking to follow blindly.
- No tiling licence exists in WA, so we look harder at the reviews. Wall and floor tiling isn’t a licensed trade in Western Australia. Anything over $20,000 must be run by a registered builder, and wet-area waterproofing has to meet AS 3740, but for a straight tiling job the review record and insurance are your real protection. We tell you what to check in the checklist below.
- Verified on the map, or cut. Hills searches are thin and get padded hard with metro operators, so we checked every listing’s actual coordinates rather than trusting its name. We also cut a well-reviewed Swan View business whose own website describes it as a floor removal, concrete grinding and polished concrete contractor, which is a different job to laying tiles, and several tile stores and flooring shops that Google files under tiling.
- Paid spots are labelled, and never jump the queue. When a business pays for a “Featured” spot it’s marked as such. The review-based order below does not change to favour a payer. Right now, no spots are sold.
Tiling Pro
A perfect 5.0 across 30 reviews is comfortably the strongest tiling record we could verify anywhere on the hills side of Perth, and three times the review depth of anything else on this page. It’s a tile contractor working out of Wattle Grove at the bottom of the scarp, which puts Forrestfield, High Wycombe, Maida Vale and the Kalamunda run all within an easy start. Thirty public verdicts without a dropped star is the sort of record that takes years to build and one bad month to lose. This is the first call.
View listing & contact ▸WA Tile & Stone Pty Ltd
A 5.0 held across 10 reviews from a verified base on Saligna Bend in Wattle Grove. Their own site puts porcelain, ceramic and natural stone tiling alongside AS 3740 waterproofing, full bathroom renovations and a concrete side covering exposed aggregate and honed and polished finishes, with a written workmanship guarantee behind it. That combination is genuinely useful on hills blocks where the bathroom retile and the sloping alfresco or driveway tend to be the same conversation. Get this quote next to the one above.
View listing & contact ▸QA Tiling
A 5.0 across 5 reviews from a checkable address on Gala Way in Forrestfield, with its own website behind it. Five reviews is a modest sample, so the weighting keeps it third rather than level with the two above, and you should read it as “promising local with a clean early record” rather than a long track record. It earns the spot because it’s a real tile contractor at a real foothills address, which in this area is rarer than it should be. Treat it as your third quote and judge the work yourself.
View listing & contact ▸Only three tilers made this page, and that’s deliberate. All three are working tile contractors verified against their Google Maps coordinates inside the hills and foothills: Wattle Grove, Wattle Grove and Forrestfield. Everything else we found either fell short of our minimum of a 4.3 rating with at least two or three reviews, sat outside the area once we checked the coordinates rather than the business name, or wasn’t a tiler at all. Two hills listings hold a 5.0 from a single review, one holds 3.3 across seven and another 3.0 across two, all below the floor. A well-known Swan View business with a 5.0 across eight reviews is a floor removal, concrete grinding and polished concrete contractor by its own description, not a tiling contractor. A High Wycombe operator already features on our Morley and Midland page, and the tile stores and flooring shops that dominate these searches are shops, not tradespeople. Three verified locals beats ten padded ones.
What tiling actually costs around the Perth Hills (2026)
Nobody likes ringing a tiler blind on price. These are honest ballpark ranges for the common jobs, GST included, based on what Perth tilers are charging in 2026. They’re a guide to keep you from being overcharged, not a quote. The two numbers that quietly swing a tiling bill hardest are floor preparation (ripping up old tiles and levelling what’s underneath) and tile format (large-format 600×600-plus and mosaics both cost more to lay than a standard 300×300). Always get the prep priced separately in writing.
| Job | Typical range | What pushes it up |
|---|---|---|
| Floor tiling, laying only | $45-$75/m² | Large-format tiles, herringbone or diagonal patterns, uneven slab |
| Wall tiling, laying only | $50-$90/m² | Mosaics, feature niches, window reveals, floor-to-ceiling walls |
| Old tile removal & disposal | $25-$50/m² | Tiles glued to screed, double layers, tight access, tip fees |
| Bathroom waterproofing (AS 3740) | $500-$900 | Hob-less showers, second wet areas, failed old membrane to strip |
| Full bathroom retile (floor + walls) | $2,500-$7,000 | Tile choice, floor levelling, moving drainage, niche and hob work |
| Shower regrout & reseal | $350-$800 | Mould-affected silicone, epoxy grout upgrade, leak investigation |
| Kitchen or laundry splashback | $300-$800 | Glass mosaics, power point cutouts, out-of-square walls |
Ranges assume standard ceramic or porcelain and reasonable access. Two things lift quotes in the hills specifically. Access is one: steep driveways, long carries and limited turning room all add labour, and a tiler who hasn’t seen your block can’t price that honestly over the phone. The other is travel, because there are very few tilers based above the scarp and most jobs in Mundaring, Glen Forrest and Darlington are serviced from the foothills or the metro. A good tiler prices both after seeing the job, in writing, before starting. If they won’t, that’s a red flag (see below).
Don’t get ripped off: red flags
- No waterproofing certificate for wet areas. Every shower and bathroom floor in WA has to be waterproofed to AS 3740 before a single tile goes down, and you should get the certificate or written confirmation for it. A tiler who shrugs at waterproofing is quoting you a leak that shows up in two years, inside a wall cavity.
- A per-room price with nothing itemised. “Bathrooms are five grand” over the phone, sight unseen, with no square-metre rate and no line for prep or waterproofing, means the surprises get invented later. A real quote separates laying, prep, waterproofing and materials.
- A big deposit up front. For home improvement work between $7,500 and $500,000, WA’s Home Building Contracts Act caps the deposit at 6.5 per cent. Anyone wanting a third or half of a bigger job before starting is either cash-flow desperate or planning a slow fade. Smaller jobs should still only carry a modest materials deposit.
- Tiling straight over what’s there without checking it. Laying over old tiles or a cracked, drummy screed is sometimes fine and often a disaster, and the difference is whether anyone tapped the floor and checked levels first. Hills homes sit on reactive clay and rock in roughly equal measure and plenty of them have moved. If they quote without looking at the substrate, the fix comes out of your pocket twice.
- No public liability insurance. Tiling isn’t a licensed trade in WA, so insurance and the review record are your only real backstops. If they can’t show a current certificate, keep scrolling.
Before you hire: quick checklist
- Written, itemised quote. Square-metre rate, prep and removal, waterproofing, and materials each on their own line, with a start date and a rough duration.
- Waterproofing to AS 3740. Who’s doing it, and do you get a certificate. For wet areas this matters more than the tiles.
- Insurance. A current public liability certificate of currency, and if the whole job tops $20,000, a registered builder running it (that’s the WA threshold).
- Travel and access agreed up front. If you’re above the scarp, confirm in writing whether the quote includes the trip and whether your driveway and parking suit a loaded ute and a tile saw.
- Warranty in writing. What happens if grout cracks, tiles drum or the shower leaks in twelve months, and who pays for it.
Frequently asked
How did you rank these tilers?
By their live Google star rating weighted by the number of reviews behind it, pulled from Google Maps across Kalamunda, Mundaring, Forrestfield and the foothills. The weighting is why Tiling Pro’s 5.0 across 30 reviews sits clearly first while an identical 5.0 across five reviews sits third. Every listing is a working tile contractor verified to a real local base by its map coordinates, not a tile shop, a flooring retailer or a floor removal contractor.
Why are there only three tilers on this list?
Because that’s how many we could verify. Very few tilers are actually based in the hills, and searches for them get padded with metro operators, tile stores and one well-known floor removal business. Rather than pass those off as local tilers, we checked every listing’s map coordinates and cut anything that failed, along with anything below our floor of a 4.3 rating with at least two or three reviews. Three verified locals is a more useful list than ten names you can’t check. As more hills tilers build verifiable records, the list grows.
Will a tiler come up to Mundaring or Darlington?
Usually yes, but ask before you get attached to a quote. Most jobs above the scarp are serviced from the foothills or the metro, so travel is a real cost and some tradespeople price it in while others quietly decline small jobs at that distance. Say where you are on the first call, ask whether travel is included, and get the answer on the written quote. Bundling a few jobs into one visit is the easiest way to make a hills call-out worth someone’s while.
What does it cost to retile a bathroom in Perth?
For a standard-sized bathroom, floor and walls, expect roughly $2,500 to $7,000 depending on tile choice, how much prep the floor needs and whether drainage moves. Waterproofing to AS 3740 usually adds $500 to $900 and is not the place to save money. In older hills homes, allow extra for removal and floor levelling. Get the prep and waterproofing itemised separately on the quote.
Do tilers need a licence in WA?
No. Unlike electricians or plumbers, wall and floor tilers aren’t licensed in Western Australia. Two rules still protect you: any home improvement work over $20,000 must be carried out by a registered builder, and wet-area waterproofing must meet the AS 3740 standard. Beyond that, the tiler’s review record, insurance and warranty are what you’re relying on, which is exactly why this list is ranked on reviews.
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Get featured ▸ Claim your free listingRankings based on Google review data collected 17 August 2026. Ratings change, we re-check monthly. Blue Collar Business · Western Australia’s Trades & Home Services Directory.