The Cranleigh Conundrum

In Cranleigh, a village where bathroom renovations are usually straightforward affairs, Andy had a bit of an unusual request for his loo. He'd got his hands on some massive porcelain tiles - 1200 x 1200 mm, if you please - and fancied them as his new bathroom floor and walls.

Andy rang up Fable Construction, knowing it wasn't your average tiling job. "Bit of a challenge for you," he said, understating the task of fitting these behemoths in a typically snug British bathroom.

The Fable lot turned up, took one look at the tiles and the bathroom's dimensions, and knew they were in for an interesting day. This wasn't just laying a floor; it was more like assembling a porcelain Tetris puzzle in 3 directions. 

They didn't just dive in, mind. There was a fair bit of head-scratching and measuring first. After all, when you're dealing with tiles this size in a bathroom, a few millimeters off and you'd end up with gaps around the loo that you could lose a toothbrush in.

The team got to work, maneuvering the slabs into place with the kind of care usually reserved for handling grandma's best china. It was slow going, but rushing a job like this in a bathroom would've been asking for trouble.

As they neared the end, there was a moment of tension. Would the last pieces fit around the fixtures, or had they mucked up their calculations? But lo and behold, the final slab slotted in like it was made for the spot, neatly framing the toilet and vanity.

Andy gave it the once-over, padding across his new bathroom floor with a look of quiet satisfaction. "Not bad at all," he said, in what was probably the understatement of the year.

Just goes to show, give Fable Construction an odd bathroom job, and they'll turn it into something to write home about. Even if it means shifting half a tile showroom's worth of porcelain in the process.