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A finished marble shower: large-format porcelain, recessed niches, brushed gold rain head. Gallegos Custom Tile.
GCT Gallegos Custom Tile

Hot Mop · Float · Stone

Tile set the way it was before the shortcuts — a hot-mopped pan built up in layers on site, walls floated to dead plumb, and a real mortar bed underneath. Simi Valley since 2020.

CSLB 1062141 · Bonded & insured · Ventura County & the SFV · Fixed price per sq ft

Trowel smoothing compound on a wall, Pexels.

How we build

Everything that makes tile last is buried

By the time you see a finished bathroom, the part that determines whether it holds up for twenty years is already hidden.

  • Framing
  • K-lath
  • Scratch
  • Mortar float
  • Hot mop pan
  • Tile & grout
Squeegee clearing a shower glass, Pexels.

How we build

The method under the finish

  • Hot mop, not a peel-and-stick liner Layers built up on site and fully adhered. We flood-test it on our time.
  • Floated over K-lath, not tile on backer board Framing is rarely plumb. A float corrects it.
  • Uncoupling membrane under floor tile Ditra keeps grout lines intact over years instead of months.
  • Priced by the square foot One fixed number. If it takes longer under normal conditions, that is ours.
Finished bathroom with herringbone tile, Pexels.

Services

What we set

Labor and rough materials. You pick and buy the tile or stone — we check quantities and layout before you order.

Gallegos Custom Tile: a light oak kitchen with a marble waterfall island, full-height marble backsplash, and slab counters. The house is still being finished around the stone.

Our work

A kitchen we set

Slab counters, a waterfall island, and a full-height marble backsplash. The house was still being finished around the stone.

Marble waterfall island with a bookmatched slab and a gold faucet, set by Gallegos Custom Tile.

Our work

The island

One slab across the top, carried down both ends.

Full-height marble backsplash behind a range, with a brass pot filler, set by Gallegos Custom Tile.

Our work

The range wall

Full-height stone behind the range, and a pot filler through it.

Marble counter and backsplash running over a built-in beverage center, set by Gallegos Custom Tile.

Our work

The same stone, continued

The run keeps going over the beverage center.

Low sun raking across wood-look porcelain plank, showing a flat surface with no lipped edges.

The GCT difference

One fixed number, and a clear line

Every estimate is a written line-item breakdown. CSLB 1062141. Bonded and insured. Simi Valley since 2020.

An oceanfront great room floored wall to wall in wood-look porcelain plank.

Service area

Simi Valley and everywhere around it

Simi Valley, the Conejo, the Valley. If you’re not sure you’re in range, call — the answer is usually yes.

Get an estimate

Tell us about the job

The more detail here, the closer the first number will be. Prefer to talk? Call (818) 463-1003 — someone picks up.