Tile Installation & Replacement in Palo Alto & the Bay Area

Sami & Sons provides professional tile installation and replacement for homeowners across Palo Alto, San Jose, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and the greater Bay Area. We install tile in showers, bathroom floors, kitchen floors, backsplashes, entryways, laundry rooms, and feature walls — handling all substrate preparation, waterproofing, setting, grouting, and finish work in-house. Our licensed team brings precision and craftsmanship to every tile project, from a simple backsplash replacement to a complete custom shower build.

We are a family-owned contractor with 15+ years of Bay Area experience. Tile work done poorly fails quickly — cracked tiles, failed grout, water intrusion behind shower walls. We do it right: correct substrate, correct waterproofing, correct mortar selection, and meticulous installation technique that produces work that looks exceptional and lasts for decades.

Shower Tile Installation & Replacement

Shower tile installation is the most technically demanding tile application — and the one where failures are most costly. Water intrusion behind a shower wall causes mold, structural damage, and eventually requires a complete teardown and rebuild. We use certified waterproofing membranes (Schluter Kerdi, WEDI, or equivalent) on every shower we tile, properly lapped and bonded at all seams and corners before a single tile goes up. This is not optional and it is not something we skip to save time or money.

We install all tile types in shower applications: large-format porcelain (24x48, 12x24, and similar), natural marble and travertine, glass mosaic, and mixed-material designs that combine multiple tile types in a single installation. We plan layouts carefully — centering on focal walls, planning grout joints for visual consistency, and managing transitions between different tile types or formats with precision and intention.

Floor Tile Installation

Floor tile installations require a flat, stiff substrate to prevent cracking over time — particularly with larger format tiles, which are unforgiving of subfloor deflection. We assess subfloor flatness and stiffness before any floor tile installation, performing necessary leveling or substrate reinforcement before setting tile. We install uncoupling membrane (Schluter DITRA or equivalent) on wood subfloor installations to isolate the tile from subfloor movement — a critical step that dramatically extends floor tile life in wood-frame Bay Area homes.

We install all floor tile types: large-format porcelain, natural stone, encaustic cement tile, and mosaic. Pattern installations — herringbone, chevron, basket weave, offset patterns — are planned and laid out carefully before installation begins to ensure consistent pattern execution across the full floor area.