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Tilecraft Melbourne began the way most genuine trades businesses do — with one person, a clear skill, and a growing reputation built entirely on the quality of the work. Chandana Rathnayake arrived in Melbourne with more than a decade of tiling experience behind him, having learned the craft from the ground up before bringing that discipline and attention to detail to Melbourne's south-east. Over the following years, he worked across residential building sites throughout the Casey region — Berwick, Cranbourne, Dandenong, and the surrounding suburbs — building the practical knowledge that only comes from tiling hundreds of different homes in hundreds of different conditions. Ten years ago, he formalised that expertise into Tilecraft Melbourne, operating from his home base in Narre Warren. The business grew not through advertising but through referrals — from clients who recommended Chandana to their neighbours because the job was done correctly, the timeline was met, and the standard of work was exactly what he had promised.

Chandana Rathnayake is Tilecraft Melbourne. He is the one who answers the phone, attends the quote visit, prepares the substrate, applies the waterproofing, and lays every tile. There are no subcontractors, no site managers, and no handover of your job to someone you have never met. Chandana's hands-on involvement in every project is not a marketing point — it is how he has always worked, because it is the only way he can guarantee the standard he has built his name on over more than two decades in the trade. He holds a CPC Tiling and Waterproofing licence and a Certificate IV in Building and Construction — qualifications that are specific to the compliance requirements of tiling and wet area renovation in Victoria. Chandana's motivation for starting Tilecraft Melbourne was straightforward: he had seen what happens when tiling and waterproofing are treated as afterthoughts, and he wanted to build a business that treated them as the technically critical work they actually are.


Tilecraft Melbourne is a deliberately small operation. Chandana does not employ a rotating team of labourers or subcontract jobs to other operators when his schedule is full — he takes on the work he can personally complete to the standard he commits to. This means that when you book Tilecraft Melbourne, Chandana is the person who arrives on the first day, works through the job from substrate preparation to final tile laying, and is there for the handover and any follow-up. Clients across Narre Warren, Berwick, Cranbourne, and the rest of Melbourne's south-east have come to value this consistency. It means there is one person responsible for the outcome of your job — someone who cannot pass the blame to a subcontractor or a crew member. Chandana chooses to operate this way because it is the honest model: you know exactly who is doing the work before you agree to anything.

Tilecraft Melbourne operates with the full set of qualifications and registrations required to carry out tiling and wet area renovation work correctly in Victoria. Chandana holds a CPC Tiling and Waterproofing licence (Licence No. CPC 310020013129) — the specific licence required to legally apply and certify waterproofing in wet areas under Victorian building regulations. He also holds a Certificate IV in Building and Construction, which grounds his understanding of the broader building system within which tiling and waterproofing sit. Tilecraft Melbourne is registered with ABN 68 127 981 847 and is fully insured for public liability. On every eligible wet area job, Chandana issues a waterproofing certificate documenting compliance with AS 3740 — the document that protects your investment, satisfies any future conveyancer's requirements, and stands as your permanent record that the work was done correctly by a licensed operator with 27+ years of experience.


The reason clients across Narre Warren, Berwick, Dandenong, Cranbourne, Pakenham, and the wider Casey region consistently recommend Tilecraft Melbourne is straightforward: the job gets done the way it was described, by the person who described it, and the result holds up. Chandana has been tiling Melbourne's south-east homes for more than 20 years, which means the homes he tiled in his first years of business are now showing exactly how durable correct substrate preparation, compliant waterproofing, and proper tile installation actually is. His clients range from families renovating a single bathroom to landlords maintaining multiple investment properties — and the approach is the same regardless of the project scale. Fixed-price quotes that cover every stage. Waterproofing certificates on every eligible job. A single point of contact from the first call to the last tile. When you hire Tilecraft Melbourne, you are hiring Chandana — and that accountability is what sets the business apart from every multi-trade renovation company in the area.
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