Evoke Tiling Solutions

26/08/2026

Morning talks

21/08/2026

20/08/2026

Gotta do what your gotta do 💃

09/08/2026

Did you know that Alanya castle is situated on top of natural limestone? Being a man of natural stone, Fitting tiles for over 20 years i am naturally drawn to this. And have explored it from the bottom to the top!! And also with my trusty Avata 2! Fascinating to say the least here is some further information!!

The castle wasn't built on a flat artificial platform. The entire castle hill/peninsula is a natural geological formation, with steep limestone and other carbonate rocks forming the rugged cliffs around it.
That's one reason the location was so strategically powerful:
🪨 Natural limestone cliffs provided enormous defensive advantages.
🌊 The peninsula projects into the Mediterranean, giving defenders excellent views over the sea.
🏰 The walls were built around and along the natural contours of the rock, rather than creating the hill themselves.
⛰️ The same geological landscape continues into the mountains behind Alanya.
So when you're standing around the castle looking at those huge exposed rock faces, you're essentially looking at natural mountain/limestone geology that predates the castle by millions of years. The Romans, Byzantines and later Seljuks were making use of a landscape that was already there.
And yes — this is also why the Alanya area has so many dramatic karst/limestone formations and caves.

11/05/2026

Repair and maintain

11/05/2026

Repair and maintain is an important part of tiling

28/03/2026

The final piece of the jigsaw. See you Monday

25/03/2026

Roman Opus style limestone almost complete. What a journey its been on this job

25/02/2026

Like a glove