Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Dallas, Texas—Daltile’s new RevoTile was recently named a “Best Flooring Product Of The Year” in Architectural Record magazine’s annual award competition. Of the five flooring award winners, RevoTile was the only porcelain tile to secure the accolade. Innovative RevoTile is unique; there is nothing like it on the market.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 19, 2024

SikaTile-815 Secure Grout is a high-performance, fast-setting, dustless grout that delivers hard, durable joints and is formulated for strength and simplicity. The color-consistent, efflorescence-free grout is ideal for interior and exterior residential and commercial installations.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 4, 2024

With coordinated profiles and trim pieces to the most popular grout colors and caulks, designers, installers and homeowners now have the ability to create looks across an entire installation. Choose from a number of colors and combinations to create looks with matching profiles, grouts, sealants and more.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Happy Floors, an importer and distributor of porcelain and ceramic tiles, has expanded its offering into the SPC space with its new Easy Luxury rigid core products. “We Mindful of families with children and pets, Happy Floors developed Easy Luxury’s wear layer to be UV, wear, scratch and stain resistant. Miami, Fla.—Happy

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The London Tile Co.

JUNE 4, 2021

Tiles are much harder wearing and easier to clean than any other wall or floor covering, perfect for a room in the house everyone uses. Splashes and spills are almost a given in a kitchen, so carpets would be unhygienic and difficult to manage, this is where floor tiles are perfect. Top tip: tile grout doesn’t have to be white!

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CUSTOM Insights Blog

AUGUST 17, 2018

Each 323-foot tower creates a vertical business campus offering impressive 360 degree views of coastal Orange County and showcasing large format tile and stone on every floor. This effect is enhanced by the luxurious expanse of oversized natural stone on floors, walls and even inside the elevator cabs.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 28, 2021

By Reginald Tucker Floor Covering News , with the launch of The Great Reveal, is providing manufacturers with creative ways to get their new flooring products in front of specialty retailers around the country so they may be better prepared to present consumers with new products, colors and designs to help them complete their renovation projects.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 29, 2022

Las Vegas—Coverings released a select product preview of new tile and stone products, along with a sneak peek of installation materials, tools and technology products, that will be unveiled at Coverings 2022 , taking place here April 5-8, 2022. The Nash series allows one to update ceramic floors through its aged wood design.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 24, 2023

—Laticrete, a leading manufacturer of construction solutions for the building industry, is adding profiles and trim to its growing roster of tile, stone and flooring installation products, making it a total solutions provider with a complete tile installation system including trim options.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

APRIL 20, 2013

LATICRETE has expanded their radiant heating offering by introducing LATICRETE® Floor HEAT Wire. ” DeLuca added, “LATICRETE Floor Heat is the only radiant floor heating system that is part of a comprehensive, lifetime warranty system for tile and stone applications. ” www.laticrete.com.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The STAINMASTER® brand, one of the country’s leading brands of flooring, announces an expansion into tile and grouting products and Columbia’s Tile Center will be one of the initial retailers for these products. The original line includes 10 different designs, colors and shapes as well as a STAINMASTER™ grout additive product.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 3, 2021

.— Planiprep 4 LVT, a new high-moisture-resistant skimcoat and embossing leveler from Mapei, can be used to level off and smooth over existing ceramic and stone surfaces. It can be used to level down to a featheredge or to smooth over in layers up to 1.5mm thick,” said Jeff Johnson, business manager for floor covering installation systems.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 13, 2023

—Merkrete, A Parex USA brand, is expanding its line of industry-leading grout solutions by introducing a high-performance grout here next week at Coverings 2023, held April 18-21. Visitors will experience firsthand Merkrete’s innovative grout solutions formulated for appeal, usability and durability.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 27, 2020

—For the 11 th annual Total Solutions Plus Conference by the National Tile Contractors Association, Laticrete, a leading manufacturer of globally proven construction solutions for the building industry, will give attendees a virtual first-hand look at the company’s latest flooring solutions. Laticrete Select-Bond. requirements.

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The Pulse: Ardex Americas

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Tile installer Rob Fauvergue used a complete ARDEX Tile and Stone Installation Systems solution for renovating the showroom floor of Natural Stone & Tile Gallery in Indiana!

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The London Tile Co.

MARCH 10, 2017

Unlike natural stone or concrete paving, porcelain tiles need to be fixed using adhesive onto a solid base and not onto sand. Once the tiles are installed the joints can be grouted using a flexible grout suitable for outdoor use. Installing Using a Raised Pedestal System. Installing onto a Solid Base Using Adhesive.

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Tile Talk

AUGUST 28, 2012

Installing a slate tile floor. Now this slate comes in an assortment of sizes so laying out the floor isnt as easy as you would get in a standard tile floor. The next step of course is the grout or is it? Slate is a natural stone and you have to seal it before you grout. floor tile. at 6:00 AM.

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Kate-Lo Tile & Stone

JULY 8, 2015

Hands down, porcelain tile is one of the finest choices for flooring for pet owners or even in commercial kennels. Here’s why: Products featured above include: In-floor heating systems by Nuheat & Schluter. Epoxy based grouts by Laticrete. Related Images:

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Kate-Lo Tile & Stone

MARCH 7, 2016

MORE is a line of care products that makes cleaning tile and stone surfaces a snap! If you ever thought that caring for a ceramic or stone tile surface was going to be difficult, your worries are over. Stone & Tile Cleaner. Stone & Quartz Cleaner + Protector. Grout, Ceramic & Porcelain Sealer.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These products join our CUBE system and Re-Con line of cement admixtures, which reduce the carbon levels of the concrete mix itself and turn waste concrete into usable material, respectively. The post Mapei highlights carbon-neutral product family appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 13, 2022

The industry’s major manufacturers as well as the latest emerging companies will showcase thousands of new products and services in categories including furniture, fabrics, flooring, interior building products, interior finishes and technology. Crossville: Stone Fiction. Crossville’s new Stone Fiction will be on display at NeoCon 2022.

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The Pulse: Ardex Americas

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Head tile setter John Scissors of Pride Flooring Service used a full ARDEX tiling system recently on a 7,000 square foot commercial installation in Hicksville, NY. ” said John of Pride Flooring Serivce.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 31, 2021

By Megan Salzano Rigid core flooring has grown by leaps and bounds and taken the whole resilient category with it. Both SPC and WPC flooring products are taking share from most other categories and, as such, suppliers are entering the sphere to get in on the action. AxisCor Performance Flooring — Putting the supply chain first.

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The London Tile Co.

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Porcelain is quickly becoming the most popular tile material for almost every application; from non-slip mosaics for wet room floors, to natural looking wood effect floor tiles. While standard 8-10mm thick porcelain floor tiles are perfect for indoors, the tiles do need to be at least double this to withstand external conditions.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 6, 2021

Nothing beats the energy and excitement of live demonstrations on the floor of the Coverings trade show,” said Sean Boyle, senior vice president, marketing and channel management, Laticrete. Spectralock 1: Spectralock 1 is a pre-mixed, stain-proof grout that has the performance of an epoxy. Products to be showcased. 4:00 pm.

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The Pulse: Ardex Americas

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Tom Wood Lexus in Indianapolis is undergoing the installation of a new show room floor, and tile contractor Rob Fauvergue uses a complete ARDEX Tile & Stone Installation Systems solution!

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Architectural Ceramics

APRIL 26, 2018

From the ground up, we’ll see what goes under and over shower floors and walls. Architectural Ceramics offers two brands, Laticrete and Schluter , that make shower systems part of their specialty. From the shower pan to the grout, and everything in between, we’ve got you covered. Schluter Systems.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 1, 2020

Daltile is looking to change the tile industry with its latest introduction, RevoTile—a patented, floating floor system that installs two times faster than traditional tile, saving time and money. RevoTile installs in just three steps: place underlayment, click tiles together and grout.

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Fabric and Tile Masters

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Customers need travertine floors refinished when they move into homes sometimes and don’t even know how beautiful they can be. There are a variety of reasons these natural stone floors look bad: Quick and unskilled application of topical sealers to homes in a frustrated attempt to make a floor look good to sell.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 10, 2020

The meteoric rise of the resilient flooring category can be directly attributed to the performance of subcategories such as SPC and rigid core, which doubled in terms of volume and more than doubled in terms of dollars between 2018 and 2019. Ceramic, stone looks impress. Flooring mainstays Shaw and Mohawk continue to make their mark.

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Architectural Ceramics

DECEMBER 10, 2015

White Thinset is the standard recommendation for Bianco Carrara, Calacata, Onyx, Thassos, most Limestone, and other light or translucent stones. The use of a Gray colored Thinset can result in discoloration of the stone or the appearance of oily stains on the face of the stone. Kerdi Shower System.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 13, 2023

Orlando – Coverings has released a sneak peek of new tile and stone products, along with a select preview of installation materials, tools and technology products, that will be showcased at Coverings 2023, set to take place April 18-21, 2023, here at the Orange County Convention Center. Roma, the latest collection from Tagina S.P.A.,

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CUSTOM Insights Blog

MAY 14, 2015

The CUSTOM website offers resources that make specifying the right tile installation system fast and easy. CUSTOM has a complete listing of all TCNA-endorsed methods for installing ceramic and natural stone along with CAD drawings showing the recommended products for each detail.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 3, 2020

The first week of Alliance Flooring’s two-week Connect 2020 concluded with Engineered Floors, Metroflor, Emser and Armstrong providing retailers with product reviews, training guidance and special deals on pallets. Here is a brief recap: Engineered Floors. Ensignium pattern repeats every 30 to 38 planks. “We

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 19, 2020

RevoTile is a true porcelain tile flooring that features a click-style installation method and Daltile’s signature design-driven looks. Flooring retailers and contractors who took on the new product at its launch have already seen positive results. By Megan Salzano. Officially launched Jan. RevoTile installs in three steps.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 5, 2021

The flooring industry was not immune to these impacts as plant shutdowns and retail showroom pauses put a crimp on product introductions. In fact, new product offerings and line extensions were robust in 2020 in what turned out to be a better-than-expected year for most flooring retailers and distributors. Bellera by Shaw Floors.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

In response to ceramic contractors’ needs for time-saving products, MAPEI has introduced Ultraflex™ LFT Rapid mortar to its line of fast-setting tile and stone installation systems. This mortar sets quickly, allowing grouting in three to four hours. www.mapei.com.

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