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Thin Is In! (The New Technology in Porcelain Tile)

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

The mesh backing coupled with the thin design makes it easy to score and shape the tile to fit rolled-edge countertops, columns and other imaginative applications while ensuring the tile sticks solidly to the adhesive on the substrate. Now let’s talk size.

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Why Green Design Companies are Overhauling the Home Industry

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Few people realize that formaldehyde is a key ingredient in Urea–formaldehyde, the adhesive resin that holds composite woods like particleboard, plywood and medium-density fiberboard? A good green designer has been trained to look carefully at the furniture and décor items that they use to fill a space.

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Residential Deconstruction versus Demolition | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

This appraiser needs to be an IRS qualified appraiser, one with the background, education, training and professional certifications in the exact type of materials they are being asked to value. Being an architecture student, I have trouble with the ‘concept formation’ part of design process. The Creative Process for an.

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