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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

Check out the following tips below, organized into categories, to care for and maintain your porcelain, ceramic, glass or natural stone tile. This is in part because of America’s need in the 1950’s for ceramic tile to serve as a sanitary option in bathrooms coast-to-coast. Natural Stone. Windex anyone?

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Coverings previews 2024 tile trends

Floor Covering News

Contempo concrete: To complement the raw beauty of contemporary architecture, designers are giving us fresh interpretations of modern cement in porcelain format. As manufacturers work toward producing tiles that look and feel like natural stone, marble prints are now paired with low relief veining for an incredibly realistic appearance.

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Why is my White Marble Turning Yellow?

Architectural Ceramics

It would be prudent to recommend the use of White Thinset for all natural stone installations, but that may not prevent yellowing from occurring completely. Yellowing may still happen in a shower area where mud work or wet bed has been done using Gray Portland cement. Why is White Thinset insufficient in this application?

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COVERINGS LEADS NATIONAL TILE DAY CELEBRATION WITH 2019 PRODUCT PREVIEWS & SOCIAL ACTIVATIONS

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

(ARLINGTON, VA—February 12, 2019) Coverings ( coverings.com ), the largest international tile & stone exhibition and conference in North America, will honor the beauty and durability of tile this National Tile Day as the February 23 observance enters its third year. The show is managed by Taffy Event Strategies, LLC.

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Avente Tile Talk: Coverings 2013 Floors Attendees with New Tile.

Tile Talk

Galala dimensional stone from Marmi Natural Stone. Handmade cement tile by Tiles Couture. cement tile. cement tile plans. Cement tiles/ Zementfliesen/ mosaicos hidráulicos. Spring into Summer with our Cement Tile Ideas. Coatings by Sandberg features an aviation industry inspired coating.

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Take It Outside: Outdoor AC Tile Collections

Architectural Ceramics

Through high-definition printing, porcelain tiles can mimic other materials like cement or natural stone that are typical of an outdoor setting. Cement & Terracotta. Sorry wood-look porcelain, we’ve temporarily moved on, to cement and terracotta tile. Natural Stone & Specialty Ceramic.

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10 Hot Summer Destinations & Tile Inspirations

Architectural Ceramics

This hand-chopped and tumbled mosaic pairs two natural stones in black and beige tones, similar to those found in Lisbon. A natural red clay terra cotta tile, a machine-made ceramic, or a hand-made cement tile with a custom colorway — There is more than one way to incorporate red tile into a residential or commercial design.

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