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Grouts, sealants help ease the task at hand

Floor Covering News

He recommended a rapid-setting, high-performance cement grout as well as a rapid-set, high-performance mortar. The Portland cement-based, polymer-modified grout is both freeze/thaw resistant and water repellent, and is open to traffic in just 90 minutes. This will prevent that from defacing your installation. Custom Building Products.

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Laticrete launches new acoustical underlayment

Floor Covering News

Sound & Crack Isolation Mat, a high-performance acoustical underlayment system that is said to muffle impact noises through ceramic tiles, stone and other hard surfacing materials. Bethany, Conn.—Laticrete Laticrete has launched the 170.5 Sound & Crack Mat is ideal for a broad range of commercial and light institutional applications.

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

Tile Talk

Handmade cement tile by Tiles Couture. Design Firm/Designers: Margaret Nysewander, LEED AP, ASD Inc., cement tile. cement tile plans. ceramic tile. Architectural Ceramics: Tile+Mosaic. Cement tiles/ Zementfliesen/ mosaicos hidráulicos. New shapes and textures from Interceramic. and Michael Neiswander.

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Did you know that all grouts are NOT created equal?

Making Tile Modern

Superior to cement grout. Contributes to USGBC LEED Credits: MR 4.1 & 4.2(Recycled StarGlass Grout can be used on vertical or horizontal surfaces in a variety of interior and exterior installations of ceramic, porcelain, glass, and natural stone tiles in a range of grout joint widths. . • Free of BPA (bisphenol?A)

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Kitchen and Residential Design: A Coverings preview

Kitchen and Residential Design

. • Apavisa (Booth 2519) is heading to Coverings with Archconcept, a new collection of patterns in stone, metal and cement finishings that are inspired by the latest manufacturing technology and trends in architecture. The line is available in a range of 12 colors and a finish reminiscent of brushed cement.

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Did you know that all grouts are NOT created equal?

Making Tile Modern

Superior to cement grout. Contributes to USGBC LEED Credits: MR 4.1 & 4.2(Recycled It can be used on vertical or horizontal surfaces in a variety of interior and exterior installations of ceramic, porcelain, glass, and natural stone tiles in a range of grout joint widths. . • Free of BPA (bisphenol‐A) found in epoxy grouts.

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Green Building 2: Air Quality

H.Winter Showroom Blog

For a tough cleaning task, open up a window and add a little ammonia to hot water to get any sticky residue off of ceramic or porcelain tile. Ceramic and porcelain tile is essentially baked earth. In most tile installations, the following products are used: Backer-board: A cement based or gypsum based product used as an underlayment.