Floor Covering News

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Ceramic Tile Education Foundation (CTEF) has expanded training and education for professionals in the ceramic tile and stone industry for 2023. We’re excited about providing ceramic tile installers with a more defined career path with these new programs,” said Brad Denny, executive director, CTEF. Pendleton, S.C.—The

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 5, 2021

During my spare time, I learned how to estimate complex commercial ceramic tile projects by reading a Dodge McGraw-Hill pamphlet, doing estimates on old projects and comparing them to the completed work. By the time I graduated college, I was proficient at reading contract documents, which was the foundation for me to launch into sales.

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Architectural Ceramics

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

While we can’t help you clean out your closet by purging, thanking, or folding your clothes, Architectural Ceramics can help you clean your tile floor or backsplash. Check out the following tips below, organized into categories, to care for and maintain your porcelain, ceramic, glass or natural stone tile. Machine-Made Ceramics.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 18, 2024

THF advocates for the ceramic arts and mosaics as well as the preservation of significant installations. THF is a custodian of over 40,000 documents, more than 44,000 digital images and more than 4,000 American ceramic tiles dating back to the late 19th century. THF also maintains a blog-style website.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 31, 2020

These documents should be used by anyone in the tile community from properly specifying a tile installation, to accurately bidding a job, to properly installing tile. Ceramic tile is a proven product with health, hygiene and safety benefits made for the post-pandemic renovation, remodel and new construction.

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Architectural Ceramics

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Ceramic floor tile first started to appear in medieval England in the thirteenth century. Our knowledge of floors in medieval domestic buildings is primarily from excavated buildings or documents from the time. Quick History of Tile in Medieval England. The image above shows the intricate detail that was put into floor mosaics.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 21, 2020

—Tile Council of North America (TCNA), the trade association representing producers of ceramic tile, tile installation materials and related products in North America, has entered into what it calls a transformative collaboration to provide industry-wide material ingredient transparency. rating system.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JUNE 6, 2016

Eventually, that plan should evolve into a formal strategic plan document that lays out key initiatives for the business over the next three to five years. Unfortunately, even when said document is created, that seed planted in the ground often ends up largely ignored, untended and malnourished. Back to CTDA This Week.

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Kitchen and Residential Design

JUNE 23, 2021

Document the Damage After ensuring that your kitchen is safe and habitable, you should document and take an inventory of the extent of the damage. Taking photos and documenting all the damaged items can assist when making an insurance claim. Also, don’t use this agent to clean chrome fixtures and ceramic tiles.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the two new 10-part digital video series, “Idea House Build: Cottage on the Cape” and “Idea House Build: Farmhouse in Fairfield County,” viewers follow along with the construction crew as they document everything from the groundbreaking to the home transformation journey.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

These hands-on sessions are designed to empower participants with practical knowledge rooted in ANSI standards and methods outlined in the Tile Council of North America (TCNA) Handbook for Ceramic, Glass and Stone Tile Installation. The NTCA Reference Manual serves as a guiding resource throughout the training.

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Architectural Ceramics

JUNE 27, 2016

Ceramic vs. Porcelain Wood-Look Tiles. To understand the difference between a red clay, white clay, and porcelain tile, there is a document that lays out some specifications on our website here.) Beware of companies advertising tile as porcelain when it is actually a white body ceramic. See more Wood Replica here. Chaa Creek.

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Ceramics of Italy

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The creative evolution and areas of application of ceramics, which are becoming increasingly vast, are the focus of the international award conceived by the Fincibec Group , The Quinquennial Tile Award , which enters its sixth edition.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2023

The reasons are well documented. Many floors make up the category—from vinyl sheet and floor tile to ceramic, hardwood, laminates and polished concrete—and market share and growth rates vary by sector and region. Natural materials such as ceramic are considered healthy choices. Volume is projected to split between both markets.

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Ceramics of Italy

MARCH 17, 2021

In this publication, each winning project is fully illustrated and described in detail with the aim of promoting new avenues of research and experimentation, as well as documenting the evolution of ceramic products and their architectural applications. www.casalgrandepadana.it.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

These include: carpet, underlayment, fibers, fabrics, turf, laminate flooring, ceramic tile, wood, LVT, SPC and other resilient flooring, vacuums, cleaning chemicals and automotive parts. When it comes to flooring-specific testing applications, PTL’s experience is well documented.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

AUGUST 13, 2013

Through research at its Centers for Excellence in Research and Development over the past two years, MAPEI has documented the successful process for installing large-format thin tile panels on walls and floors. From September 23rd to 27th, the Spanish ceramic industry gathers in Bologna, creating the.

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Heath Ceramics

AUGUST 12, 2015

Excited to have photographer @rinneallen at Heath SF this Sunday from 3-4 to share her stories about the people and processes she documents. at Heath Ceramics San Francisco) Love her book, Beauty Everyday, in the Alabama Chanin pop-up store too. More info and RSVP link in profile. (at

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 18, 2021

From their well-documented environmentally friendly benefits to their unique visual characteristics, cork and bamboo flooring provide a desirable alternative to many of the commodity-driven hard surface products in abundance in the industry today. Beyond aesthetics, Green Flow also touts high durability.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JANUARY 30, 2012

My background is in art, but not in ceramics. That’s an important thing to document. We estimate we have between 30,000 and 40,000 individual documents about the manufacture of specific tiles. TD: Do you document what you’ve found? He is a detail person and I’m a big picture person. We were on the same page.

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Granada Tile

JUNE 27, 2018

Filtering her cravings through the blog, it served as a platform for documenting her style evolution. The blog lives up to its statement of purpose — “living well with style and substance” — inspiring and informing her reader and documenting her finds through her well-focused lens.

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Tile Talk

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Its unfortunate that this glorious form of art wasnt extensively documented throughout the ages. Labels: ceramic tile , ceramic tile design , decorative tile , exterior facades , floor tile , handmade ceramic tile , historic tile , Islamic architecture , Islamic art , mosaic tile , Persian tile , wall tile. ceramic tile.

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Tile Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Preservation of our Tile Heritage The Tile Heritage Foundation promotes an awareness and appreciation of ceramic surfaces in the United States. The Tile Heritage library and research facility has a wealth of knowledge including books and slides about ceramic tile surfaces. ceramic tile. Architectural Ceramics: Tile+Mosaic.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JULY 24, 2012

One-on-One with Donato Pompo, Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants. Most importantly, he is the founder of San Diego-based Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants, and the University of Tile and Stone, a pre-eminent provider of education to industry employees and customers. Jeffrey Steele. TD: What did you learn from your father’s experience?

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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. American National Standard Specifications for Sustainable Ceramic Tiles, Glass Tiles and Tile Installation Materials. New Rapid-Setting Mortar from MAPEI.

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The Perfect Bath

MARCH 11, 2015

An early version of it is documented in the dwellings and public buildings of Pompeii and Herculaneum; archeologists found small chards of glass or stone embedded in cement-like floors. Like stone or handmade ceramic tile, subtle variations are expected in cement tiles; no two pieces are exactly alike. I love cement tile.

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Heath Ceramics

AUGUST 11, 2015

For the last 15 years, Athens, Georgia-based photographer Rinne Allen has documented the work and process of myriad prominent chefs and artisans, including Natalie Chanin, one of our frequent (and favorite) collaborators. Is documentation a method of collaboration for you? Ever since, my family has always encouraged me to do it.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We monitor traffic and closing rates in each location, and if we lose an order we document who won the project.” Not to be outdone, the Wayfair site lists ceramic tile, laminates, vinyl, carpet tile, hardwood and bamboo, plus garage floors and mats.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 5, 2022

That puts the category behind resilient (53.6%), ceramic (19.6%) and hardwood (17%) with respect to dollars. Here, laminate accounts for roughly 10% of hard surface volume sold, surpassed, again, by resilient (29.2%) and ceramic (12.3%).

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 12, 2021

Thanks to advancements in printing and screening technologies, for example, ceramic and porcelain products can be made to look like wood. has been well documented, the category remains arguably the most aspirational flooring product in the minds of consumers and homeowners. Other flooring categories sought to cut into wood’s share.

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Tile Talk

JUNE 25, 2013

This year Wayne and I began a blog at our website for collaborations (http//nutmegdesignsart.com), documenting work in progress, our commissions and the process of being a Dynamic Duo. ceramic tile. Architectural Ceramics: Tile+Mosaic. The Buyer's Guide to Ceramic Tiles. Readers have become friends, fans, and clients.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 24, 2021

That makes it the fourth-largest hard surface category by value behind resilient flooring (50.7%), ceramic tile (21.8%) and hardwood flooring (17%). And while the well-documented performance of laminate flooring continues to improve, that hasn’t trans- lated into increased commercial flooring specifications.

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Ceramics of Italy

JULY 26, 2023

Wienerberger Italia , a leader in the field of sustainable building solutions, has unveiled its 2022 Annual Report , a document that reflects the considerable progress achieved by the company during the year as part of a long-term strategy focusing on the strategic pillars of ESG (Environment, Social, Governance).

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CUSTOM Insights Blog

JULY 13, 2016

Self-leveling underlayment is one of things that often goes missing from the construction documents. We just sent all of our installers through three days of Ceramic Tile Education Foundation (CTEF) training. Dig into the specifications, and let the architect and the project owner know if you find any flaws.

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CUSTOM Insights Blog

JULY 13, 2016

Self-leveling underlayment is one of things that often goes missing from the construction documents. We just sent all of our installers through three days of Ceramic Tile Education Foundation (CTEF) training. Dig into the specifications, and let the architect and the project owner know if you find any flaws.

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Making Tile Modern

DECEMBER 5, 2015

The tiles for the San Francisco murals were ceramic , as opposed to the Italian glass used at the airport.” Anytime I try to follow up, they say, ‘can you document it?’ When she wasn’t doing mural work or designing decorative art, she worked in interior design. That’s where I ran into some restrictions.

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Ceramics of Italy

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The document set out Ideal Standard’s belief in transparency in its sustainability practices and made a commitment to quantified targets in areas like carbon footprint, plastic packaging reduction and use of timber from sustainable sources.

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