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Natural stone 101: Understanding the basics

Floor Covering News

Patrick Warren vice president of residential sales, dealer and showrooms Dal-Tile Keep up with the trends “It’s beneficial for the retailer to be knowledgeable about current style and color trends. Understanding how to use natural stone tile to recreate these designs, patterns, textures and colors adds to this advantage.

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Ceramic: Key requirements for a top-quality installation

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“All of our adhesives, mortars and grouts—everything that we use to bond our ceramic tile, porcelain tile—have limitations, either on the low scale or the high scale in terms of temperatures,” she explained. The concrete will still be a darker color, but the water will disappear. Don’t take shortcuts.

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Ceramic: State of the Industry 2022

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Within the multi-family sector, another important market for ceramic, the prospects for continued high levels of development declined significantly in the third quarter, as did the prospects for continued high occupancy rates, according to results from the Multi-family Market Survey (MMS) released by the NAHB.

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Bringing a Touch of Luxury to Bathrooms

Kitchen and Residential Design

A recent survey from Lightstream reports that 37 percent of homeowners indicated they are planning to remodel their bathrooms in 2019, edging out kitchen remodels, which 31 percent of respondents said was a priority. Twenty-seven percent of those surveyed said personalization was their primary reason for investing in a renovation.

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Tile, Twitter and Facebook: Open for Business

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

It’s hard to say what percentage of business owners use Twitter and Facebook -published surveys vary wildly from one third or less of all businesses to two thirds or more. Can’t decide what color to paint walls? Whatever the true numbers today, they are likely to be higher tomorrow. Find showroom. Why not tile them instead?

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Builder—State of the industry: Construction activity, hard surfaces will fuel demand in 2020

Floor Covering News

Builders are noticing a trend toward large-format porcelain slabs, as shown here in Dal-Tile’s Panoramic Series. However, other surveys do indicate that millennials are, in fact, looking at the largest homes,” Dietz said. A key element of construction volume is new single-family home sizes, which continue to shrink.

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The Industry Disrupters of 2020

Floor Covering News

RevoTile is genuine porcelain tile offered in 26 marble, wood, stone and concrete looks. The curated assortment of design-driven styles is made to reflect today’s most popular colors, textures, finishes and sizes. RevoTile also features Daltile’s state-of-the-art printing technology, Reveal Imaging.