CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JUNE 3, 2013

For many people—tile dealers and contractors included—the term ‘universal design’ brings to mind ‘Baby Boomers’ or ‘aging population.’ But while the concept does include features appealing to older adults, members of that demographic group aren’t the only ones who enjoy the benefits universal design brings. Interest on the Upswing.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JANUARY 31, 2020

Product quality, design, innovation, Italian origin, and sustainability are all key components of the Italian ceramic tile industry’s success. But, along with these well-established characteristics, ceramic panels have many other newly-developed qualities that make them an appealing and increasingly eco-friendly design solution.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JULY 24, 2012

My father worked for Franciscan Tile for 30 years, and then purchased their San Diego location, renaming it Southwestern Ceramic Tile and Marble Company. All are involved in setting industry standards so we can avoid the negative advertising of problems and failures and ensure successful installations.

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Tile Excellence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

But having run my business over 37 years based on honest ethical standards I decided the best way to address these. After an initially acceptable job on a simple marble floor, I had ** do a custom tile bath and an expanded marble floor. About 30% of the jobs that call me now I choose not to accept. FROM BBB AND YAHOO AND YELP.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

The flooring industry was slow to embrace the use of digital marketing and online tools as a viable next step in the evolution of the industry. What’s more, this increased resilience was designed to outperform both v-groove and traditional ceramic grout applications in terms of wear and tear. Mobile Marketing. Mohawk Industries.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 18, 2022

“The Italians don’t make the best marble because they’re Italian,” quipped Wade Bondrowski, direct of U.S. They just happen to live in a region where marble is of the finest quality.”. Another aspect that separates the Canadian suppliers is our grading standards, which tend to be stricter than a lot of our competitors.

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How to Floor Tile

MAY 30, 2019

But there are other things to consider, tile like many substances need some kind of trim generally, be it tile, marble or metal that comes in many colors. Marble and Granite we can grind and smooth outside edges but regular tile needs some help. Mosaic is not tile in the standard sense and there are many reasons for that.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Like stone and ceramic, Comfortstone is incredibly beautiful and durable, but is also designed to be warmer to the touch and more comfortable underfoot versus traditional tile. Its reusable tongue-and-groove design allows for easy dismantling without wear, enabling quick, error-free corrections or single-plank replacements.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 13, 2022

Chicago— NeoCon 2022 takes place here this week at the Merchandise Mart to showcase the latest in commercial design across industry categories. Through-pattern construction of VBT, which means the color and pattern extend throughout the thickness of the tile, is said to ensure the tile’s color and design will last the life of the floor.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 9, 2021

Disruptive brands are the ones that set the standard for everyone else to strive to emulate. Since its inception, COREtec has challenged the industry to think bigger and go further—in style, design, performance and innovation. It has been designed as the quintessential DIY product. Challenging the industry to go bigger.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

MAY 9, 2013

That is especially true in the design of our newest color body porcelain floor and wall tile line, Cliffside. With Cliffside, design opportunities in this stone are endless, regardless of where you are in America.” TI-ProBoard® offers a Commercial Floor Rating and can be cut to size and installed with standard tools.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Considering white marble. newyoker tracing paper is a tool for recording and most importantly refining architectural ideas. It is a sketching paper but most importantly, it’s a tracing or better term, refining paper that allows you to work something out by layering tracing paper over it.

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