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Ceramic: Key requirements for a top-quality installation

Floor Covering News

Observe and document the site conditions. 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. “All I’ll tell the general contractor, ‘Your floor is not ready for tile.

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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

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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Daltile ‘Style Squad’ demos RevoTile

Floor Covering News

The story that Frills & Drills influencer Lindsay Dean is currently sharing on Instagram, Pinterest and her blog shows consumers how she single-handedly installed a room of real porcelain tile flooring quickly and easily in her own home using Daltile’s new click-tile product RevoTile. Watch Frills & Drills Installation Video.

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New Options on Green Squared and an Innovative Mortar That Sets in Hours

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

This mortar sets quickly, allowing grouting in three to four hours. Its nonsag medium-bed and thin-set mortar characteristics are ideal for installing large-format tile and stone on interior and exterior floors, walls and countertops. www.mapei.com.

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The Art of Quality Tile Installations

CUSTOM Insights Blog

When setting these large format tiles, it is the contractor’s responsibility to make sure the GC provides the appropriate floor flatness. It is also the tile contractor’s responsibility to backbutter large format or cupped porcelain even if it is not called out in the specifications. How can the tile contractor help the architect?

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Roger Leasure Installs with Integrity

CUSTOM Insights Blog

When setting these large format tiles, it is the contractor’s responsibility to make sure the GC provides the appropriate floor flatness. It is also the tile contractor’s responsibility to backbutter large format or cupped porcelain even if it is not called out in the specifications. How can the tile contractor help the architect?

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“I Owe a Lot to This Industry”

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

I had been a Certified Ceramic Tile Consultant (CTC) through the CTIOA since 1979 and a Certified Construction Document Technologist through CSI since 2000. With my science background, experience and expertise in construction documents, we can reduce the risks of project problems and delays. What does the training consist of?

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