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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

Handmade ceramics are often hand-painted. your handmade ceramic tile has a crackle finish, clean it the same way you would a hand-painted tile. Your contractor already sealed the crackle tile before grouting it during installation. Doing so could discolor the tile or the porous cement grout around it. Windex anyone?

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“I Owe a Lot to This Industry”

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

My grandmother worked at Gladding McBean (Franciscan Tile), hand painting dinnerware while she was pregnant with my father. Then I specialized in architectural and contractor sales, and specified and sold many larger architectural projects. The Ceramic Tile course includes industry standards and sales techniques.

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What Home Buyers Really Want | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

and home sale] Okay, maybe there was some hyperbole there on my part, but I still think that the things that people see and get excited about have more to do with their ability to project their lives into a particular lifestyle. In the construction, I see far too much reliance on thinfs like mortar and grout being 100% waterproof.

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