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Grouts, sealants help ease the task at hand

Floor Covering News

Along with rising temperatures comes high moisture levels in the air, which could pose challenges for flooring installers on the jobsite—whether it’s indoors or outside. He recommended a rapid-setting, high-performance cement grout as well as a rapid-set, high-performance mortar. wide variety of indoor and outdoor projects.

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Grouting Floor Tile Installations

The Tile Doctor

Letand#39;s talk first about Portland cement based grout since this is the most commonly used material. Once the grout is mixed per the Manufacturers instructions, it needs to be installed.

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Cronin Showroom Gets a Remodel!

The Pulse: Ardex Americas

The Cronin Company in Portland Oregon recently remodeled their showroom using 4′ x 5″ Rosse wood-like plank tiles. 2,000+ square feet of ARDEX UI 720™ FLEXBONE®! “Installing flexbone for easy removal when needing to remodel”, was a key factor for Terry and Pacific Specialty on choosing ARDEX FLEXBONE®!

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Why is my White Marble Turning Yellow?

Architectural Ceramics

Yellowing may still happen in a shower area where mud work or wet bed has been done using Gray Portland cement. When the stone is exposed to water, moisture penetrates the stone and grout and into the mud bed, activating the loose particles of cement. This moisture penetration will even occur on floors that have been thoroughly sealed.

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Dealers share A+ products from 2020

Floor Covering News

The flooring industry was not immune to these impacts as plant shutdowns and retail showroom pauses put a crimp on product introductions. In fact, new product offerings and line extensions were robust in 2020 in what turned out to be a better-than-expected year for most flooring retailers and distributors. Bellera by Shaw Floors.

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$100 pool tile repair - Tile Excellence - Blogger

Tile Excellence

About 3 parts grout and 1 part portland cement(comes in gray and white colors) Its probably better for the do it yourselfer to do this repair in the morning or late evening when the direct sun is not right on your area to be repaired. tile replaced ready to grout. Ask Flooring Excellence. A HOME DEPOT PRODUCT. August (3).

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April Showers Bring May Flowers

Architectural Ceramics

From the ground up, we’ll see what goes under and over shower floors and walls. From the shower pan to the grout, and everything in between, we’ve got you covered. Architectural Ceramics stocks a few of their products, a popular seller for example, is their grout. Underneath It All. That’s right, doggies baths.