Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 27, 2020

—For the 11 th annual Total Solutions Plus Conference by the National Tile Contractors Association, Laticrete, a leading manufacturer of globally proven construction solutions for the building industry, will give attendees a virtual first-hand look at the company’s latest flooring solutions. Meets or exceeds ANSI A118.3 Laticrete Select-Bond.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 18, 2023

RD Weis LLC, the full-service flooring provider, has hired flooring expert Chip Ebert to lead its national accounts program, Surface Care. Chip is a true leader with years of experience in sales management and negotiation,” said RD Weis president, Michael Callaghan. 1 commercial sales person at the company for many years.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 7, 2023

It was precisely this mode of installation that made laminate flooring such a new and exciting product category when it first began appearing in retail showrooms in the U.S. It’s one of the best flooring systems available in the market today,” he said. With FlinTile, Unilin offers a ceramic alternative to SPC with real grout.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 13, 2022

The industry’s major manufacturers as well as the latest emerging companies will showcase thousands of new products and services in categories including furniture, fabrics, flooring, interior building products, interior finishes and technology. i4F: True Grout. The Ava by Novalis brand will highlight its 2TRZO at NeoCon 2022.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

These awards honor groundbreaking ideas and industry-changing concepts that have the potential to impact the way flooring is manufactured, promoted and sold. As the click system ensures perfect alignment of the tiles, installation of a FlinTile floor does not require any specific tools or the use of spacers.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Mapeguard CI is a flexible, fabric-reinforced, “peel-and-stick” crack-isolation membrane that helps to prevent existing or future in-plane floor cracks (with movement up to 3/8-inch or 10mm wide) from transmitting through grout, ceramic tile or natural stone. Mapeguard CI is thin (1.5mm), lightweight and load bearing.

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Tile Excellence

JANUARY 19, 2014

Tile Installtion FAQ: Sanded Grout or Un-Sanded Grout? Most Frequently Asked Questions from Consumers: From Newly Forming FAQ on Tile Installation, Tile Repairs & All Things Tile Related: Many people have asked me over the years which grout to use in their house particular to their tile installation.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 10, 2020

The meteoric rise of the resilient flooring category can be directly attributed to the performance of subcategories such as SPC and rigid core, which doubled in terms of volume and more than doubled in terms of dollars between 2018 and 2019. Flooring mainstays Shaw and Mohawk continue to make their mark. Shaw Floors’ new Floorte?

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

MAY 10, 2019

Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page. Choose the Right Grout Color for Your Backsplash. The dark grout trend has been popular for a few years, but it’s not for everyone. Dark grout lines with light tile is stylish but can be busy for large-scale areas.

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Granada Tile

MARCH 27, 2017

Clean, crisp edges between each tile to keep the grout in place. Common cement tile installations include kitchen and bathroom backsplashes, flooring, bathroom countertops, shower flooring and walls, decorative wall features, fireplaces, and outdoor patios. A solid feel and weight of the tile. The options are virtually endless!

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

suppliers are touting record-high sales in 2021 and expected ongoing growth as a result of changing consumer habits and a booming housing market —both spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. MSI’s Arterra porcelain pavers feature Zero-slip, a proprietary technology providing exceptional slip resistance for wet and dry flooring.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

Cali Floors. Cali Floors has proven to be a trusted partner for retailers in the face of hardship. This strategy has worked for the brand given that it has grown substantially over the last few years—including its recent acquisition by global flooring company Victoria PLC—and continues to expand its specialty retail network.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 5, 2021

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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Tile Excellence

MAY 6, 2012

ceramic tile repairs floor tile replacment and shower regrouts. After the grout is removed then the tile to be replaced can be broken from the middle out in pieces and removed carefully using the hammer and chisel a little at a time or all at once if the tile is not bonded very well. Sunday, May 6, 2012. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Architectural Ceramics

DECEMBER 10, 2015

White Thinset is the standard recommendation for Bianco Carrara, Calacata, Onyx, Thassos, most Limestone, and other light or translucent stones. When the stone is exposed to water, moisture penetrates the stone and grout and into the mud bed, activating the loose particles of cement. Calacatta Gold Master Bath.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

MP Global’s QuietWalk Luxury Vinyl is a premium recycled fiber underlayment built for luxury vinyl plank, luxury vinyl tile and multi-layer flooring such as WPC, SPC and rigid core vinyl planks. Quinn—A common theme for innovation in most industries is “better, faster, cheaper,” and flooring installation is no different. Pros vs. cons.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JULY 4, 2018

So, apart from the growing threat from LVT, tile manufacturer’s existing business should be set fair, as ceramic and porcelain tiles now have so many advantages over natural timber or real stone floors, carpet, polished plaster, wallpaper, and all the other surface options. Note the coloured grout lines.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

LATICRETE commissioned the 12 pieces from industry mosaic artists to display their work at the company’s Surfaces 2013 exhibit earlier this year, in support of communicating the 10 year anniversary of SPECTRALOCK® Grout. This mosaic art gallery was comprised of unique, museum-quality creations using SPECTRALOCK PRO Premium Grout with DAZZLE™.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 9, 2021

As it turns out, the flooring industry has its disrupters as well. For the flooring industry, the pandemic has caused major supply chain disruptions that impacted manufacturers and distributors and, eventually, retailers—who at times throughout 2020 were out of stock on certain products. Supply chain issues persist to this day.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

A soft to the touch, contemporary, rectified tile, Urban Wood enables the installer to use smaller grout joints which not only give the new tiled area a more monolithic appearance… the smaller the grout joint, the lesser the time and expense for future cleaning. “Dazzle was a big hit when it was introduced ten years ago.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JULY 24, 2012

Then I specialized in architectural and contractor sales, and specified and sold many larger architectural projects. I later worked as a sales manager for Laticrete International for seven years, before founding Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants (CTaSC) on May 5, 2002. What does the training consist of?

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Architectural Ceramics

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Base molding: Just like wood molding is used at the bottom of a wall where it meets the floor, base molding can be made out of ceramic, marble or porcelain, and functions the same way. Used for doorways and shower entrances, thresholds transition from one flooring material to another. Join our newsletter here.

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Tile Excellence

JANUARY 31, 2014

Today I did this Tumbled marble backsplash in Hamilton ma, It took me 4 hours of my time from start to finish and I grouted it as well. I am a production tile guy who gets it done within the bounds of industry standards. Ask Flooring Excellence. Hey There, Regards, Chris tileexcellence.com seopoweredwebsites.com. November (2).

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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. It took hours to remove and reinstall the floor back to new status.

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CUSTOM Insights Blog

MARCH 27, 2015

A 1/16" standard allowance is way too much when you are installing a thin tile that is only 1/8" or even 1/4" thick. The answer is “the largest one that one person can handle on a standard scaffold.” Of course, the larger the tile, the smaller the desired grout joints from a design perspective.

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Building Moxie

MARCH 31, 2017

To put 10 mils into context, the internet says a standard coat of interior paint is generally between four and five millimeters thick. But this color was on sale (it seems Pond Armor frequently has sales), and it would match very well with our newly installed paver stones. In my case, I used an Archoring Expoy.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

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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