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Natural stone 101: Understanding the basics

Floor Covering News

Mike Weaver vice president of dealer trade sales Emser Tile Understand the advantages for you, the retailer “There are many surveys that show natural stone is what consumers ultimately want on their floors and counters. The post Natural stone 101: Understanding the basics appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Bringing a Touch of Luxury to Bathrooms

Kitchen and Residential Design

A recent survey from Lightstream reports that 37 percent of homeowners indicated they are planning to remodel their bathrooms in 2019, edging out kitchen remodels, which 31 percent of respondents said was a priority. Twenty-seven percent of those surveyed said personalization was their primary reason for investing in a renovation.

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Ceramic: Key requirements for a top-quality installation

Floor Covering News

“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. It’s usually more expensive because all the labor we’re putting into the floor, but it’s a no-brainer.” It needs to be prepped.

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Tile, Twitter and Facebook: Open for Business

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

It’s hard to say what percentage of business owners use Twitter and Facebook -published surveys vary wildly from one third or less of all businesses to two thirds or more. June 23rd Sale - celebrating 23 years of serving you – 20% off floor tiles. Whatever the true numbers today, they are likely to be higher tomorrow.

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Ceramic: State of the Industry 2022

Floor Covering News

Daltile’s Rekindle tile flooring collection features StepWise and Microban technology, making it more slip resistant while also eliminating 99% of bacteria on the tile surface. In 2019, the tile flooring category experienced its first decline in a decade as tariffs and antidumping legislation hit the market. Tackling labor shortages.

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The Industry Disrupters of 2020

Floor Covering News

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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Builder—State of the industry: Construction activity, hard surfaces will fuel demand in 2020

Floor Covering News

Builders are increasingly embracing new, high-performance vinyl flooring materials in response to the growing popularity of hard surfaces. This should bode well for flooring in the next year. These and other positive developments contributed to an uptick for flooring sales to this segment about midway through the year.