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Choosing the Right Travertine Grout for Your Project, Made Easier: Starlike® Specialty Grout for Stone Projects

Tile Doctor

You’ve Chosen To Use Travertine Stone, Now What’s the Best Travertine Grout? Stone tile is a popular option for both indoor and outdoor projects, but whether you’re using marble, slate, granite or travertine, grout and stone choice is an important decision. While you might really appreciate the look of.

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"Travertine, Before And After"

How to Floor Tile

Travertine is a Natural Stone as you know, but did you know most of it is filled with grout? If you look at most Travertine Tile you will see that it is very porous on the unfinished side and that is because that is how most of it looks. Travertine is a sophisticated name for Limestone. Nor would I suggest Marble.

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How To Care For Marble Or Natural Stone From?

How to Floor Tile

[link] I personally do not advocate using Marble, Travertine and other natural stone in showers or wet areas because it is too soft and hard to maintain. I built this shower recently and all the tile looks like marble but it really is Porcelain and manufacturers copy natural stone for a reason. Repeat as necessary.

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Black Mold-Travertine Tile Revisit

How to Floor Tile

You should know that if you use a tile with a porous surface like this Travertine just know it will require more maintenance to keep it up. There are different types, qualities and surfaces of natural stone like Travertine and Marble. I have also removed Travertine showers too, FYI. Just an FYI for you.

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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

Check out the following tips below, organized into categories, to care for and maintain your porcelain, ceramic, glass or natural stone tile. Natural Stone. Marie Kondo says herself, “The question of what you want to own is really the question of how you want to live.”

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Guest Post from Natural Stone Institute – Caring for your Natural Stone Surfaces at Home

JG Kitchens

Her gifts of marble, onyx, granite, soapstone and other stones have been justly prized for millennia. Like a mane of glorious locks, natural stone surfaces require care to keep them at their best. So when the Natural Stone Institute offered a guest post on maintaining these materials, I gladly said yes. Know Your Stone.

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How to Keep Natural Stone Countertops Beautiful

CUSTOM Insights Blog

The versatility and beauty of marble, limestone, travertine, granite and other natural stone countertops make them extremely popular in kitchens around the country. Note – when applying natural stone sealers and cleaners always wear rubber gloves and eye protection, and follow the directions on the product label explicitly.