Best Tile Installation in Portland Oregon
It is important to seal the tile and grout after it is installed. It is just as important to repeat this process every six months if the tile is a natural stone. If the tile is ceramic or porcelain then once in 12 months is ok.
This is the stuff I use when I’m tiling walls or ceilings. It works great because it’s much stickier then regular thin set. If you use regular thin set on ceiling tile they will fall off after a minute or two and brake. Using this stuff will keep the tile on the ceiling till the adhesive is cured. It works good on walls because it keeps tile from sagging down, although, it still might sag a little so check it one last time after your done before you take off.
Cove tile is a stone or tile version of baseboard. It is set on the wall about 1 ½” to 3 ½” off the floor. I definitely suggest using cove tile on tiled floors; it makes a big difference in looks for not that much of a difference in price. You have to pay for some one to install baseboard any way, but for a little more your baseboard can be made of tile or stone pieces.
The consequence for poorly mixed up grout. Mix it too watery and it will crack when it dries. Mix it to dry and it will feel like you are wrestling a bear, trying to get the grout in the grout lines. The way I test grout for a proper mix ratio is to get some grout on my margin trowel and hold it over my bucket upside down, it should take about 10 seconds for the grout to detach and fall off.
When you are setting tile up a wall make sure your grout lines line up with floor grout lines, if you have any tile on floor. Also, after you set your first row of tiles right on the floor going up the wall make sure you level that first row of tiles on the wall. Then check your level as you going up the wall about every three or four rows just to make sure it’s still leveled as you are going up.
I installed BLACK marble on the floor of a bathroom two months ago and it looked SO good! Now, two months later I can see the wear on the tile. Could not believe what happened to it. Black Marble is not a good color tile to have in areas where there is considerable amount of traffic, maybe would be best on walls. But it did look very nice at first.
