Category: lakeland

  • Shade Variation in Ceramic & Porcelain Tile….

    Many popular styles of ceramic tiles are designed and manufactured to appear and feel like natural stone, imitating their rugged surface and color variation. It’s important to understand these variations while selecting and laying out your ceramic tile flooring. You will always be provided with a wide range of glazes, different gloss levels, colors and…

  • Making a Marble or Porcelain Soap Shelf…..

    Customers here in Tampa, Florida are always asking me for a soap shelf to be installed in their new porcelain, marble or ceramic tile shower. Some go out a buy the basic ceramic corner shelf and want me to put that in. They are pretty big and usually the ceramic glaze colors doesn’t match the…

  • Tampa Kitchen Tile Refreshing for a Realtor….

    With home sales slow throughout the US some Realtor’s are finding ways to make the homes they are selling more appealing and fresh. Here’s a job I did for a Realtor I do work for in the Tampa, Florida area. They were trying to spruce up a house to sell so I came up with…

  • Floor Tile Comparisons in Florida…

    Tile Comparison for your Florida tile selection: (Granite Tile – Marble Tile – Slate Tile – Pebble Tile – Glass Tile – Porcelain Tile) Tile is the often choice for the surface of high-end applications. They are averagely priced but they provide incomparable beauty and elegance to your Florida home. If you are considering tile…

  • Travertine Tile Installation in Florida…..

    One way of making your Florida home standout in style is by installing Travertine tile flooring. Having installed our fair share of Travertine tile in Florida in area’s like Tampa, Lakeland, Sarasota, Orlando & Daytona, this style of flooring will work virtually everywhere in your home and the designs and styles are numerous which also…

  • Achieving a Flat Tiling Surface….

    When doing a tight joint with a polished natural stone or a tight joint with a polished or unpolished porcelain tile it is very important that your substrate be very flat so the finished tile work will look great. To get a nice finished tile floor you need to start from the beginning and make…

  • Barrier Free, Accessible, Curbless, Roll In Shower…..

    These showers are becoming increasingly popular with older people who don’t feel like or cant step over a curb. Some homeowners even want it for the smooth style flowing look. Or the most important reason for building one is a child, elderly or loved one who is handicapped. In any of these cases someone can…

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  • I Cant Say Enough Good Things About Laticrete’s SpectraLock Epoxy Grout…

    I have been using Laticrete products now off & on for nearly 20 years. But I cant say enough about the SpectraLock grout. Yeah cement grouts have came a long way with TEC’s Accucolor XT, Custom’s Prism and Laticrete’s Permacolor. But when you want to get right down to it and make sure you have…

  • What to look for when hiring a Tile Contractor in Tampa, Florida

    I have recently came across a lot of homeowners here in Florida only looking at the bottom dollar amount when hiring a flooring contractor. Would you rather spend $2000 and it may last a year, or spend $3500 and get a lifetime of enjoyment out of your purchase? You would be wise to do your…