Category: substrate

  • Pebble Shower & Plank Tile Bathroom – St. Petersburg, FL.

    Here is a small bathroom remodel we did for a client in St. Petersburg (St. Pete Beach), Florida. The old shower was constructed with the traditional pan liner. The one thing it didn’t have was the pre-pitch under the liner and vapor barrier on the walls when originally constructed. The shower did last about 16…

  • Porcelain Plank Tile Installation – (Tampa, Florida)

    I recently did a Porcelain Plank tile floor in Wesley Chapel, Florida which is just a little North East of Tampa. The homeowner wanted a harder floor then real wood and also didn’t want the noisy cheap floating laminate floor look and loud sound when walked on with shoes.  I showed them a rectified porcelain…

  • Recycled Glass Tile Backsplash Installation

    With glass tile becoming more popular the use of it in bathrooms, pools and on back splashes I have seen quite an increase of installations over the years here in Tampa, Florida. Glass tile is pretty much endless in colors, sizes and shapes. There is a wide variety of glass tile finishes to choose from…

  • 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…