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Herringbone 2×8 White Cloe Backsplash Installation Starkey Ranch Odessa Florida
Recently we completed a tile backsplash in the “Starkey Ranch” subdivision in Odessa, Florida. The customer wanted a fresh look to their kitchen and contacted me wanting a plain off-white glass tile installed. When they showed me a photo of their kitchen I knew right away what would look good in it and suggested a…
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Glass Tile Backsplash Installation Wesley Chapel, Florida
A homeowner contacted me after locating a beautiful Lunada Bay paper-faced glass tile from a tile showroom in Tampa, Florida. The glass tile was a Lunada Bay “Agate” Luca Pearl 1×4 Brick purchased from the Ceramic Matrix tile showroom. I have done dozens of backsplashes for customers of this tile showroom and the help they…
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Glass Mosaic Design Flow with Ceramictec in Tampa, Florida
The design element in this beautiful master bathroom & shower is, gorgeous white, 18” x 18” natural Carrara marble tiles for the flooring, blended with Ice White 3” x 6” subway tiles on all four walls, complicated from an installers point of view by a wainscot and a chair rail cap to match. By selecting…
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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…
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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…
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How to Cut Glass Tile
Installing glass tile can be tricky, but cutting it can be even trickier. People are always asking how to cut small glass tile without chipping it, cracking it, having the pieces fall into the wet saw trays groove or having it shoot out of their fingers when they cut it. From over the years of…
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A Moldy Situation – Info on Mold
* This safety article was sent to me and used with permission from a well respected tile contractor I know. With me being a Tile Contractor in Florida I know how bad mold is from seeing it in so many failed showers we replace here. This article has good info on it and I think…
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Tile Setter’s Advice….
For Florida Bathroom Floor Tiles…. Selecting tile for your Florida bathroom is an area where I feel you should adhere to some basic principals. But, this is also an area where you can let your imagination shine. Various sizes, colors, and textures combined can make your bathroom truly a work of art! Let’s begin. First,…
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Tile to Tile Transition….
Often here in Florida when doing a new tile installation we come across other rooms that already have tile in them that we need to tile up to. Usually a carpet or laminate area that the homeowner wants to remove and have new tile installed and the new tile we are installing will run into another tiled…