Items Tagged with 'installation techniques'

Are you holding your trowel at the right angle? Scott Carothers, academic director, Ceramic Tile Education Foundation, challenges tile installers to take another look at the angle at which they are troweling thinset.

Scott Carothers, academic director, Ceramic Tile Education Foundation, walks us through the industry standards that are in place to help you achieve a successful cementitious backer unit installation under tile. 

When the $6.7 million restoration project was announced in February 2021, Richter Architects were determined to bring the courthouse back to its original glory.

Don’t get all bent out of shape over the statement that back buttering tile is going away. The term is going away, but the process is here to stay.

Stone World had the opportunity to talk with Integra Adhesives about all things adhesives including chemical make-up, the difference in the various types offered, and how technological characteristics of these products have evolved in recent years

A novice to tile work looking at a new tile installation today might comment, “When did LEGO* pieces start being used to install tile?" Yet we see these little plastic devices being used more frequently for porcelain and stone tile installations. What are they and why are they important for our industry?