Expert Answers in Ceramic and Porcelain Tile

ANSWER – 1×1 inch tiles might look great, but it doesn’t make a great surface to prepare food on.

The ideal solution, if practidal, is to install a granite slab countertop or soap stone countertop, which…

ANSWER – I’m surprised that Pine-Sol would leave a shiny surface on your wood looking glazed porcelain tile.   Looking at Pine-Sol’s ingredients it shows that it is water soluble.   The glazed porcelain tile is…

ANSWER – Sound is all relative to the materials and configurations of the tile assembly and whose ears are listening.

A hollow sound can be a higher pitch or a lower pitch depending on the materials…

ANSWER – Flagstone is a shape and not a specific type of stone.  It can be a sandstone, granite, slate or ?

Regardless, if the stone is properly installed and structurally sound then you could install a…

Answer: If you have glazed ceramic tile surface on your table and it has become rough, then I suspect that the body of the tile is very porous perhaps a Saltillo clay body? Glazed tile…

Answer – Glazed Ceramic porcelain tile panel Pros: 1. They come in approx. sizes of 3’ x 10’ panels that range in thickness from 3 to 6mm is relatively new and are very thin…

ANSWER – The answer is yes, there is a concern about too hot of temperatures or too high humidity to install ceramic, glass or stone tile.

ANSWER – Glazed tiles normally don’t stain as they have a (glass like coating that is fired onto the surface of the clay body tile) surface that is impervious.  Unless when you say glazed you mean…

ANSWER – You indicate that the wood looking glazed porcelain floor tile has some chipped edges and is pitting.  You say that some of the tile edges has lippage (offset higher or lower from the tile…

ANSWER – The general rule of thumb for whether a ceramic tile is a porcelain type of ceramic tile or another ceramic tile body type is that the porcelain tile body cannot have an absorption rate…