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Residential Consumers
We offer FREE Tile and Stone Installation Guidelines directed to residential consumers where it might not be practical to retain our services, or who are hiring installers to install their ceramic tile, porcelain tile, glass tile or stone on their projects.
We realize that for smaller size projects or problems, it isn’t practical to pay for CTaSC consulting services or forensic services. So for those situations, we offer free access to our extensive list of Expert Answers which we have compiled over the years. Choose from any of the categories on the right.
If you can’t find your answer, and you have a quick question, feel free to reply to one of the listed questions. We normally can respond within a few days.
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Expert Answers Categories
- Acid Etching
- Backer Board
- Balcony
- Brick
- Carpet
- Caulk
- Ceramic and Porcelain Tile
- Chipping -Pealing
- Chips
- cleaning
- color Variation
- Concrete
- Concrete Substrate Slab
- Concrete Tiles
- Counter tops
- cracks
- Debonding Tile
- Decorative Tiles
- Deflection
- Discontinued Tile
- Efflorescence Staining
- Expansion Joints
- Exterior
- Exterior Decks & Balconies
- Fabrication
- failures
- Flood
- Floor Warming
- Free Tile and Stone Installation Guidelines
- Freeze-Thaw
- Glass Tile
- Glazed Tile
- Granite
- Grout
- Haze
- Hollow Sounding Tiles
- How to Become a Tile & Stone Expert
- Indent Fractures
- Industry Standards
- Ink Jet Glazed Tile
- Inspections
- installation
- Installation Guidelines
- Installation Products – Adhesives
- Insurance Claim
- Interior
- Leak
- Limestone
- Lippage
- Maintenance
- Marble
- Mastic
- Mechanical Anchored
- Metal Tiles
- Moisture Problems
- Mold
- Mosaics
- Motor Home – Trailer Home
- Movement Joints
- Natural Stone
- Optical Haze
- Paint Over Tile
- Pedestal Tile Installation Method
- Performance
- Physical Properties
- Plywood Substrate
- Polished
- Pool and Spa
- Post-Tensioned Concrete
- Quartz Stone
- Quartzite
- Remodeling
- Removal
- Repairs
- Roof Tiles
- Sand Set Installation
- Sealant Caulk
- sealers
- Searching For Stone
- selection
- Showers
- Slab
- Slip Resistance
- Slope Percent
- Sound Control
- Spalling
- Spot Bonding
- Squeaky Floors
- Stains
- Stairs
- Standards
- Steam Showers
- stone
- Stone Restoration
- Storage
- Tenting
- Terrazzo
- Testing
- Thin-set Coverage/Contact
- Tile Over Tile
- Tile Trim
- Tolerances
- Training
- Travertine
- Vapor Barrier
- Visual
- Warpage
- Waterproofing
- Wear
- Wet Areas
- Why Choose Tile?
- Wood Subfloor
- Workmanship