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Sanding down or staining floor tiles possible to alter design?
I don't know about your flooring, but normally underfloor heating allows replacing tiles. Most of the times the tubes are embedded in an layer of screed, as the tiles demand an hard underlayment
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Sanding down or staining floor tiles possible to alter design?
What you see as messy, I see as surprisingly realistic, just imitating a different species than your third picture.
If you really, really want the yellow tone of the second picture, as if the wood had ...
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Sanding down or staining floor tiles possible to alter design?
Ceramic tile has none of the properties of wood. It cannot be sanded or stained.
Tile has a top layer that is very hard, the "glaze". It is the layer that has the pattern and color. Sanding ...
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Transitioning Strip Cork to Tile
The cork is not meant to be the finished floor. That is why you haven't found any instructions on transitioning.
The corks will wear quickly and start to crumble. It is also porous and will quickly ...
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Transitioning Strip Cork to Tile
Given it's apparently already installed, I'd probably sand a taper into the cork the thickness of the doorframe, going from full thickness on the cork side to essentially none (level with the tile) on ...
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Transitioning Strip Cork to Tile
It could be similar to any carpet-to-tile transition (no endorsement suggested):
https://www.bliffertlumber.com/shop/building-materials/flooring-materials/floor-trim-and-transitions/carpet-trim/140985-...
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Floor sinks 7 inches to the center over 25 feet
There is a 7 inch drop in a floor of a condo.
Any additional information is confusing and probably moot, because this is something that a structural engineer MUST be consulted about.
Any information ...
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Floor sinks 7 inches to the center over 25 feet
7-in is a lot, but not unheard of. But whatever caused the sinking, you need to find out what it is.
Is this on a first floor, and you have access to the basement? Take a look. It could be that a ...
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