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Is mosaic tile a poor choice for a bathroom floor?
Mosaic tile is not a poor choice for a bathroom floor.
Mosaic tile is harder to install than regular tile. Harder to cut, harder to lay out evenly, and harder to level. Find someone who is able and ...
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Is mosaic tile a poor choice for a bathroom floor?
Mosaic tile looks nice, but it's HARD to clean.
Mosaic tile has FAR more grout lines than large tile, and grout lines are MUCH harder to clean than the tile itself, both because the grout lines are ...
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Is mosaic tile a poor choice for a bathroom floor?
No. Mosaic tiles can be an excellent choice for a bathroom floor. The 2x2 octagon/dot kind of tiles are popular in bathrooms.
More often than not those types of tiles are especially suited to bathroom ...
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Is mosaic tile a poor choice for a bathroom floor?
If you make a tiled walk in shower with the drain in the center, for water to drain properly the floor needs to be sloped towards the drain. So you need the floor to be an inverted pyramid. With large ...
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Can I directly power a warmfloor heating wire with mains power for testing purposes?
Electric floor heating will have two leads and a grounding jacket.
What you want to check is the continuity between the leads - it must be within what the manufacturer specs say - small deviations by ...
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Can I directly power a warmfloor heating wire with mains power for testing purposes?
I would just test for continuity and shorts with a multimeter.
Much safer than applying power to a faulty circuit - you could kill someone.
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Is this cracked tile bathroom floor repairable?
I'm sure you could still buy sets/tiles like that. Get enough matching or almost-matching sets to relay the entire cracked portion. A slightly wider joint will be far less noticeable than a big stripe ...
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How to transition between two engineered woods in different rooms with no bulky transition strip
If you're using the same brand in both rooms, look for repair strips from the manufacturer. These would be basically zero-width fillers with tongues on both sides.
Otherwise, some carpentry is in ...
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Threshold for floating floor on 2x4s
Anything that transitions that high will be more of a ramp. I think you need to decide if you are willing to have a ramp or a step. A step may be more of a trip hazard, but this is your house.
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Laying flooring over existing ceramic tile with radiant (hydronic) heat?
If the question is what sells the home, is it how fast it heats up or how ugly the floors are then you know the answer.
Adding low thermal conductive material on top of tiles will slow down the heat ...
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Would it be safe to fill the gap between the engineered hardwood and an integral metal door jamb?
Knowing that The door frames will be painted in the future, (if the future is not too far away), I would wait, paint the frames then fill in the gaps in the floor with a flexible caulk close to the ...
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Quick Shine polish left haze on floor
The product instructions call for you to clean all dust, dirt, grime and pet hair from the floor first, then apply the product.
Call the manufacturer's help line to learn how to remove the product ...
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Joist spacing for OSB subfloor and solid oak flooring?
23/32 (almost 3/4) T&G OSB is rated for subfloor under hardwood, if supported by at most 24in spaced joists.
The recommendation is to upgrade to 7/8, which you say is not possible in your ...
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How to support hardwood floors with no existing subfloors to prevent squeaking in 100-year-old home
The squeaking comes from weight of a person bending the floor.
In any and all cases I would not use glue since it will limit/restrict the normal floor extension and lead to floor deformation (in the ...
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