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Is There an Industry Standard for Grout Spacing for a Tile Floor?
When tiles come on mats it is very difficult to use spacers, but not impossible.
The standard is that the finished product should look professionally done with reasonably even grout lines.
The 3 foot ...
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Installed ledgerstone around fireplace but doesn't look right - panel seams obvious - what did we do wrong?
It turned out that our designer specified these tile like ledger stones which are designed to look like this. I had expected the finished product to look like the hundreds of other installations that ...
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LVP on top of bathroom tile
Choose an LVP with a total thickness of 6MM or thicker with a solid core and you will be fine. Don't try to save money using thin products.
I have installed LVP over tile, wood, concrete and vinyl ...
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Worth replacing greenboard for shower wall
Unless you're looking for a reason to redo the shower, it doesn't appear to have enough damage to justify ripping out three walls and adding cement board and new tile. The grout lines look pretty good ...
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Worth replacing greenboard for shower wall
I hate greenboard. In my opinion, tile showers should always have a proper tile backerboard (concrete fiberboard is my favorite). I've seen a few extreme rot situations caused by improper tile backing,...
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Worth replacing greenboard for shower wall
The size and shape of the tile makes me think you have about a 35 year old shower/tub combo. That's pretty old. As others said you could probably just do some repairs and get that soap dish ...
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LVP on top of bathroom tile
The "right" way would be to remove the old tile or put something over the floor to fill the grooves. That could be a liquid or a sheet, but I would avoid wood in a bathroom due to potential ...
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How to cut floor tile for bathtub curves
Just an update. I found it easiest to move the sheet of tile to cut as close as I could to my traced curve on the sheet of tile. To stop the individual tile from buckling, I use a wood backer board ...
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