Tile and stone
Tile and Stone
Ceramic tile, porcelain tile, travertine, granite and marble, set by people who have been cutting them for decades.
Chapter 01
Five materials that behave differently
We install ceramic tile, porcelain tile, travertine, granite and marble. They get talked about together and they are not interchangeable. Porcelain takes traffic that ceramic will not. Travertine and marble are stone, with the movement and the maintenance that comes with stone. Granite is the hardest thing most floors will ever carry.
Picking between them is a question about the room and the household, not about which sample looks best on a countertop.
Travertine-look tile hallway with wood cabinetry, installed by Quality Interiors in Houston
Layout is decided before the first tile goes down
Expert application is mostly a set of decisions made before anything is fixed. Where the centreline runs, which wall the cuts get pushed to, how the pattern meets a doorway, and where the movement joints go.
Those calls last as long as the floor does. A long hallway or a diamond set is where they show up, because a diamond doubles the cuts and leaves nowhere to hide a bad one.
Residential and commercial
Entryways, kitchens, bathrooms, lobbies and corridors. Free bids on all of it.
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