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Bob Vila Radio: Replacing Grout
Long before your tiles wear out, the grout between them can start to look tired, dirty, or stained. A good scrubbing ...
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Bob Vila Radio: Cleaning Grout
There’s nothing like a freshly tiled floor or backsplash—but there’s nothing more frustrating than seeing those beaut...
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Top Tips for Cleaning Grout Lines
Tile is beautiful, durable, and generally easy to clean, but cleaning grout? That's a different story. Because of its...
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9 Pro Tips for Installing Ceramic Tile
There are many ways to invite problems when you lay ceramic tile. Avoid such problems and a tile floor can last for d...
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How To: Install Ceramic Tile
Plan ahead and place focus on prep work for professional results when installing ceramic tile.
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Bob Vila Radio: Choosing Tile
Choosing your tile is not as easy as walking into a showroom and picking a color or pattern. You have to consider how...
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Bob Vila Radio: Laying Tile
While you might consider laying tile yourself for moneysaving reasons, remember that the substrate, or what the tile ...
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Bob Vila Radio: Tile Mosaics
Mosaic tile has been around for a couple of millennia, but it never seems to lose its popularity. Thanks to advances ...
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Bob Vila Radio: Removing Tile
Tile is one of the most durable installations around, so when it’s finally time to remove it, you might be tempted to...
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Creative Ceramics: Top Trends in Tile
Italian home furnishings designers are always at the cutting edge. For evidence, look no further than the ceramic til...
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Easy-Care Entryway: Replacing Carpet with Tile
You never know why a previous homeowner made the decorating decisions they did, but sometimes you just have to scratc...
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Fireclay Tile: An Inventive Company Flush with Green Ideas
For Paul Burns, Founder and Chief Ceramicist at Fireclay Tile, the deafening sound of crushing porcelain toilets is s...
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Encaustic Tile Makes a Comeback
While popular following their development in the mid-1800s, encaustic cement tiles fell out of favor in the mid 1930s...
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5 Reasons to Love Subway Tile
We picked all the finishing materials for our new-construction home in one day at an eight-hour appointment set up wi...
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How To: Cut Tile
Learn how to cut tile accurately in three steps.
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Grouting Tile (Trouble Free)
Last week in the Just Ask Bob section of our community forums, a site user asked an interesting question: “I haven’t ...
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Tiling Tools
You can't start a tiling project without these tools.
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How To: Grout Tile
Maybe I'm the only person (at least over the age of three) who gets a kick out of making a mess, but I would still ar...
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Making Mosaic Tiles
Bob meets with Sarah McCaleb, an artist who has adapted works of popular Miami artist Romero Britto into mosaic tile.
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Shopping for Tile
Bob makes a visit to Elon Tile, a local Los Angeles showroom.
 
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