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Long before your tiles wear out, the grout between them can start to look tired, dirty, or stained. A good scrubbing ...
There’s nothing like a freshly tiled floor or backsplash—but there’s nothing more frustrating than seeing those beaut...
Tile is beautiful, durable, and generally easy to clean, but cleaning grout? That's a different story. Because of its...
There are many ways to invite problems when you lay ceramic tile. Avoid such problems and a tile floor can last for d...
Plan ahead and place focus on prep work for professional results when installing ceramic tile.
Choosing your tile is not as easy as walking into a showroom and picking a color or pattern. You have to consider how...
While you might consider laying tile yourself for moneysaving reasons, remember that the substrate, or what the tile ...
Mosaic tile has been around for a couple of millennia, but it never seems to lose its popularity. Thanks to advances ...
Tile is one of the most durable installations around, so when it’s finally time to remove it, you might be tempted to...
Bathroom floor tiles come in all shapes and sizes. Here is a guide to help you find the right product for your bath.
While there are many bathroom floor tile options, knowing the pros and cons for each will help you make the right choice in your home.
Italian home furnishings designers are always at the cutting edge. For evidence, look no further than the ceramic til...
Learn how to install tile, a process during which a little layout sooner can save a lot of frustration later.
You never know why a previous homeowner made the decorating decisions they did, but sometimes you just have to scratc...
For Paul Burns, Founder and Chief Ceramicist at Fireclay Tile, the deafening sound of crushing porcelain toilets is s...
Many people say their ultimate fantasy as a child was the idea of being allowed to run amuck in the toy store. Once y...
While popular following their development in the mid-1800s, encaustic cement tiles fell out of favor in the mid 1930s...
No longer plain white, today's subway tiles are showing their true colors and style sense.
We picked all the finishing materials for our new-construction home in one day at an eight-hour appointment set up wi...
Last week in the Just Ask Bob section of our community forums, a site user asked an interesting question: “I haven’t ...
Glass tile is a versatile and durable choice that can be low-maintenance (and quite attractive) with proper installation.
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...
In the master bath, Bob reviews the appropriate design choices made by homeowner and contractor Nick Beasley for this period home. A new low-flush toilet is insta...
In West Palm Beach, FL, the American Lung Association has sponsored a designer showhouse that highlights a healthy home. Bob’s house tour focuses on the baby’s ba...
Inspired by designs found in the Isaac Bell historic house, paneling is installed on Bob’s entrance door to the living room. Bob looks at the completed tiled show...
Tile is installed in the master bathroom’s shower area. A flashback reviews the waterproofing work that was done to prevent leaks.
Bob heads to the library to discuss the plaster patchwork in progress, and then visits the second floor, where ceramic tile is being installed in a guest bathroom...
Landscaping architects Rick and Nancy Lamb present their ideas to Bob for converting the landscape and creating urban spaces.
Bob reviews the progress of his western red cedar custom fence, designed to provide privacy and block the carport from the neighbors’ view.
Carpet tiles are installed in the basement, and experts discuss storage and organizing solutions for the basement and master bedroom.
Bob discusses the installation of a plastic subfloor to prevent water damage and the selection of a basement dehumidifier.
Doug Frueh shows Bob how to apply a textured finish to a fiberglass-faced wall and Jim Trottier installs a pre-hung hollow-core door. Then Bob looks at the finis...
Bob and Anthony Lopez install porcelain tiles for a decorative look.
Bob talks to Nick Tagios, of Tagios Tile and Marble, who's laying down the marble tile bathroom floor using a traditional installation technique.
The crew prepares to grout the Vitrus Glasstile, which has been installed in the shower using a mildew- and stain-resistant epoxy grout. Bob remarks that, unlike ...
Rob Shedrofsky from Davinci Stone explains the tiling process to Bob as the Porcelanosa wall tile is installed in the bathroom
Bob visits the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park with Doug Blonsky of the Central Park Conservancy.
Bob observes the tile setter Tim Galvin build a shower pan.
Bob talks with contractor Tim Galvin, who is installing limestone tile over a heavy bed of mortar.
Bob touches base with Eddie Zywusko, the mason and tilesetter, working in the loft apartment's L-shaped shower.
In the second Elmwood project house, a Colonial Revival, a new Kohler tub is installed, while homeowner Pat Simons, a ceramic artists, creates a tile mural.
Bob joins contractor Ed Weller on the patio, where the crew from Agreda Brothers Tile and Marble is setting cement-based tile over sanded white thin-set mortar. W...
Bob meets with Sarah McCaleb, an artist who has adapted works of popular Miami artist Romero Britto into mosaic tile.
Bob and contractor Cortney Lofton discuss the Indian slate tile being installed on the pool deck and back porch.
Bob meets with contractor Cortney Lofton, who is installing porcelain mosaic tiles with acrylic mastic over an existing bathroom mortar bed.
Bob meets with Donald Young for a tour of the home's Zen garden. Donald discusses the plant choices and lighting requirements in a garden of this size. Slate tile...
Bob and Bob Ingram (from Rover Tile) discuss the tile that's going into the master bath and children's bathroom. The tile is a combination of marble chips, Veneti...
Bob tours the Adamson Estate Museum, just down the beach from the project house, where he gets a look at authentic California-Spanish architecture.
The California-Spanish beach house gets an authentic barrel tile roof, while Bob travels to Mexico for a factory tour of the Redland Caly Tile Company.
Contractor Joe Fitzgerald explains the installation process for the authentic barrel tile roof. Bob then gives comedian Tim Allen some expert help pouring a new g...
Bob visits with plaster sub-contractor Mike Bennet, who is floating mortar bed walls in the shower space of the beach house bathroom.
Bob travels to Tecate, Mexico to meet tilemaker Javier Ramirez. Javier shows Bob the different kinds of clay common to the Baja region of Mexico, and demonstrates...
Bob tours the tiled courtyard, with its Queen Palms and fountain. And there is a surprise visit from Pamela Anderson, a cast member of "Home Improvement".
In the kitchen, where the white pine cabinets have been installed, Bob Ryley demonstrates how to adjust a European door hinge before he finishes putting in a plat...
Floor tiles are installed in the bathroom after the underlayment has dried and chalk reference lines have been drawn. Tips on cutting and laying tile are given.
Bob helps carpenter Bob Ryley replace the storm windows on the Plymouth project house, and the newly designed bathroom needs tiles.
As tiling begins on the bathroom floor and in the shower, Bob takes a field trip to the factory where the tiles being used in the project house were made.
Bob helps install cultured marble panels in a bathroom. The tile professional on the job, Jack Miklaus, shares information on fabricating the panels and tips on i...
Bob discusses tile and its process of application with the foreman of the pool installation contracting crew.
Bob looks on as tile setter John Boardman applies bathroom floor tile at the Cape Cod project house.
Tile setter Roger Short performs a “mud job” on the bathroom floor before laying the tile pattern.
Once stripped down, an ISBU's exterior is finished with heavy-gauge steel, then faced in sheet-metal wrap and covered with SuperTherm insulating ceramic coating. ...
Bob checks out the handmade tiles and selected plumbing fixtures in the remodeled bath. When general contractor Tim Berky drills into the tile, he stresses the im...
Steve Powers (from Trikeenan Tileworks) explains the manufacture of their unique artisanal tiles, and the homeowner lays out her design vision. David Cloutman (fr...
