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Tile Tips

• Use a product like Dura Rock, not Sheet Rock, Dura Rock is basically a sheet of concrete, your Tile will last a long time. If you use Dry Wall, even the Green Board, if water gets under the Tile it will start rotting it , with the concrete board, the concrete will absorb the moisture and evaporate it.
• Use a Level or straight board to level out the tiles as you set them, so no tiles are higher then another tile.
• When you mix the Grout be sure to use a Fortifier additive, it makes it stronger and more flexible.
• When you Grout make sure you work the grout down in between the tiles good, if you get void spots it will crack.
• Make sure you select the right tile for where you are using it, some tiles are for walls some are for walls or floors.
• I just recently put in Floating Wood Flooring and Tile in my Kitchen here is a picture, I have tile at the entrance and the wood flooring on both sides, I also but tile in the newly remodeled Bathroom, there is an avi movie of the finished Bathroom to, it was my first try at movie mode with our new digital camera.
• Put a sealer on your Tile and Grout, keeps it cleaner longer.
• Never use a pure white grout, use an off white, white really shows the dirt.
• Remember that if you use a shinny Tile on the Bathroom Floor, when step out of the Tub wet feet and slick Tile! Buy a rug with a rubber backing or use a Tile that is Designed for wet area's.
• Tile Tips what to use and where Kitchen And Bath.com/Tile Tips
• Link to more Information on laying Tile Kitchen and Bath.com

Flooring Tips

• If you have a bubble in your Vinyl Floor and they want a fortune to fix it, get a Hypodermic Needle and a small can of Flooring glue, use the hypo to shot some glue under the vinyl flooring, run the rolling pin over it a few times, then lay a stack of heavy books on it for a day or two.
• If you have a small room and you would like to do it yourself, try those stick down tiles easy to install and if one gets damaged, pull it up and replace it.
• For you do it your selfers, those 12" x 12" stick down Tiles are slick, I use them in my house, just make sure the floor where you are putting them, has been cleaned good, if there are any holes or cracked seams, fill the holes and smooth it out good with something( putty knife, flat stick, spatula ), cut the bad seam out then fill it in and again smooth it out, then take some sand paper and sand them smooth after it dries, then paint over the patch with a gloss paint, the tiles will stick better. Use a powder floor filler product to fill with, just mix it up and fill away, all hardware stores carry it, they may even have some that is ready to use. If you ever need to replace a tile just pull it up and put in a new one.
• One easy and nice looking floors is the Floating Wood Flooring, pretty east installation and you can put it right over an existing floor, if you do this I recommend that even though the new one just snap together, I would still glue them.
• Checkout different types of flooring Armstrongflooring.com/Selector
• Select a Floor Bruce Hardwood Floors/Selector
• How to install sheet vinyle flooring Do it Yourself.com/Install
• How to Install a Floating Wood Floor WoodFloors.com/install
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