In the name of full disclosure, I will tell you that I’ve laid tiles only a handful of times, and only once had to use a tile saw. I have also never lost a digit while cutting ceramic tiles, although I have nearly lost the tip of my finger to a table saw and I’ve impaled my thumb with a nail gun. So I can say with some weight under my belt (or a lot of weight) that safety, especially while cutting small ceramic tiles, is paramount. And boy do you get safety with the TileSizer. [click to continue…]
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Schluter-Ditra understands that tile, being a hard, brittle substance, expands and contracts due to moisture and temperature related conditions, at a totally, different rate from whichever substrate material lies beneath, be it plywood, concrete, cement, etc. This can be a problem when using traditional, thin-set mortar bed applications, which bond the tile directly to the supporting structure. The result is usually cracked, ruined tiles. In order to ensure both layers can move independently, an additional layer in between the two materials, is a must-have. (And no, you can’t just lay any, random thing down. Just in case someone out there is thinking, “Huh. I don’t see any reason I couldn’t use this old comforter.”) The Schluter-Ditra Universal Underlayment is the better option. [click to continue…]
Ok, so I’m banking on that whole see the almost right letters and then see the right word thing for the title here. I deployed the first grade spelling up above to show you the super cool reciprocating saw attachments by Spyder. The first picture as you might imagine is the grout removal tool code name the da da da daaa… Grout-Out. Not much of a code name, granted, but who needs one when you can use your reciprocating saw to remove tile grout. [click to continue…]
To me, Bondera sounds like some kind of female action hero. Her super powers include making things stick to each other and assisting Dog The Bounty Hunter find bail jumpers.
BONDERA!
Oh, imagination, you are fun.
In reality, Bondera is a new product that makes tiling easier, cleaner and faster. [click to continue…]
I’m going to try not to make crude double entendres about the word “caulk” in this blog post, but it’s so, so hard (eee) not to. When researching this product, I even found a few reviews for the Red Devil Create a Color Caulk System that included giggle-worthy quotes like “Finally, I can get the caulk that’s right for me!” and “For those of us who are tired of the typical white caulk, I’m glad we have now have options. The black caulk in my shower is FABULOUS.”
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