Wet white marble shower floor turned gray!
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Please show me what your marble mosaic shower floor wet.
Comments (2)that was so nice and helpful of you, Kevin. it appears to me that the only thing changing is the grout, which looks wetter temporarily. i wonder why on earth my tile is also getting so wet. by the way, your shower inspired me and my guest bathroom floor is now a black border with white square marble mosaics and the shower floor is a smaller size black marble square mosaic. it looks really sharp....See MoreWhite marble shower, white grout if bathroom floor has platinum?
Comments (7)Is the Platinum the Laticrete Platinum? If so what about Silver Shadow? It is a very soft gray that is almost white, but looks great with Platinum. Are you using cementitious grout or epoxy? I know many have used SS for their light or white tiles. Here is Silver Shadow epoxy on the bottom vertical grout spaces. The top area was grouted with a 50/50 ratio of Platinum and SS. The middle row was with Raven and SS. Note that there is a halo around the marble, like it is still wet. Epoxy can do that with marble, I just looked at my tile boards after over a month of drying and the halo is still slightly there with the darker grouts. But not as marked as in this picture. So that is something to consider. Here is the Silver Shadow epoxy with my bright white tiles. With these tiles the SS looks light gray, but with the tiles above it looks almost too white for my taste: I took Laticrete epoxy Platinum and mixed it with a little bit of Silver Shadow for an in between gray for my black slate floors. It is in a 3:1 ratio. The colors mixed very nicely. The grout sample on the left is the SS and the one on the right is the Platinum. It didn't take much SS to lighten it up significantly. If I did this over I would just have used Platinum. My DH really likes the combo. He thinks it ties in with the tub. It is relative isn't it, because it is not white at all but appears white. I will be having a marble listello, as seen above in the sample board, with my white tile wainscot. I might mask the marble off when I grout the white field tile with Silver Shadow. Then I would plan to come back and grout the marble with a reverse blend of Silver Shadow 3parts to Platinum 1 part. Nothing like trying to complicate things. That's one of the benefits with DIY. But if I was paying someone to grout, I would not consider these mixes....See MoreVanity colour to go with carrerra marble floor and white shower tiles
Comments (5)I am in the process of building a master suite with white subway tiles and "marble" hexagon floors. My top is a solid surface carrara color. I choose a light grey vanity that picks up the grey in the marble veining, and I painted the walls BM Hale Navy. Pictures don't do it justice. It's glorious. (Don't mind the dirty walls. It's a construction zone. lol)...See MoreCarrera marble shower is turning grey.
Comments (10)Do not sign anything releasing them from liability. And if they are in charge of saying whether or not they are at fault, of course they have a strong incentive to convince you that they are not to blame. If you can, find a pro who knows the TCNA handbook and have them there with you during demo. Pay the pro for the day and have them document the problems and cross-reference them to the industry guideline that has been violated, and write up a report for you on their business letterhead. Also, take lots of pictures during the demo, at lunch when they leave, as they are working, and at the end of the day when they leave. Don't interfere or get in their way, but get in there and take pictures. I am telling you this because we just won back twice the amount we paid a contractor who trashed our bathroom and quit the job. One of the huge things that help us was having the independent tile pro documenting things during the re-demo, and cross refefencing the voilations to the TCNA, other industry guidelines, and manufacturer's instructions. We just won a district court case, pro se, last month, and we had no experience with anything like this before. Document, document, document. Hopefully Home Depot will see the writing on the wall and re-do or refund. They will see that you are documenting like crazy and will know that they need to make good now. Probably a Home Depot rep should be there too, not just the tile hack they hired. Have a friend, spouse, or neighbor there for moral support and to ensure the tile hack doesn't harass you. If they start yelling at you or anything like that, have your advocate film them on their cell phone....See MoreMongoCT
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