Thanks Becky, I have a messy little family myself. I'm not sure how we're going to keep up on these materials. I can say now that sealing everything is a breeze. I asked the installer to do it and then I've done it twice myself since. So, nothing's finished yet, some are closer than others though....... none have mirrors, towel bars, etc. My daughter's bathroom (the cave o' limestone) Guest Bath No one that has seen this floor likes it but it's my favorite thing in the house. Master bath Manhattan 1920s hotel with a cottage twist (weird, I know, but it's a farm in NJ) See. I LOVE hex too (this one's calacatta gold, honed). I originally had it on the main bathroom floor but the install was so bad I had to have it ripped out and was rushed to choose something so I went with 12x12s. I really like them though. Makes the room feel bigger than it is. Another bit of maintenance for me... So, I went for the gusto even when I had that nagging voice that it wasn't practical. I really do like to have a few things nice enough to need a bit of babying. I'm willing to do it, I hope I'm still willing after I move in though :)

Fly I just called the company and asked them for name of tile and that is the name "white Crystal" so while I had the gal on the phone I told her about you and your need for white tile and asked them if they would ship it and she said they would. So for lack of any other way I could think of, even looking into some of the stores that I know have it that might have a location in your area, that produced no results. I will give you the name of company. Maximum Tile & Marble, 305-477-0199 maybe ya'll can work something out. Maybe if they have have a good relationship with a shipper it won't be too crazy. (I'm a dreamer)

Ok, I'm weighing in here because I actually have the STT SB sealer on all the countertops in our house. We are going to add the second part - the FE- to our marble island. We hadn't planned to initially, and I will say that everything we've thrown at it so far in just the SB state(with the below EXTREME exception) has come off easily, including a tomato "stain" on the counter that ultimately self destructed. We've had dried on spaghetti sauce on our backsplash that has wiped away with no trace.... Coffee on my coffee bar - no problem. The reason we are getting the FE is that we were traumatized before closing and after original sealing: our builder's cleaning crew took the burgundy felt covers off our Rohl faucets and must have left them sitting for hours or days in a puddle of water on the countertop. RED DYE leached from the "protective" covers that had been removed - and stained the bejeezus out of our new, unused, honed statuary island. Horrifying doesn't begin to cover it! If you wet one of those covers and wring it out, dark pink dye comes pouring out into the sink! No porous stone would have been unscathed with that sitting on it, unattended.... John, (aka your advisor "doitright" over on JB forum), spent 4 days at our house restoring the tops. Stain is gone! Took a whole lot of chemicals (and even flames- don't ask!) but it looks perfect. A lesser human would've given up that first day, but lucky for us, he became obsessed with removing those stains completely. So- we are adding the FE because we were so stressed by the experience, but without the SB already in place, we all think we'd have been totally S.O.L. John has rags he uses to apply it that have been repeatedly washed - you can't GET them wet with water - everything beads up on them! And after the intensive stain removal we've been through with him, I value his opinions on all things stone more than ever. We had really debated about whether to spend a lot of money on a sealer (STT products are expensive!!) but are very glad we did.

Center to the inside of header. This will match the size of shower floor inside the curb as the curb & header are in the same plane. This will center the drain and line up with control valves.