I this tile too much for an entire bathroom floor.
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Comments (13)FWIW, I have Calacatta marble basket weave tiles on my bathroom floor and shower floors. The grout is a soft gray and I have no issues with maintainance. It doesn't appear to be dirty and it just blends in with the rest of the tile. If after a number of years. I have had it installed for almost 3 years and it still looks the same as when it was installed. I love having small tiles as it makes me feel secure. I don't have need a rug or anything else to add visual clutter because the surface - even if it is wet or my feet are damp is so grippy. That is also true of the shower. I had larger tiles prior to my remodel and I felt I needed to be ultra cautious wherever I put my feet. At least for me the issues of grout maintenance and marble etching or discoloration or whatever were wildly overstated as - with normal maintenance and not fanatical maintenance - they still look great. If at some point a decade from now, they need to be restored, it is not that expensive to have a professional come in to clean the grout and marble. My building has it done periodically in the common areas and it always looks as good as new and those floors get significantly more wear than my bathrooms do....See MoreTiles on bathroom wall with too much mortar
Comments (2)When you use large format tiles, you must have flat walls. It may be that your wall needed to be rebuilt so that it is flat. Or maybe the tile setter just did not know what he was doing. I can see that he did not apply the mortar properly because of the gaps. 90%of the back surface of the tile should be covered, applied with a notched trowel. The wall is also covered with mortar with a notched trowel and then the tile is pressed into the mortar. The two surfaces of mortar are stuck together and it would take an effort to pull the tile off. Yours has gaps that allow you to peek down behind the tile. Not right. If the wall was not straight, then you should have paid the workers to shim out the studs to get them even, then installed the wall surface. If you plan to never get those walls wet, it might be okay to put tile on drywall (I am no expert, cannot say for sure). But, if there is also tile over drywall in your shower, it must be torn out and redone. Even using basic cement board alone for walls in a shower is wrong. There are several methods for building a shower, but all of them require a step to waterproof the shower. Waterproofing can be a sheet of plastic properly installed behind cement board, or a membrane applied according to manufacturer’s specifications, or a surface treatment on top of the cement board like Red Guard, applied to the right thickness and using the right tape over the seams and screw heads, or it can be any one of many products applied correctly. The reason I bring up shower waterproofing is that tile people who do rotten jobs will often skip the waterproofing or do it incorrectly. If the guy can’t back butter a tile, can he do waterproofing correctly?...See Morecan I put concrete floors in a second story bathroom or too heavy?
Comments (2)When we had radiant in floor heating installed on our 2nd floor, they encased it in Gypcrete (vs concrete on the first floor) and then we put flooring over the Gypcrete - might that be an option?...See MoreIs a marble hex tile too high maintenance for a bathroom floor?
Comments (13)Thank you for all of your thoughts! Cpartist, your bathroom is gorgeous! The honing will definitely help with the appearance of etching. Unfortunately I think the tile I'm looking at is polished marble. Unfortunately I think the dark grout may be mold. It's only in areas of the shower where there's a lot of water. Everywhere else is still an off-white color. I think the grout has worn off over time from scrubbing because when I look at it closely, there are areas that look like there's empty space. Would it be possible to just regrout that particular section? Or do I have to regrout everything?...See MoreRelated Professionals
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