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Stephanie Samulski is a project manager for the Tile Council of North America (TCNA) and the Ceramic Tile Education Foundation (CTEF). Her tile career began in 1999 as a tile layer apprentice with BAC Local 32 in Detroit, where she worked mainly on commercial installations for Shores Tile Co. Now with TCNA and CTEF, Stephanie works on industry standards as well as knowledge and installation curricula for training and certification programs.
New product labeling and safety training requirements go into effect with major revisions to OSHA’s HazCom standard to be consistent with the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS)
Tile installers, distributor warehouse staff and others who handle tile installation materials will soon notice new hazard and safety labels on buckets and bags.
The latest edition of the Handbook is available from Tile Council of North America (TCNA), with eight new methods included between its covers for specifying heated stone tile floors and curbless showers
The latest edition of the Handbook will be released at Coverings 2015, with a much-anticipated change to language about mortars designed for large-format and heavy tiles
Installer and contractor evaluation programs identify the companies and individuals with the necessary qualifications to provide superior quality installations.
For a flat tile installation with minimal lippage, a flat substrate is required beneath, especially true for larger tiles. With tiles getting ever larger and larger, substrate flatness has become an increasingly important consideration, particularly for tile contractors, who by necessity bid on jobs without knowing how flat the substrate they will inherit will be.
The Tile Council of North America (TCNA) is proudly celebrating 50 years of continuous publication of the TCNA Handbook, a compilation of generic (non-proprietary) guidelines for specifying and installing ceramic, glass and stone tile
Due to new guidelines, TCNA Handbook steam shower installation methods now require either a bonded waterproof wall membrane with a water vapor permeance (perm rating) of 0.5 perms or less, or use of a secondary vapor retarder membrane
All floor tile installation methods in the 2011 TCNA Handbook will include a new category of information: Typical Weight of Tile Installation. Under this subhead, the Handbook user will find the estimated weight of the tile installation.
With input from several industry associations, vast improvements have been made to the 2011 Handbook with regard to guidelines for installing glass and stone tile.
