Should you look for drying time or compressive strengths? Should you look for a system or for a product only? Unfortunately, there is no simple answer to these questions and the solution always varies from a job to another. 

Radiant floors may be toasty, but they can still be damaged by excess moisture in the concrete slab below them. Every time you install tile over a concrete slab, you need to make sure you’re not sealing in excess moisture. That doesn’t change for radiant floors.

Due to the growth of large-format and gauged porcelain tile (GPT), the use of self-leveling underlayments (SLUs) have also become more frequent in tile installations. 

During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a huge upswell in home improvement and renovation spending, which led to a pretty significant uptick in projects incorporating floor heating.

Check out some of the newest SLUs on the market.

View a selection of radiant heating products that can be used in tile installations.

In this edition, we sat down with Dustin Rone, a tile installer at Kavajecz Tile and Stone in Watertown, WI. Rone is Certified Tile Installer (CTI) #1661 with the Ceramic Tile Education Foundation.

In this issue, we dive into two popular topics in the industry, radiant floor heating and self-leveling underlayments (SLUs). Both categories have seen a lot of growth and evolution since their introductions many years ago.

One of Alfano’s clients understood that spaces can greatly influence our health, as well as our emotional state of mind, and wanted to redesign their 1,700-square-foot basement as if it was an extension of the first floor. 

When remodeling her home in Central Texas, Aars took the lead on designing her master bathroom and the bathroom her two young sons share.