Committed to providing building professionals in the tile and flooring industry high-performance product solutions, the USG portfolio of backerboards, underlayments and membranes is versatile, easy to install and provides the strength beneath the surface customers know they can trust.
In 2009, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a multi-program science and technology laboratory managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy began construction on a new three-story, 160,000 square-foot Chemical and Materials Sciences Building.
Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Metrolina Regional Scholar’s Academy opened its doors in September 2000 as a charter school for highly gifted children.
Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport, the nation’s first new international airport built since 9/11, opened on schedule with its first flight departing on May 23, 2010.
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.
Anyone
who has installed a few square miles of tile can no doubt teach others some
lighting lessons about ceramic tile. Those with less experience typically give
little if any consideration to the critical effects of lighting on ceramic
tile.
When I first entered the ceramic tile industry over twenty years ago, I did so with a small pamphlet of basic information I needed to know before I assisted my
first customer. Looking back, I would venture to guess that most of my
customers were more educated about how to install ceramic tile in their home
than I was. The training I received was really not that bad. However, the
company couldn’t afford for me to attend lengthy training programs. It was
Learn On The Job 101.
One area of ceramic tile installation that has been receiving increasing attention from both manufactures of setting materials and end users is that of crack isolation and waterproofing membrane systems.