Cracked Floor Tile
If you have ceramic or stone tile installed directly to your concrete floor, you may have noticed cracked tile. There can be a number of reasons for this, including inadequate bonding, lack of expansion joints, use of an inferior grade of thinset, and cracking of the substrate. For the purposes of this article, I’ll address only the last factor: cracking of the substrate.
Many concrete finishers will tell you that it’s not a matter of whether or not the concrete will crack, but when it will crack. While there are a number of reasons for the concrete to crack, it’s almost impossible to determine when and where it will crack. Cracking sometimes occurs at the weakest point of the slab. For instance, if there is an inset porch in a floor plan, there may be one or two weak points (more…)
We all love to share with our fellow Netizens and when we run across something especially poignant, an interesting news article, or a great photograph, we just want to post it so all our friends can revel in it too. We get a sense of belonging and of being seen as a generous and giving person. It would be awful if anyone knew that article, picture or interesting prose was actually stolen from some unsuspecting, starving artist somewhere in the ether. It’s not like we conspired to pilfer someone else’s work. We might even mention their name as the author or artist. But the fact is, taking it without permission is just like swiping that candy bar from the corner store when we were kids. Just like taking anything that doesn’t belong to us, it’s just… well, like stealing.
When I became an independent flooring installer, I went into it with my eyes open. I knew 
In every aspect of our flooring businesses, we are required to communicate via the written word. Whether that is merely notes to our co-workers, detailed estimates or formal reports and proposals, we must convey information in an understandable fashion. It’s not enough that we understand our own writing; our words must be understood by others. 
You cannot promote your brand or improve business website traffic with a throw-away email address. Gmail, Yahoo!, HotMail and the rest are known as “throw-away” email addresses. They are great to increase your anonymity and sense of security, but they do not, and probably never will command very much credibility. They do, however, increase the chances your email will end up in the spam folder.
Have you ever gone to a house to do an estimate for new flooring and detected an odor of insecticide? And maybe the carpet doesn’t look all that worn or old? The combination of the 2 might mean there were bed bugs in the carpet. Some home owners (or hotel/motel/rental managers) may be embarrassed to mention it, but don’t hesitate to bring the subject up.
I am an opinionated son-of-a-bitch. Why shouldn’t I blog? It’s just too difficult to share some of these volatile opinions on forums – it would either break the rules, or be met with equally volatile responses and then it would just be a war. Of course, as long as I allow comments to my blog, which I do, there could be battles to be fought here too. But blogs tend to get more readers than respondents. Now I can spout off, write a review, post a how-to article and share my 4 decades of flooring experience here in my very own blog.