New slab of appreciation for terrazzo tiling

Kya deLongchamps sees a shining future in 2020 for a rock star of flooring – terrazzo. If you have ever spent time lolling around outside a bank manager’s office to “explain yourself” you had time to slide your nervously twitching shoes over the terrazzo flooring. Buffed and belted in brass stop-seams, terrazzo interior paving gifted […]

For the Want of a Horseshoe Nail: Identifying causes of tile failure

All photos courtesy Custom Building Products by Howard Jancy, CSI, CDTA folk rhyme often attributed to Benjamin Franklin describes the unintended outcome of simply omitting a horseshoe nail—namely, the loss of a kingdom: For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,For the want of […]