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Glass Tile Installation in the Shower

Test The walls in the shower are nearly complete as the crew gets ready to grout the Vitrus GlassTile they've installed. Bob shows how glass tile differs from ceramic tile, giving an artistic, light-filled, fluid-green look to the bathroom. Bob also explains the special grout that is used to completely mildew- and stain-proof the tiles. Lichen-colored SpectraLOCK grout, with a Microban mildew inhibitor, is mixed with Glow Dazzle, which will give a luminous green complement to the Vitrus tile. This epoxy grout completely seals the tile installation, will not discolor, stain, or change the effect of the glass tile over time. Bob watches as the epoxy grout is applied, first in a thick layer, then pushed into every crack between the tiles.

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Glass Tile Installation in the Shower

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" OK we're in the shower and -- using an interesting product here this is not a ceramic tile the citizens of Vitrus and it's it's. An Italian company that's actually manufacturing in Brazil these are available all over the world but each one of these is actually a piece of glass. It's not ceramic tile and of course you install them the traditional way and then peel away the paper and she's. Is impact it's it's really really artistic. Because there's is that does that look of hand crafted each piece is slightly irregular and so that you don't have the total grid like uniformity of a standard tile job. And right now my friends. Mathias and Gabriel who are. Argentines working here in Miami Beach are busy. Getting ready to do the most important parts of jobs. Which is of course to finish it off and to grout it so they're just mixing up the product which in this case is not your standard kind of grout it's spectral Iraq. In the color is Lichen and it's mixed with something called glow dazzle so this is a type of grout product that we'll be totally stain proof. You can use it in place of regular cement grout either inside or outside you can even incidents swimming pools. And one of the things that's neat about it is that it's formulated with something called Microban. Which will inhibit the growth of any kind of stain causing molds and builders. And what what are the advantages of this Specter -- is that it eliminates a lot of your worries about. You know having the caller of the grout change the look of the tile or having the grout itself -- and discolored over time. This has uniformity built in and we picked this color that's called Lichen. Which has a greenish tint to it. Remember grout you put it on thick and heavy and like this in and you have to really force it and you gotta muscle it --"

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