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Laying Porcelanosa Oxidized-Look Tiles

Anthony Lopez from Porcelanosa is at the Punta Gorda house for the installation of their Ferroker series oxidized-look tiles and Antic Colonial glass tile border. Porcelanosa is porcelain tile that is fired and glazed for maximum durability and unique stone and marble-look finishes. This tile is designed for interior, exterior, residential, and commercial applications. Bob remarks that the metallic look is uncommon in a traditional Florida home and gives the house a very contemporary look. The 17 by 26 inch tiles cost about the same as natural stone at $8 per square foot and come in a wide array of stone-look textures, colors, and shades. The glass inset tiles are from Porcelanosa�s Listello series and have shades of metal and stone throughout. The tile setter is applying a layer of thinset to the slab and then working it with a notched trowel before laying the first course of tile. The glass tile surround must be built up underneath to lay flush with the large format tiles. The tile setter uses tile spacers to maintain even grout lines as the tiles set. Once they are squared and checked, these tiles serve as the set line for the next course of tile. The overall design will be a staggered, offset pattern across the field. Lopez explains that maintenance for these tiles is as simple as mopping with a natural stone soap or detergent.
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Laying Porcelanosa Oxidized-Look Tiles

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" All right we're gonna be installing. Most fantastic. Porcelain tiles right Anthony yes it is Anthony Lopez is here from porcelanosa and we've worked for your products before tell me what we've got this time. Well this time we have here this is called elephant off a series. And the provoke a series as pat and oxidized. Look. -- but it has that appearance it looks like steel plate. Absolutely exactly but it is a porcelain -- act that it's a rectified the room who porcelain beauty. Manufactured for both interior and exterior purposes. Especially for commercial facilities. The end their points options on this. Absolutely beautiful I can just see this also used in -- vertical application. Capsule on exterior -- big commercial buildings. Now the interesting thing here is that it's very unusual for a Florida house. You come inside -- office and you've got this steel like look. In the east and in the whole area and you would think that it's very. Exotic and expensive product it. What's the cost of this. All across this product on retail level you're looking approximately in Florida approximately eight dollars a square foot. One minute we getting a little bit confused as we've got this border here but these are the ones that are going to be used in the entrance for years. And our installer Luis is already starting to. Put down the thinset. With a notched trowel. To lay down the the the floor tiles in the area kind of is the the."

" All this to front foyer but without walls in this kind of -- design. This flap since that is. As one -- some -- pieces that we manufacture through our land and colonial division. And itself all of last what various me. And now this particular one -- let's -- heights. Actually you don't want to have the look of steel you can also look of stone with some of these tiles right that's correct Bob we have a variety of different types of stone looks. This particular one is called listen now. And these products like -- are utilized for especially commercial applications. And we have various shades finishes and textures and colors that are incorporated please just samples they'll come in these large format that -- all of this larger format what are the what are the dimensions. This particular one here is seventeen by 26. We also have seventeen by seventeen square. And dog depending on the type of project that we're involved what are we also can not work out different size factors."

" What if that's even go into the kind of look at travertine sewer or lighter stones. All right so in order to get the glass tile to. Be flush with the top of the porcelain tile because of the difference in thickness he's had to build it up with several layers of the same underlayment. And -- were just getting this. Surround has taken the better part of an hour. To get it just right. As time -- and so it's -- consuming you have to be very patient to take care of these little special details. And he's using a straight edge all the way around. And so this is the last little section. And it appears as the reason why he's in the straight -- This to make sure that the end portion of wedding collapses and optimism turned to happen -- on the right is nice and straight so when he continues the floor that too much up to it nicely exactly it. It's a very good. Observation. OK and then washing off the excess. Which which gives you such a nice idea what the finished and we'll. How did -- make this metallic finish on the porcelain tile. Actually it's within the glazing itself. Porcelanosa has devised. A lot of unique. Formulas in creating their tiles. With over thirty -- thirty years of manufacturing they've been able to. Become a world leader but it is there actually a mineral content within the glaze yes absolutely there are formulas to -- and pigments within the glaze itself. That actually tells them. And went in to create that natural. All right so again we're building up the the thinset to about a half inch thickness right that's correct on the list fellow who saw this way it blends in really nice but. And then what are these little things these spacers. Those -- are there just in case there's any imperfections in the slab itself. If there's due to the fact that it's a rectified product if there's any humps in a product. And it -- out you'll have -- you have big grout joints and that is that they'll pinched together. People -- view bomb on even grout joints so you have to be really precise with this -- with -- size format exactly yes. And so this faces the equivalent of about maybe not quite an eighth of an interest."

" That's correct. The product is manufactured on the rectified basis. Where it is very minimal -- on the production at all. And which allows us to install the product with a minimal grout joint."

" And what we're gonna see now is where the next course. Lies in relationship to these first two is -- we're going to be establishing his kind of a -- running bond that's correct. What he's doing here is also somewhat of a a brick pattern or staggered pattern that some equality. Well it's -- staggered pattern incidents okay. So he's marked the offset from that joint -- about six inches. Right and it's gonna follow suit. Drop off right exactly of the very contemporary look."

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