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Grading the Patio & Cutting and Installing Tiles
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Grading the Patio & Cutting and Installing Tiles
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" The architect's design. Again is trying to repeat the idea of tropical plants and leave and that's what we've got this jagged edge all along the exterior part of the slab and this of course is going to be carried up. Because we'll have this whole thing screened -- royal -- enclosure ya exactly so you've got a lot of progress to report here in terms of the installation of the tile. Yeah we do we have whether it's here Peter Preston over from USA tile and marble IPO I divine ecstasy. The fate of this tile is pretty and you shall tell us about it. Well this is -- no design. No money factory process as mayor and I stainless steel -- So their candidate they're handmade in a -- poured into a stainless steel mold they've for an. Let it dry and then they just take them out -- tremendous racquetball or you can do anything you -- so it doesn't have to go through baking process is no sir it doesn't ever go right era air dry yes and you can use it out here in in south Florida you probably wouldn't. Is it an expensive product. Now that's not railing because -- and we got tremendous amount over here OK Issa has become very popular right now because organized -- you can use anywhere inside outside. -- That is -- marble nuclear installation Richard do their Peruvian immigrants that came here battle over the years ago in the and a true craftsman. And right now he's using some. Substandard white thinset which has a little body and allows him to be able to see can get the right levels to me ask you add -- to it so that it's got more body. Actually the -- comes with a OK and gives them the ability to make really fine to the patio make it look real money. It although the slab is pretty well toward its really the tile -- that makes the difference in terms of making sure that you don't have potholes and they didn't pitches away from the house absolutely -- rain -- did you get the sudden charged yet in south Florida you don't want to -- to about every afternoon in the summer and be sweeping the water out of models. -- the tricky part of course as these cuts and he's got a maker on the jacuzzi and then we'll see him do that just a minute. That's that's really the hard part of this installation yes the the spot itself is not quite regular its it's it's kind of a curved shape all the way around and we saw last week how they did the interior styling sure and this courses. They're basically marks it -- more art than science -- you know you're not really putting a straight edged anything you're trying to get the the tiles to. Have been closely but of course when you grout it off. At a table requires yeah of course feel them now fit it. And that's how -- work for all the way around the the -- Okay and what's your way from the spot on the curved lines you just keep on extending your straight. Guidelines. And your -- these guys down and -- what's the cost of this style."
" off the square foot. Of that in this area approximately and we're retirement or when he of the work that that's very reasonable yet. OK am caller you know come and different colors over the that -- the same price for -- well thanks for -- I love the way he just in. Dumped a whole big amount. And go to work with bigger."
