Big tile shows every flaw in the floor under it. Konstantin preps the slab, protects it from cracks and sets large-format and plank tile flat, with lines that run straight through the whole house.
Most Jacksonville homes sit on a concrete slab. Cracks, humps and dips are found and fixed before tile goes down.
A crack-isolation membrane over slab cracks keeps them from telegraphing through the new tile.
Large-format tile is back-buttered and set with a leveling system so edges sit flush with no lippage.
Movement joints at the perimeter and across large rooms, especially in sunny rooms and lanais, let the floor expand without popping.
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Concrete slabs shrink and move, and the hairline cracks in the slab pass straight up into tile set directly over them. The fix is prep: a crack-isolation membrane over the cracks and movement joints at the walls and across big rooms. Tile also cracks when it was set without full mortar coverage, so the hollow spots break under load.
Lippage is when the edge of one tile sits higher than the tile next to it. You feel it with bare feet and see it as shadow lines when light comes across the floor from a window. It shows most on large and plank tile. Flattening the floor first and using a leveling system while setting keeps the edges flush.
Perfect Touch builds these from Jacksonville and the Beaches to floor tile on Amelia Island and in Fernandina Beach, and south to St. Augustine.
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