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We have a beautiful dark wood (warm and chocolatey color) media center that has awesome slate tiles across the front with a variety of colors in them. I LOVE IT! My problem is, the home we are buying has lighter "American Cherry" wood floors throughout. I’m afraid the contrast might be wierd. What do you [...]

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When it comes to winter times or whenever the weather gets cold. My house gets really cold. The floor of my house is made up of ONLY tiles nothing else. I was thinking of getting slate tiles for my bearded dragon, but I had a problem. Since my house is made up of tiles and [...]

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When it comes to winter times or whenever the weather gets cold. My house gets really cold. The floor of my house is made up of ONLY tiles nothing else. I was thinking of getting slate tiles for my bearded dragon, but I had a problem. Since my house is made up of tiles and [...]

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Do i need to install backer board first or can i install directly over primed and flat painted drywall? The contractor left the electrical boxes and recepticals out 1/4 inch in preparation for the slate tiles. Do I use mortar or thin set? Other Related Mosaic Sites

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My dizzy partner dropped a dish in our kitchen. We have black slate tiles on the floor. It has put a 3 inch hole in the middle of one of the tiles. Is there any product i can get to fll this hole? How would i get one tile out of the middle of the [...]

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I had slate tiles put in my bathroom and after being warned that they could turn to mud my brother in law assured me that if they were sealed properly it wouldn’t be a problem.. anyways now that we began using the bathroom. the shower floor which is made of Slate is getting wet somehow [...]

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A friend of mine just installed vinyl floor in her den. The floor has a red-brown slate tile look to it. I currently have real slate tiles in my bearded dragons tank, but I keep having to replace them every so often due to constant chips and flaking. (I don’t want to hurt my bearded [...]

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we have just bought a cream gloss kitchen and we got black grey slate tiles on the floor just wondering which worktop will go with that ? any ideas or pictures from any websites please let me know thank you? Other Related Mosaic Sites

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We have a muted pink bathtub and toilet, which I actually love. But want to help update it with slate tiles. But some questions that pop in are, if we go with dark slate tiles around the tub, should the floors be lighter? What color should the vanity and/or counter top be compared to the [...]

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Slate in a small bathroom, approx 6×4, removing floor to sub-floor, installing hardybacker and putting in 12 x 12 slate tiles, no pattern. Cutting @6 ft of basebord, varnishing and installing. I’ve already done it, but earlier was quoted some hours, wondering if they were inflated. Thanks for your answers. One estimate I got was [...]

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I have a 130 year old house. I removed the old bathroom flooring down to the original wood floor planks and am now installing plywood subflooring over the planks using the proper glue and nails, then Hardibacker board over that. The final surface will be 12" square, 1/4" thick slate tiles. The problem is, one [...]

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i just bought a house , they had slate tiles on the hardwood floors with glue, i got the tiles off but not the glue. there were only about 7 tiles , there used to be a wood stove in the living room. We are going to refinish the floors after. I hope this helps. [...]

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