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Posted by krw on November 30, 2006, 11:31 am
thetiler@juno.com says...
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>
> > Troll alert!
>
> More like 'stupid alert'.
>
> This person is supposedly buying a batch of tile for the first
> time, yet makes a judgment on Home Depot.
I thought the $1/sq.ft. comment was the dumbest part. What other
decent floor covering can you buy for less than several times that?
Ok, add in the thinset, backer, and some tools and maybe it's
$2/sq.ft.
> Tile contractors like myself generally buy from tile wholesale
> suppliers because they are experts in servicing the tile trade.
The tile guy I worked with when I was in NY had me go to the local
tile stores, with a preference for one. Dropped his name and they
were eating out of my hand. ;-)
> Home Depot though doesn't necessarily have bad tile. It's
> actually often pretty good quality stuff. I used Dal-Tile for
> 15 years here, dealing with their local distributor until the help
> got dummer and dummer and I gave up on them, but Home
> Depot sells Dal-Tile and it is good hard material.
I've bought a fair amount of tile from the HomeDespot. Their
choices are limited but I don't see anything wrong with the tile
(grade 4).
> The main problem with Home Depot is that the workers are
> totally clueless about the tile trade, yet pretend to be experts.
> When I'm in the tile dept. there buying misc. tools and bits,
> I often overhear the advice they are giving the public about
> installation, and it scares me. If I wanted to know about
> something I knew nothing about, such as electrical, I'd
> talk to the people at an electrical supply house before I'd
> ask the "guy at home depot".
I guess this is variable. I've heard their people suck, but I've
found the local HomeDespot to be pretty good. The one piece of
advice they gave me a while back was to forget mastic for a small
job (~10sq.ft. outside utility closet), rather use thinset.
> I also don't see the reasoning or logic behind going through
> all the effort to install 1000 ft. of tile, as the poster says he
> wants to do, and install the cheapest crap I can find.
> It always seemed more sensible, if I'm going to bust my
> butt and do that much tilework, to use good quality materials,
> and end up with a very good job.
> The duration of the cheap tile could only be a few years,
> vs. 25 years or more for good material.
Expensive <> good. This is one area where high price is no proof
of high quality.
> Hard grade 4 tile in the outdated 12x12 size can be had for
> $1 a foot. Only a fool would search to pay less for crap tile
> and go through the process of installing it, just to save maybe
> $300.
No argument here! 1000st.ft. is going to be a major project. A
few hundred bucks is small change.
--
Keith
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