"It's not every day you're awarded the contract to build a six-figure bathroom," stated Buck Collins, President of Collins Tile and Stone. "The owners knew of our commitment to quality; they knew that we would not sacrifice one iota of anything to cut corners. So this project started out on the right foot. We understood each other."
The stately house itself was only 13 years old, so conventional wisdom would ostensibly state this remodeling project shouldn't have any of the major obstacles that surface when a dignified older home is about to be remodeled. Not so.
"Before we started any work whatsoever, we had to make sure that we had the right plan of attack," stated Collins. "This house was built with floor joists that were 60cm (on center) apart from each other. That size is almost unheard of, so we decided to get some expert advice prior to installing the flooring. Fortunately, we have some of the finest technical representatives servicing our company. Perhaps the best is Kurt Weber, our LATICRETE Technical Representative.
"So, it was collectively decided that initially, we would both glue and then screw-in an additional layer of plywood underlayment to the existing 19mm subfloor to mitigate any deflection whatsoever. From there, we took Kurt's sage counsel relative to using the LATICRETE® System. Before we installed the first piece of tile," continued Collins, "we primed this plywood with LATICRETE Admix & Primer, as we wanted this substrate to be in ideal condition for the next step, which was the installation of LATICRETE Floor HEAT, a product we consider to be the crème de la crème of its genre."
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