Tile Installation in South Florida. Measured and Priced at Your House.

Longer than anything else we install, and we won't pretend otherwise. Tearing out old tile is a day on its own. Then the slab gets leveled, the tile gets set, and the thinset has to cure before anyone grouts it, so grout usually happens on a later day, and the grout cures too. Across our published projects, nearly all of them vinyl, a single room is usually one day and a whole house is normally two to three. A tile job sits past that. You get your actual schedule at the in-home visit, before you sign.

Real. Old tile and the thinset under it get broken up and carried out, and that is the dustiest day in flooring. We close off the work area, keep it contained as far as a slab-on-grade house allows, and clean up at the end of each day. Clearing the rooms of anything you don't want dusty before the crew arrives makes a big difference. If your existing tile is flat and solidly stuck down, sometimes it can stay down instead, which skips the demolition day entirely. Whoever comes out will tell you which one you have.

Sometimes. It works when the old tile is flat, solidly stuck down, and the extra height doesn't cause a problem at the front door, the sliders, the dishwasher or the toilet flange. It saves the demolition day and most of the dust. It also raises your floor by roughly half an inch, which matters more than people expect at a doorway. Loose tile, hollow spots, or a height problem anywhere means it comes out. Our estimator works that out standing on it, which is why nobody can answer this on the phone.

Lippage is one tile edge sitting higher than the next. You feel it with a bare foot and you see it when low afternoon light comes across the floor. Big tile shows it worst, because a long edge has more room to drift over a dip in the slab. Two things stop it: the slab gets ground and filled until it's genuinely flat, checked with a straightedge before a tile goes down, and large format goes in with leveling clips that hold every edge flush while the thinset sets. Thinset also goes on the back of each big piece, not just the floor, so there's no hollow under it.

Porcelain doesn't care about humidity, salt air, sand or pool water, and it comes in marble and stone looks that are hard to tell apart from the real thing at standing height. It's what most people end up choosing. Real marble and natural stone are beautiful and we install them, but they need sealing on a schedule, they etch, and they don't forgive a slab that isn't flat. If you want stone, you'll get it done properly and you'll get a plain description of what looking after it involves before you commit.

Against your actual tile, in your own light. Grout chips lie under showroom lighting. A grout that matches the tile makes a large-format floor read as one surface. A contrasting grout draws every line and makes the pattern deliberate, which is fine if that's the look you want. Narrower lines look cleaner but need a flatter tile and a flatter slab. Rectified tile, cut square after firing, can go tighter than ordinary pressed tile. We'll tell you what your specific tile can hold.

You get your exact number at the in-home visit, worked out in front of you before the person who came out leaves. It covers the tile, tearing out whatever is down now, leveling the slab, the thinset and grout, the labor, the transitions and trim, and hauling the debris away when the crew leaves. What moves it up or down: whether old tile is coming out, how much leveling the slab needs, the size of the tile, the layout and how many cuts it takes, and porcelain against natural stone, which price very differently. Tile runs higher than vinyl and takes longer. The visit and the price are free, and nothing about them obligates you.

Yes, when it comes with a floor job. We're a flooring company that tiles bathrooms, not a bathroom remodeler.