Q: I have a problem with flooring. I bought a condo built in 1979 with concrete floors. I want the floor to be easy as I have a bad back and walking on concrete is not the best thing for me.

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The terminal floor at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport was a 20,000-square-foot, 40-year-old concrete slab that had seen a variety of floor coverings over the years, including tile ...

If you have a router, rout a channel in the wooden shower subfloor so that the drain will be recessed with the film, level with the drain weep holes. This keeps water that makes its way through ...

Keeping in mind how thin most ceramic floor tiles are, you never want the base under the tile to move, nor do you want a hollow space under the tile, even as thin as a piece of paper. Should this ...

Movement beyond a certain limit means the sub-grade won’t properly support the concrete floor. The base requirement is 150-200 pci depending on design, a standard ACI sub-base recommendation.