Mosaics and Tile

Cobblestone is a popular natural stone used for creating pavers in outdoors. Cobblestone pavers are laid in residential, commercial, and industrial environment. It also used for pavement roads, streets, and sidewalks. It is a rock-solid material with lifelong durability and look. In fact as it ages, its look enhances and turns more appealing. In this blog, we talk about some of the upsides and downsides of building cobblestone pavers. The aim is to help you decide if it would be the right choice for your project –  Advantages of Cobblestone Pavers  Highly Durable –  Cobblestone pavers literally never get damage until done on purpose. Heavy rain, storm, snowfall, and frost do not affect the strength of the stone. Old World Look –  If you want to achieve a classic look and feel in your yard or landscaping, there is no better stone than cobblestone. It comes in random and imperfect square-shaped stone pieces, giving your space the highly desired traditional look from the non-machine era.

Stone walls make a breathtaking appeal in outdoors. They help you create a rustic, close to nature, and durable setting in your landscape. If you are planning to build a stone wall, you must be looking for rock-solid stones and other essentials to finish this job.  As the first and foremost step, you should decide which type of installation would be easier and better for your unique project – dry laid or with mortar. Dry laid stone wall does not require any mortar for installation. On the other hand, if you want to build stone wall with mortar, you will need to apply each stone with thin set. Both the types of wall serve different purposes. Dry wall can be rebuilt using the same stone and is easier to maintain, while mortar wall is easier to install and if you plan to rebuilt it, you cannot use the same stones.  This blog offers useful tips on choosing stones for your stone wall –  Sandstone, limestone, slate, travertine, and granite are some of the common stones you can use for buildi

Both are an essential tiling tool. Whether you a pro or a DIYer, you will have to use these handheld tools to apply thin set mortar and finish your tile project.  Technically, using trowel gives you an idea about the right amount of thin set you have to take while applying it on the tile back or subfloor. Apart from that, it helps you create space or lines on the thin set applied, which provides better grip after drying. Square-Notch and v-Notch both are among the different types of trowels and the most used ones too. In this blog, we talk about some of basic and technical differences between these two tiling tools. Check out the following subsections and pointers –  Square-Notch Trowel As the name may suggest, this trowel has square or rectangular edges and notches.  Tile placers use it to create rows of mortar with flat space.  It picks more thin set mortar than V-notch trowel does. If you are using stones and tiles that are above 2 inches X 2 inches in size, working with square-notc