Textured tiles vary from a typical flat or smooth surfaced floor and often come in styles like stone, mosaic, and concrete, among others. However, one issue with these floors is finding the right ...

Floor tiles must be installed in thinset, which is a mix of fine silica sand and Portland cement. Thinset allows the mosaic tile to bond well to a solid subfloor.

France's cement tile industry was born in 1850 in the southern village of Viviers-en-Ardèche. For more than a century, these tiles were the most commonly used floor-covering material in the ...