Article about a Tile Installation project by Dan’s Floor Store of Ponte Vedra, Florida.

Bathroom tiled.

Tile Installation in Sawgrass home

New clients in Sawgrass selected Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 to replace the existing tile on walls and floors in the bathroom and laundry room of their home. These clients provided the tiles that we installed. Dan’s Floor Store can install tiles provided by our clients in their home or business. Or we can purchase tiles, marble or stone for our clients, and install these materials, too!

First we had to “demo” (remove the existing tile) and prepare the bathroom and laundry room for the new tile.

  • These photos show demo/preparation in the bathroom.

  • These photos show demo/preparation in the laundry room.

In the bathroom and in the laundry of our clients’ home, our crew installed 12″ by 24″ porcelain tiles on the floors.

For the shower, we installed their square contour tiles in a stacked square design, to line up in an eye-pleasing pattern. For the doorway to the shower, our crew installed white marble up to the doorway and on the top of the curb, as well as the top of the shower walls. We also installed a handy and nicely sized insert shelf. The tile used in the shelf was the same as we used for the shower floor.

Although there are no photos, we did install new cement backer boards in the shower area. Cement backer boards are resistant to mold growth and damage from moisture, making them great tile underlayment for wet areas like bathrooms and kitchens. Our crew also applied waterproofing to the shower walls, prior to tile installation.

Our crew also did not get photos to show that the floors were leveled, prior to tile installation. A level subfloor surface is important for a good tile installation.

  • These photos show our tile work in the bathroom.

  • These photos show our tile work in the laundry.

Our customers were thrilled with our tile work! And Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy clients!

Dan’s Floor Store installs tile, marble, glass, and stone on walls and floors for residential and commercial clients, to improve the looks and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

And if your next improvement project involves new wood floors (engineered wood, laminate, or solid wood), vinyl and luxury vinyl plank floors, refinishing wooden staircases, or repairing and refinishing existing wood flooring.
And don’t forget that we have over 15 years of experience in professionally accomplishing these projects, too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.
Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.

Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

Wood look tile flooring, installed.

Wood Look Plank Tile Installation – Marsh Landing CC

Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 sells and installs a wide variety of tiles, with many sample tiles on display in our Ponte Vedra showroom. And we also can install tiles provided by clients and local building contractors we work with.

For this job, the owners of a home in the North Island section of the Marsh Island Golf and Country Club community of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida provided us the wood look floor tiles for our crew to install. There were 3 different plank tiles used for this job. We installed their tile in the separate Casita, as well as the office, master bedroom, upstairs bonus room, and on the stairs that led up to bonus room.

Our work started by prepping; taking out all of the carpet from these areas as well as from the stairs. We spotted some small cracks in the concrete slab subfloor. Small, surface stress cracks in poured concrete floors can appear as the home settles. Our crew fills in cracks wider than 1/4″ wide. Then we applied Bostick Leveler to the concrete slab subfloors. The Leveler also fills in the smaller cracks in the concrete subfloor. Our crew sanded the edges of the sheet plywood to level the floors subfloors upstairs. We also squared the stairs off with Hardibacker board. Squaring the stairs like this gives better final results when we laminate the stairway with tile. Proper prepping for any job is important!

In the bonus room, our team installed Ditra membrane by Schluter as an underlayment, between the sheet plywood subfloor and the tile. Ditra is lighter than Hardibacker board. Ditra is a little more expensive but designed specifically for ceramic and stone tile installations to ensure the durability and integrity of the installation; a great product.

Once all of this prep work was done, our crew installed the client’s wood look plank tile, and our client agreed; it looks amazing! Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy clients.

Dan’s Floor Store installs tile, glass, and stone on walls and floors for residential and commercial clients, to improve the looks and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

And if your next improvement project involves new wood floors (engineered wood, laminate, or solid wood), vinyl and luxury vinyl plank floors, refinishing wooden staircases, or repairing and refinishing existing wood flooring, don’t forget that we have over 15 years of experience in professionally accomplishing these projects, too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

  • Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
  • Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
  • Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.
Shower area with new tile installed.

Tiling Two Showers in Mandarin

For this home improvement project, our client wanted new tile installed in two shower areas in their home in the Mandarin neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida. They selected Tesola Silver in 12″ by 12″ and 2″ by 2″ mosaic, glazed ceramic tile by Emser Tile for both showers. One shower area retained the tub. In the other shower area, the tub was removed to make space for a larger showering area.

Our crew “demo’d” (did the necessary material removal work) in both shower areas. This also gave the plumber access for his work. The plumber removed the tub from one shower area, and installed the shower pans. Once all of this work was done by the plumber, our tile job could commence.

First, we hung all of the Hardibacker boards, to serve as the substrate for our tile installation.

After the Hardibacker boards were installed, our crew waterproofed the showers with Red Guard, mudding the pans of the showers with the proper slope, to drain well.

With our prep work done, we installed the Emser Tesola Silver tiles.

When our customer saw the two, newly tiled shower areas, they were very happy with the outcome. And Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy clients.

Dan’s Floor Store installs tile, glass, and stone on walls and floors for residential and commercial clients, to improve the looks and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

And if your next improvement project involves new wood floors (engineered wood, laminate, or solid wood), vinyl and luxury vinyl plank floors, refinishing wooden staircases, or repairing and refinishing existing wood flooring, don’t forget that we have over 15 years of experience in professionally accomplishing these projects, too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

  • Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
  • Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
  • Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.
Blue glass tile backsplash - installed.

Glass Tile Backsplashes Installed – Nocatee FL

Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 sells and installs tile and stone, as well as engineered wood, solid wood, laminate, and Luxury Vinyl Plank (LVP) flooring. We can also install these items when a prospective client has already purchased the material themselves.

A homeowner in Nocatee, Florida had purchased some blue glass tile, and contracted Dan’s Floor Store to install the tile as 3 backsplashes in their kitchen.

The glass tiles were installed in a “running bond” (or brick) pattern. The installation required the glass tiles to be cut to fit around 7 electrical outlets in the 3 backsplash areas.
– There were some very thin, intricate cuts required, up under the kitchen cabinets, as you can see in the photos.
– Tiling around both sides of the exhaust hood vent also required custom tile cuts.

Our client said these glass tile backsplashes really look nice; she liked our work. Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy clients.

Dan’s Floor Store installs tile, glass, and stone on walls and floors for residential and commercial clients, to improve the looks and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

And if your next improvement project involves new wood floors (engineered wood, laminate, or solid wood), vinyl and luxury vinyl plank floors, refinishing wooden staircases, or repairing and refinishing existing wood flooring.
And don’t forget that we have over 15 years of experience in professionally accomplishing these projects, too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.
Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.

Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

Tile, Wood Flooring and Stairs Install – Atlantic Beach

Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 got the contract for a large flooring and stairway home improvement project for a home and Casita in the Ocean Walk community of Atlantic Beach, Florida. The project included installing 3 different tile designs, and new wood flooring and stair treads.

Our crew started by removing all of the existing wood and tile flooring. Then we leveled the subfloors.

Downstairs, we installed 3 different tile selections in various areas of this home and Casita using Fusion Pro Grout. Our crew used Tuscan TruSpace Seam Clips for the larger tiles.

– Ayers Rock Solar Summit 20” x 20” porcelain tile by Daltile.

– Lungarra Carrara 2” hexagonal tile by Daltile in one bathroom.

And we installed Alhambra Marengo tile by Casavitabella in the Casita.

We replaced the existing solid Oak stair treads with solid Sapele wood (African Mahogany) stair treads from Heritage Forest Products.  We finished these stair treads with durable Pallmann finish.

Upstairs, our crew installed a matching 5″ wide, engineered Sapele wood flooring by Mirage.

Our client told us they were thrilled with the outcome of this hardwood flooring, stairs, and tile project! And Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy clients!

Dan’s Floor Store sells and installs tile, new wood floors (engineered wood, laminate, or solid wood), as well as vinyl and luxury vinyl plank floors, refinishes wooden staircases, and repairs and refinishes existing wood flooring for residential and commercial clients, to improve the looks of the floor and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

  • Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
  • Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
  • Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

Caribbean Rosewood Flooring and Porcelain Tile Install in Eagle Harbor

Caribbean rosewood flooring and Emser tiled foyerDan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 was contracted to do the flooring work in a whole home renovation in the Eagle Harbor community of Fleming Island, Florida.

Our work began by removal of all of the carpeting and sheet vinyl that had been installed in the home. Next we did a lot of leveling of the concrete subfloor, to prepare it for the wood flooring and porcelain tile installation. Our clients chose engineered 3″ wide Caribbean Rosewood flooring by Tesoro Woods to replace their old carpeting. Our crew installed the Caribbean Rosewood flooring in the hallway, main living room, both bedrooms, and closets.

And they chose 12″ x 24″ porcelain tile in the Homestead cream pattern by Emser tile to replace the sheet vinyl flooring. We installed tile in the foyer, the kitchen / dining room, 2 bathrooms, and the laundry room.

Our clients told us that they loved the look of their new wood and tile floors! And Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy clients!

Dan’s Floor Store installs new wood floors (engineered wood, laminate, or solid wood), and install tile and stone on floors and walls, too!

We also install vinyl and luxury vinyl plank floors, refinish wooden staircases, and repair and refinish existing wood flooring for residential and commercial clients, to improve the looks of the floor and value of the property.

Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

– – Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices. – –

  • Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
  • Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
  • Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

Tile Bathroom Remodel in Queen’s Harbor

Finished remodeled bathroomA plumbing leak inside the shower walls brought about this bathroom remodeling project in a home in Queen’s Harbor Yacht and Country Club. The homeowners called Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 for a free consultation and estimate, to work with their insurance company. We got the contract to do the tile, and stone and glass work to remodel the water damaged bathroom.

First our crew “demo’d” (ripped out) the water damaged bathroom wall board. After the plumbing was fixed, we hung new cement backer boards. Cement backer boards are resistant to mold growth and damage from moisture, making them great tile underlayment for wet areas like bathrooms and kitchens. And then our crew applied waterproofing to the walls (the pink and yellow areas on the bare HardieBacker in some of the photos).

Our clients selected and provided the porcelain tile, and stone and glass for the mosaic for this project. (Dan’s Floor Store sells and can supply the tile, stone and glass for projects, too.) We started setting the 24″ by 24″ porcelain tile on the shower walls with the help of temporary horizontal boards. (These temporary boards hold the tiles in position until the adhesive set up.) Our crew added two “racing stripes” in glass and stone mosaic, with pencil stone borders. We also added glass and stone details in two wall inserts (handy for soap, shampoo bottles, etc.).

Then we mudset the 24″ by 24″ porcelain floor tiles, adding an elaborate basket weave-type inlay of stone. Our crew centered the stone inlay to the tub.

Our clients were very impressed with how nice their remodeled bathroom looks now, and Dan’s Floor Store likes to have happy clients!

Dan’s Floor Store installs tile, glass, and stone on walls and floors for residential and commercial clients, to improve the looks and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

And if your next improvement project involves new wood floors (engineered wood, laminate, or solid wood), vinyl and luxury vinyl plank floors, refinishing wooden staircases, or repairing and refinishing existing wood flooring.
And don’t forget that we have over 15 years of experience in professionally accomplishing these projects, too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

  • Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
  • Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
  • Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our salesman or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

Brazilian Chestnut and Tile Flooring Installations – Marsh Creek Country Club

New homeowners in the Marsh Creek Country Club community of Saint Augustine Beach, Florida called Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303. They wanted our professional flooring and stair help in making their new home to fit their vision.

Our clients selected engineered 3 1/4″ wide Brazilian Chestnut wood flooring by Triangulo, and some 12″ by 24″ rectangular tiles by Emser Tile and Stone for their home.

Brazilian Chestnut flooring installed - wide view

Our crew started work on this project by removing the existing carpeting and tile flooring in the home.

Prior to installing new flooring, we did a massive amount of leveling of the concrete slab sub-floor and the plywood second story sub-floor. In two of the upstairs rooms, there was an odor of urine from the previous owner’s pet, so we had to change out the plywood prior to leveling it.

With the sub-floors leveled, our crew installed the Brazilian Chestnut wood flooring.

We installed new Red Oak treads on the stairs, stain matching them to the Brazilian Chestnut flooring.

Our crew also installed the rectangular tile flooring in the kitchen, the laundry, and a small bathroom.

The new homeowner clients love their new wood floors and staircase, and tile floors, and Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy clients!

Dan’s Floor Store installs new wood floors (engineered wood, laminate, or solid wood), as well as vinyl and luxury vinyl plank floors. We also refinish wooden staircases, and repair and refinishes existing wood flooring for residential and commercial clients. Our work improves the looks of the floor and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next improvement project involves tile or stone work, don’t forget that we professionally install those materials too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

Sand and Finish Weave-in Repaired Red Oak Select Grade Flooring – St. Augustine

Weave-in repair of red oak flooringEarlier this year, Dan’s Floor Store started a home improvement project for clients in the Moultrie Foreside community, near Moultrie Creek in south St. Augustine. Our crew prepared the subfloor, and then wove-in solid Red Oak select grade wood flooring to extend the Red Oak through the home, and to repair some damaged areas of the wood flooring.

After allowing one month of acclamation time for the new solid Red Oak select grade flooring, we came back to sand and finish the Red Oak floors.

First, the acclimated wood flooring had to be sanded.

After sanding, our crew “popped” the wood flooring grain with water to give a deeper, darker color when we applied the stain. The stain selected was Early American by MinWax. Then we finished the floors with one coat of Bona drifast Sealer.

And then we waited around a month or so to allow the kitchen cabinets to come in. Next our Dan’s Floor Store crew buffed down the sealer coat on the Red Oak select grade flooring and applied two coats of Bona oil-modified satin.

Our clients were thrilled with the outcome of their floor, and Dan’s Floor Store likes to have happy clients!

Dan’s Floor Store repairs and refinishes existing wood flooring and installs new wood floors (including solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate) for residential and commercial clients , improving the looks of the floors and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next improvement project involves tile or stone work, don’t forget that we professionally install those materials too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

  • Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
  • Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
  • Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our salesman or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

Hickory Wood Look Floor Tile – Ponte Vedra Sawgrass

Dan’s Floor Store was selected to be part of a home improvement project in the Ponte Vedra Sawgrass community. The homeowners wanted to replace their old carpeting and some tiled flooring with new, wood look tile flooring.

We began work on this project with removal of the old carpeting, and existing tiled flooring.

Next we leveled the concrete subfloor. Floor leveling is very important in preparation for installation of new hard surface flooring. Unlevel floors can cause wood or tile flooring to crack, reducing the life of the new flooring and requiring replacement of the wood or tile flooring.

Dan’s Floor Store recommends the quality wood look porcelain tiles made by Daltile. These wood look tiles will resist moisture, are easy to maintain, and the tiles even help with heating and cooling (because porcelain remains cool to the touch, as a result of its composition). Digital imaging and high-tech manufacturing produce wood-grain porcelain tiles with very realistic textures and visual details.  It’s often difficult to distinguish wood look tiles from real wood flooring without taking a much closer look.

We installed the 6″ x 36″ wood-look floor tile planks in a three step pattern, running side to side in the home.

Our clients are very happy with their tile installation home improvements by Dan’s Floor Store. And we always like to have happy clients!

If you are thinking about improving the look and value of your home with tile or stone work, give Dan’s Floor Store a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next home improvement project involves new wood floors (whether solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate), or refinishing the wood flooring you have, don’t forget we are very experienced with wood, too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

  • Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
  • Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
  • Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our salesman or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.