Industry

“We have surpassed the 1,900 installer mark,” says Brad Denny, Executive Director at Ceramic Tile Education Foundation. Further, with an estimated 115,000 tile setters in the USA, he feels the CTI program is just getting started. Changes to the CTI modules Starting in 2024, the modules will have the following alterations: For more details on […]

Several years ago, at Coverings, I sat in on an education program that is not something that I would normally attend. It was Leatrice Eiseman and she was talking about color trends. I found the program fascinating. How is it that an unseen trend can sweep through society’s consciousness and affect an entire group of […]

NTCA members have already received their latest Reference Manuals which highlight best practices and solutions for common installation problems, along with other features. What’s New in the NTCA Reference Manual for 2023/24? If you are not an NTCA member, you can ​order your manual at this link​

The annual MUD event (this year called MUD6) is being held this week in Idaho Falls, ID. Tile installers will attend from all over the country. What is particularly interesting is that this event attracts: What is the appeal of this event? Grassroots beginnings It started on Facebook with a group of tile setters led […]

Earlier this month, TileLetter put out the question: “What do tile setters wish manufacturers understood?” To my surprise, every problem was specific to tile and not to any of the installation tools or products. Here’s a condensed list of the complaints The problems unique to mosaics Tops of the list were mesh-mounted mosaic tile problems. […]

Yes, it was just a matter of time before AI, artificial intelligence, infiltrated its way into the tile industry. At this point, everyone has heard of ChatGPT even though you may not know exactly what it does. However, no one expected the first tile-related AI development to have Ken Ballin’s name attached to it. But […]