I have seen in a magazine a beautiful "Jerusalem stone" tille floor used throughout a house, including in baths and kitchen. We are building a new house, and I am intrigued by this stone, but would need to install it in entryway, kitchen, mudroom, and bathroom. What do you think?

 

Dear Holly:

 

“ What do you think? ”

 

I think that the stone itself is among the best type of limestone that money can buy. But I also think that the best “stone” in absolute, without any rival, is the contractor that's going to install it!

You put the best stone in the world in the hands of some “Michelangelo” and you're going to end up with a sorry heap of junk. In my contracting days I've seen all too many installations failures due to inappropriate setting, not to insist with everybody on this essential factor.

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Ciao and good luck,

Mauri z io Bertoli

 

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