Flood damage can be costly to repair and confusing to assess. We have prepared some information about how inland flooding (rising water from local rivers and streams and overflows from nearby ponds, lakes and reservoirs) can impact floors and walls in your home or business. MAPEI suggests involving your insurer and consulting professionals in helping to remediate flood damaged floors and walls.

As tiles get larger and installations get trickier, all setting materials manufacturers have developed a category of 'high performance' mortars. If you're setting tile in a freeze/thaw environment, on above-grade areas with deflection, in submerged applications, or with really large tiles, chances are good that you're being directed to one of these higher performing mortars. What are they really, and ...

For the last 8 years, Coverings has included a feature called the Installation Design Showcase . In years past, a room would be built on-site, tiled during the show, and then sent off to the landfill afterwards. This year, the organizers decided on Tiny Houses which could be built on a chassis and then re-used after the show. As we have since the beginning, MAPEI enthusiastically partnered with the ...

In this highly competitive marketplace, an installer’s reputation is ‘King’, a few jobs that go south can quickly ruin a seasoned installer’s years of hard work.  That is why you will find such fierce loyalty on the part of installers to a particular product and/or brand.  Finding an installation product that for years has a proven track record on a variety of projects from institutional ...

The Atlantic Hurricane Season runs from June 1st to November 30th and MAPEI’s USA headquarters are located less than 5 miles from the Atlantic Ocean . So, preparing ourselves for storm season is just something that we do every year. People often ask us, what can be done to prepare interior floors from the effects of a Hurricane? And more specifically – can anything be done to protect glued-down ...