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Floors that lie flat.
Tile and stone flooring installation in coastal Maine
Marble, limestone, and porcelain floors, flattened past tolerance and ready for heat.
Flooring Installation
Flat before anything.
We install honed marble, limestone, travertine, and large-format porcelain floors over a substrate brought dead level, with radiant heat where you want warm tile underfoot. Large-format tile is unforgiving of a wavy floor, so we flatten the base before a box is opened. The result is a floor that stays flat, quiet, and crack-free through Maine freeze and thaw.
The standard for large-format tile allows an eighth of an inch of variation over ten feet, and we prep past it, grinding highs and filling lows with self-leveling underlayment before a box is opened. A straightedge rides the finished floor before we call it done.
Large-format limestone running flat and warm from the entry through the hall, without a single lipped edge.
How we work
Ground, filled, checked.
01
Drawn first
Every floor starts as a drawing: course lines, transitions, and where the cuts land at thresholds and registers.
02
Ground and filled
Highs are ground and lows filled with self-leveling underlayment until the base beats the flatness large format demands.
03
Set and checked
The person who drew the layout checks the finished floor with a straightedge, edge to edge, before it is grouted.
What to expect
What a floor needs.
Flat past tolerance
We flatten and prep the base so large-format tile sits without lippage and grout lines never crack.
Built for heat
Floors are set over radiant systems where wanted, so limestone and porcelain hold warmth against a cold coastal morning.
Movement handled
Anti-fracture layers and proper transitions absorb the seasonal movement that cracks tile in this climate.
Capability studies
Floor studies.
Patterned encaustic floor · pattern held true across the room
Hex mosaic floor · inlaid compass medallion
Common questions
Worth asking first.
Will a tile floor crack through a Maine winter?
Not when it is built right. We set floors over flattened substrates and anti-fracture layers with proper transitions, and seasonal movement is absorbed instead of cracking grout.
Can you add heat under the floor?
Yes. Radiant systems are integrated under marble, limestone, or porcelain for warm tile underfoot in the cold months.
Do you install large-format floor tile?
Yes, and we flatten the base first, because large-format is unforgiving of a wavy floor. The result lies flat, with no lippage.
Can you tile over an existing floor?
Sometimes, if the base is sound and flat. More often we remove and rebuild the substrate, because a floor is only as good as what is under it.
What grout do you use on floors?
We use the grout suited to the tile and traffic, and we can specify stain-resistant options for kitchens and entries so the lines stay clean.
