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Lay NuHeat's in-floor heating mat $500 per square foot between layers of thin-set mortar under your flooring and you'll get even heat permeating your tiles.
New Luxury Home Must-Haves Lucy Maher 2006
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Her teeth were thin-set and irregular, though very white; and she carried in her hand a fine linen cloth, containing a heart.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Materials paper or plastic to cover countertop tape pencil tiles pre-mixed mastic or thin-set mortar notched trowel tile cutter rent from home improvement store
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Materials - a middle-of-the-road tile plus grout, backer board and thin-set mortar - should cost in the neighborhood of $6 a square foot.
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The white thin-set is useful if you are putting down a white floor.
AskTheBuilder.com 2009
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If the house is still in warranty the tiler should rip out all the tile, smooth out the concrete slab and relay new tile with thin-set mortar, using smaller tiles (6-by-6 - inches) instead of the big ones (12-by-12-inches).
RutlandHerald.com 2009
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Some thinsets have water-based, powdered glues, called acrylic hardeners or modifiers, that make the thin-set very sticky.
AskTheBuilder.com 2009
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How do I dispose of the left-over thin-set & clean utensils?
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All you have to do is a water to the thin-set powder.
AskTheBuilder.com 2009
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But regular thin-set, when mixed right, is very sticky.
AskTheBuilder.com 2009
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