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Ceramic Tile Lippage: Unsightly and, on Floors, Unsafe... and Perfectly Allowable When Tile Industry Substrate Flatness Requirements are Disregarded

GCs, you know the drill, it鈥檚 crunch time鈥攂udgets are depleted, schedules are in jeopardy, and the tile contractor is agitating for extra time and money to fix the concrete. It isn鈥檛 flat enough for tile and flattening it wasn鈥檛 included in the bid, says the email with a change order attached.

Really? It looks flat, and often there鈥檚 documentation that the slab meets the flatness tolerance specified for the concrete. But before you refuse that change order, know that by doing so you鈥檙e ok-ing what would normally qualify as installation flaws. Read more here.

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