Cam marble be preferred for marble flooring?

Not sure I understand the question.

Marble can be installed as a floor covering, provided the substrate is adequate to support a natural stone installation.

Twas a mistake! My question is can marble be preferred for bathroom or kitchen flooring?

It can be done. Some people don't care for it because it can be tough to keep clean and maintain. Natural stone is one of those things that "you get what you pay for". Don't cheap out.

Thanks...basically I want a sophisticated look for my bathroom and kitchen flooring and I think MARBLE would be the best choice for it! What say!

What do you know about your floor system? Is it concrete? If not, you need to make sure your joist system is up to par. Then you need two layers of plywood totaling 1 1/4".

Oh yes I want to reconstruct it with marble!Its concrete!

Shelly,

Keep in mind, marble is one of those things where you may get whay you want, but are you going to want what you are going to get?

Remember, Marble is soft and can scratch and stain easily. Sealers will slow down the staining, to give you time to clean the spill up, but if left it will get through and stain. Polished marble with water on it is like ice. It can be absolutely georgeous, if done properly, but remember what you are buying. There are positives and negatives to everything.

For a more durable floor, with a similar look and feel, I personally would look to Granite. Granite is harder and more durable (that is why it is also prefered for countertops - smear some toothpaste on a marble countertop and see what happens).

Installation wise, notice the rectified edges on either polished Marble or Granite. That means that the floor needs to be dead flat or you will notice. If one tile is up or down or tipped more than another with a rectified edge you will notice. This is one reason that Marble and Granite installations are more expensive. If you're putting it in, be sure to take your time and make it level. Use white thin-set and unsanded grout with small goint lines, and aside from that as long as the structure of the floor is adequqate you will have a floor to last for years.

Thanks J&D for replying...Very helpful!

What is the difference in price between engineered marble and natural marble for flooring ?

Don't know, that would be up to the retailer and the product lines they carry.

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Wish to know the basic difference between Marble, Concrete and Terrazzo?

Marble, Concrete, and Terazzo are three different things and are not usually looked at for options for the same application.

First off, Concrete is your garage floor. Smooth, flat, grey, and hard. Nothing fancy. You can polish it or stamp it or colour it, but it is still a garage floor or sidewalk.

Terazzo is that really cool old floor that you used to see in schools or hospitals where it was dead flat, and polished up. You could see the speckles of the stones in it and everyone recognized the brass or copper strips that were pounded in for movement joints. It was usually sectioned off into 4ft by 4ft squares and there was a border that extended into a cove moulding and base along the bottom of the wall. In a nut shell, it was made by pouring concrete, then pouring in some decorative looking gravel and movement strips, then ground flat and polished. It looks and feels very institutional. There are few guys around that do it any more, and they are usually doing repairs. It is highly specialized and very labour intensive. It has become too expensive for most applications, when you can use a porcelain tile that will give substantial durability.

Marble is a natural stone. It is installed in tiles or slabs that are generally either polished or tumbled.

Marble is laid (like tile) and the other two are poured. In a recidential application, the Marble is probably the most suitable.

That is really informative! Thanks for replying!

Shelly

Depending on where you are living there may be a concrete artisan that can give you a acid or custom dye coloured concrete floor. It isn't likely going to save you any money but they are very nice looking when done properly.

Thanks for replying Dale!

Marble is metamorphosed limestone , that is, limestone that has been melted and allowed to re solidify. If the original limestone is a calcite limestone, then the marble is a calcite marble (i.e., mostly CaCO3); if the original limestone is a dolomitic limestone, then the marble is a dolomitic or magnesian marble (i.e., mostly CaMg (CO3)2)

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What are the primary procedures required for Marble restoration?I have heard the contractors grind the floor in order to restore it!Will it effect the texture?

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Shelly !
Marble is too soft for a kitchen floor and, my opinion, the tile industry has come a long way and offers in a porcelain tile the marble look alike that is bullet proof, in fact the only way that a person can tell is by looking at the ends. What has been done is all digital, in other word some tile manufactures have taken digital picture of real marble already installed and computerized this into a ( ink jet ) printed picture. Using this, you cannot tell if the product is real or not, you should check this out really I was amazed. I have already installed this type of porcelain in the travertine nock off on floors and you can,t see the difference, my cost was its not cheap, 6.00 and up per sf but worth it