The Case of the Car Dealership Tile Floor
A car dealership blames defective stone for blackened tile floors, but The Stone Detective uncovers a much dirtier truth hiding in the mop bucket.
A car dealership blames defective stone for blackened tile floors, but The Stone Detective uncovers a much dirtier truth hiding in the mop bucket.
A fifteen-foot travertine shower starts shedding tiles, and The Stone Detective follows the clues to uncover a failure rooted in installation, not stone.
A homeowner’s marble floor begins to sound hollow. The Stone Detective uncovers a classic case of resin-backed stone tile installed incorrectly. What went wrong?
A homeowner discovers a mysterious crack in her granite countertop, and the Stone Detective uncovers the hidden culprit lurking beneath the surface.
A so-called expert confuses “efflorescence” with “effervescents.” The Stone Detective steps in to uncover the real mystery behind a marble floor mishap.
A sticky marble floor leads the Stone Detective to uncover the real culprit behind a luxury hotel’s problem: The mop? The cleaner? The water? What else?
A homeowner blames a tile manufacturer for a dull-looking floor, but the Stone Detective uncovers the real culprit hiding under the sink.
A granite countertop starts crumbling under sunlight, revealing the hidden downside of resin-treated stone in this latest Stone Detective mystery.
A porcelain tile floor refused to come clean—until the Stone Detective discovered the secret hidden in its micro pits. Sometimes simple methods win.
A terrazzo floor starts peeling up like loose tiles. The Stone Detective digs in to uncover the simple but costly mistake behind this failed installation.
The Stone Detective uncovers poor mix, no cure time, and missing joints as the culprits behind cracked terrazzo. Lessons learned the hard way in Yuppyville.
The Stone Detective heads to Atlanta to solve a terrazzo mystery. Cracks, suits, and spider webs of trouble—was it the mix or missing expansion joints?
A panicked contractor, stubborn marble, and polishing secrets—see how the Stone Detective turned tears into a mirror-finish on Monterey Black.
A dark grout problem turned out not to be a cleaning mistake, but a classic case of bad design. The Stone Detective uncovers the moldy grout mystery.
The Stone Detective takes on a homeowner’s complaint of “defective grout” and uncovers the real culprit: bad mixing practices, not bad material.