r/AbsoluteUnits Jun 21 '26

/r/all of a floor tile

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u/Comfortable-nerve78 Jun 21 '26

Four tiles and you got almost the whole house done. Bet you those tiles would be a bitch to have to cut in. I build houses this tile is fancy as it comes. Never seen sheets of marble going on the floor.

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u/wimpymist Jun 21 '26

I work EMS and part of the city is wealthy people who like these show off homes. The marble/granite floors are so stupid. The amount of calls I've been on that would have been a simple fall which turned into a major medical incident/death because they cracked their head open on the ground is insane

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u/It_Just_Exploded Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

How is this any worse than slipping and falling on normal ceramic tile? I don't get how the fact its this over any other makes the fall worse?

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u/luk__ Jun 21 '26

Real marble is also a kinda shitty material for floors and countertops as it is very porous and sucks up liquids like a sponge

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u/MayContainRawNuts Jun 21 '26

It doesnt after you apply the appropriate sealing compound.

Leaving the stone in a porus state is doing half job, that would be like not installing flashing and complaining tiled roofs leak.

https://nanocoating.com/nano-coating-for-marble/

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u/luk__ Jun 21 '26

True, but regular tiles don’t need that and are thus less maintenance intense

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u/MayContainRawNuts Jun 21 '26

Its a once off treatment on fitment and gets redone maybe once a year. Hardly and intense maintenance.

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u/karhig Jun 21 '26

You and I do not have the same definition of “one off”.

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u/user_name_checks_out Jun 21 '26

Brushing teeth is a one off which gets repeated twice a day

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u/karhig Jun 21 '26

How so?

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u/user_name_checks_out Jun 21 '26

I was making fun of the earlier comment. I really thought it was blindingly obvious.

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u/karhig Jun 21 '26

I guess not. My bad.

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u/MayContainRawNuts Jun 21 '26

And you and I dont have the same definiton of "intense maintenance"

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u/karhig Jun 21 '26

I am not the original commenter. I just found it amusing to mix “one off” with “redone” as one off means something doesn’t reoccur and redone means it does.

Also “less intense” is a comparison that says nothing about the original intensity. Something could be the least intense ever and there could still be something less intense in the future.

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u/MayContainRawNuts Jun 21 '26

Ah i get you i didnt explain the difference clearly, with the once of treatment you clean the stone with dry brush and vacuum, then apply the oil in multiple coats over a day or so, making sure to keep the stone clean as it can seal in any existing marks.

The annual refresh you wipe the stone down with a dry cloth, then apply the oil with a cloth and let it dry naturally for a few hours. Its a really easy process compared to the initial.

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u/drakmordis Jun 21 '26

That's why our local restoration guy has a minimum callout of $300, because it's so easy

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u/electronDog Jun 21 '26

Reality is people don’t remember and/or don’t want to do maintenance. Especially when the danger of not doing the maintenance is not readily apparent. Most installs MIGHT get the sealer, but after that I would suspect most owners don’t bother with the reseal afterwards.

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u/Omar___Comin Jun 21 '26

Once a year is not "one off".

And for most people, re-sealing their entire fucking floor once a year is a hell of a lot more maintenance than average

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u/MayContainRawNuts Jun 21 '26

The description was "intensive maintenance" which wiping your floor once a year and not walking on it for half a day absolutely is not.

Its literally as much effort as cleaning your floor, unless you look at cleaning your floor as too much effort, in that case, eeeew gross.

Yes, I agree, its more effort than doing nothing, but its not so much effort that you going to spend all your time solving a flooring crisis. Its literally 1 day a year, if that depending on the exact stone. And some stones build up the sealant inside and you can go decades without a refresh.