I have vinyl but I think ceramic tile looks nicer.
Posted By: nm on 2005-12-30
In Reply to: POLL: Off subject - Ceramic tile or vinyl - USMT
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ceramic tile or vinyl
Hi; when we bought our house it had carpet in the bathrooms, dining room and kitchen (even UNDER the stove!!). Couldn't wait to get it out of those places. We did go with Pergo in the dining room and kitchen, and it has done very well; however, there are no children in our home so there is less wear and tear on it. We have had it about 5-6 years and it is holding up very well. Just thought I'd share my experience with it :)
ceramic tile/vinyl
I have had ceramic tile in my kitchen and also vinyl. Ceramic does clean much easier, looks nicer, but it is very slippery when wet, can cause a concussion if you fall on a wet floor or that, and if you drop anything, boy does that object shatter. I like vinyl better, harder to keep clean but with the new vinyl floors now they are beautiful. I would choose vinyl over ceramic, but that is just my opinion.
POLL: Off subject - Ceramic tile or vinyl
 I recenly bought a big house that has carpet in the kitchen. I want to take the carpet out but don't know if I should go for ceramic tile or vinyl flooring. Any suggestions?
I love ceramic tile.
I had vinyl tile in my kitchen most of my life and had switched to ceramic for a while now. I love the ceramic tile for ease of cleaning and durability. It doesn't stain and it doesn't rip or peel up after a while either. It's more expensive, but well worth it in the long run.
Ceramic tile, but who puts carpet in a kitchen?
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Ceramic vs vinyl
A big NO to the vinyl. It buckles, peels and lifts off the cement underneath if it gets too wet...especially where the cove basing (under the sink cabinets) meets the floor.
If you can afford it, definitely go for ceramic. Last a long, long time, looks much better but be prepared to be diligent about cleaning the grout between the tiles...if you ignore it for too long, it will darken.
I would go with vinyl. We have tile now and I think it killed my dog. -sm
She slipped and fell on it when she slopped her water. I almost did too. She could hardly move. I think she might have broken some ribs. At the least they had to be bruised. It was actually my husband's cousin's dog so he took her to the vet and they put her to sleep on me. The vet said she was in severe pain. She was my little buddy. I never had an animal that loved me so much. (And I've always been a cat person.)
Tile is very slippery, hard, and cold too. I found the vinyl a lot easier to clean. Our tile is a mess. It cracked, the grout is dirty even though it was sealed. It's mostly because of the dogs that it's so yucked up. I can't stand going over by the front wall. It's soooo cold there, but I'm really intolerant to cold.
Our vinyl lasted a lot longer and was more comfortable than the tile. Not to mention, we had to cut all the doors besides.
I think I participated in that; certainly fit in the highest %tile in just about all categories.
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The OP is in the US. Let's try being a little nicer.
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I bet most of them were nicer when
all the MTs worked in house. I've only gotten to work alongside radiologists, and it was great to be able to actually talk to them. Most were extremely reasonable in person (and radiologists tend to be much better dictators because they need every word to be right).
Here is an even nicer way to handle it!
I totally agree with having her over in YOUR space and being nice to her. Tell her you can hear everything through the walls and celings (blaming them was a good idea) Tell her other things BESIDES her that you can hear. Tell her what you do for a living and what times you work, and how those "other" noises are so distracting. You don't have to tell her she is too loud; she will surely get the picture if she has any sense at all. If that doesn't fix the problem, then I would go to the manager and ask if there have ever been other complaints about her first. He/She may already know this is a problem. You never know how people will react if you tell them you would appreciate it if they would be quiet, no matter how nice you say it. I would have her over for snacks and a "chat" real soon though or you will go insane!
What you said is so much nicer than what I was thinking (nm)
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Well, let's hope they are nicer than you.
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And maybe you both should pur forth a little effort little nicer in the AM. What I said was
at being a little bit nicer in the AM. What I said was possible Adware. What a sally that you think I would allow that type of trash to rear its ugly head on any of my PCs. NO NO NO. I have far more superior PC knowledge than to allow that to happen to me, but I have received e-mails from others who visit this site and are perturbed by it.
My post was for the benefit of MTs who have little or no knowledge regarding safeguarding their PCs and are not afraid to ask for help.
Therefore, if this does not apply to you, MYOB. NO need for argumentative posts, nor do I have the time for those who are habitally and perennially in that simple-minded mindset.
Have a great day all!
Ceramic is prettier, but very slippery, so depends what is more important to you and family
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Nicer option inside sm
Why make the cashier feel awkward for simply trying to be nice?
Mother's Day doesn't have to be about being a mom. It can also be about YOUR mom. Accept the cheer to have a nice day and HAVE a nice day!
Been there, done that. Faisal is one of the nicer hospitals in the kingdom,
I was out there from early 80s to 2000. You live by their rules, you will LOVE it...the experiences you acquire, the people you meet are like NOTHING you will experience in the states. Money is not as good as in the past, but opportunities for travel and exotic shopping still abound. Faisal is run better than some hospitals in the Kingdom. Believe me the ordinary Saudi is nothing like you hear on the news. They are just like the rest of us. Riyadh is no less safe then New York. I had to retire there, but if I was not retirement age, I would still be there in a heartbeat. Go, and enjoy yourself. If you could get on at Aramco in Dhahran, life would be even better for you as an expat.
Naw, not nicer. Moderate just quicker to delete
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Vinyl stickers
I purchased some vinyl stickers from GoldViolin for $10.00 . They are the best I have found, although they will wear too, so I buy 2 sets at a time. Hope this helps.
which makes it nicer. either way, not a fight site anymore. sm
as it should be. Should have been all along.
Last year I purchased a Lasko 30" tall digital ceramic pedestal heater with remote for under (sm)
$80.00 at Home Depot. Features include: Automatic temperature control, oscillate, timer, and high (1500W) and low (900W) power settings. Assembling the base took less than 5 minutes. Kept me very warm last winter, and plan on purchasing another one for my upstairs. Cut down on my gas heating bill significantly. Great buy.
Thanks everyone, now that I look more at the floor, its a vinyl I guess -sm
so linoleum was probably the wrong way to describe it. Just hoping I can clean it so in the future whenever we sell (in a few years) we won't have to put in a new floor....will use tile next time though so I don't have this same problem. Another alternative is to cover the whole floor with the rugs and make it one uniform stain (then no one would know!).
The Armstrong stuff is for vinyl...
You can find it at Home Depot or Lowes near the cleaners and such. and it worked beautifully on my vinyl. It wasn't real expensive either. Its a two step thing, one strips and the other puts a new gloss on it. Try it....it will probably work.
Vinyl sticky letters...sm
www.goldviolin.com sells sticky Vinyl letters. I have bought many, many sets and always keep one on hand. They are also very large letters, for those of us with failing eyesight. Lol
rich skanks dress better and have nicer cars and homes.
DH and I had vinyl lettering done up for our car windows this year.
Mine says, "Keep Christ in CHRISTMAS." His says, "What do you mean Happy Holidays? How would you like it if your birthday was taken away?"
Yes, the school holiday programs today were lame. Happy Holidays, Jingle Bell Rock, African Kwanzaa song, Hanukkah song, but absolutely not a darn thing referring to Jesus Christ, Noel, angels, or anything "religious." There wasn't one African or Jewish person in the entire auditorium either. But what I want to know is this. If Christmas is too religious to be in school, why aren't Kwanzaa and Hanukkah too religious to be in school?
Vinyl stickers with very large letters...sm
work really well, I ordered them from Gold Violin.com. I believe they were $9.00. I don't look at my keys, but it just bugs me when there are no letters on my keys.
Although no letters means nobody else will get on my puter.
I need to do the same, need some small vinyl WHITE letters though - sm
husband complains when he has to print out his work schedule (no printer on his laptop) and has to use mine to get to his work website but missing the E, D, S, C, N, L, and my < and > ---drives him nuts...so guess who gets to get the schedule for him! One of these days I will get some letters, tried Liquid Paper but was uncomfortable on the fingers and wore off fast too.
Aladdin is a nice hotel, nicer than Excalibur but comparable costs.
And it's in the middle of the Strip, so if you plan to do walking you have the Bellagio, Paris, etc. close by.
Vinyl belts. Thanks for the memory, Mine was legal, but all the same.
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We have a gunite pool as opposed to vinyl/sand liner..
The gunite is definitely more expensive, but lasts much longer. I'm in NH and I see signs for gunite pools starting at 19,900 around here, but I have no idea what that includes. As usual, the advertisement and the actual cost out the door are probably too different things. Also, expect your electric bill to hit the roof even if you run the filter only 12 hrs out of 24. But it's worth it to us... Our kids are pre-teens and virtually LIVE in that thing, so we don't regret buying this house.
I did legal transcription using the old vinyl belts. A LONG time ago. LOL
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In the "old days" of dictation on vinyl belts, the quota was do to 15 minutes an hour. sm
To me, it seems realistic, but then again, each situation is different. On account I know, I can usually do 30 minutes an hour, although being money-oriented and paid by the line, I usually gauge things by lines. I do 250-300 lph, but those little dinky reports ARE an irritation -- no argument there -- hardly enter the header info and *poof* the dictation is over. Would be hard to make a decent line count that way.
But ... surely your employers understand there are variations on such things. Maybe you average 8.9 one month and 12 the next ... I would think it would even out.
Anyway, i'm into that gray zone where I know nothing about, but I wish you good luck. To me, in the days when I was supervisor, if I knew someone was doing the best they could do, that was all that mattered to me.
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