Recycled Tile for Natural Home Design

Video Transcript

"Now we’re going to talk a little bit about the recycled products. The terrazzo type countertop material is usually a ¼ inch, you can even order it thicker than the ¼ inch, ½ inch, and it does have to have underlayment so it doesn’t crack or anything. But it’s recycled glass, granite, and concrete mixture and it’s compressed together and it does have a mesh in it to hold it together so it’s really strong, I mean it’s just as strong as granite. It’s a wonderful option, it’s beautiful, it looks like natural stone and you can put it anywhere, you can put it in a master bedroom, a master bathroom on the countertops, you can put it in an elegant kitchen on the island. There’s a number of places this can go. There’s I think 36 colors in this typical brand and there’s lots of other brands out there that make this kind of product. There’s also the terra classics which are from recycled glass and they have a number of the… here’s the typical natural colors that are from the earth, and then they’ve gone and expanded and added all the new colors, they’ve got some great colors, the citrine, aquamarine, peridot, sapphire, they even have like a purple sapphire which is a light lavender, and these are colors, these are like decorator colors and they’re still in you know, you can use something like this recycled glass tile. You can also use something like this one here, it’s a reconstituted concrete, paper, and fly ash in this one. It’s solid, I’ve actually personally not seen this one on counters yet, but with it coated with a sealer it’s beautiful, it’s got a real smooth solid color to it, and it looks just like a fired clay tile without the ceramic on the top. You would just have to seal it with a natural clear sealer. So that’s one of the other options there. "