Why marble isn’t the best option in a shower or bath.
Our subway tile wall in the kitchen/dining is complete and I can’t wait to share with you how it turned out. While the tile guy was here I asked him to pop out a tile in our master bathroom shower . Back in the spring of 2014 I noticed some discoloration happening on on some bottom row marble tiles in our shower. ( Past master bathroom : Review 1, Review 2). In the past two years I have had about 6 tile “experts” over to give me their opinion. Every single one of them had a different scenario. A couple of them said, “Marble does that, I’d just leave it alone.” Others told me I wasn’t keeping up on sealing the tile properly (guilty). But most had really never really encountered it before. So we never were really sure what to do about it. My fear was that water had gotten behind the tile and mold was growing (eek). To my own defense, we take extra precaution with our showers. We squeegee after ever shower and towel down ledges. We decided to stop showering in that shower to see...