Porcelain Predications - Preaching the lessons and principles of porcelain slabs

Porcelain Predications - Preaching the lessons and principles of porcelain slabs

By Nathan Parsons (Porcelain Panel Pro)BusinessEntrepreneurship
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Porcelain Predications - Preaching the lessons and principles of porcelain slabs episodes

  • Ep. 6 - Crazy Frank Sent Me

    What level of investment do you feel will get you established in porcelain? $5-thousand, $10-thousand, or $100-thousand? For Trident Tile & Stone's Anthony Temblador of Las Vegas, Nevada, he initially spent several thousand dollars buying standard manual tools but quickly realized he had to go bigger. Listen as he explains the challenges and regrets of buying a $100-thousand dollar saw and the lessons he learned jumping into countertops as a trained tile professional.

    33 min
  • Ep. 5 - A Face For Tile

    How many generations does that tool have? Located near Minneapolis, Minnesota, Eric Maki of EPS Fabricators & Diaflex Tooling has seen many updates to hand tools over the last decade. For Maki, going head first into porcelain slabs did not seem like much of a gamble 10 years ago. Since then he has doubled down, hit a parlay, and taken the pot from the house. Learn how he views his initial $12-thousand dollar investment as a win even though the tooling was subpar, how he is going big on equipment, and how quartz now imitates porcelain slabs on this week's episode of Porcelain Predications.


    This episode also marks our last record episode from Coverings 2024 in Atlanta. More episodes are already scheduled for publication. Enjoy and make sure you are subscribed.

    21 min
  • Ep. 4 - Anyone Here Speak Italian?
    When you need information badly, and no one around can help you, what do you do? For Fred Wiedenmann of Telos Tile in Cincinnati, Ohio, you get on social media and message people half way around the world. Having to overcome the fear of failure, working with slabs was forced on him by a customer that would not accept no for an answer. Hear how the customer worked with Fred, and how his team is happy to have been first in the market to adopt porcelain slabs as their specialty. The conversation was so thorough, we may just have to do a follow up since this episode is a little shorter than normal.
    15 min
  • Ep. 3 - Bring Your Cowboy Hat
    San Antonio is considered by some to be on the border of the original Wild West. For San Antonio's own Erin Albrecht, owner of J&R Tile, the "Wild West" of working with porcelain slabs is just starting. Having had her team work with slabs in the days before there were standards from the TCNA, Albrecht can speak to so many of the challenges encountered by folks beginning to encounter these massive tiles in the field. In this episode we get to discuss dealing with porcelain slabs that come from unusual sources, why having a good thin set partner is key, and why 4mm material is the source of her nightmares.
    26 min
  • Ep. 2 - Where's My Anchor?
    It's not very often you get to speak with a rock star. Or at least a Coverings 2024 Award Winning Recipient Rock Star. Atlanta's very own Sean Gordy of Gordy Tile takes a few minutes to discuss his multi-generational tile business and how he was able to break into commercial porcelain slab installations. We discuss the time a superintendent ripped his TCNA guidelines and we teeter on the edge of an existential breakdown of our mental state. It surely going to be a good listen.
    28 min
  • Ep. 1 - You Go Low, I'll Go High

    In our preeminent first interview, we chat with Mind Grab of LFT Professionals from Calgary Alberta Canada while on the floor at Coverings 2024. We discuss everything from having your main apprentice be very short, to the foolish tool purchases we made back in 2014, and how investing $250-thousand dollars on a showroom is both good and bad.

    Porcelain Predications is a chat between experts at failure in the porcelain slab world. Talking to folks who took the plunge early in the porcelain slab world, seeing the potential without anyone else to help guide them through the process. Where we failed, learned expensive lessons, or just somewhat found solutions, we hope you find a good story and a good listen.

    Known as the Porcelain Panel Pro on social media, and owner of The Porcelain Slab Company of North Carolina, host Nathan Parsons connects you with some folks that have truly learned the most useful lessons in the porcelain slab game and that can be defined as experts.

    25 min

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Big slabs. Bigger stories. The biggest lessons. Porcelain Predications is all about how tile and stone installers have learned through failures and have mastered their art form of installing GPTP,…