Tiles

Ceramic tiles are thin (approximately 10mm) plates, which are usually made of clay, sand, talc, and the refining of mineral additives. After the ingredients are combined with a little water, the mass is subjected to the process of drawing or ironing. The next step is to burn plates at 1000-1300 degrees C. This process can take anywhere from several to tens of hours. The final stage is their wafer painting and decorating or decoration. Through this process the plate can win all sorts of colors or themes. Ceramic tiles can have various colors, shapes, and vary in their application. Are non-toxic, natural, and are considered easy to maintain. They are also non-flammable, which can be used in bathrooms, kitchens and bathrooms. Some of them are also frost-resistant properties, and it can be used on terraces and facades of buildings. All ceramic products, which are used in building the architectural ceramics. They can be divided into several groups, including brick products, unlike bricks, glazed products, refractory products, ceramic material which is dense stoneware.

Guidance for professionals

We have prepared a guide to laying ceramic tiles. Contrary to appearances, ceramic tiles are fairly flexible material and the appropriate tools for each individual should deal with it. For occupancy bathrooms tiles you will need:
- Tiles
- To prepare the ground - emulsion primer and mortar leveling and sealing matter,
- To seal the ground - and sealing mortar mass for protection against moisture,
- To lay ceramic - adhesive, apparatus for cutting tile, drills and saws, mortar grouted, the emulsion and the elastic and liquid impregnation and finishing
- The whole set Pacek, spatula, patches, sponges and crosses spacers
Using appropriate materials and tools, tiles in the bathroom, you can arrange themselves thus saving money. Laying tile is not too complicated, does not require special qualifications, no skills, and requires only very carefully, a bit of practice and knowledge of the basic principles of stacking, such as:
- Work is performed at a temperature of 5-25st.C
- Do not moczymy tiles before laying
- Grouting and use can not be earlier than 24 hours after laying
- The full strength of the cladding gain after 3 days.

Laying the tiles specialist

Certainly not once wondered how the arranged tiles. It is better to entrust the expert, or perhaps try to take yourself ... Fortunately, advances in technology applies to various industries, and as such the market has recently emerged a computer program to support ceramic tile. Such a program enables virtually unlimited possibilities for designing rooms with ceramic tiles. From simple placing tiles on the wall, creating your layouts with specific collection of ceramic tiles and decorative elements. The program lets you search and insert elements referring to its preset criteria. In addition, it gives the program? Here are some of the features: fast access to a collection of tiles Paradyż, tile by using drag and drop, tile on the surface of the wall, overlapping plates of any places around the room in the sloping walls, pedestals, platforms, niches, overlapping tiles , both horizontally and vertically, insert, insert one by one on the wall or floor systems, formed at any angle, mixed and alternate systems, the division planes in columns and rows automatically, as manual or automatic tiling, consider cutting tiles Paradyż, taking into account the different joints, and others.

Tiling

Laying ceramic tile is not very difficult, so you can do it on their own. Certainly we must do it carefully, maintain accuracy and to follow certain guidelines. There are three popular ways of tiling. The first one is sticking tiles on the floor using a special adhesive imposed float. The second is called. "Vibration method" used when laying tiles on large surfaces. Stacked plates are larger and thicker the standard. They are stuck in the cement mortar covered with a layer of szczepną. This ensures a level surface and to obtain better adhesion of platelets to the mortar in order to obtain greater strength. The third method is the mechanical attachment using anchors. It is used on the facades of buildings. Used plates are large, and specifically from 30x60cm to 60x120cm. Technology can not be ventilated, however, applied everywhere. Bonded at high elevations of the buildings pose a danger of falling off the tiles in the case przemarznięcia elevation, but in countries where the climate is hot, maximum height, which are operated such elevations reach 50 floors.

Glaze

Ceramic tiles, commonly known as the tiles are usually produced from a mixture of clay, silica and pigments. After appropriate treatment of burns to be at high temperature. Depending on the nature, durability, color and glazing (shiny or matte) are used in the lining of the surface of the wall in different rooms and outdoor living. Depending on the factors which will be exposed dopieramy them up to the room. Stack on the floor terracotta, tiles on the walls (the thinner and more fragile terracotta). In places where the cladding is exposed to noxious agents compose nieszkliwiony tiles, which is resistant to abrasion and little nasiąkliwy. Gres porcelain compose mainly for ornamental, both on the floor and wall, is usually glazed and has greater resistance to fracture than traditional tile or tiles. Clinker is a tile in different colors of undersized (custom) fields surface. Cotto is a plate in red and porous surfaces, some of them are very resistant to impact. For attaching the tiles to the surface most often used special adhesives.