If you know a friend who is renovating, you will often hear questions like this in your ears - "Hey, what do you think is the best choice for this tile? And how to install it to make it look good? What should I pay attention to?... ..." When it comes to decorating a house, the first person to be driven crazy may be the owner's friends...
However, having said that, choosing tiles is like fighting monsters and leveling up, one level after another. In summary, there are three costs: money, energy, and time. The effect may not be satisfactory yet, but once the ceramic tiles are cleared, sorry, it will be difficult to make the kitchen and bathroom look ugly.
So, today we will talk about ceramic tiles.
01 What should we do to deal with choice phobia? Which brick to choose?
This should be a headache for most people before buying bricks. When you go to the building materials market, you can hear various classifications of ceramic tiles: polished tiles, glazed tiles, glazed tiles, microcrystalline stone full-body tiles, antique tiles... Stop, stop, stop, I'm just a consumer!
Ceramic tile
In the past, a traditional ceramic tile had high water absorption, was cheap, smooth, and light. It was suitable for wet and easily dirty walls such as kitchens, bathrooms, and balconies. It was also called kitchen and bathroom tiles. However, it is not strong enough and less durable.
Full body brick
This kind of ceramic tile has good wear resistance and low slip resistance.wrong. However, the appearance is not high enough and the surface is relatively rough. It is often used on balconies and kitchens, and is less commonly used in bedrooms, living rooms and other places where appearance needs to be shown.
Polished tiles
After the surface of the full-body tiles is polished, it evolves into polished tiles. Polished tiles are very bright, have smooth surface, high hardness, and are not easy to scratch. They are suitable for living rooms and balconies, but they are easily contaminated, so they cannot be used in bathrooms and kitchens.
Glazed tiles
Glaze is applied to the surface of polished tiles and vitrified tiles, and a variety of beautiful colors are produced, that is, glazed tiles. Glazed tiles have a very good anti-slip effect and are suitable for kitchens and bathrooms. They come in many colors and have great appearance. But it is not wear-resistant, not hard enough, and the price is a little higher than polished porcelain vitrified tiles.
Small summary of tile sizes
After you have selected the tiles you like, you should also pay attention to the specifications of the tiles when buying:
Kitchen and balcony: choose 300*300 for small areas, 300*600 or 600*600 for large areas
Bathroom: usually choose 300*300 for the floor, and 300*300, 300*450, or 300*600 for the wall
Living room: Choose larger tile specifications, such as 800*800
Bedroom: The larger one is the same as the living room, you can choose 800*800, and the smaller one can be 600*600
02 If you have chosen the right tiles, how should you lay them to look good? p>
After buying beautiful ceramic tiles, how to lay them is another problem. If you only use the conventional paving method, it will look monotonous. To make it look good, the method is actually very simple. First, you need to choose a method of sticking that you want, and then match it with a seam sealant of a suitable color. Here are 12 sticking methods for reference.
Single tile paving method
● Diamond paving
The effect of 45° rotation based on the original paving. Please note that due to the later cutting, the loss will be slightly larger. It is recommended to buy a few more pieces for backup.
● I-shaped paving (brick-shaped paving)
The square I-shaped shop, which has become more popular in recent years, gives people the impression of more interesting lines compared to the main shop.
●Herringbone Shop
Two bricks are laid diagonally at 90 degrees. It will make the space look retro and elegant, and American style is used a lot.
Tips: The diagonal bricks can be of the same specifications but different colors, and the effect will be surprising.
● Fish bone shop
This type of tile requires wood grain tiles to be processed in advance before being laid. The laying is relatively labor-intensive, and the legendary master will strike. Good communication in the early stages of construction is very important.
PS: Divide the wood grain bricks into Group A & Group B. Please note that the cutting directions of the two groups are different.
● Hexagonal paving
With this tile laying method, the tiles laid out have a rich image and are much more beautiful than conventional large square tiles.
Paving methods of different tile sizes
● Windmill shape
Tiles of two or more different colors can be used to create a more retro paving method. Be sure to pay attention to square and rectangular dimensions. The long side of the rectangle must be twice the width, and the length of the side of the square must be the same as the width of the rectangle.
For example: For example, the size of two ceramic tiles is 300*600 and 300*300 (mm) can be combined to look like the picture above.
●Complementary position
A combination of square-sized tiles with one large and one small tile. There is no limit on the size of the two types of tiles. More suitable for exotic, American, and retro natural styles. A sticking method that is often seen in the American TV series The Big Villa.
● Woolen shape
The combination of two different specifications of square and rectangular is more suitable for a large space like the living room.
● Dot shape
Dot pattern may be a common paving method of different sizes, and the construction is not as complicated as others.
●Aisle shape
Two sizes of square tiles are combined into a corridor, which is more suitable for styles such as American style.
● Stage shape
The legendary Master's Strike series is a great test of the master's skills. When laying, large bricks need to be three times as large as small bricks.
● Hopscotch pattern
Although it looks simple, there are three ways to match the sizes of large and small bricks when paving them.
03
If you want to post it beautifully and neatly, What details need to be paid attention to?
● Paving method: The ceramic tiles should be laid in the order of wall tiles first and then floor tiles, and they should be laid from bottom to top.
● Soaking ceramic tiles in water: Ceramic tiles must be soaked in clean water for more than half a day before laying, as long as the brick body does not bubble, and then taken out to dry for later use.
● Leave seams in ceramic tiles: Ceramic tiles must be paved with seams, which can prevent the tiles from squeezing each other and causing a series of problems such as hollowing, deformation, cracking, and falling off. Usually the gap will be about 3mm.
● Hole processing for water pipes: After the tiles are laid, holes will be made on them, but the masters usually use rough methods, so that the holes made are curved; so when drilling, you should talk to the master and use Hole opener, he understood, the holes made in this way are neat and beautiful.
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