Good afternoon, visitors to the construction portal StroyDay.ru. Today I want to talk with you about the decoration of the wall with decorative tiles in a structure resembling a brick. The idea to decorate the walls in the apartment with decorative tiles has appeared for a long time already, but I have not had time to implement the plan, as it always was. But long weekend took their own and I began to realize what I had planned. In this article I will try to tell you how I made the walls with decorative stone( tiles) in my apartment.
How to trim the wall with decorative stone
Preparatory work for
Before you begin the work on wall finishing, the wall must first be leveled. In my previous article in detail it is written, how to level the walls in the apartment without using beacons. So, when the walls are leveled, they must be primed.
Please note that you need to level the walls with the finish coat. As a finishing coat, you can use plaster - Vetonit, which is perfect as a base for a brick.
Finishing plaster must be primed, for best adhesion to the decorative tile and only after the primer to begin decorating the wall.
Putty finishing
Video - laying decorative tile for brick on the wall
Step-by-step instruction - how to trim the wall with decorative tiles( decorative stone)
- The first thing you need to do is choose a tile. My choice fell on a tile under a brick called Casavaga. This tile( decorative stone) looks quite presentable, and also looks like a real brick covered in plaster. In addition, it is easily glued on. The weight of 1 tile is only 20 grams, accordingly it is not fastidious to the glue on which it will be mounted to the wall.
The choice of decorative stone
The cost of this tile is about 600 rubles per square meter. What is not expensive for a decorative stone of this quality. Below are a few more varieties of decorative tiles Casavaga.
Varieties of decorative stone
- So the tile is chosen. The next one is the choice of glue, as I already noted earlier to the choice of glue, Casavaga tiles are not demanding. Therefore we will use not expensive, but nevertheless an excellent glue named Bergauf.
Adhesive for decorative tiles
- The process of decorating a wall with decorative tiles is very simple. Initially, we mix the glue and wait about 5-7 minutes for the glue to stick to the desired consistency and gain its gluing qualities.
We build glue for tiles in a bucket with water
- Is the glue ready?the next step will be - is the choice of the method of gluing the tiles. There are several ways: with seams and without seams. You can see a sample of the tile with the seams on the picture above, but in my opinion the seamless tile looks much better so I chose the second option. So we put a thin layer of glue from the bucket with a spatula on the wall.
- When the glue is applied to the wall, we begin to apply glue to the tile.
Apply glue to the tile
- The next step is to glue the tiles on the wall. Begin to advise from above, tk.on top there will be more notices of the installation of pieces of tile and the skirting to hide is not always possible.
Begin to glue the tile on top of the wall
- To ensure that the decorative tile is glued without any obvious distortions, draw the horizontal guides on the wall using a pencil. In the future, we balance the slope of the series with ceramic tiles with the help of a building level.
The process of gluing the decorative tile to the wall
- The holes for the sockets and switches are carefully cut with a hacksaw or a torch and pasted in the area of the switch / socket.
The wall is trimmed with decorative tiles - the final version of the
This is all, as you see in the decoration of the wall with decorative tiles, there is nothing complicated. The only thing you need to stock up is the amount of tiles( I needed 5 boxes per 1 wall).If you liked my lesson I'm looking forward to likes and reposts in social networks. See you.
