Ways of laying ceramic tiles - appliances for all occasions

Ways of laying ceramic tiles - consider subspecies

Stitching "seam in the seam" .This is the most popular way of facing surfaces. The tiles form perfectly flat horizontal and vertical rows. Alignment of vertical seams is carried out by plumb, and horizontal - by level.

Wall cladding "in the dressing" .Tiles of the first row are laid out in the usual way with leveling. The second row is laid out in such a way that the middle of each tile is located above the seam, which separates the two adjacent elements of the first row. Layout is carried out in horizontal rows.

Laying ceramic tiles on the diagonal .This type of work is considered the most difficult, as well as labor-intensive. Usually this method is used for facing large areas and has the effect of visual expansion of space. The entire surface prepared for laying is divided into rectangles or squares. Inside these squares is laid ceramic tile, distributed diagonally.

Laying ceramic tiles on a wooden floor is troublesome, but feasible.

Ceramic tiles can be used to coat concrete and brick surfaces, plaster and wooden substrates. Its features allow you to lay out to it all the surfaces in the house, i.e.and floors, and walls, and even ceilings.

You can often hear the question: how to lay ceramic tiles on a wooden floor ?To prepare the surface for laying and to realize the lining itself, you need to have such tools:

• parchment paper,
• mounting foam,
• construction level,
• screwdriver,
• screws,
• tile cutter,
• notched trowel,
• rubber hammer,
• liquid glue,
• sand, cement, expanded clay, as well as DSP or gypsum fiber sheet.

Laying ceramic tiles on a wooden floor requires the base to be sufficiently stiff and durable. Therefore, before laying, a thorough examination of the existing coating is carried out.

1. The structure of the wooden floor is divided into several layers: the actual flooring( parquet or linoleum), the substrate( chipboard or plywood), as well as the rough floor( these are the boards and logs).Most likely, after the inspection it will be found out that the old wooden coating with the substrate will have to be removed. The boards and logs remain as the basis for the new coating. But that they have served many more years, it is necessary to remove them and carefully treat them with a special protective impregnation. After drying, the lag must be placed on a substrate and set horizontally, using a long building level.
2. After this, the lag must be poured with fine expanded clay to the upper level and proceed to fixing the board. Lock the board to the lag followed by screws. The boards need to be adjusted in such a way that there is a gap of approximately 3 mm between them.
3. After installing the board, parchment paper is stretched on it, and a new substrate is installed on top of it, using a DSP or 20 mm thick gypsum fiber sheet. It is fixed by screws on the whole plane.
4. The joint of the floor and the wall is filled with foam. After that, the floor is primed and tiled with ceramic tiles.
5. Begin laying from the illuminated corner of the room, so that when further adjustment the trim remains in the shade. It is important to know: the lining of wooden surfaces with ceramic tiles is carried out only on cement glue. Since the glue dries up for a maximum of 30 minutes, it should be applied to a small area.
6. By carefully tapping the rubber hammer on the laid ceramic tiles, we achieve a close fit of the tiles to the substrate. At all stages of laying, you must constantly use the level to align the surface horizontally. To fix the defects of the facing of the tiler in stock only 10 minutes. Grout joints should be made after the cement glue has dried completely.

Laying of ceramic tiles on plasterboard - we will consider the features of

The tiling of ceramic tiles on plasterboard is carried out with a special cutter, notched trowel, construction level, crosses and a rubber hammer. The preliminary surface preparation includes:

• putty joints of plasterboard sheets,
• primer surfaces.

After all the preliminary work, you can proceed directly to the tiling. Construction materials stores offer a rich selection of special glue used for mounting on plasterboard from leading world manufacturers.

The adhesive mixture has a drying time of about 10 minutes, so it should be applied to small areas. Facing the tiles with plasterboard surfaces should be done at intervals. Having laid 5-6 rows, you need to take a break. This is necessary for starting the fixation of the first elements, which will equal all the others. Grout joints are carried out after the adhesive mixture has dried completely.

Laying ceramic tiles on the ceiling - what is important to know?

Laying of tiles on the ceiling is carried out by the same tools and using the same technology as the wall cladding. An important condition for this type of laying is simply a perfectly flat surface for the cladding. When facing the walls, the surface should be flat, but small deviations are allowed and evened out by the adhesive mixture during installation, but when working with the ceiling, alignment with the adhesive composition is unacceptable.this contributes to weighting the tiles and tearing it apart.

All work on surface preparation and facing this material is quite possible to perform independently without the involvement of a tiler from the side. It is enough to want very much, and everything will turn out.