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August 12, 2017 18:08

Granite tiles - beauty, frozen for centuries

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Granite tiles - briefly everything

Tiles made of granite is made of solid stone, and is divided into three types.

  1. Polished tiles .Used for facing buildings and for laying indoors.
  2. Tile-rock .It named so because its outer surface is made of torn and really like a rock structure.It is used for the exterior cladding of buildings.
  3. Sidewalk .It has high thickness (3 cm).To that its surface is not slippery, its specially treated with a high temperature are manufactured by splitting.

The advantages of this material include high strength, wear resistance, high resistance to aggressive environments and, as a result of all this, the great life of the coating.Also draws attention to the rich appearance of the cladding material, because it is made of natural stone, and so no granite tiles under them can not be replaced.

main disadvantage of this type of finish is a big thickness tiles (3 cm), implying their great weight, resulting in to the building structure with facing of this material are increased requirements, but must be strong manufacturing base for paving slabs.

Technology laying granite tiles - you need to know?

To lay the foundation should be carefully prepared (well-done plaster or mortar).We need the hammer, a Bulgarian, a special tile cutter for granite, bubble level, trowel and a special adhesive for granite tiles.

When installing granite paving slabs will require the following tools: a rule, spirit level, rubber mallet, a special cutter, tamping.

Technology laying granite tiles on the vertical surface is as follows.First, on a pre-primed substrate with a special puncher screws being targeted reinforcing steel galvanized wire mesh.

then at the height equal to the height of the cell used minus 3-5 cm, are targeting the level of a wall plug-nails straight bar size 2x4 cm. It will be the base for the bottom line and not allow the imbalance in future.

Next notched trowel to apply adhesive to the base tile is laid and is made by tapping it with a rubber mallet to ensure better adhesion to the substrate.For welds plastic crosses are used of the same thickness, which are inserted between the elements.

draw attention to the fact that the tiles have to lie in the same plane, which plaster rule periodically presses simultaneously several tiles both horizontally and vertically.The latter, after removal of the primary bar, put the bottom row of tiles, cutting it with a special cutter.

Tiles made of granite - take into account the peculiarities of

Granite tile floor fit the above method, except for the use of the start bar.

Paving slabs of granite laid follows.Primarily on the basis of the bedding is scattered sand thickness of 20 cm with a desired slope and then rammed it.

Then, using as a beacon iron pipes, exposed finish plane.Then pour the sand on beacons (but not more than 5 cm), and gently pritrambovyvaetsya covered by 3-5 cm layer of dry grout.Next

taken out of the pipe and should be laying paving slabs.When using a rubber mallet tamp protruding from the edge of the common plane and the track conditions to neighboring elements tightly jointed with each other.

laying granite tiles requires great physical strength and before to do this yourself, you need to soberly assess their level of physical fitness.

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