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Tiling – tips to floor tiles
When the floor tiles, there are some things you should note, from planning to implementation, so that afterwards he just, accurate and bomb-resistant.
Map of the tiles
Before you even put the first tile, you should think about how you will lay the tiles. Measure calibrated by measuring tape or ruler to measure the flowing space as accurately as possible and passing them on millimeter paper. Then you draw a the plates on paper, also exactly as possible. Think also of the joints!
Preparing the ground
The soil should be as level as possible. If he does not threaten, then the one to break the tiles (if it dings and dents in the ground is), and furniture are wrong (when the ground is not level right). In addition, the adhesive has naturally less attack surface if the soil is covered with small hills, so the tiles are loose, of course.
Also be sure that the floor is absolutely clean before tiling. Dirt, oil and grease to prevent the adhesive is liable as it should and can therefore lead to loose tiles, behind only the cause problems.
Procedure for Tiles
Drag a guideline through the middle of the room, at right angles to one of the walls. Catch, depending on how you have painted your plan, either with a whole tile directly under the line or with a joint just below the line.
Thus, the overall picture is pretty evenly, as stop on both sides of the wall tiles in the same way (cut or whole, depending on the room, tiles and joints have been defined).
Tile cutting
I recommend you to borrow a professional tile cutter from the hardware store. There is even no, but depending on the available tools and technical skills it could go many of the (perhaps expensive) tiles reason or cause unsightly cut edges, which you are angry at the end only.
If you start in the middle with the guide and place from where all the tiles, then you should eventually be gotten to the point where all whole tiles are laid, and only missing the cut.
At this time there is serious sense, the cutting device to lend. If you do it, you’ll save a lot of money compared to the normal Leihverhalten when you buy the device too early and have it lying around then only for 2 hours before using it.