For the repair of the bathroom, the tile is most often used. Today manufacturers of this material so much that the buyer is unlikely to feel that his choice is limited. Different textures, shapes, colors and sizes - everyone can choose a tile to their taste. Consider some subtleties of selection of this material, as well as a phased procedure for laying tiles under the bathroom.
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How to choose a tile
Today, there is a wide variety of tiles. Therefore, a malicious buyer is very difficult to choose something suitable. Another serious problem is to determine the desired number of tiles, i.e. Buy so much material as necessary for work. Sometimes, there is not enough tile to perform work, and you have to go back to the store. Sometimes overpaying and buy more than need. And the overpayment is serious. At least for this reason, buying a tile stands in large stores. After all, they often without any problems can take her remnants ago. In any case, it is better to buy a material more than necessary, because it is more complicated to determine how much you need to buy. Moreover, there is a chance that the store will not be replenished with the goods you need, and your repair may remain unfinished for a long time.
But buying a flap with an excess is also needed with the mind. Previously, make the necessary surface measurements that planned to bile. Material should be taken with a margin, but no more than 5% more. If you came to the store and chose the tile suitable for you, you will definitely ask the seller, in a sufficient amount it is available at the store. In general, choose the appropriate material better even before measurements, especially if you plan to use expensive goods. When you know the size of the desired tile, then take a piece of paper and schematically draw your bath plan. This plan should be deployed where each wall is depicted separately. At the same time, so that there are no errors in the calculations, it is important to observe the scale. Make the calculation not in square meters, but by the number of tiles. When the plan is ready, you can apply on the walls of the tile contours.
Unfortunately, rarely the size of the floor and walls are multiple tile size. Therefore (most often for the corners of the room) the material will have to cut. Mark the place on the plan for which the tile will be cut, while choose them in such a way that the cut tile is least noticeable. If you correctly calculate the plan, then you need to reduce the amount of cut-out material. When the plan is ready, you can calculate the required amount of tiles.
Preparation of the room
When all the necessary material is bought, proceed to the preparation of the room. First of all, it needs to be released from it. She will be very disturbed. In addition, be sure to break the valves with hot and cold water. Also, remove the plumbing with caution, especially if you do not plan to change it.
In the premises of the wall and the floor can already be lined with old tiles. This tile must be removed. For this purpose, the perforator installed in the shock mode is most suitable. But before starting work, this tool is desirable to beat off the lower tile manually, for example, by bit. Do not worry about the fact that some old tile will fall off with pieces of plaster and glue. This layer will have to be deleted anyway.
Methods of laying tile
Before dealing with the laying of the tile, it is necessary to take into account the methods of its laying, which there are several.
The easiest way is the direct laying, which is most suitable for novice.
In order to obtain a fairly spectacular outcome surface in a square form room, it is better to use diagonal laying. This method helps to disguise oblique surfaces, but the experience is required for it.
A classic option for laying the tile of two colors is the laying in the form of a chess pattern.
Another way to lay the laying with the displacement. In this case, each subsequent series of ceramic material places with some displacement in relation to the tile in the previous row. This option is well suited for use in rectangular premises.
The material can be put in the form of a mosaic from the tile of various sizes and colors. This is a rather difficult option requiring experience. At the stage of drawing up the plan, it is necessary to mark places on it, where inserts, borders and other decorative parts will be located. When drawing up a plan, it is necessary to strive to ensure that the doorways and in the corners have as few narrow strips of tiles as possible.
Tools and materials
For work we need glue for ceramic tiles. It is a dry mixture, diluted with water. You will also need a container in which you will prepare this glue. For mixing, you will need a drill. Even in the process of work, a construction level and a spatula with a tooth are needed. So that you can remove the excess glue, you will need a sponge. For cutting tiles - Bulgarian or tiles. The edges of the cut tiles will have to be calculated. For this you need a corundum bar. In addition, during the work, you will need to form seams between the tiles. For this purpose, there will be crosses from plastics. At the end of the repair it will be needed for the seams.
Waterproofing
In the process of laying tiles, such an element is important as waterproofing. Some who think about whether the tile is under the bathroom, it is underestimated and just ignored. But knowledgeable people recommend making waterproofing in any room where water supply and water supply are installed. After such work, you will protect the water from the flow of water, but also your neighbors.
Before installing the tile, you must apply a special waterproofing coating. As waterproofing, you can use protective materials that are applied using glue. Before applying a waterproofing layer, you need to treat the surface with the help of primer. It will provide good adhesion of the protective layer with the floor. Then you need to apply the waterproofing layer itself. There are several ways for this. One of them is a coating method of application. It is great, if only the floor needs to save from moisture. To do this, the dry mixture of the material is divorced by water until a homogeneous mass is obtained. When the mixture is ready, it should be applied to the floor to the floor with a special roller. In hard-to-reach places, the mixture should be applied to the spatula. In the joints, it is best to pave a waterproofing tape. Waterproofing should also be applied to the walls, taking into account the magnitude of the planned gender. The protective layer must be applied in several stages. After applying the next layer before applying the following, you need to wait five to six hours. After applying the last layer, leaving the finished floor for a day. Understanding the importance of waterproofing the floor should not cause the question to lay the tile under the bathroom.
There is also a painting method of waterproofing. This is a easier and convenient way, but less durable (service life up to five years). In this case, a special waterproofing emulsion is applied, applied to the working surface using a roller.
Paul alignment
For laying material on the floor, a high-quality screed is needed, which will ensure that the tile under the bathroom will be lying smoothly. In addition, further work is much easier to do when the surface is laid quite smoothly. Floor alignment is advisable to perform with the help of construction specials. In order for moisture to fall into hard-to-reach places, and so that it is not accumulated, the floor is best done under a slight bias. To do this, you can do around the perimeter of the walls of a horizontal level, and then attach guide rails.
When the screed is ready, you should pour the floor with a special leveling mixture, which you can buy in any construction store. There are some nuances when laying tiles on a wooden floor. The fact is that such a floor without a screed and waterproofing will last very long, because moisture will fall into it. Fill need to start from the far end of the room and gradually move towards the door. The solution needs to be distributed evenly. After the work performed, the floor should be left for three days so that he can dry completely. Before putting the tile under the bathroom, it is recommended to brand the working surface, which will improve the grip.
Laying tiles under the bath
- For laying floor, ceramic tile is usually used. Before sticking to the tile, it is advisable to start it just to lay and see how she will lie. Cut the tile will have in any case. Such a sliced \u200b\u200bmaterial is best distributed as close to the edge. To put the tile, it was smoothly easier, it is recommended during the tile fitting, using a conventional marker or chalk to read on the floor markup.
- Stage should be started from the far corner. For work used previously divorced special glue. This glue should be applied not to the tile, but on the floor with the help of a toothed spatula.
- Then the material is tightly pressed against the surface and is sprinkled through all edges with a hammer. This should strengthen its clutch with the floor. Between the tiles you need to pave special crosses that form the seams. In addition, you will need wedges, with which you can align the seams between the tiles. During operation, be sure to control the accurate laying using the construction level.
- During operation, remnants of glue will always appear, which need to be removed from the surface as quickly as possible until it is dry. Otherwise, you can complicate your work.
- When the main one-piece tiles were laid, you can cut the required amount of material using a stoveture or with a metal hacksaw. We put the sliced \u200b\u200btiles on the previously scheduled places. When the material is already tightly to the surface, seams should be seams using a sealing composition.
- After the tile is fully laid, it is necessary to wait about three days until the glue and grout dry completely. When everything dried, you need to wash the floor with a wet sponge, and then remove the excess of the sealing composition.
