Thanks to modern construction chemistry and the help of easy-to-use tools, gluing tiles is no longer a problem.
Over the past few years, tiling has developed into one of the most popular fields of activity for Seibermacher, alongside wallpapering and painting. This is mainly due to the trend towards individual design of the personal environment. The materials and tools are also easily available to the individual in specialist stores.
The right thing for everyone
The tiles- as well as the accessories industry have taken up this trend. The tile industry now offers such an extensive range of shapes, surface structures, colors and patterns, that deciding which tiles to use becomes almost the hardest part of tiling. When buying the tiles, however, the physical and technical requirements such as format and dimensional tolerances must also be taken into account, Sorting, Abrasion group and color number are taken into account. These quality standards are now standardized throughout Europe. Anyone who wants to design an individual tile pattern, can combine different formats and colors, however, the abrasion group and sorting of the tiles used should always match.
accessories and equipment
Also all for the Be- and processing necessary materials are now under construction- and home improvement stores. The assortment ranges from fillers and primers for the pre-treatment of the respective substrate to various tile adhesives to joint mortar and permanently elastic or permanently plastic joint sealants in different versions, colors adapted to the sanitary objects.
Professional tools
The first row must be exactly horizontal, it is decisive for the giant picture. Professionals use a batten for this, on the giant- and joint dimensions are marked exactly, and cut the plumb bob from it, or you place the first and last tile in a horizontal row and stretch the rubber tile cord between them.
set tiles
Tiles can be applied to any surface, Concrete, Putz, plasterboard or chipboard. It is only important, that he is clean, eben, is stable and evenly absorbent. Cracks and bumps must first be filled, Sanding or highly absorbent plaster surfaces and chips- and gypsum plasterboard walls should always be sealed off and solidified with an appropriate primer.
thin bed process
Inside the house, tiles are now almost exclusively laid using the thin-bed method. The tiles are completely in one 3 to 5 mm thick layer of adhesive inserted, evenly combed out with a notched trowel across the ribbing on the back of the tile.
The right glue
Choosing the right adhesive is important. It must be matched to both the substrate and the load. Cement-based tile adhesives are only to be used on solid surfaces such as concrete or screed, since they create a rigid connection between the wall and the tile. Elastic dispersions must be used on all deformable substrates- or hydraulic sealing adhesives can be used. They compensate for movements of the ground, without affecting the adhesive power. For walls, which are only exposed to humidity in the form of water vapor or occasional splashes, a dispersion adhesive is sufficient, However, an absolutely watertight bond is required, like on the floor of a shower cubicle, a hydraulic elastic adhesive must be used.
tile edges
The tile edges are usually not glazed or only glazed irregularly. Use special edge tiles or paint the edges with special glaze paint in the color of the giant.
The right grout
Humidity and warmth create ideal living conditions for fungi and bacteria, if they find an organic breeding ground at the same time, such as cement-bound joint mortar. For this reason, only fungicides should be used in damp rooms, Glutos. h. anti-fungal joint compounds and sealants can be used. The permanently elastic sealing compounds are now available in almost all common sanitary colors, so that the connection joints match the sanitary objects as well as the tile joints.