The Origin Of Antique Tiles

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Antique tiles evolved from glazed tiles and glazed ceramic tile is in essence. Compared with the ordinary glazed tile, the differences are mainly shown above in the glaze color, antique tiles belong to ordinary ceramic tile, and the disk is basically the same; the only difference is in the firing process, antique wall technical content is relatively high, and through many kinds of production processes, with high strength, waterproof, anti-skid, corrosion resistance and easy cleaning features.

What is called “antique” refers to the color, pattern and effect of wall tiles. Antique wall pattern with wood, imitation stone, imitation leather; there are imitation plants flowers, geometric patterns, imitation imitation fabric, imitation wallpaper, imitation metal etc.. After firing, the pattern can be soft cast, half cast and full cast. The design patterns and colors of antique wall tiles are the most colorful of all ceramic glazed tiles.

Antique wall to calm, elegant, simple, natural, quiet beauty, the antique wall inside the building in reincarnation people into another old world and memories.

Decoration Must See Tile Knowledge

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decoration must see tile knowledge

Diagonal ratio dimension

Two pieces of the same kind of brick face to face overlap, four corners aligned, rotating one of the four sides of the same size is always good. This method is especially suitable for glazed tile inspection.

Check the flatness

Two pieces of the same kind of brick face to face overlap, four corners alignment, rotating one of the pieces, easy to turn, poor quality, and vice versa. This method can not be used to detect antique brick. The remarkable feature of archaize brick is the arbitrary change of surface color and pattern, and the surface can be uneven.

Look at the water absorption rate

The size of water absorption is an important sign of tile quality. When a small cup of water is poured on the back of the brick, the faster the water disappears, the higher the water absorption rate is, the looser the texture is and the weaker the strength is.

Look at the smoothness

This is an important indicator of the quality of polished tiles. Clean the surface of the polished tile with soft cloth or reagent. Put it in the light or sunlight, and see the angle of 45 degrees. The brighter the surface, the better.

Ceramic Tile Selection Is Critical

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How to choose polished tiles?

Diagonal ratio dimension

Two pieces of the same kind of brick face to face overlap, four corners aligned, rotating one of the four sides of the same size is always good. This method is especially suitable for glazed tile inspection.

Check the flatness

Two pieces of the same kind of brick face to face overlap, four corners alignment, rotating one of the pieces, easy to turn, poor quality, and vice versa. This method can not be used to detect antique brick. The remarkable feature of archaize brick is the arbitrary change of surface color and pattern, and the surface can be uneven.

Look at the water absorption rate

The size of water absorption is an important sign of tile quality. When a small cup of water is poured on the back of the brick, the faster the water disappears, the higher the water absorption rate is, the looser the texture is and the weaker the strength is.

Matters needing attention

The kitchen is a place to smoke more, choose white tiles will feel more difficult to clean up, but as an open kitchen and should not choose a dark color tiles, the yellow tiles, and the kitchen can not only good color collocation into a color, but also around the bar and the colors of the tiles echoes the overall design, special care.

The floor of the living room walls and ceiling even curtains all blend into one harmonious whole, are the same, the owner looks really in color collocation on the next work, the overall feeling generous, noble, giving a strong visual aesthetic, but the drawback is that the floor is too smooth, but clean up would be more trouble, have children or the elderly you must pay attention to slip.

Introduction Decoration Choose Wood Floor Or Tile

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A few reasons why we love wood flooring

Natural wood gives a natural sense of texture, comfort and beauty, and has the advantages of so-called “upper grade”. If the room with wooden floor, not only comfortable, but also can greatly reduce the impact of sound on the floor of the room warm and quiet.

Wood floors are more “gentle”, and if there is an old man and a child falling down, it is not easy to walk. It will cause great harm, but if it is tile, it will fall more serious.

Wood floor defects

The wood floor is nice, but it needs more care. The wooden floor is influenced by the weather and moderate flooding effect, easy deformation curl up; need to wax regularly maintenance; easy to be sharp objects; composite wood flooring and formaldehyde release; compared to the shorter life of wooden floor tiles.

Two, preference tile reason

Now tile obvious advantages are: easy maintenance, simple maintenance, not easy to hide, no air pollutants, long service life, generally will not be scratched, and so on. If you’re more comfortable, choose the magnetic ring. Tile size, color is also very rich, decorative effect and wooden floor effect comparable, easy to care, just sweep, wipe clean.

Several defects of ceramic tile

Comfort is poor, tile cold, foot feels stiff, not warm; poor insulation insulation; ceramic tile paving complex and fussy construction; in the wet season is easy to slip.
Can be used in accordance with the requirements of different regions, the use of both, such as kitchen, bathroom are tiled walls, bedroom, living room, floor wood flooring, to play both advantages.
Do you have the answer to the choice of flooring? Whether it’s wood floor or tile floor, the right one is the best. You can choose according to your actual situation.

Introduction: Master Living Room Tiles Raiders Home Life More Enjoyable

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Living room skirting board

Simplicity and fluency are forever themes. The concept of metaphysics and parquet are outdated superfluous. The skirting line is to be done, because the general wall paint, and paint and ground connecting parts often with the living room furniture feet and foot contact, easy to get dirty and damaged, and the use of a baseboard with tiles made to avoid this problem, and make the room more beautiful. The upper end of the foot line shall be ground to 1/4 or 45 degrees, and the machined surface shall be polished.

Tile color selection

Indoor requirements are spacious and bright, so that people feel relaxed and comfortable. So the light is appropriate, such as white, beige, color or pattern can be slightly, to high health requirements for the master, select solid color can better reflect the owner’s elegant, but to spend more time and energy, because the pure dirty, need frequent cleaning, for those busy, willing to spare time on the Internet, sleep and other aspects of the owners, the best choice with patterns or particles of ceramic tile.

Selection of tile material

Choose vitrified stone is better, because it is wear-resisting, bright, easy to clean. Some people like to use antique brick, antique brick color rich, reflecting the personality, but the color is often heavier, cleaning is also a certain degree of difficulty. Stone is best not used, because not only the high cost of stone, the color of a single, but most of the stone radioactive, surface finish and abrasion resistance is also very low. They are often used in large public places.

Selection of polished tiles

If the living room area of more than 30 square meters, 80*80 should be less than the brick, area under 60*60 standards, but not less than 40*40. Large size can make the room spacious and spacious, with a wide view. But the large size tiles if the shop is stuck in a small area on the ground, will make the size of the room collocation uncoordinated, like a man wearing an oversized clothes, on the other hand, if a large area of paving the small ceramic tiles, will appear crowded indoor complex.

How To Handle The Problem Of Water Seepage Of Toilet Ceramic Tile Seam?

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Toilet ceramic tile seam seepage how to do? Believe this is the problem that many family toilet is more likely to happen.Cause there are many kinds of situations, ceramic tile water seepage or ceramic tile is of poor quality, or is laid with the quality of the lead to have crack, moreover is the water pipe and the place of ceramic tile mating seal does not reach the designated position, etc. So how to solve toilet ceramic tile water seepage? Let’s take a look at the solution to the water seepage of bathroom tiles:

Water seepage situation of toilet tile seam: the waterproof layer has a problem
If the situation it is ceramic tile must be removed to the wall to the waterproof layer, see the inner wall is preferred, then blow be bored with child again, to do the waterproof layer to metope, then shop sticks ceramic tile, general this kind of method is more complex, so suggest to check clear.
Water seepage condition of the water in the bathroom tile: water seepage caused by rupture of water pipe
This kind of situation, it needs to be check was carried out on the water pipe on the test, to see whether there is leaking water, if it is because water pipe broken, need to immediately find leaks, open the wall to replace the water pipe.


Water seepage condition of bathroom tile seam 3: damp and caused by the wall seepage water
Just need to pay more attention to the ventilation and cleaning in the bathroom daily.
Water seepage situation of toilet tile seam 4: ceramic tile gap is not good
First of all, it is necessary to fill the cracks with cement or filler, and then make a waterproof layer.

The Choose And Buy Method Of Balcony Tiles

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The balcony is the only extension of the house to the outdoor part, it is not only the best place for drying clothes, but also our busy life in a rare square of pure land. So how should we choose the balcony tiles?


1. Style selection
Now residents housing area is bigger and bigger, small size ceramic tile can not meet the requirements of household, indoor metope ceramic tile of general with 250 x 360 mm size is relatively common, sitting room ground brick is generally not less than 500 x 500 mm, if sitting room area is more than 40 square meters, the floor tile specification requirement is larger.
2. Color selection
Because of the balcony light is bright, especially some bearing better balcony, plus the balcony is to rest and cool clothes in the bedroom, need to be relaxed atmosphere, therefore in the balcony had better choose more shallow the color of the tiles, for example, light yellow, white, rice white, shallow black, etc. But it is not suitable for deep color, such as big red, dark brown etc.
3. Ceramic tile size
For small ceramic tile of the person you like, the balcony of a strip, can choose a small balcony to laying brick, brick or buy large balcony through the modification is allowed, as long as according to the length and width of the balcony, it is good to follow the laid, on the other hand, because the area of the balcony is original is not very big, small space to choose ceramic tile can foil more space dimension sense, like a fat man is suitable for vertical stripes clothes don’t look fat, thin people wear suitable for horizontal stripes appear thin is not a reason, so choose ceramic tile size small balcony is ok.

How Does Ceramic Tile Spread Stick Relatively Firm?

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How should ceramic tile put up? It might seem simple, but it’s not. Should pay attention to all sorts of the skill of tiling and the use of auxiliary material, ability lets ceramic tile affixed more firmly, the surface is more beautiful. Today come with ceramic mesh to study together, ceramic tile laid how to be more secure.

1.Avoid ceramic tile water absorption rate excessive choose ceramic tile, need key check the water absorption rate of ceramic tile. Drop the water on the back of the tile to see how fast the water will soak. In the same way, the slower the absorption, the greater the density of the tile.
2.Avoid the tiling of the tile on the back of the tile to fit tightly with the wall, and the back of the tile will generally be designed. When the grain is deep, it can ensure that the tile and cement mortar layer will not fall off when it happens.
3.Sand is best chosen for sand and sand, the deployment of the cement mortar strength is higher, but if the strength is too high, can also lead to some bad results, such as using the leveling the ground will be cracking.


4.The base that tiling tile should be handled well to avoid ceramic tile empty drum, the metope of tile shop first, ground floor must deal with clean. Be sure to remove all kinds of dirt on the wall, and mention the water wet
5.When the cement mortar needs to be plump and evenly mixed with the back of the blade of the cement mortar, it should be noted that the cement mortar should be full and even and not cut corners.
6.Set aside 2-5mm expansion joints for tile tiling. If there is not enough expansion joint, under the action of thermal shock expansion or moisture expansion, the stress can occur between adjacent tiles, causing the empty drum to fall off.

How To Pave Kitchen Tile?

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First, choose suitable tiles

The kitchen space is damp and easy accumulation of dust, oil, so in the choice of floor tiles, to choose the anti oil, good antiskid performance of the ceramic tile, kitchen space are generally not very large, so the tile specification is best not more than 300 X 300 mm, so as to better grasp in laying usage.

Second, how to pave the floor tiles

Is the rate calculated tile loss to do first before the renovation, usually based on three percent of the loss rate calculation is the most appropriate, when planning the first estimated dosage materials and the amount of auxiliary materials, usually calculated as amount of tiles: the number of housing area, floor area +3%= tiles needed, and auxiliary materials per square tiles probably need to use sand, 12.5 kg of white cement 108 glue and 34 kg.

Third, old brick renovation

If the house or second-hand housing renovation of the kitchen, remember that destroyed the original tiles, re do waterproof layer, under normal circumstances, when the original tile does not appear to damage, the owners may wish to consider the reservation, which is equivalent to saving a lot of overhead. If the tiles have been damaged, or the surface of serious wear and tear, stains are, they will be removed, re laying. If the floor tile basically intact, don’t be replaced, but it must be pointing at all clean, this is because the tiles are used for a long time, the seams accumulated too much bacteria or stains.

Kitchen And Toilet Ceramic Tile, How Should Choose Better?

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Ceramic tile of choose and buy not only depends on its beautiful appearance, if only judging from beautiful degree tend to ignore the immanent quality of ceramic tile, once the quality is unqualified, caused of repair, water in the future, it is regret that quality is the life of ceramic tile products.The quality of ceramic tile is good or bad, want to see content of three aspects commonly: wear-resisting degree, absorb water, hardness. According to the use of ceramic tile and place is different, the range of choice is more extensive. Kitchen and toilet, because use frequency is taller, so need to choose wear-resisting degree relatively high, compared with our ordinary family, choose wear-resisting degree is in moderate to be able.

The wear-resisting degree of ceramic tile will be marked on the top of the price tag, or carefully ask the salesperson, understand the quality, also be the source of important information. According to the kitchen ceramic tile is afraid of oil pollution, the principle of ceramic tile is afraid of water, toilet when choosing the kitchen ceramic tile, often want to consider the water absorption of ceramic tile, if the ceramic tile with low water imbibition, its density of ceramic tile is taller, also to have some stains and water barrier. Especially in the environment of the bathroom, low water absorption can ensure that ceramic tile does not overexpand and produce deformation. It is very simple to judge the high and low water absorption rate of tile, as long as it drops a drop of water on the back of the tile of the sample, and observe whether it can absorb rapidly.


Hardness is also an important factor of ceramic tile quality. High quality ceramic tile general hardness is high, the toughness is strong, not easily broken. The inner quality of tile can be checked by tapping the debris. The two tiles are lightly tapped. If the brick’s voice is crisp and the sound of some metal indicates that the inner quality is very good and the hardness is high; If the sound is hoarse, the inside of the brick may have a crack, the hardness is not high.
Randomly to produce four specifications as ceramic tile, flat to the ground, the middle gap as small as possible, if it is tile must use four pieces to piece together a complete pattern, if relatively flat, when work that shows ceramic tile more conform to the specifications. The advantages and disadvantages of bricks are sometimes not easy to judge, especially when buying now, they are on board, inconvenient to pick off and compare carefully.