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What should you do before lay a ceramic or porcelain tiles?

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Laying a ceramic or porcelain tile floor can be considered a daunting task, but with adequate planning and preparation, this perception can be overcome. Laying one’s own marble tile is also much less expensive (and possibly more rewarding) than having it professionally installed. Cost can be minimized by careful planning and preparation.

Laying the foundation. An unpleasant question to be faced is “What is your floor made up of?” Plywood is good. But, if you have the typical 1/2″ to 5/8″ particle board on top of a deck made of 2x8s, you have some work to do. After removal of the base trim, the particle board should be pulled up (this is easiest if you first cut it into about 16″ squares)and replaced by plywood. You will need a Skil saw, and if you’re doing the kitchen, you’ll need a “toe-kick saw.” Replace the particle board up to where the tiles design will stop. While you have the particle board off, you can inspect the deck to make sure it is firmly attached to the floor joists. Now you’re ready for leveling compound (if needed).

Lay the backer board. You will need to lay backerboard (fiberglass or preferably cement sheets that are usually 3 by 5 feet) as well, or the wood tiles will pop off. Evaluate the space to be tiled. A first phase of evaluation is to determine the size of the room to be tiled (or re-tiled). The number of cement tiles you will need will depend on the size of the tiles price you wish to lay, as well as the bathroom tile pattern you will like on the floor tiles. Using a tape measure or digital laser tape, measure the room from one wall to the opposite wall, and note the distance. Let’s say the measure of this distance is 12 feet (3.7 m). Measure the distance of the opposing walls to each other. Let’s say this distance is 7 feet (2.1 m). Multiplying these 2 distances (12 feet x 7 feet) will yield a total area of 84 square feet.

These measurements are based on squared dimensions. If the room is not perfectly “squared” (or in this case “rectangle”) because of an irregular marble floor tiles plan (where there might be a small section off of one side, for example), do not factor this space into your measurement. While you will of course need to tiles this space, factoring this space into your measurements will affect finding the “center” of the room, which will be discussed shortly. This area is important to note, since it will provide you with an estimate of the number of tiles you will need to purchase to cover the area to be tiled.

Decide on your tiles size and pattern. Tiles come in different sizes: 4 inch (10.2 cm) by 4 inch (10.2 cm), 8 inch (20.3 cm) by 8 inch (20.3 cm), 12 inch (30.5 cm) by 12 inch (30.5 cm), for example (there are others, too). Tiles can also be laid in different patterns. The total number of wood marble tiles you will need will depend on the size and pattern you want. For simplicity’s sake, let’s assume we are going to use 12 inch (30.5 cm) by 12 inch (30.5 cm) tiles and use a traditional grid design, where tiles are simply laid in pattern like graph paper.

Because the area of the room is 84 square feet, we will need about 84 12 inch (30.5 cm) x 12 inch (30.5 cm) (1 square foot) tiles (even accounting for the spaces in between tiles, known as “joints”). However, it is a good rule of thumb for beginners to purchase extra tiles to account for improperly cut or scored tiles, or for breakage. Buy an extra pack or two of tiles to be safe. When laying tiles diagonally, a lot of material is wasted as cutoffs. A good rule of thumb here, even for experts, is to buy 15% more tiles than the square footage would dictate.

Ceramic Tile And Decoration Style Must Match With Ceramic Tile Coup

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Decoration style and ceramic tile Collocation: 1, fashion simple style

Fashion minimalist style is now the most common style of home decoration, its characteristics are simple and lively, practical and generous, in the design layout is based on simplicity. This style collocation tile should be as far as possible to choose the color elegant simple color tiles, polished tiles color is very good.

Decoration style and ceramic tile Collocation: 2, Mediterranean style

Mediterranean style has always been dominated by romance, in the tone of blue, white, yellow and other colors, the Mediterranean style decoration with tiles should be sub light antique tiles, mosaics and other tiles most suitable.

Decoration style and ceramic tile Collocation: 3, modern European style

Modern European style both European style and modern fashion sense, so in the choice of tiles, white marble, such as shallow imitation marble tiles, imitation marble texture, imitation stone tile is the best choice.

Decoration style and ceramic tile Collocation: 4, classical European style

Not many in China love classical European style family, but there are also people who love the atmosphere of classical European style luxury, so the choice of soft color, uniform texture, delicate, light imitation stone tiles in the classical European style decoration, color should not be too deep not shallow, the best is yellow or light brown mid tone.

Decoration style and tile Collocation: 5, pastoral style

Pastoral style emphasizes the return to nature, reflect the nature’s vicissitudes and the ancient sense of reality, the tiles can choose to wood texture color wood tile or antique brick, wood effect, reflect a kind of elegant decoration style.

Decoration style and ceramic tile Collocation: 6, mix and match style

Mix and match style is generally more pursuit of individuality, so tile collocation can casually, if is more simple style in tile collocation can be selected on a light coloured, this time can be a slight exaggeration, color collocation a little complicated imitation stone tiles, can make the entire space not because unity is simple and empty.

Home Furnishing tile decoration in the selection is a technical work, to carry out collocation according to their Home Furnishing decoration style, different style tile selection collocation is different, so in the choice of ceramic tile on everyone to pay attention to their own Home Furnishing decoration style, if you are blind to buy when buying tiles and do not consider the style of decoration, the last the whole family decoration effect will be very bad.

Mix Modern Bricks And Create Fashionable Space

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Modern antique brick is a nostalgic expression

Modern antique brick is a kind of natural and antique to a nostalgic state of performance, so that the entire space to create an antique flavor. The modern antique brick has several basic characteristics, is a modern antique brick reflects a natural taste in color; it is two in the color does not like other products so bright, reflect a kind of introverted cultural atmosphere, it will create a cultural atmosphere of the space; three is difficult to mold process get the biggest play in other products, but in the antique brick body can use many sophisticated technology to the performance.

Create space for fashion petty bourgeoisie

Modern Antique brick is suitable for all sorts of collocation. For example, Italy has adopted the most popular blank design in China, using metal edging to close edges, while forming a mashup on the material. Through the mix, the entire space will not be like the whole shop tiles are not so rigid, pixel tiles so dull, this mix of jumping the whole spatial sense of fashion and young feeling very well, but also with a little taste of the petty bourgeoisie, is by domestic designers.

Mix modern Antique brick, create fashionable space

The modern antique brick in color and features, suitable for collocation in the family bathroom, living room, balcony and other places, will create a simple and pure feeling, is currently in the domestic popular style tiles.

The History 0f Mosaic

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People will not be unfamiliar with the Mosaic, as early as the early 1980s, many families laid toilet walls and ground materials. Mosaic is one of the oldest known decorative arts. It is a pattern created using small tiles or small ceramic tiles. In modern times, Mosaic is more of a kind of ceramic tile.

Early Greece: the most commonly used Mosaic of black and white to match each other. Only the authoritative ruler and the rich and rich can afford to be artisans and purchase materials to express this luxurious art.
Late Greece: artists enrich their work in a more diversified way, and they start to need smaller pieces of gravel and cut small stones themselves to complete a Mosaic.
Roman period: mosaics have been developed widely, and the floors and walls of general homes and public buildings are decorated with it.


The golden age of mosaics came from early christians who came to Rome and were persecuted and could only party in the basement and other passageways. Since most people are illiterate, the walls of these basements have glass Mosaic frescoes describing Jesus Christ’s story.

Which Kind Of Tile Is Bathroom Floor Tile Good?

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The floor of the bathroom should be paved with low water absorption tiles. Because the ground will often wash with a lot of water, so that tiles can not be affected by water vapor, do not absorb stains.

1, pay attention to the anti slip tiles, toilet skid resistance is important, especially when there are old people and children at home, Matt brick has imitation of natural rock concave convex feeling, and excellent anti-skid, suitable for humid environment.

2, select tile low water absorption, in general, high quality tiles, water absorption rate is very low, so that it can soon dry. If the ceramic tile does not indicate the water absorption rate, may use the tea or the water drop in the ceramic tile’s back, after several minutes inspects the water droplet the diffusion degree, the more does not absorb water, namely expresses the bibulous rate to be low, the quality is better.

3, the choice of tiles, texture density, and when you buy Tiles, you can observe the brick surface from the side is smooth, whether the uneven thickness of the pinhole. At the same time, you can tap the tiles to listen to whether the sound is crisp, the more brittle the sound, indicating that the tiles of high density of texture, hardness better.

Welcome To Barana international Ltd.

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The important function of household is wei yu space. Want to make the bathroom is full of strong sense of design, need to pay attention to skills like makeup. Use hexagon floor tile to create personal characteristics the style of the bathroom. Overall collage, local ornament, or mixed color is tie-in, if colour is applied proper, can change the atmosphere of whole space that defend bath.


In rectangular space that defend bath, the hexagon floor tile color piece collage large area shakedown stick metope and ground, extends the space, make whole space. In a narrow strip, bouncing color piece to create a concise and lively, but creative style. The shop is stuck is not subject to the constraints of conventional brick, provides the combination point on the surface of the line.


Mosaic rich color for the space added a third dimension, with new Mosaic composed perfect combination gray hexagon floor tile, broke the past waist line design and conventional full-page monotonous colors.