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How Securing the Buff Floors Area?

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Remove movable items from the floor being buffed. Place these items in a separate room or hallway. Moving these items allows you to buff the area under and around them. Otherwise, it will be very difficult for you to get an even shine. Keep in mind that a buffer is a bulky machine that can easily damage items that it bumps into, and it’ll be harder for you to buff the area around the items in the room if you don’t remove them.


Block off the area to prevent people from slipping on the wet floor. This will also help protect your freshly buffed floor from getting dirty while you’re still working. Tell other people living in your home or those who are in your place of business that the floor will be wet for the next several hours.


If you moved large items from the room, you can always use these as a blockade to help keep people out. Simply position them along the entrance to the room. If you’re cleaning a commercial floor, put up “Caution” or “Wet Floor” signs for added safety.

Place your pets in a safe location if you’re buffing the floor of a home. Pets can get in the way of the buffer and may dirty your floor. You don’t want to accidentally buff pet fur into your floor, as you won’t be able to remove it once it’s buffed into the finish. Put your pets in a separate room and shut the door.


Alternatively, you can place your pets in their kennel if they already use one. Your pets will likely be afraid of the buffer, so keeping them out of the way will save them a lot of stress!

How Stripping the Old Finish?

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Buy a floor stripping solution suitable for your floor. Having determined what type of finish is on your floor by following the instructions for Preparing the Floor, buy a stripping solution that will remove that type. Also make sure the stripping solution is safe to use on hardwood, or whichever material your floor is made from.


If you can’t find a product that specifically matches the type of finish previously used on your floor, try out a “universal” floor stripping solution on a small corner of your floor to test it. Either vacuum or sweep your floor with a dust mop or broom. Remove all dust and debris from the area using a dust mop if you have one, or a broom if not. Put on clean footwear afterward to prevent further dust from getting on the floor.


Use safety gear. Chemicals in the solution can be dangerous to the skin or create toxic fumes. Work in a well ventilated area and protect yourself with gloves, long sleeves and pants. Use goggles and a respirator mask for large stripping jobs or poorly ventilated areas. The respirator mask should be labeled as an organic vapor blocker.


Line a bucket with a trash bag and fill with stripping solution. A heavy duty trash bag allows for easy cleanup and lets you use the bucket for other purposes later. Follow the instructions on the floor stripping solution to determine how much you need, and whether to dilute the solution with water. Have a mop ready.


The trash bag is especially essential for mop buckets, since you don’t want to later clean your floor with residual floor stripping solution. A “strip mop” is a specialized mop that will do a more effective job, but any mop will do. Fill a second bucket with clean water and a second mop. You don’t have much time to apply and remove the stripping solution, so it’s important to have a second mop handy for cleaning up. The first mop will be too saturated with stripping solution to use for cleaning purposes.

How Preparing the Wax Floor?

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Determine whether the floor has already been treated. You may want to wax a floor that has already been treated, since these surfaces do wear down and get dirty eventually. First, find out which type of product was used: natural ones called wax, or synthetic ones called finish. If the previous owner is unable to tell you, you’ll need to examine the floor yourself:


If the floor is not shiny or glossy, and you can feel the original material with your finger, it has not been treated. Wipe a small section of the floor with a cloth dipped in mineral spirits or paint thinner. If the cloth turns yellow or brown, your floor has been waxed. If the cloth does not pick up any residue, your floor has been finished.


Choose a wax or finish. If your floor has never been treated, you can select any wax or finish product intended for the material your floor is made from. Polyurethane is a popular, glossy option, but each product will appear slightly different, so do your research and determine which look you want. If your floor has already been treated, you’ll need to choose the correct option:


Wax is difficult to fully remove, since it soaks into the wood. This makes the floor unsuitable for a synthetic finish unless you hire a professional to strip the wax fully, but new wax can be applied without difficulty after stripping, or even simply applied on top if the old layer is only scratched, not dirty.


If the floor has been finished, you can go over it with a floor machine with scrubbing pad attachment to remove part of the finish, then apply that same type of finish to improve the appearance. If you can’t figure out what type it is, or if you want to use a different type, you’ll need to strip the old finish off entirely first.

How to Add the Finishing Touches After Lay the Tiles?

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Let dry for 24 hours. Before doing anything else with your newly marble tiles surface, you need to let the thin-set dry for a full 24 hours at minimum. Note, however, that you can gently clean off any wet mortar from the surface of your floor tiles with a wet rag before 24 hours pass. Doing so is even advised, since dry mortar is more difficult to clean off.

When dry, gently tap each tile with a wooden mallet to make sure that it is secured properly. As before, loose tiles can be found by listening for a hollow sound. There should not be any loose tiles at this point, but if there are, remove the problem casstle tiles and reapply thin-set to the back of the tiles. Place the tile back in its correct position in your floor and let the mortar dry for another 24 hours.

 

Grout in between the cement tiles. Mix the grout according to the manufacturer’s instructions and swipe it over the joints in between your tiles, sealing them together. Force the grout in between individual tiles design using a trowel.

Use a sanded grout if you are tiling over a floor and a non-sanded grout if you are tiling over a wall. Let the grout cure for about three days. After the grout has cured, consider coating it with a silicone grout sealer to protect it.

Clean the surface again. Use detergent and warm water to scrub any “grout haze” from the surface of your new wood marble tiles once the grout has cured. This extra step will improve the overall appearance of your newly re-tiled space. This step should also complete the process.

Why not use the stone for the decoration, to use the ceramic tile?

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Family decoration is a very important and grand thing, and the good or bad decoration not only affects the overall visual effect, but also related to the daily life of the use, In the entire decoration process, the choice of decoration materials is often very important. Is family decoration stone or tile?

The stone is cracked and fragile, and the processing requirement is very high. If it is not careful, it will cause fragmentation. Ceramic tiles are made by physical suppression and chemical firing. They are hard in texture and can be machined according to the actual decoration requirements of consumers.

Stone Mori hardness is only 2-3 grade, long time for the ground, the surface is easy to wear and wear. The ceramic tile is 4-7 degree Mori hardness, the surface adds the glaze protection, the product is super wear-resisting.

Stone is easy to break and fragile, especially large long boards. Even if the glued steel mesh is fixed, slotting and steel bars are easy to break when transporting and installing paving. Ceramic floor tiles are made by physical suppression and chemical firing. The texture is hard and dense. Generally, cars will not break through brick surfaces slowly.

The stone is mainly made of calcium carbonate naturally, with more cracks on the surface and easy to permeate. All kinds of stolen goods at home are easily infiltrated into the marble. The clean surface can not be cleaned at all, and the professional nursing price is expensive. The glaze layer on the surface of the ceramic tile is fired at high temperature. The stains are completely impervious and polished. The surface is smooth and easy to clean.

The nature of stone material causes small holes and crevices on the surface of stone, easy seepage and high water absorption, which is the reason why stone cleaning and nursing can’t be used for water. The glaze layer of ceramic bath tile is dense and smooth, and the water absorption rate is less than 0.3%. Therefore, tiles can be washed and cleaned with water.

The natural stone of the stone surface texture color difference is large, many defects, even if there is a uniform and unflawed stone, the price is also very expensive, the common stone will be filled with glue, dyeing treatment; Ceramic tile specialized production, raw materials, technology is completely controllable, no defects and chromatic aberration.

Stone is rough mining and simple processing, semi-finished products are not. At the same time, due to the non renewable quality of the products and mine resources, supply is not stable, replenishment is basically impossible, home installation especially large project in supply and time is difficult to control; The ceramic tile flooring is the finished product of the standardized industrial production, the size specification can be made according to the requirement, the product is bought in and out, the supply is stable, the quantity is big also can be delivered on time, the time limit is guaranteed.

Simple and Practical Marble Ceramic Tile To Buy Seven Standard

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The similar appearance, the superior performance of ceramic tile, marble together makes this different quality marble tiles become popular with users of the popular building materials, but in the face of a variety of marble tile brands on the market, with only a bibulous rate, the basic testing factors such as stiffness is not enough to help us distinguish good marble tile,The first marble tile quality evaluation standard of the industry “marble ceramic tile 7 star standard” came into being, let’s look at how simple and specifically choose marble ceramic tile.


1.Fidelity
In terms of its nature of ceramic tile, marble tile ceramic tile is a kind of imitation wood, imitate the texture adornment effect is its important value, so the fidelity is selected the first parameter to the ceramic tile, marble to emphasize its fidelity: stone should ≧ 99.9% reduction degrees, will be in comparison with natural marble, ceramic tile on the premise of removing impurities, higher similarity is preferred, stone should ≧ 99.9% reduction degrees.
2.The duplication
Stone attractive appreciation of a play feature lies in its unique natural, to condemn the change of grain, and used in ceramic tile decoration, in order to avoid duplication of texture bring stiff feeling of the space, so the ceramic tile on the stone should try not to appear to repeat: stone texture should not repeat area ≧ 5 square metre, extract a case of tile ceramic tile on the floor, to see if the pattern repeat, repeat degree is lower, the better decorative effect.
3.Accurate printing degrees
Inkjet technology is nowadays the main technology of high-quality marble tile surface color layers of permeable brick should be of high quality marble, perfect reduction natural color of natural stone material, real and solid: picture for at least 360 dpi precision of 0 grid and high precision spray printing, the scene to identify pattern is clear, the place of ceramic tile 10 cm distance to the naked eye can not see the grid.


4.Bo changes degree
In essence, the water absorption rate is the criterion, the low water absorption rate is not easy to absorb dirt, the quality is better. Good marble tiles should be very low water absorption, the higher the degree of vitrified, bricky system stronger, more not easy ooze water: water absorption should be ≦ 0.05%, the water droplets on the back of ceramic tile, slow water infiltration or not bibulous, the greater the density of ceramic tile, the better the quality.
5.Stiffness
As ceramic tile, everyday use in the family in general can’t avoid all sorts of friction or collision, so the stiffness is also one of the most important elements of ceramic tile, marble in order to avoid the ceramic tile is easily damaged, durable marble tile should have higher hardness: thematic mohs hardness ≧ 6, the scene with blades and other hard iron swiping in ceramic tile surface, no scratches on the top grade.
6.Self-cleaning degrees
Once decided to use ceramic tile, decorate is generally the use of large area, if the higher the degree of self-cleaning ceramic tile, is that much more convenient to do when using, starting from the users the best experience, marble tiles need good self-cleaning ability, can withstand the daily life of the stain liquid such as: the anti pollution coefficient must be ≧ 5, ink, soy sauce, vinegar, etc of drop in ceramic tile surface, after a short waiting to wipe clean, no residue after taste.
7.Mass density
Mass density is closely related to ceramic tile weight, in the case of equal size, weight of ceramic tile ceramic tile quality means that the greater the more thick, material, density higher and higher, bricky system has stronger: ceramic tile should ≧ weight 25 kg per square meter, compare different marble tile cutting into the same specifications weighing, the person that weigh is preferred.

Marble Tiles, Once Again Subvert Your Perception

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 Natural stone material because of its grain nature, have very high adornment effect, so attract high-grade house, the hotel USES, but natural stone material is scarce resource, have necessary growth cycle. And the emergence of marble tile, not only solved the natural defect of natural stone material, also brings a new selection, to reduce damage of the natural environment conditions, can also enjoy marble adornment effect.

1. Impact resistance

The natural marble has the crack, fragile, the processing procedure requires very high, slightly unguarded will cause the fracture, the wastage when the decoration works; The marble tiles are made from physical pressing and chemical burning, which are hard and can be cut according to the actual decoration of consumers.

2. Fold resistance

Natural marble is easy to fold and easy to break, the personality is a big long board, the timely back glue fixed net, open groove and steel bar, the natural marble transport, the installation and the post is still very easy to break; The marble tiles are made of a hard and dense texture, which is hard and dense. The average car is not crushed by the bricks.

3. Abrasion resistance

Natural marble has a hardness of only 3 grade, and it is easy to wear and wear when used on the ground for a long time. Marble tile mohs hardness 4-5, surface with glaze protection, product super wear resistance.

4. Pollution resistance

Natural marble is mainly composed of natural calcium carbonate deposition, surface crack is more, easy penetration, all kinds of goods that occupy the home is infiltration into the marble, surface cleaning not clean, professional care is expensive; Marble ceramic tile surface is the glaze layer of high temperature firing, the stain is completely impermeable, and after polishing treatment, the surface is smooth, clean and convenient.

5. Defective color difference

Natural marble TianRanXing lead to marble surface texture color, defects, even if there is design and color is uniform flawless marble texture, the price also is very expensive, common natural marble will through filling adhesive, dyeing processing; Marble ceramic tile specialized production, raw material, process is completely controlled, flawless and chromatic aberration.

6. Production process

Natural marble is extensive mining and simple processing, and semi-finished products are not. At the same time, due to the irreducible nature of the product and the mineral resources, the supply is unstable, the replenishment is almost impossible, and the personal character of the family is that large engineering projects are difficult to control in the supply and construction period. Marble tiles are the finished products of standardized industrial production. The dimensions can be made according to the requirements. The products can be bought and used, the supply is stable, and the quantity can be delivered on a timely basis. The construction period is guaranteed.

7. Water absorption rate

Natural marble’s natural nature leads to small pores and cracks in the marble surface, easy to seepage water and high water absorption rate, which is why the marble cleaning nursing can not use water. And marble ceramic tile because of surface glaze is dense smooth, the absorption rate is less than 0.3, so marble ceramic tile can rinse clean with water.

In the future development trend of marble tiles, the prospect is good, because stone still has many natural defects. Natural stone as a scarce resource, one day will be mined, some stone less thousands of years, many hundreds of millions of years will constitute, we cannot wait.